Prof. Shouyun Yu obtained his bachelor degree in Chemistry from Nanjing University in 2001. After completing doctoral studies under the supervision of Prof. Dawei Ma in 2006 at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) in Shanghai, China, he worked as an assistant research professor in the same institute for one more year. Then he moved to Jeffrey W. Bode’s group at the University of Pennsylvania as a postdoctoral research fellow in late 2007. In September, 2010, he was appointed as an associate professor of School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Nanjing University. He is currently a full professor in the same university. His current research focuses on photochemistry, radical chemistry and asymmetric synthesis and their applications in the synthesis of biologically important molecules.

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2015.12 – present Professor

School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, China

2010.09 –2015.12Associate Professor

School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, China

2010.04 – 2010.08 Associate Research Professor

State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic chemistry, CAS,Shanghai, China

2007.10 – 2010.04 Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Advisor: Prof. Jeffrey W. Bode

2006.7 – 2007.9 Assistant Research Professor

State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic chemistry, CAS,Shanghai, China

Work with Prof. Dawei Ma

2001.8 – 2006.7 Ph. D. in Organic Chemisrty

State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry,

Shanghai Institute of Organic chemistry, CAS,Shanghai, China

Advisor: Prof. Dawei Ma

1997.9 – 2001.7 B.S. in Chemistry

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University,Nanjing, China

Radical Chemistry and Photochemistry

Selected publications:

1. Changhua Song, Xiangbin Bai, Bo Li,§ Yanfeng Dang* and Shouyun Yu,* Photoexcited Palladium-Catalyzed Deracemization of Allenes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 21137–21146.

2. Sheng Tang, Hui Xu, Yanfeng Dang* and Shouyun Yu,* Photoexcited Copper-Catalyzed Enantioselective Allylic C(sp3)–H Acyloxylation of Acyclic Internal Alkenes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 27196–27203.

3. Bo Li, Hong-Hao Zhang, Yongrui Luo, Shouyun Yu,* William A. Goddard III* and Yanfeng Dang,* Interception of Transient Allyl Radicals with Low-Valent Allylpalladium Chemistry: Tandem Pd(0/II/I)–Pd(0/II/I/II) Cycles in Photoredox/Pd Dual-Catalytic Enantioselective C(sp³)–C(sp³) Homocoupling. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 6377–6387.

4. Hao Zhang, Congcong Huang, Xiang-Ai Yuan* and Shouyun Yu,* Photoexcited Chiral Copper Complex-Mediated Alkene E→Z Isomerization Enables Kinetic Resolution. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 10958–10967.

5. Hong-Hao Zhang, Menghan Tang, Jia-Jia Zhao, Changhua Song and Shouyun Yu,* Enantioselective Reductive Homocoupling of Allylic Acetates Enabled by Dual Photoredox/Palladium Catalysis: Access to C₂-Symmetrical 1,5-Dienes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 12836–12846.

6. Xu Shen, Congcong Huang, Xiang-Ai Yuan* and Shouyun Yu,* Diastereoselective and Stereodivergent Synthesis of 2-Cinnamylpyrrolines Enabled by Photoredox-Catalyzed Iminoalkenylation of Alkenes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 9672–9679.

7. Hui Chen, Wenjing Fan, Xiang-Ai Yuan* and Shouyun Yu,* Site-Selective Remote C(sp³)–H Heteroarylation of Amides via Organic Photoredox Catalysis. Nature Commun. 2019, 10, 4743.

8. Hong-Hao Zhang, Jia-Jia Zhao and Shouyun Yu,* Enantioselective Allylic Alkylation with 4-Alkyl-1,4-dihydro-pyridines Enabled by Photoredox/Palladium Cocatalysis. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 16914–16919.

9. Heng Jiang, Xiaode An, Kun Tong, Tianyi Zheng, Yan Zhang* and Shouyun Yu,* Visible-Light-Promoted Iminyl Radical Formation from Acyl Oximes: A Unified Approach to Pyridines, Quinolines and Phenanthridines. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 4055–4059.

10. Heng Jiang, Yuanzheng Cheng, Ruzhi Wang, Mengmeng Zheng, Yan Zhang* and Shouyun Yu,* Synthesis of 6-Alkylated Phenanthridine Derivatives using Photoredox Neutral Somophilic Isocyanide Insertion. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 13289–13292.

11. Fengtao Zhou, Jiajia Guo, Jianguang Liu, Ke Ding, Shouyun Yu* and Qian Cai,* Copper-Catalyzed Desymmetric Intramolecular Ullmann C-N Coupling：An Enantioselective Preparation of Indolines. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 14326–14329.