Wgroup member: Lei Zhou Graduate student ()

Wgroup member: Lei Zhou Postdoctoral fellow  (2009.10~2011.9) 1981.5 Born in Shangrao Jiangxi province. Current position: Sun Yat-sen University

Education
B.S. in Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China (1998/09- 2002/07)
Master in Organic Chemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2003/09-2006/07)
Jointly fostered Ph.D. of McGill University and South China University of Technology (2006/09-2009/07)

Final report for postdoctoral study: Diazo Compounds: New Partner for Pd-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions

Publications

(1) Cyclopropylcarbinylpalladium Species from Carbene Migratory Insertion: New Routes to 1,3-Butadienes
Lei Zhou, Fei Ye, Yan Zhang and Jianbo Wang
Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 922-925.

(2) Expeditious Synthesis of Phenanthrenes via CuBr2-Catalyzed Coupling of Terminal Alkynes and N-Tosylhydrazones derived from O-Formyl Biphenyls
Fei Ye, Yi Shi, Lei Zhou, Qing Xiao, Yan Zhang, Jianbo Wang
Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 5020-5023.

(3) Copper-Catalyzed Cascade Coupling/Cyclization of Terminal Alkynes with Diazoacetates: A Straightforward Route for Trisubstituted Furans
Lei Zhou, Jiachen Ma, Yan Zhang, and Jianbo Wang
Tetrahedron Lett. 2011, 52, 5484-5487.

(4) Sequential Au(I)-Catalyzed Reaction of Water with o-Acetylenyl-Substituted Phenyldiazoacetates
Lei Zhou, Yizhou Liu, Yan Zhang and Jianbo Wang
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 631-637.(Invited Contribution for "Gold Catalysis for Organic Synthesis as a Thematic
Series")

(5) Pd-catalyzed coupling of beta-hydroxy alpha-diazocarbonyl compounds with aryl iodides: a migratory insertion/b-hydroxy elimination sequence
Lei Zhou, Yizhou Liu, Yan Zhang and Jianbo Wang
Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 3622-3624.

(6) Pd-Catalyzed Oxidative Cross-Coupling of N-Tosylhydrazones or Diazoesters with Terminal Alkynes: A New Route to Conjugated Enynes
Lei Zhou, Fei Ye, Jiachen Ma, Yan Zhang and Jianbo Wang
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 3510-3514.

(7) CuBr-Catalyzed Coupling of N-Tosylhydra zones and Terminal Alkynes: Synthesis of Benzofurans and Indoles
Lei Zhou, Fei Ye, Jiachen Ma, Yan Zhang and Jianbo Wang
Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 968-971.

(8) Pd-Catalyzed Three-Component Coupling of N-Tosylhydrazone, Terminal Alkyne, and Aryl Halide
Lei Zhou, Fei Ye, Yan Zhang, and Jianbo Wang
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 13590-13591.

(9) Synthesis of Phenanthrenes through Copper-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of N-Tosylhydrazones with Terminal Alkynes
Mohammad Lokman Hossain, Fei Ye, Zhenxing Liu, Ying Xia, Yi Shi, Lei Zhou, Yan Zhang and Jianbo Wang
J. Org. Chem. 2014, 79, 8689-8699.

(10) Pd-Catalyzed C-H Functionalization of Acyldiazomethane and Tandem Cross-Coupling Reactions
Fei Ye, Shuanglin Qu, Lei Zhou, Cheng Peng, Chengpeng Wang, Jiajia Cheng, Mohammad Lokman Hossain, Yizhou Liu, Yan Zhang, Zhi-Xiang Wang,* and Jianbo Wang*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 4435-4444.

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(9) Zhou, L.; Jiang, H-F.*; Li, C-J.* Diastereoselective synthesis of γ,δ-alkynyl-b-amino acid derivatives by a Cu-catalyzed amine-alkyne-alkyne addition reaction; Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 11668-11674.

(10) Zhou, L.; Jiang, H-F.*; Li, C-J.* Efficient synthesis of γ,δ-alkynyl-b-amino acid derivatives by a new Cu-catalyzed amine-alkyne-alkyne addition reaction. Adv. Synth & Catal. 2008, 350, 2226-2230;

(11) Zhou, L.; Chen, L.; Skouta, R.; Jiang, H-F.*; Li, C-J.*  Palladium-catalyzed 1,4-Addition of terminal alkynes to unsaturated carbonyl compounds promoted by electron-rich ligands. Org. Biomol. Chem., 2008, 6, 2969-2977.;

(12) Zhou, L.; Jiang, H-F.*; Li, C-J.* Synthesis of propargylamines by a copper-catalyzed tandem anti-Markovnikov hydroamination and alkyne addtion. Synlett, 2009, 937-940.

(13) Yu, M.; Skouta, R.; Zhou, L.; Yao, X-Q.*; Li, C-J.* Water-triggered, counter anion-controlled and silver-phosphines complex catalyzed stereoselective cascade alkynylation/cyclization of terminal alkynes with salicylaldehydes; J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 3378-3383.

(14) Jiang, H-F.; Liu, X-H.; Zhou, L.; First synthesis of 1-chlorovinyl allenes via palladium- catalyzed allenylation of alkynoates with propargyl alcohols. Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 11305-11309.

(15) Zhou, L.; Jiang, H-F.* Synthesis of phthalides via Pd/CNTs-catalyzed reaction of terminal alkynes and o-iodobenzoic acid under copperand ligand-free conditions. Tetrahedron Lett., 2007, 48, 8449-8452.

(16) Zhou, L.; Zhang, W-D.*; Jiang, H-F.* Carbon nanotubes-supported palladium nanoparticles for the Suzuki reaction in supercritical carbon dioxide: A facile method for the synthesis of tetrasubstituted olefins. Science in China, Series B: Chemistry 2008, 51, 241-247.

(17) Zhou, L. Zhan H.-Y.; Liu H.-L.; Jiang, H-F.* An efficient and practical process for Pd/Cu cocatalyzed homocoupling reaction of terminal alkynes using sodium percarbonate as a dual reagent in aqueous media  Chinese Journal of Chemistry, 2007, 25 ,1413-1416.

(18) Zhou, L.; Xu, Q-X. Jiang, H-F.* Palladium-catalyzed homo-coupling of boronic acids with supported reagents in supercritical carbon dioxide; Chinese Chemical Letters, 2007, 18, 1043-1046.

(19) Huang, J-M.; Zhou, L.; Jiang, H-F.* PdCl2/CuCl2-catalyzed allylation of alkynes with allyl alcohol in aqueous media: highly regio- and steroslective synthesis of 1,4-dienes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl, 2006, 45, 1945-1949.