Name:		Jun Xu
	Year of Birth:		1986
	Address:		Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, 230026 Hefei, P. R. China
	Tel:		0086-(0)551-63606640
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	E-mail:		xujun86@ustc.edu.cn
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EDUCATION AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• 2004.09 – 2008.06 B.Sc., Dept. of Applied Chemistry, Yan Tai University, Yantai, Shandong, China.
• 2008.09 – 2013.06 Ph.D, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China (supervisor: Prof. Youcheng Liu & Yao Fu).
• 2013.06 – present iChem fellow, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Our current research interest mainly focus on: (1) The development of efficient method for the introduction of fluorine-containing functional groups in organic compounds and corresponding mechanism studies; (2) Application of fluorine-containing functional organic molecules in fluorinated functional materials and pharmaceuticals.

MAJOR SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

• 2013, CAS President Excellence Award from Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• 2013, Outstanding graduates of USTC.
• 2012, The first " National Graduates Scholarship" from the Ministry of Education of China.
• 2012, Outstanding Doctors Award of Chu Yuet Wah Foundation from Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2012, The first "Graduates Chemical Annual Conference", 2rd grade, from USTC.
• 2011, The first " Xingye responsibility Scholarship " from USTC.
• 2008, Outstanding graduates of Shandong province.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

1. Xu, J.; Xiao, B.; Xie, C.-Q.; Luo, D.-F.; Liu L.; Fu, Y.* Copper-Promoted Trifluoromethylation of Primary and Secondary Alkylboronic Acids. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 12511.
2. 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. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 15300.
3. Xu, J.; Luo, D.-F.; Xiao, B.; Liu, Z.-J.; Gong, T.-J.; Fu, Y.; Liu L.* Copper-catalyzed trifluoromethylation of aryl boronic acids using a CF3+ reagent. Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 4300.
4. Xu, J.; Liu, X.; Fu, Y.* Recent advance in transition-metal-mediated trifluoromethylation for the construction of C(sp3)–CF3 bonds. Tetrahedron Letters, 2013, 55, 585.
5. Xu, J.; Fu, Y.*; Xiao, B.; Gong, T.-J.; Guo, Q.-X.* Room-temperature palladium(II)-catalyzed N-vinylation of sulfonamide and acylamides with vinyl acetate as vinyl source. Tetrahedron Letters, 2010, 51, 5476–5479.
6. Xiao, B.; Gong, T.-J.; Xu, J.; Liu, Z.-J.; Liu L.* Palladium-Catalyzed Intermolecular Directed C-H Amidation of Aromatic Ketones. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 1466.
7. Xiao, B.; Gong, T.-J.; Liu, Z.-J.; Liu, J.-H.; Luo, D.-F.; Xu, J.; Liu L.* Synthesis of Dibenzofurans via Palladium-Catalyzed Phenol-Directed C-H Activation/C-O Cyclization. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 9250,.
8. Gong, T.-J.; Xiao, B.; Liu, Z.-J.; Wan, J.; Xu, J.; Luo, D.-F.; Fu, Y.; Liu L.* Rhodium-Catalyzed Selective C-H Activation/Olefination of Phenol Carbamates. Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 3235.
9. Luo, D.-F.; Xu, J.; Fu, Y.*; Guo, Q.-X.* Copper-catalyzed trifluoromethylationof terminal alkynes using Umemoto’s reagent. Tetrahedron Letters, 2012, 53, 2769.
10. 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. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 468.