Independant Research in CU Boulder
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Post-doctoral Research in UChicago, US
15. Congjun Yu, Linda Yiu, Zining Zhang, Guangbin Dong*.
Site-Selective Catalytic Saturation of Unactivated Arenes via Directed 6π-Activation
Nature Catalysis 2025, 8, 931–938.

14. Congjun Yu, Zining Zhang, Guangbin, Dong*.
Split cross-coupling via Rh-catalysed activation of unstrained aryl–aryl bonds
Nature Catalysis 2024, 7, 432–440.

Ph.D. Research in RWTH Aachen, Germany
13. Congjun Yu, Raolin Huang, Frederic W. Patureau*.
Direct Dehydrogenative Access to Unsymmetrical Phenones
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202201142.

12. Congjun Yu, Bunyamin Ozkaya, Frederic W. Patureau*.
Electro-Oxidative Selective Esterification of Methyl arenes and Benzaldehydes

11. Congjun Yu, Jesús Sanjosé-Orduna, Frederic W. Patureau*, Mónica H. Pérez-Temprano*.
Electro-Oxidative Selective Esterification of Methyl arenes and Benzaldehydes
Chem. Soc. Rev. 2020, 49, 1643.

10. Congjun Yu, Frederic W. Patureau*.
Regioselective Oxidative Arylation of Fluorophenols
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 18530.

9. Congjun Yu, Frederic W. Patureau*.
Cu-Catalyzed Cross-Dehydrogenative ortho-Aminomethylation of Phenols
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 11807.

8. Yue Zhao, Congjun Yu, Wenjing Liang, Iuliana L. Atodiresei*, Frederic W. Patureau*.
TEMPO-mediated late stage photochemical hydroxylation of biaryl sulfonium salts

7. Xingben Wang, Congjun Yu, Iuliana L. Atodiresei*, Frederic W. Patureau*.
Phosphine-Catalyzed Dearomative [3 + 2] Cycloaddition of Benzoxazoles with a Cyclopropenone

6. Raolin Huang, Congjun Yu, Frederic W. Patureau*.
Electrochemical Dehydrogenative Acetalization Protection of Alcohols with Tetrahydrofuran
ChemElectroChem 2021, 8, 3943.

5. Yue Zhao, Congjun Yu, Wenjing Liang, Frederic W. Patureau*.
Photochemical (Hetero-)Arylation of Aryl Sulfonium Salts

Master Research in SIOC, China
4. Congjun Yu, Xiaodong Ma, Bin Chen, Bencan Tang, Robert S. Paton*, Guozhu Zhang*.
Dual Gold-Catalyzed Three-Component Reaction: Efficient Synthesis of Indene-Fused Esters, Acids, and Lactones through Gold Vinylidene Intermediates
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2017, 1561.

3. Congjun Yu, Bin Chen, Tian Zhou, Qingshan Tian, Guozhu Zhang*.
Gold(I)-Catalyzed Tandem Transformation with Diynes: Rapid Access to Linear Cyclopentenone-Fused Polycyclic Molecules
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 10903.

2. Bin Chen, Congjun Yu, Guozhu Zhang*.
A Novel Method to Prepare Multisubstituted Pyrazoles
Chin. J. Org. Chem. 2015, 35, 625.

Bachelor Research in SHNU, China
1. Chusen Huang, Ti Jia, Congjun Yu, Amin Zhang, Nengqin Jia*.
An ESIPT based fluorescent probe for highly selective and ratiometric detection of periodate
Biosensors and Bioelectronics 2015, 63, 513–518.

