EDUCATION

ACADEMIC CAREER

RESEARCH AREAS

(1) Green Chemistry: Organic Electrochemistry and Photochemistry

(2) Transition-metal Catalysis and Rare Earth Catalysis

(3) Small Molecular Activation and Organic Material Synthesis

HONORS AND AWARDS

2019      JSPS Fellowship

2015      Outstanding Graduate of Zhejiang University

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Research Summary: My research interests are in the area of organic synthesis, electrochemical catalysis, asymmetric catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, transition metal-catalyzed cascade transformations, selectivity control, rare earth catalysis and so on. During past several years, 27 papers were published as first authors or corresponding authors, among those, 4 in JACS, 6 in Angew. Chem., 1 in CCS Chem., 1 in Acc. Chem. Res., and 1 in Chem. Sci. Selected publications were listed as followed.

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

2. 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. (*corresponding author)(Highlighted by Synfacts, 2019, 15, 0230.)

3. 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.)

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

5. 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)

6. 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.

7. 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. (*corresponding author) (Highlighted by Synfacts, 2018, 14, 0518.)

8. 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. (*corresponding author)

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. Y. Qiu⁺, C. Zhu⁺, M. Stangier, J. Struwe, L. Ackermann*, Rhodaelectro-Catalyzed C–H and C–C Activation, CCS. Chem. 2020, doi.org/10.31635/ccschem.020.202000365.

14. Y. Qiu, A. Scheremetjew, L. H. Finger, L. Ackermann*, Electrophotocatalytic Undirected C–H Trifluoromethylations of (Het)Arenes, Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 3241.

15. D. Posevins, M.-B. Li, E. S. Grape, A. K. Inge, Y. Qiu*, J.-E. Bäckvall*, Highly Diastereoselective Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Cascade Carbonylative Carbocyclization of Enallenols. Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 417. (*corresponding author)