Name:		Yao Fu
	Address:		Department of Chemistry of USTC, Hefei ,China
	Tel:		86-551-3607476
	Fax:		86-551-3606689
	E-mail:		fuyao@ustc.edu.cn
	Research group:		Http://biomass.ustc.edu.cn/

EDUCATION AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• 2005, Ph.D, University of Science & Technology of China
• 2005-2010 Associate professor, University of Science & Technology of China
• 2010- Professor, University of Science & Technology of China

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Physical Organic Chemistry and Sustainable Chemistry

HONORS AND AWARDS

• The Chinese Chemical Society Young Chemist Award (2011)
• Lu Jiaxi Young Scientist Award of CAS (K.C. Wong Education Foundation, 2009)

RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

CCS and CAS member

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

1. Xu, J.; Fu, Y.*; Luo, D. F.; Jiang, Y. Y.; Xiao, B.; Liu, Z. J.; Gong, T. J.; Liu, L., Copper-Catalyzed Trifluoromethylation of Terminal Alkenes through Allylic C-H Bond Activation. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2011, 133 , 15300-15303.
2. Yu, H. Z.; Jiang, Y. Y.; Fu, Y.*; Liu, L., Alternative Mechanistic Explanation for Ligand-Dependent Selectivities in Copper-Catalyzed N- and O-Arylation Reactions. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2010, 132, 18079-18091.
3. Xiao, B.; Fu, Y. *; Xu, J.; Gong, T. J.; Dai, J. J.; Yi, J.; Liu, L., Pd(II)-Catalyzed C-H Activation/Aryl-Aryl Coupling of Phenol Esters. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2010, 132, 468-469.
4. Zhang, S. L.; Fu, Y. *; Shang, R.; Guo, Q. X.; Liu, L., Theoretical Analysis of Factors Controlling Pd-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Coupling of Carboxylic Acids with Olefins. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2010, 132, 638-646.
5. Deng, L.; Li, J.; Lai, D. M.; Fu, Y. *.; Guo, Q. X., Catalytic Conversion of Biomass-Derived Carbohydrates into gamma-Valerolactone without Using an External H-2 Supply. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 2009, 48, 6529-6532.