Research Interests

• Oxidation of alkanes

• Synthesis and application of allenes

• Catalytic reactions with earth-abundant transition metals

• Asymmetric catalysis

Academic Appointments

• 2013 National Scholarship

Biography

• 2007.09-2011.06        BSc, Department of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University

• 2011.09-2014.06        MSc, College of Science, China Agricultural University

• 2014.09-2018.09        PhD, Institute of Organic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University

• 2018.11-2019.10        Postdoc, Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

• 2019.11-              Young Researcher, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University

Key Publications

1. Hao Yu, Zhen Li, Carsten Bolm,* Copper-Catalyzed Transsulfinamidation of Sulfinamides as a Key Step in the Preparation of Sulfonamides and Sulfonimidamides. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2018, 57, 15602–15605.

2. Hao Yu, Zhen Li, Carsten Bolm,* Three‐Dimensional Heterocycles by Iron‐Catalyzed Ring‐Closing Sulfoxide Imidation. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2018, 57, 12053–12056.

3. Hao Yu, Zhen Li, Carsten Bolm,* Iron(II)-Catalyzed Direct Synthesis of NH Sulfoximines from Sulfoxides. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2018, 57, 324–327.

4. Hao Yu, Zhen Li, Carsten Bolm,* Nondirected Copper-Catalyzed Sulfoxidations of Benzylic C–H Bonds. Org. Lett.2018, 20, 2076–2079.

5. Hao Yu, Zhen Li, Carsten Bolm,* Transition-Metal-Free Arylations of In-Situ Generated Sulfenates with Diaryliodonium Salts. Org. Lett. 2018, 20, 7104–7106.

6. Hao Yu, Carl Albrecht Dannenberg, Zhen Li, Carsten Bolm, “Copper-Catalyzed Direct Sulfoximination of Heteroaromatic N-Oxides by Dual C–H/N–H Dehydrogenative Cross-Coupling. Chem. Asian J. 2016, 11, 54–57.

7. Hao Yu, Lei Zhang, Zhen Li, Honglei Liu, Bo Wang, Yumei Xiao, Hongchao Guo,* Phosphine-catalyzed [4+2] cycloaddition of sulfamate-derived cyclic imines with allenoates: synthesis of sulfamate-fused tetrahydropyridines. Tetrahedron 2014, 70, 340–348.

8. Hao Yu, Lei Zhang, Zhilin Yang, Zhen Li, Yan Zhao, Yumei Xiao, Hongchao Guo,* Phosphine-Catalyzed [3+2] Cycloaddition of Sulfamate-Derived Cyclic Imines with Allenoate: Synthesis of Sulfamate-Fused Dihydropyrroles. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 8427–8436.

9. Zhen Li, Hao Yu, Carsten Bolm,* Dibenzothiophene Sulfoximine as NH₃ Surrogate in the Synthesis of Primary Amines by Copper-Catalyzed C–X and C–H Bond Amination. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2017, 56, 9532–9535.