About

I received my PhD degree from the University of Rochester after spending 4 years on the research of nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions with epoxides and aziridines. Thanks to the great guidance of Professor Daniel J. Weix, who is currently a tenured professor at the said university, my epoxide work was published on Journal of the American Chemical Society as two separate papers[1] [2]. I am current a post doctoral researcher at MIT under Professor Stephen L. Buchwald.


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  1. ^ Zhao, Yang; Weix, Daniel J. (Feb 25, 2015). "Enantioselective Cross-Coupling of meso-Epoxides with Aryl Halides". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137 (9): 3237–3240. doi:10.1021/jacs.5b01909.
  2. ^ Zhao, Yang; Weix, Daniel J. (Dec 16, 2013). "Nickel-Catalyzed Regiodivergent Opening of Epoxides with Aryl Halides: Co-Catalysis Controls Regioselectivity". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 136 (1): 48–51. doi:10.1021/ja410704d.