Wgroup member: Linfeng Xie Graduate student ()

Visiting Professor: Linfeng Xie University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (2002.7-2002.12) Email: xie@uwosh.edu Current position: University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Linfeng stayed in our group for five months. He did several exploration work during this short stay: (A) Investigation of a-diazo carbonyl compounds for possible new reactions (boron trifluoride promoted nucleophilic addition; transition metal-catalyzed reaction of diazo compounds with BuLi; investigation of nucleophilic addition of alkyllithium cuprate and enolate to diazo carbonyl compounds); (B) Study of copper carbene formation via isocyanide-metal complex (synthesis of isocyanide-Cu(I) complexes and characterization; recrystallization of the isocyanide-complexed Cu(I)-2,6-diCl; reaction of the isocyanide-complexed Cu(I)-Testing for carbene formation); (C) Computational studies on transition metal catalyzed 1,2-migration of a-diazo carbonyl compounds. One thing we should mention is that Linfeng taught us how to make home page. That is why you can now know our group through Internet. Linfeng has one publication with our group.

Publication

Investigation on the Transition Metal and Acid Catalyzed Reaction of b-(N-Tosyl)amino Diazo Carbonyl Compounds
Nan Jiang, Zhihua Ma, Zhaohui Qu, Xiaoyu Xing, Linfeng Xie and Jianbo Wang J. Org Chem. 2003, 68, 893-900. Click Here