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Chuanfa Ni is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research primarily focuses on chemistry with significant contributions in the fields of organic chemistry and pharmaceutical science. The scientist's work spans an interdisciplinary approach, incorporating inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry, and process chemistry and technology.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Fluorine in Organic Chemistry
  • Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds
  • Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms
  • Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques
  • Synthesis and Reactions of Organic Compounds
  • Radical Photochemical Reactions
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Jinbo Hu
  • Xiu Wang
  • Qiqiang Xie
  • Qian Wang
  • Shitao Pan

The scientist has published extensively in several key journals, with notable numbers of publications in the following venues:

  • Organic Letters (12 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition (7 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie (7 publications)
  • The Cambridge Structural Database (6 publications)
  • Chemical Communications (5 publications)

Selected recent publications by Chuanfa Ni include:

  • "Contemporary synthetic strategies in organofluorine chemistry," 2021, Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • "Electrochemical reduction of fluoroalkyl sulfones for radical fluoroalkylation of alkenes," 2021, Chemical Communications
  • "Deoxyfluorination of Carboxylic Acids with CpFluor: Access to Acyl Fluorides and Amides," 2021, Organic Letters
  • "Controllable Single and Double Difluoromethylene Insertions into C-Cu Bonds: Copper-Mediated Tetrafluoroethylation and Hexafluoropropylation of Aryl Iodides with TMSCF2H and TMSCF2Br," 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "TMSCF2Br-Enabled Fluorination-Aminocarbonylation of Aldehydes: Modular Access to α-Fluoroamides," 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Best Publications

  • Good Partnership between Sulfur and Fluorine: Sulfur-Based Fluorination and Fluoroalkylation Reagents for Organic Synthesis

    Chuanfa Ni;Mingyou Hu;Jinbo Hu

  • The unique fluorine effects in organic reactions: recent facts and insights into fluoroalkylations

    Chuanfa Ni;Jinbo Hu

  • Radical Fluoroalkylation of Isocyanides with Fluorinated Sulfones by Visible-Light Photoredox Catalysis.

    Jian Rong;Ling Deng;Ping Tan;Chuanfa Ni

  • Recent Advances in the Synthetic Application of Difluorocarbene

    Chuanfa Ni;Jinbo Hu

  • Synthesis of gem-Difluorocyclopropa(e)nes and O-, S-, N-, and P-Difluoromethylated Compounds with TMSCF2Br†

    Lingchun Li;Fei Wang;Chuanfa Ni;Jinbo Hu

  • gem-Difluoroolefination of Diazo Compounds with TMSCF3 or TMSCF2Br: Transition-Metal-Free Cross-Coupling of Two Carbene Precursors.

    Mingyou Hu;Chuanfa Ni;Lingchun Li;Yongxin Han

  • Metal-Catalyzed Direct Difluoromethylation Reactions

    Jian Rong;Chuanfa Ni;Jinbo Hu

  • Contemporary synthetic strategies in organofluorine chemistry

    Robert Britton;Veronique Gouverneur;Jin-Hong Lin;Michael Meanwell

  • Fluoroalkylative Aryl Migration of Conjugated N-Arylsulfonylated Amides Using Easily Accessible Sodium Di- and Monofluoroalkanesulfinates

    Zhengbiao He;Ping Tan;Chuanfa Ni;Jinbo Hu

  • Iron-Catalyzed Difluoromethylation of Arylzincs with Difluoromethyl 2-Pyridyl Sulfone

    Wenjun Miao;Yanchuan Zhao;Chuanfa Ni;Bing Gao

  • Copper-Mediated Trifluoromethylation of α-Diazo Esters with TMSCF3: The Important Role of Water as a Promoter

    Mingyou Hu;Chuanfa Ni;Jinbo Hu

  • Copper-Catalyzed gem-Difluoroolefination of Diazo Compounds with TMSCF3 via C–F Bond Cleavage

    Mingyou Hu;Zhengbiao He;Bing Gao;Lingchun Li

  • Nucleophilic Fluoroalkylation of α,β-Enones, Arynes, and Activated Alkynes with Fluorinated Sulfones: Probing the Hard/Soft Nature of Fluorinated Carbanions

    Chuanfa Ni;Laijun Zhang;Jinbo Hu

  • China's flourishing synthetic organofluorine chemistry: innovations in the new millennium

    Qinghe Liu;Chuanfa Ni;Jinbo Hu

  • Efficient Difluoromethylation of Alcohols Using TMSCF2Br as a Unique and Practical Difluorocarbene Reagent under Mild Conditions

    Qiqiang Xie;Chuanfa Ni;Rongyi Zhang;Rongyi Zhang;Lingchun Li

  • Nucleophilic difluoromethylation of carbonyl compounds using TMSCF2SO2Ph and Mg0-mediated desulfonylation

    Chuanfa Ni;Jinbo Hu

  • Copper-mediated trifluoromethylthiolation of α-diazoesters.

    Mingyou Hu;Jian Rong;Wenjun Miao;Chuanfa Ni

  • A Remarkably Efficient Fluoroalkylation of Cyclic Sulfates and Sulfamidates with PhSO2CF2H: Facile Entry into β‐Difluoromethylated or β‐Difluoromethylenated Alcohols and Amines

    Chuanfa Ni;Jun Liu;Laijun Zhang;Jinbo Hu

  • gem-Difluoroolefination of diaryl ketones and enolizable aldehydes with difluoromethyl 2-pyridyl sulfone: new insights into the Julia-Kocienski reaction.

    Bing Gao;Yanchuan Zhao;Mingyou Hu;Chuanfa Ni

  • Nucleophilic fluoroalkylation of epoxides with fluorinated sulfones.

    Chuanfa Ni;Ya Li;Jinbo Hu

  • Trifluoromethyl Benzoate: A Versatile Trifluoromethoxylation Reagent

    Min Zhou;Chuanfa Ni;Yuwen Zeng;Jinbo Hu

Frequent Co-Authors

Jinbo Hu
Jinbo Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ralf Haiges
Ralf Haiges University of Southern California
Yu-Cheng Gu
Yu-Cheng Gu Syngenta (Switzerland)
G. K. Surya Prakash
G. K. Surya Prakash University of Southern California
George A. Olah
George A. Olah University of Southern California
Rui Zhang
Rui Zhang National University of Singapore
Fei Wang
Fei Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Qilong Shen
Qilong Shen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Thomas Mathew
Thomas Mathew University of Southern California
Xiaoming Xie
Xiaoming Xie Chinese Academy of Sciences

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