Faculty
Educational background:
2016 PhD in chemicobiology, Xiamen University
2011 Bachelor in chemistry, Xiamen University
Work experience:
2020.11-now Research Assistant Professor in Southern University of Science and Technology
2019.05-2020.09 Postdoctoral in University of Florida
2016.11-2019.02 Postdoctoral in Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Research Area:
Asymmetric catalysis
Design, synthesis and application of new chiral catalysts
Publications:
Sun Y.; Rao, X.; Xu, W.; Xu, M.* Rhodium(I)-catalyzed C–S bond formation via enantioselective carbenoid S–H insertion: catalytic asymmetric synthesis of α-thioesters. Org. Chem. Front. 2022, 9, 3467–3472.
Niu，S.; Zhang, H.; Xu, W. *; Bagdi, P. R.; Zhang, G.; Liu, J.; Yang, S. and & Fang, X.* Access to enantioenriched compounds bearing challenging tetrasubstituted stereocenters via kinetic resolution of auxiliary adjacent alcohols, Nature Communications 2021, 12, 3735.
Zhao, Z; Bagdi, P. R.; Yang, S.; Liu, J.; Xu, W.* and Fang, X.* Stereodivergent access to enantioenriched epoxy alcohols with three stereogenic centers via ruthenium-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation, Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 5491-5494.
Xu, W.; Arieno, M.; Löw, H.; Huang, K.; Xie, X.; Cruchter, T.; Ma, Q.; Xi, J.; Huang, B.; Wiest, O.*; Gong, L.*; Meggers, E.* Metal-templated design: enantioselective hydrogen-bond-driven catalysis requiring only parts-per-million catalyst loading. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 8774–8780.
Xu, W.; Shen, X; Ma, Q; Gong, L.*; Meggers, E.* Restricted conformation of a hydrogen-bond mediated catalyst enables the highly efficient enantioselective construction of an all-carbon quaternary stereocenter. ACS Catal. 2016, 6, 7641−7646.