Home Page of Dr. Yu Chen

Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry

Remsen 206F        Tel: 718-997-4132
email: yu.chen1@qc.cuny.edu

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
65-30 Kissena Blvd.,
Flushing, NY 11367

Research Interests:

Development of new chemical transformations and catalytic asymmetric reactions employing the late transition metal catalysts (Au, Pd, Rh, etc.). 

Synthesis and development of novel enantiomerically pure biaryl ligands and their applications in highly efficient and stereoselective chemical reactions mediated by the late transition metal catalysts. 

Synthesis of biologically interesting and pharmaceutically important molecules employing these synthetic methodologies and the technology of combinatorial chemistry.

Recent Publications

Chen, Y.; Markina, N. A.; Larock, R. C. “An Efficient, Microwave-Assisted, One-Pot Synthesis of Indoles Under Sonogashira Conditions,” Tetrahedron, 2009, in press.

Chen, Y.; Cho, C.-H.; Shi, F.; Larock, R. C. “Synthesis of 3-Sulfenyl- and 3-Selenylindoles by the Palladium-Catalyzed Coupling of N,N-Dialkyl-2-iodoanilines and Terminal Alkynes, Followed by n-Bu₄NI-Induced Electrophilic Cyclization with Aryl Sulfenyl/Selenyl Chlorides,” J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 6802-6811.

Chen, Y.; Larock, R. C. “Arylation Reactions Involving the Formation of Arynes,” Chapter in Modern Arylation Methods, Ed.: L. Ackermann, J. Wiley/VCH, New York, 2009, Chapter 12, 401-473.

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