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54
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8282
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National Ranking
2014

Overview

Zhenhua Gu is affiliated with the University of Science and Technology of China. Their research activity spans the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with a particular focus on Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, and Spectroscopy. Their work addresses specialized topics including Axial and Atropisomeric Chirality Synthesis, Molecular Spectroscopy and Chirality, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods, Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis, and Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions.

Their publication record includes contributions to frequent venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, Organic Letters, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Angewandte Chemie, and Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. The scientist collaborates regularly with a group of co-authors including Biqiong Hong, Longhui Duan, Xiaoping Xue, Junwei Xi, and Zengyin Chao.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Zhenhua Gu include:

  • Atropisomerism in Styrene: Synthesis, Stability, and Applications, 2021, SynOpen
  • Transition Metal-Catalyzed Biaryl Atropisomer Synthesis via a Torsional Strain Promoted Ring-Opening Reaction, 2022, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • Recent Progress in Cyclic Aryliodonium Chemistry: Syntheses and Applications, 2023, Chemical Reviews
  • Atroposelective Ring Opening of Cyclic Diaryliodonium Salts with Bulky Anilines Controlled by a Chiral Cobalt(III) Anion, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Catalytic asymmetric C-Si bond activation via torsional strain-promoted Rh-catalyzed aryl-Narasaka acylation, 2020, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Gold-Catalyzed Cyclization of Enynes

    Shengming Ma;Shichao Yu;Zhenhua Gu

  • Direct Trifluoromethylation of the CH Bond

    Hui Liu;Zhenhua Gu;Xuefeng Jiang

  • 1,4-migration of rhodium and palladium in catalytic organometallic reactions.

    Shengming Ma;Zhenhua Gu

  • Palladium-catalyzed intramolecular asymmetric C-H functionalization/cyclization reaction of metallocenes: an efficient approach toward the synthesis of planar chiral metallocene compounds.

    Ruixian Deng;Yunze Huang;Xinna Ma;Gencheng Li

  • Enantioselective Synthesis of Atropisomeric Vinyl Arene Compounds by Palladium Catalysis: A Carbene Strategy

    Jia Feng;Bin Li;Yun He;Zhenhua Gu

  • Cleavage of the C(O)–S Bond of Thioesters by Palladium/Norbornene/Copper Cooperative Catalysis: An Efficient Synthesis of 2-(Arylthio)aryl Ketones

    Fenggang Sun;Miao Li;Congfa He;Bin Wang

  • Enhanced Reactivity by Torsional Strain of Cyclic Diaryliodonium in Cu-Catalyzed Enantioselective Ring-Opening Reaction

    Kun Zhao;Longhui Duan;Shibo Xu;Julong Jiang

  • Enantioselective Synthesis of Indole-Based Biaryl Atropisomers via Palladium-Catalyzed Dynamic Kinetic Intramolecular C–H Cyclization

    Congfa He;Mengqing Hou;Zixi Zhu;Zhenhua Gu

  • Palladium‐Catalyzed Catellani ortho‐Acylation Reaction: An Efficient and Regiospecific Synthesis of Diaryl Ketones

    Yunze Huang;Rui Zhu;Kun Zhao;Zhenhua Gu

  • Transition Metal-Catalyzed Biaryl Atropisomer Synthesis via a Torsional Strain Promoted Ring-Opening Reaction

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  • Decarboxylative Alkynyl Termination of Palladium-Catalyzed Catellani Reaction: A Facile Synthesis of α-Alkynyl Anilines via Ortho C-H Amination and Alkynylation.

    Fenggang Sun;Zhenhua Gu

  • Cutting-Edge and Time-Honored Strategies for Stereoselective Construction of C-N Bonds in Total Synthesis.

    Artur K. Mailyan;John A. Eickhoff;Anastasiia S. Minakova;Zhenhua Gu

  • Total Synthesis of Pinnatoxins A and G and Revision of the Mode of Action of Pinnatoxin A

    Romulo Araoz;Denis Servent;Jordi Molgó;Bogdan I. Iorga

  • Goldkatalysierte Cyclisierung von Eninen

    Shengming Ma;Shichao Yu;Zhenhua Gu

  • Enantioselective Synthesis of Biaryl Atropisomers via Pd/Norbornene-Catalyzed Three-Component Cross-Couplings

    Linlin Ding;Xianwei Sui;Zhenhua Gu

  • Total Synthesis of Maoecrystal V: Early-Stage C–H Functionalization and Lactone Assembly by Radical Cyclization

    Ping Lu;Zhenhua Gu;Armen Zakarian

  • Pd-catalyzed Heck-type cascade reactions with N-tosyl hydrazones: an efficient way to alkenes via in situ generated alkylpalladium.

    Xianglei Liu;Xinna Ma;Yunze Huang;Zhenhua Gu

  • Palladium‐Catalyzed Enantioselective Synthesis of 2‐Aryl Cyclohex‐2‐enone Atropisomers: Platform Molecules for the Divergent Synthesis of Axially Chiral Biaryl Compounds

    Chongqing Pan;Zixi Zhu;Mingkai Zhang;Zhenhua Gu

  • Concise Total Synthesis of Sintokamides A, B, and E by a Unified, Protecting‐Group‐Free Strategy

    Zhenhua Gu;Armen Zakarian

  • Pd-Catalyzed Chemoselective Catellani Ortho-Arylation of Iodopyrroles: Rapid Total Synthesis of Rhazinal

    Xianwei Sui;Rui Zhu;Gencheng Li;Xinna Ma

  • Enantioselective synthesis of (-)-maoecrystal V by enantiodetermining C-H functionalization.

    Ping Lu;Artur Mailyan;Zhenhua Gu;David M. Guptill

Frequent Co-Authors

Shengming Ma
Shengming Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xuefeng Jiang
Xuefeng Jiang East China Normal University
Yao Fu
Yao Fu University of Science and Technology of China
Jordi Molgó
Jordi Molgó Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Vincent Gandon
Vincent Gandon University of Paris-Saclay
Zhide Hu
Zhide Hu Lanzhou University
Huw M. L. Davies
Huw M. L. Davies Emory University
K. Peter C. Vollhardt
K. Peter C. Vollhardt University of California, Berkeley

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