Dr. Fu-Peng Wu

Dr. Fu-Peng Wu
© Dr. Fu-Peng Wu
Dr. Fu-Peng Wu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Room 414, OC/BC I
Corrensstraße 36
48149 Münster
T: +49 251 8335319
F: +49 251 8339772
fu-peng.wu@uni-muenster.de
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  • Curriculum Vitae

    since 09/2022 Postdoctoral research in the group of Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
    01/2022 - 08/2022 Postdoctoral research in the group of Prof. Dr. Xiao-Feng Wu, Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT), Rostock, Germany
    09/2019 - 01/2022 PhD Thesis in Organic Chemistry, Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT), Rostock, Germany; Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Xiao-Feng Wu; Dissertation: “Copper-Catalyzed Carbonylative Functionalization of Unsaturated Bonds”
    09/2016 - 06/2019 M.A. in Organic Chemistry, School of Science, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, P.R. China; Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Xiao-Feng Wu, Title: “Transition Metal-Catalyzed Reductive Carbonylation”
    09/2012 - 06/2016 B.Sc. in Applied Chemistry, School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, P.R. China

  • Publications

    F.-P. Wu, C. C. Chintawar, R. Lalisse, P. Mukherjee, S. Dutta, J. Tyler, C. G. Daniliuc, O. Gutierrez,* F. Glorius,*
    Ring expansion of indene by photoredox-enabled functionalized carbon-atom insertion,
    Nat. Catal. 2024, asap. DOI

    F.-P. Wu, Y. Yang, D. P. Fuentes, X.-F. Wu*,
    Copper-Catalyzed Carbonylative Catenation of Olefins: Direct Synthesis of γ-Boryl Esters,
    Chem 2022, 7, 1982-1992.

    F.-P. Wu, X.-F. Wu*,
    Catalyst-Controlled Selective Borocarbonylation of Benzylidenecyclopropanes: Regiodivergent Synthesis of γ-Vinylboryl Ketones and β-Cyclopropylboryl Ketones,
    Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 4321-4326.

    F.-P. Wu, X.-F. Wu*,
    Ligand-Controlled Copper-Catalyzed Regiodivergent Carbonylative Synthesis of α-Amino Ketones and α-Boryl Amides from Imines and Alkyl Iodides,
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 695-700.

    F.-P. Wu, Y. Yuan, J. Liu, X.-F. Wu*,
    Pd/Cu-Catalyzed Defluorinative Carbonylative Coupling of Aryl Iodides and gem-Difluoroalkenes: Efficient Synthesis of α-Fluorochalcones,
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 8818-8822.

    F.-P. Wu, X.-F. Wu*,
    Copper-Catalyzed Borylative Methylation of Alkyl Iodides with CO as the C1 Source: Advantaged by Faster Reaction of CuH over CuBpin,
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 11730-11734.

    F.-P. Wu, Y. Yuan, X.-F. Wu*,
    Copper-Catalyzed 1,2-Trifluoromethylation Carbonylation of Unactivated Alkenes: Efficient Access to β-Trifluoromethylated Aliphatic Carboxylic Acid Derivatives,
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 25787-25792.

    F.-P. Wu, X.-F. Wu*,
    Pd/Cu-Catalyzed Amide-Enabled Selectivity-Reversed Borocarbonylation of Unactivated Alkenes,
    Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 10341-10346.

    Y. Yuan,§ F.-P. Wu,§ X.-F. Wu*,
    Copper-Catalyzed Borofunctionalization of Styrenes with B2pin2 and CO,
    Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 13777-13781.
    (§equal first author)

    F.-P. Wu, Y. Yuan, C. Schünemann, P. C. J. Kamer, X.-F. Wu*,
    Copper-Catalyzed Regioselective Borocarbonylative Coupling of Unactivated Alkenes with Alkyl Halides: Synthesis of β-Boryl Ketones,
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 10451-10455.

    F.-P. Wu, X. Luo, U. Radius, T. B. Marder, X.-F. Wu*,
    Copper-Catalyzed Synthesis of Stereodefined Cyclopropyl Bis(boronates) from Alkenes with CO as the C1 Source,
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 14074-14079.

    F.-P. Wu, J. Holz, Y. Yuan, X.-F. Wu*,
    Copper-Catalyzed Carbonylative Synthesis of β-Boryl Amides via Boroamidation of Alkenes,
    CCS Chem. 2020, 2, 2643-2654.

    F.-P. Wu, D. Li, J.-B. Peng, X.-F. Wu*,
    Carbonylative Transformation of Allylarenes with CO Surrogates: Tunable Synthesis of 4‑Arylbutanoic Acids, 2‑Arylbutanoic Acids, and 4‑Arylbutanals,
    Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 5699-5703.

    F.-P. Wu, J.-B. Peng, X. Qi, J. Ying, X.-F. Wu*,
    Palladium-Catalyzed Solvent-Dependent Divergent Synthesis of Benzylformamides,
    Adv. Synth. Catal. 2018, 360, 3412-3417.

    F.-P. Wu, J.-B. Peng, L.-S. Meng, X. Qi, X.-F. Wu*,
    Palladium-Catalyzed Ligand-Controlled Selective Synthesis of Aldehydes and Acids from Aryl Halides and Formic Acid,
    ChemCatChem 2017, 9, 3121-3124.

    F.-P. Wu, J.-B. Peng, L.-Y. Fu, X. Qi, X.-F. Wu*,
    Direct Palladium-Catalyzed Carbonylative Transformation of Allylic Alcohols and Related Derivatives,
    Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 5474-5477.

  • Scholarships and Awards

    2019 - 2022 Scholarship from China Scholarship Council
    2019 Zhejiang Sci-Tech University President's Special Award
    2018 Zhejiang Chemical Society Innovation Award
    2017 - 2018 National scholarship awarded by Ministry of Education of People’s Republic of China