Research Interests

• Total Synthesis of Bioactive Compounds

• Medicine Chemistry

• Methodology Development

Prizes and awards

• Thieme Chemistry Journals Award （2017）

• Shanghai Natural Sciences, the First Prize (2011, the fifth participator)

• Presidential Award for the Outstanding Student (Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2009)

Biography

• 1999.9-2004.7         B.S. in ChemistryUniversity of Science and Technology of China

• 2004.9-2009.7         Ph.D. in Chemistry Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

• 2009.7-2010.1         Research AssociateShanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

• 2010.2-2012.3        Postdoctoral Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Technische Universität München, Germany

• 2012.4-2016.5         Postdoctoral FellowshipUniversity of California, Santa Barbara

• 2016.6-                   Principal Investigator   Fudan University

Key Publications

1. Changxu Zhong⁺, Yingchao Huang⁺, Haocheng Zhang, Qiang Zhou, Yu Liu, and Ping Lu*, Enantioselective Synthesis of 3-Substituted Cyclobutenes by Catalytic Conjugate Addition/Trapping Strategies, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 2750-2754.

2. Meng Wang, Jun Chen, Zongjia Chen, Changxu Zhong and Ping Lu*,Enantioselective Desymmetrization of Cyclobutanones Enabled by Synergistic Palladium/Enamine Catalysis, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed.2018, 57, 2707-2711.

3. Meng Wang and Ping Lu*, Catalytic approaches to assemble cyclobutane motifs in natural product synthesis, Org. Chem. Front., 2018, 5, 254-259.

4. Jacob J. Lacharity⁺, Jeremy Fournier⁺, Ping Lu, Artur K. Mailyan, Aaron T. Herrmann, and Armen Zakarian* Total Synthesis of Unsymmetrically Oxidized Nuphar Thioalkaloids via Copper-Catalyzed Thiolane Assembly. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 13272-13275.

5. Kai Yu, Ping Lu, Jeffrey J. Jackson, Thuy-Ai D. Nguyen, Joseph Alvarado, Craig E. Stivala, Yun Ma, Kyle A. Mack, Trevor W. Hayton, David B. Collum*, and Armen Zakarian*，Lithium Enolates in the Enantioselective Construction of Tetrasubstituted Carbon Centers wtih Chiral Lithium Amides as Noncovalent Stereodirecting Auxiliaries.J. Am. Chem. Soc.2017, 139, 527-533.