Liu, Guixia　 Associate Professor

State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry,

Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, CAS

345 Lingling Lu, Shanghai 200032

Phone: +86 21 54925153

Email:guixia@sioc.ac.cn

Education:

09/2002 - 07/2007　Ph.D. (Supervisor: Prof Xiyan Lu),Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

09/1998 - 07/2002　B.S. (Chemistry),Nankai University, Chemistry Department.

Research Experience:

2011-Present: Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory of OrganometallicChemistry, SIOC.

2009-2011: Postdoc,Brandeis University. Supervisor: Prof Isaac J. Krauss.

2007-2008: Postdoc, University of New Mexico. Supervisor: Prof Wei Wang.

Research Interest:

Design and development of palladium catalyzed cascade reactions

Selected Publications:

1. Guixia Liu, Shilei Zhang, Hao Li, Tangzhi Zhang, and Wei Wang*, Organocatalytic Enantioselective Friedel-Crafts Reactions of 1-Naphthols with Aldimines,Org. Lett.2011,13, 828.

2. Guixia Liuand Xiyan Lu*, Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Intramolecular Addition of Arylboronic Acids to Ketones (full paper),Tetrahedron2008,64, 7324.

3. Guixia Liuand Xiyan Lu*, Cationic Palladium Complex Catalyzed Tandem Cyclization of Bifunctional Organoboronic Acids with Alkynes,Adv. Syn. Cat.2007,349, 2247.

4. Guixia Liuand Xiyan Lu*, Cationic Palladium Complex Catalyzed Highly Enantioselective Intramolecular Addition of Arylboronic Acids to Ketones. A Convenient Synthesis of Optically Active Cycloalkanols,J. Am. Chem. Soc.2006,128, 16504.

5.Xiuling Han,Guixia Liuand Xiyan Lu*, β-Hydride Elimination in Palladium-Catalyzed Reactions (review),Chin. J. Org. Chem.2005,25, 1182.