Zhiwu Lu was born in 1988 in Hunan Province, P. R. of China. He received his M.S. degree from Yunnan University of Nationalities in  2015. He is currently as research assistant at the Department of Chemistry South University of Science and Technology of China under the guidance of Professor Jun (Joelle) Wang. His research interests are in the areas of asymmetric catalysis and ligand design.

Education

2015.07-2018.4   RA in Southern University of Science and Technology.

2012.09−2015.06 M.S. in Origanic Chemistry, Yunnan University of Nationalities; (YMU-HKBU Joint Laboratory of Traditional Natural Medicine; Key Laboratory of Chemistry in Ethnic Medicinal Resources).

Publications

1. Zhiwu Lu, Jun Wang ,* Baiqiu Han, Sifeng Li, Yongyun Zhou, and Baomin Fan.* Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Ring Opening Reaction of Azabenzonorbornadienes with Aromatic Amines. Adv. Synth. Catal.2015, 357, 3121 – 3125.
2. Sifeng Li, Zhiwu Lu, Ling Meng and Jun Wang.*Iridium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Addition of Thiophenols to Oxabenzonorbornadienes. Org. Lett.2016, 18, 5276−5279.
3. Yongyun Zhou, Zhiwu Lu, Baiqiu Han, Chaoyuan Zeng, Zhenhua Zhang and  Baomin Fan.* Iridium-Catalyzed Highly Enantioselective Ring Opening Reaction of Oxabenzonorbornadienes with Amines. Tetrahedron: Asymmetry.2015, 26,1354–1359.
4. Sifeng Li, Jianbin Xu, Baomin Fan,* Zhiwu Lu, Chaoyuan Zeng, Zhaoxiang Bian, Yongyun Zhou, and Jun Wang.* Palladium/Zinc Co-Catalyzedsyn-Stereoselectively Asymmetric Ring-Opening Reaction of Oxabenzonorbornadienes with Phenols. Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 9003–9007.
5. Baomin Fan,* Sifeng Li, Hualei Chen, Zhiwu Lu, Shanshan Liu, Qingjing Yang, Lu Yu, Jianbin Xu, Yongyun Zhou,and Jun Wang.* Palladium/Copper Complexes Co-Catalyzed Highly Enantioselective Ring Opening Reaction of Azabenzonorbornadienes with Terminal Alkynes. Adv. Synth. Catal.2013, 355, 2827-2832.