Education   

2010-2015    Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, China. Received Ph.D. degree in June, 2015 (with Prof. Shengming Ma).  

2003-2007    Department of Chemical Engineering & Technology, China University of Mining and Technology. Received B.Sc. degree in July, 2007 (with Prof. Xianyong Wei)

Academic Careerd

2020-           Professor (tenure-track), State Key Laboratory of Elemento-organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry,Nankai University, 

                    Tianjin, China.

2019-2020   Visiting Researcher, RIKEN, Wako, Japan (With Prof. Zhaomin Hou, JSPS Fellowship).

2017-2019   Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, Georg-August-University Göttingen, 

                    Germany (with Prof. Lutz Ackermann).

2015-2017   Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, Sweden 

                    (with Prof. Jan-Erling Bäckvall).

2007-2009   R&D Engineer, J&K Chemical (Suzhou), China.

Research Areas

(1)     Green Organic Chemistry: Organic Electrosynthesis

(2)     Transition-metal Catalysis and Organocatalysis

(3)     Small-molecule Activation and Radical Chemistry

(4)     Electrocatalyst and electrode material

Honors & Awards 

2023    Thieme Chemistry Journals Award（2023）

2021    Funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)

2020    Nankai University Hundred Young Academic Leaders Program

2019    JSPS Fellowship

2015    Outstanding Graduate of Zhejiang University

Selected Publications

Research Summary: My research interests are in the area of organic synthesis, transition-metal catalysis, organic electrocatalysis, asymmetric catalysis, and radical chemistry. During past several years, more than 40 papers were published as first authors or corresponding authors, among those, 4 in JACS, 10 in Angew. Chem., 1 in Nat. Commun., 1 in CCS Chem., 1 in Acc. Chem. Res., and 1 in Chem. Sci. Selected publications were listed as followed.

1. Z. Zhao, Y. Liu, S. Wang, S. Tang, D. Ma, Z. Zhu, C. Guo, Y Qiu*, Site-Selective Electrochemical C−H Carboxylation of Arenes with CO₂, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202214710. (VIP, Very Important paper) (Selected as Inside Cover). (Highlighted in ChemistryViews）

2. Y. Wang, Z. Zhao, D. Pan, S. Wang, K. Jia, D. Ma, G. Yang, X. Xue*, Y Qiu*, Metal-Free Electrochemical Carboxylation of Organic Halides in the Presence of Catalytic Amounts of an Organomediator, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202210201.

3. Y. Wang, S. Tang, G. Yang, S. Wang, D. Ma, Y. Qiu*, Electrocarboxylation of Aryl Epoxides with CO₂ for the Facile and Selective Synthesis of β-Hydroxy Acids, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202207746.

4. P. Li, C. Guo, S. Wang, D. Ma, T. Feng, Y. Wang, Y. Qiu*, Facile and general electrochemical deuteration of unactivated alkyl halides, Nat. Commun. 2022, 13, 3774. (Highlighted in Nat. Rev. Chem. 2022, 6, 679)

5. T. Feng, S. Wang, Y. Liu, S. Liu，Y. Qiu*, Electrochemical Desaturative β-Acylation of Cyclic N-Aryl Amines, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202115178 (VIP, Very Important paper) (Selected as a Frontispiece).

6. M.-B. Li, A. K. Inge, D. Posevins, K. P. J. Gustafson, Y. Qiu*, J.-E. Bäckvall*, Chemodivergent and Diastereoselective Synthesis of γ-Lactones and γ-Lactams: A Heterogeneous Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Tandem Process, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 14604. (Highlighted by Synfacts, 2019, 15, 0230.)

7. B. Yang, Y. Qiu*, J.-E. Bäckvall*, Control of Selectivity in Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Oxidative Transformations of Allenes, Acc. Chem. Res. 2018, 51, 1520.

8. D. Posevins, Y. Qiu*, J.-E. Bäckvall*, Highly Diastereoselective Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Carbocyclization of Enallenes Assisted by a Weakly Coordinating Hydroxyl Group, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 3210. (Highlighted by Synfacts, 2018, 14, 0518.)

9. Y. Qiu*⁺, D. Posevins⁺, J.-E. Bäckvall*, Selective Palladium-Catalyzed Allenic C–H Bond Oxidation for the Synthesis of [3]Dendralenes, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 13112.

10. Y. Qiu⁺, A. Scheremetjew⁺, L. Ackermann*, Electro-Oxidative C–C Alkenylation by Rhodium(III) Catalysis, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 2731.

11. Y. Qiu⁺, M. Stangier⁺, T. H. Meyer, J. C. A. Oliveira, L. Ackermann*, Iridium-Catalyzed Electrooxidative C–H Activation by Chemoselective Redox-Catalyst Cooperation, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 14179. (Highlighted by Synfacts, 2019, 15, 0018.)

12. Y. Qiu⁺, W. Kong⁺, J. Struwe, N. Sauermann, T. Rogge, A. Scheremetjew, L. Ackermann*, Electrooxidative Rhodium-Catalyzed C–H/C–H Activation: Electricity as Oxidant for Cross-Dehydrogenative Alkenylation, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 5828. (Highlighted in ChemistryViews)

13. Y. Qiu, C. Tian, L. Massignan, T. Rogge, L. Ackermann*, Electrooxidative Ruthenium-Catalyzed C–H/O–H Annulation by Weak O-Coordination, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 5818.

14. Y. Qiu, B. Yang, T. Jiang, C. Zhu, J.-E. Bäckvall*, Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Cascade Carbonylative Spirolactonization of Enallenols, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 3221.

15. Y. Qiu, B. Yang, C. Zhu, J.-E. Bäckvall*, Highly Selective Olefin-Assisted Palladium- Catalyzed Oxidative Carbocyclization via Remote Olefin Insertion, Chem. Sci. 2017, 8, 616.

16. Y. Qiu, B. Yang, C. Zhu, J.-E. Bäckvall*, Highly Efficient Cascade Reaction for Selective Formation of Spirocyclobutenes from Dienallenes via Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Double Carbocyclization-Carbonylation-Alkynylation, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 13846.

17. Y. Qiu, B. Yang, C. Zhu*, J.-E. Bäckvall*, Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Carbocyclization- Borylation of Enallenes to Cyclobutenes, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 6520.

18. Y. Qiu⁺, C. Zhu⁺, M. Stangier, J. Struwe, L. Ackermann*, Rhodaelectro-Catalyzed C–H and C–C Activation, CCS. Chem. 2020, 2, 1529.