Name: Tao Wu

Gender: Male

Job title: Prof. Dr.

Email Address: taowu@ncu.edu.cn

Education and Work Experience ：

2018.1-- present: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanchang University, Professor, Director of Ph.D

2013.3-2017.7, UC Berkeley，Postdoctoral，Supervisor：Prof. Dean Toste

2012.7-2013.2，Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences，Assistant Research Fellow

2007.9-2012.6，Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences，PhD degree，Supervisor：Prof. Guosheng Liu

2003.9-2007.6，Beijing Normal University，Bachelor's degree，Supervisor: Prof. Zhangjie Shi

Teaching：Organic Chemistry and physical organic chemistry

Research fields: Organic synthesis, asymmetric catalysis, fluorine chemistry, pharmaceutical intermediates synthesis process, laboratory automation

Research projects：

1. Distinguished Youth Program of Jiangxi Provice，200,000(CNY)，2024-2026

2. National Natural Science Foundation of China，600,000(CNY)，2022-2025

3. National Natural Science Foundation of China，400,000(CNY)，2020-2023

4. High-Level Talent Programme Foundation of Jiangxi Province，1,000,000(CNY)，2019-2023

5. National Natural Science Foundation of China，250,000(CNY)，2019-2022

Awards and Honors：” Study on Selective Oxidation Reaction Based on Highly Valuable Metal Intermediates", First-class prize of Shanghai Natural Science Award Program, 2019

Representative papers and patents：

1. Yiming You, Jiawen Hu, and Tao Wu*，Copper Catalyzed Defluoroarylation of gem-Difluoroallenes to Allenyl Monofluorides with Aryl Boronic Esters，Organic Letters 2023, 25, 4546.

2. Yiming You, Jiayue Wu, Lixin Yang and Tao Wu*, Nickel-catalyzed reductive defluorination of iodo allylic gem-difluorides: allenyl monofluoride synthesis, Chemical Communications, 2022, 58, 1970.

3. Ting Wang, Zhirong Li, Jiayi Hu and Tao Wu*, Copper catalyzed hydrodefluorination of propargylic gem-difluorides with “triple bonds migration”, Tetrahedron, 2022, 120, 132897.

4. Yonggang Peng, Zhirong Li, Jiayi Hu and Tao Wu*, Palladium-Catalyzed Denitrative Mizoroki–Heck Reactions of Aryl or Alkyl Olefins with Nitrobenzenes, Russian Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2022, 58, 1868.

5. Zhirong Li, Yonggang Peng, and Tao Wu*, Palladium-Catalyzed Denitrative α-Arylation of Ketones with Nitroarenes, Organic Letters, 2021, 23, 881.

6. Cheng Che Tsai; Christopher Sandford; Tao Wu; Buyun Chen; Matthew S. Sigman; F. Dean Toste，Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59, 14647.

7. Yang, Xiaoyu #, Tao Wu #, Robert J. Phipps, and F. Dean Toste. Chemical reviews 2015, 115, 826 (co-first author).

8. Wu, Tao, Jiashun Cheng, Pinhong Chen, and Guosheng Liu. Chemical Communications 2013, 8707.

9. Mu, Xin, Tao Wu, Hao-yang Wang, Yin-long Guo, and Guosheng Liu. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2011, 134, 878.

10. Yin, Guoyin, Tao Wu, and Guosheng Liu. Chemistry–A European Journal 2012, 18, 451.

11. Wu,Tao, Hao Zhang, and Guosheng Liu. Tetrahedron 2012, 68, 5229.

12. Wu,Tao, Xin Mu, and Guosheng Liu. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2011, 50, 12578.

13. Chen, Shujun, Tao Wu, Guosheng Liu, and Xingliang Zhen. Synlett 2011, 891.

14. Wu,Tao, Guoyin Yin, and Guosheng Liu. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2009, 131, 16354.

15. Guan, Bing-Tao, Shi-Kai Xiang, Tao Wu, Zuo-Peng Sun, Bi-Qin Wang, Ke-Qing Zhao, and Zhang-Jie Shi. Chemical Communications 2008, 1437.