Education and research experience

2003.09–2007.07 Jilin University, Bachelor

2007.09–2012.07 Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PhD (Supervisor: Prof. Jinbo Hu)

2012.07–2013.03 Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Research Assistant

2015.04–2015.05 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Visiting Scholar (Supervisor: Prof. Jeffrey S. Moore)

2013.03–2017.05 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Postdoctoral Fellow (Supervisor: Prof. Timothy M. Swager)

2017.05 to present, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Research Professor

Representative work

1. Zhao, Y.; Markopoulos, G.; Swager, T. M. 19F NMR Fingerprints: Identification of Neutral Organic Compounds in a Molecular Container. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 10683-10690. Highlighted in “In the Pipeline”

2. Zhao, Y.; Swager, T. M. Detection and Differentiation of Neutral Organic Compound by 19F NMR with a Tungsten Calix[4]arene Imido Complex. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 18770-18773.

3. Zhao, Y.; Ni, C.; Jiang, F.; Gao, B.; Shen, X.; Hu, J. Copper-Catalyzed Debenzoylative Monofluoromethylation of Aryl Iodides Assisted by the Removable (2-Pyridyl)sulfonyl Group. ACS Catal. 2013, 3, 631-634.

4. Zhao, Y.; Gao, B.; Ni, C.; Hu, J. Copper-Mediated Fluoroalkylation of Aryl Iodides Enables Facile Access to Diverse Fluorinated Compounds: The Important Role of the (2-Pyridyl)sulfonyl Group. Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 6080-6083. Highlighted in Synfacts

5. Zhao, Y.; Bing, G.; Hu, J. From Olefination to Alkylation: In-Situ Halogenation of Julia-Kocienski Intermediates Leading to Formal Nucleophilic Iodo- and bromodifluoromethylation of Carbonyl Compounds. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 5790-5793.

6. Zhao, Y.; Hu, J., Palladium-Catalyzed 2,2,2-Trifluoroethylation of Organoboronic Acids and Esters. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 1033-1036.

7. Zhao, Y.; Huang, W.; Zheng, J.; Hu, J., Efficient and Direct Nucleophilic Difluoromethylation of Carbonyl Compounds and Imines with Me3SiCF2H at Ambient or Low Temperature. Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 5342-5345. Highlighted in Synfacts Me3SiCF2H is now commercially available at Sigma-Aldrich http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/papers/21910464

8. Zhao, Y.; Huang, W.; Zhu, L.; Hu, J., Difluoromethyl 2-Pyridyl Sulfone: A New gem-Difluoroolefination Reagent for Aldehydes and Ketones. Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 1444-1447. Difluoromethyl 2-Pyridyl Sulfone is now commercially available at Sigma-Aldrich
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