• 1999.9-2004.7   B.S. in Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China

• 2004.9-2009.7   Ph.D. in Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, CAS

• 2009.7-2010.1   Research Associate, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, CAS

• 2010.2-2012.3   Postdoctoral Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Technische Universität München

• 2012.4-2016.5   Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara

• 2016.6-              Principal Investigator, Fudan University

• Thieme Chemistry Journals Award （2017）

• Thousand Talent Program for Young Outstanding Scientists (2016)

• Shanghai Natural Sciences, the First Prize (2011, the fifth participator)

• Presidential Award for the Outstanding Student (Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2009)

Fudan University:

7. Changxu Zhong+, Yingchao Huang+, Haocheng Zhang, Qiang Zhou, Yu Liu, and Ping Lu*, Enantioselective Synthesis of 3-Substituted Cyclobutenes by Catalytic Conjugate Addition/Trapping Strategies, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 2750-2754.

6. Qiang, Zhou, and Ping, Lu*,  Recent Advances in Cooperative Catalysis of Chiral Lewis Base and Transition Metal Catalyst Acta Chim. Sinica 2018, 76, 825-830. (invited article for  issue: Asymmetric Organocatalysis Combined with Metal Catalysis)

5. Meng Wang, Ping Lu, and Armen Zakarian 1‐Hydroxymethylbenzotriazole, e-EROS (Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis), 2018, March.

4. Meng Wang, Jun Chen, Zongjia Chen, Changxu Zhong and Ping Lu*, Enantioselective Desymmetrization of Cyclobutanones Enabled by Synergistic Palladium/Enamine Catalysis, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 2707-2711.

3. Meng Wang and Ping Lu*, Catalytic approaches to assemble cyclobutane motifs in natural product synthesis, Org. Chem. Front., 2018, 5, 254-259.

2. Jacob J. Lacharity∥, Jeremy Fournier∥, Ping Lu, Artur K. Mailyan, Aaron T. Herrmann, and Armen Zakarian* Total Synthesis of Unsymmetrically Oxidized Nuphar Thioalkaloids via Copper-Catalyzed Thiolane Assembly.J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 13272-13275.

1. Kai Yu, Ping Lu, Jeffrey J. Jackson, Thuy-Ai D. Nguyen, Joseph Alvarado, Craig E. Stivala, Yun Ma, Kyle A. Mack, Trevor W. Hayton, David B. Collum*, and Armen Zakarian*，Lithium Enolates in the Enantioselective Construction of Tetrasubstituted Carbon Centers wtih Chiral Lithium Amides as Noncovalent Stereodirecting Auxiliaries. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 527-533.

BEFORE FUDAN

5. Ping Lu, Jeffrey J. Jackson, John A. Eickhoff, Armen Zakarian*, Direct enantioselective conjugate addition of carboxylic acids with chiral lithium amides as traceless auxiliaries.J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 656-659.

4. Ping Lu†, Artur Mailyan†, Zhenhua Gu, David M. Guptill, Hengbin Wang, Huw M. L. Davies*, and Armen Zakarian*, Enantioselective synthesis of (−)-maoecrystal V by enantiodetermining C–H functionalization.J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 17738-17749. († equal contribution)

3. Ping Lu, Zhenhua Gu, Armen Zakarian*, Total synthesis of maoecrystal V: Early stage C-H functionalization and lactone formation by radical cyclization, J. Am. Chem. Soc.2013, 135, 14552-14555.

2. Ping Lu, Thorsten Bach*, Total synthesis of (+)-Lactiflorin by an intramolecular [2+2]-photocycloaddition. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 1261-1264.

1. Shengming Ma*, Ping Lu, Lianghua Lu, Hairong Hou, Jiemin Wei, Qiwen He, Zhenhua Gu, Xuefeng Jiang, and Xing Jin, What can a metal catalyst do with allenes? One-step formation of steroid scaffolds from readily available starting materials. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 5275-5278.

• Total Synthesis of Bioactive Compounds

• Methodology Development