Total Synthesis – Multicomponent Reactions – Domino Process Catalytic Enantioselective Transformations
Latest News
February 2021 : Congratulations to Yu-Ping, Jian and Hua for their recent publication in Angewandte : “Catalytic Enantioselective Aminopalladation–Heck Cascade” !
January 2021 : Guang’s total synthesis of (-)-cepharamine, and (-)-sinoracutine has just been published in Nature Communications : “Unified divergent strategy towards the total synthesis of the three sub-classes of hasubanan alkaloids” Congratulations !
January 2021 : Congratulations to Yu-Ping, Jian and Hua for their recent publication in ACIE : “Catalytic Enantioselective Aminopalladation‐Heck Cascade“
November 2020 : Goodbye Weisi, and best of luck for your future research in China !
November 2020 : Congratulations to Weisi for his recent publication in ACIE “Selective 1,2‐Aminoisothiocyanation of 1,3‐Dienes Under Visible Light Photoredox Catalysis” Great Job !
November 2020 : Congratulations to Dr. Balazs Budai for his recent PhD defense ! Best of luck for your future research in the Hartwig group !
November 2020 : Warm welcome to Dan & Jing, the two new members of the lab.
October 2020 : Congratulations to Takujii and Rémi for winning the MOM (EPFL’s retrosynthesis competition) !
October 2020 : Welcome to Alberto and Guoqiang to the lab! Best of luck with your research !
September 2020 : Our Total Synthesis of (+)-1,2-Dehydroaspidospermidine, (+)-Condyfoline, and (–)-Tubifoline has been highlighted in Synfact as Synfact of the Month !
September 2020 : A warm welcome to Takuji and Cédric, two new PhD candidates in the group !
August 2020 : Alexandre won the organic chemistry poster prize at the SCS Fall Meeting ! Congratulations !
August 2020 : Great group outing with all the team ! More pictures here

Latest Publications
Catalytic Enantioselective Aminopalladation–Heck Cascade
Dr. Yu-Ping He, Dr. Jian Cao, Dr. Hua Wu, Dr. Qian Wang, and Prof. Jieping Zhu
in Angewandte, ASAP (DOI : doi.org/10.1002/anie.202016001)
Dr. Guang Li, Dr. Qian Wang, and Prof. Jieping Zhu
in Nature Communications, ASAP (DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20274-1)
Catalytic Enantioselective Aminopalladation‐Heck Cascade
Dr. Yu-Ping He, Dr. Jian Cao, Dr. Hua Wu, Dr. Qian Wang, and Prof. Jieping Zhu
in Angewandte, ASAP (DOI: doi.org/10.1002/anie.202016001)
Selective 1,2‐Aminoisothiocyanation of 1,3‐Dienes Under Visible Light Photoredox Catalysis
Dr. Weisi Guo, Dr. Qian Wang, and Prof. Jieping Zhu
in Angewandte, ASAP (DOI: doi.org/10.1002/anie.202014518)
Palladium-Catalyzed Multicomponent Synthesis of Fully Substituted Alkylidene Furanones
Dr. Ángel Rentería-Gómez, Dr. Rubén O. Torres-Ochoa, Dr. Rocío Gámez-Montaño, Dr. Qian Wang, and Prof. Jieping Zhu
in Organic Letters, ASAP (DOI : doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.0c02578)
Dr. Jia-Chen, Dr. Qian Wang and Prof. Jieping Zhu
in Angewandte, ASAP (DOI : doi.org/10.1002/anie.202007548)
Rémi Andres, Dr. Qian Wang and Prof. Jieping Zhu
in JACS, Just accepted (DOI : doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c05804)
Synthesis of Benzo[a]carbazoles via Visible Light‐Induced Cycloaromatization
Dr. Bo Yao, Dr. Qian Wang and Prof. Jieping Zhu
in Helv. Chim. Acta, ASAP (DOI : doi.org/10.1002/hlca.202000106)
Bastien Delayre†, Dr. Cyril Piemontesi†, Dr. Qian Wang and Prof. Jieping Zhu
in Angewandte, ASAP (DOI : doi.org/10.1002/anie.202005380)
Enantioselective Benzilic Ester Rearrangement
Dr. Hua Wu, Dr. Qian Wang and Prof. Jieping Zhu
in Angewandte, ASAP (DOI : doi.org/10.1002/anie.202001258)