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Jieping Zhu is affiliated with École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. The research focus spans predominantly within the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with significant contributions to the subfields of Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Pharmacology, Molecular Biology, and Pharmaceutical Science.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Radical Photochemical Reactions
  • Axial and Atropisomeric Chirality Synthesis
  • Alkaloids: synthesis and pharmacology

Jieping Zhu has published extensively, with some of the recent papers including:

  • Visible light photoredox-catalysed remote C-H functionalisation enabled by 1,5-hydrogen atom transfer (1,5-HAT), 2021, Chemical Society Reviews
  • Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis and Switchable Chiroptical Property of Inherently Chiral Macrocycles, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Selective 1,2-Aminoisothiocyanation of 1,3-Dienes Under Visible-Light Photoredox Catalysis, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • The Gut Microbiota and Associated Metabolites Are Altered in Sleep Disorder of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Functionalization of remote C(sp3)-H bonds enabled by copper-catalyzed coupling of O-acyloximes with terminal alkynes, 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Qian Wang (noted in two distinct collaborative counts)
  • Shuo Tong
  • R. P. Andres
  • Mei-Xiang Wang

Jieping Zhu's work has been published in various high-impact venues, including:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • ACS Catalysis

Best Publications

  • Multicomponent Reactions: ZHU:MULTICOMPONENT REACTIONS O-BK

    Jieping Zhu;Hugues Bienaymé

  • Recent Developments in the Isonitrile‐Based Multicomponent Synthesis of Heterocycles

    Jieping Zhu

  • The Enantioselective Morita–Baylis–Hillman Reaction and Its Aza Counterpart

    Géraldine Masson;Christopher Housseman;Jieping Zhu

  • Multicomponent reactions in organic synthesis

    Jieping Zhu;Qian Wang;Mei-Xiang Wang

  • Construction of Quaternary Stereocenters by Palladium‐Catalyzed Carbopalladation‐Initiated Cascade Reactions

    Yuanyuan Ping;Yuxiu Li;Jieping Zhu;Wangqing Kong

  • Chiral Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Enantioselective Three-Component Povarov Reaction

    Hua Liu;Guillaume Dagousset;Géraldine Masson;Pascal Retailleau

  • To each his own: isonitriles for all flavors. Functionalized isocyanides as valuable tools in organic synthesis

    Mariateresa Giustiniano;Andrea Basso;Valentina Mercalli;Alberto Massarotti

  • Visible light photoredox-catalysed remote C-H functionalisation enabled by 1,5-hydrogen atom transfer (1,5-HAT).

    Weisi Guo;Qian Wang;Jieping Zhu

  • Chiral Phosphoric Acid-Catalyzed Enantioselective Three-Component Povarov Reaction Using Enecarbamates as Dienophiles: Highly Diastereo- and Enantioselective Synthesis of Substituted 4-Aminotetrahydroquinolines

    Guillaume Dagousset;Jieping Zhu;Géraldine Masson

  • Palladium-catalyzed annulation of acyloximes with arynes (or alkynes): synthesis of phenanthridines and isoquinolines

    Thibaud Gerfaud;Luc Neuville;Jieping Zhu

  • Palladium-catalyzed enantioselective domino Heck-cyanation sequence: development and application to the total synthesis of esermethole and physostigmine

    Artur Pinto;Yanxing Jia;Luc Neuville;Jieping Zhu

  • Still Unconquered: Enantioselective Passerini and Ugi Multicomponent Reactions

    Qian Wang;De-Xian Wang;Mei-Xiang Wang;Jieping Zhu

  • Ammonium Chloride-Promoted Four-Component Synthesis of Pyrrolo[3,4-b]pyridin-5-one

    Pierre Janvier;Xiaowen Sun;Hugues Bienaymé;Jieping Zhu

  • Palladium‐Catalyzed Three‐Component Synthesis of 3‐(Diarylmethylene)oxindoles through a Domino Sonagashira/Carbopalladation/CH Activation/CC Bond‐Forming Sequence

    Artur Pinto;Luc Neuville;Jieping Zhu

  • Synthesis of Substituted Pyridines from Cascade [1 + 5] Cycloaddition of Isonitriles to N-Formylmethyl-Substituted Enamides, Aerobic Oxidative Aromatization, and Acyl Transfer Reaction

    Chuan-Hu Lei;De-Xian Wang;Liang Zhao;Jieping Zhu

  • Activation of a C(sp3)-H bond by a transient σ-alkylpalladium(II) complex: synthesis of spirooxindoles through a palladium-catalyzed domino carbopalladation/C(sp3)-C(sp3) bond-forming process.

    Tiffany Piou;Luc Neuville;Jieping Zhu

  • Dual Photoredox/Copper Catalysis for the Remote C(sp3 )-H Functionalization of Alcohols and Alkyl Halides by N-Alkoxypyridinium Salts.

    Xu Bao;Qian Wang;Jieping Zhu

  • Conformation-directed macrocyclization reactions

    Joerg Blankenstein;Jieping Zhu

  • Palladium-Catalyzed Through-Space C(sp3)H and C(sp2)H Bond Activation by 1,4-Palladium Migration: Efficient Synthesis of [3,4]-Fused Oxindoles†

    Tiffany Piou;Ala Bunescu;Qian Wang;Luc Neuville

  • Copper-Catalyzed Arylation of Remote C(sp3 )-H Bonds in Carboxamides and Sulfonamides.

    Zhaodong Li;Qian Wang;Jieping Zhu

  • Synthesis of 3-(Diarylmethylenyl)oxindole by a Palladium-Catalyzed Domino Carbopalladation/C-H Activation/C-C Bond-Forming Process

    Artur Pinto;Luc Neuville;Pascal Retailleau;Jieping Zhu

  • IBX‐Mediated Oxidative Ugi‐Type Multicomponent Reactions: Application to the N and C1 Functionalization of Tetrahydroisoquinoline

    Tifelle Ngouansavanh;Jieping Zhu

Frequent Co-Authors

Géraldine Masson
Géraldine Masson Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles
Mei-Xiang Wang
Mei-Xiang Wang Tsinghua University
De-Xian Wang
De-Xian Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Gian Cesare Tron
Gian Cesare Tron University of Eastern Piedmont Amadeo Avogadro
Zhi-Tang Huang
Zhi-Tang Huang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Pascal Retailleau
Pascal Retailleau Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Derek H. R. Barton
Derek H. R. Barton Texas A&M University
Kevin Burgess
Kevin Burgess Texas A&M University
Vincent Gandon
Vincent Gandon University of Paris-Saclay

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