Fu-Peng Wu obtained his Master degree in Chemistry from Zhejiang Sci-Tech University in 2019. He received his Ph.D under the direction of Professor Xiao-Feng Wu at Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse (LIKAT) in 2022. Then he continued to stay in the same group as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2022, he joined the group of Professor Frank Glorius at the University of Münster (Germany) as a postdoctoral research fellow, working on skeletal editing and photochemistry. He is currently a  associate professor of chemistry at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Nanjing University. His current research focuses on skeletal editing reactions and novel reagent design. 

We welcome inquiries from postdoctoral researchers, graduate students (master's and doctoral candidates), research assistants, and undergraduates.

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Before NJU

1. Y.-B. Li†, F.-P. Wu†, J. Tyler, C. G. Daniliuc, F. Glorius*, Substituent-rebound skeletal editing for precise boron-to-carbon single-atom swapping. (submitted) (†equal first author)

2. F.-P. Wu†, J. Tyler†, F. Glorius*, Diversity-Generating Skeletal Editing Transformations. Acc. Chem. Res.2025, 58, 893-906. (†equal first author)

3. F.-P. Wu, C. C. Chintawar, R. Lalisse, P. Mukherjee, S. Dutta, J. Tyler, C. G. Daniliuc, O. Gutierrez*, F. Glorius*, Ring Expansion of Indene by Photoredox-Enabled Functionalized Carbon-Atom Insertion, Nat. Catal. 2024, 7, 242–251.

4. F.-P. Wu, M. Lenz, A. Suresh, A. R. Gogoi, J. Tyler, C. G. Daniliuc, O. Gutierrez*, F. Glorius*, Nitrogen-to-functionalized carbon atom transmutation of pyridine. Chem. Sci. 2024, 15, 15205−15211.

5. F.-P. Wu, J. Tyler, C. G. Daniliuc, F. Glorius*, Atomic Carbon Equivalent: Design and Application to Diversity-Generating Skeletal Editing from Indoles to 3‑Functionalized Quinolines. ACS Catal. 2024, 14, 13343−13351.

6. F.-P. Wu, X.-W. Gu, H.-Q. Geng, X.-F. Wu*, Copper-catalyzed defluorinative arylboration of vinylarenes with polyfluoroarenes. Chem. Sci. 2023, 14, 2342-2347.

7. F.-P. Wu, H.-Qi. Geng, X.-F. Wu*, Copper-Catalyzed Boroaminomethylation of Olefins to γ-Boryl Amines with CO as C1 Source. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202211455.

8. F.-P. Wu, Y. Yang, D. P. Fuentes, X.-F. Wu*, Copper-Catalyzed Carbonylative Catenation of Olefins: Direct Synthesis of γ-Boryl Esters. Chem 2022, 7, 1982-1992.

9. F.-P. Wu, X.-F. Wu, Catalyst-Controlled Selective Borocarbonylation of Benzylidenecyclopropanes: Regiodivergent Synthesis of γ-Vinylboryl Ketones and β-Cyclopropylboryl Ketones. Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 4321-4326.

10. F.-P. Wu, X.-F. Wu*, Ligand-Controlled Copper-Catalyzed Regiodivergent Carbonylative Synthesis of α-Amino Ketones and α-Boryl Amides from Imines and Alkyl Iodides. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 695-700.

11. F.-P. Wu, Y. Yuan, J. Liu, X.-F. Wu*, Pd/Cu-Catalyzed Defluorinative Carbonylative Coupling of Aryl Iodides and gem-Difluoroalkenes: Efficient Synthesis of α-Fluorochalcones. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 8818-8822.

12. F.-P. Wu, X.-F. Wu*, Copper-Catalyzed Borylative Methylation of Alkyl Iodides with CO as the C1 Source: Advantaged by Faster Reaction of CuH over CuBpin. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 11730-11734.

13. F.-P. Wu, Y. Yuan, X.-F. Wu*, Copper-Catalyzed 1,2-Trifluoromethylation Carbonylation of Unactivated Alkenes: Efficient Access to β-Trifluoromethylated Aliphatic Carboxylic Acid Derivatives. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 25787-25792.

14. F.-P. Wu, X.-F. Wu*, Pd/Cu-Catalyzed Amide-Enabled Selectivity-Reversed Borocarbonylation of Unactivated Alkenes. Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 10341-10346.

15. F.-P. Wu, Y. Yuan, C. Schünemann, P. C. J. Kamer, X.-F. Wu*, Copper-Catalyzed Regioselective Borocarbonylative Coupling of Unactivated Alkenes with Alkyl Halides: Synthesis of β-Boryl Ketones. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 10451-10455.

16. F.-P. Wu, X. Luo, U. Radius, T. B. Marder*, X.-F. Wu*, Copper-Catalyzed Synthesis of Stereodefined Cyclopropyl Bis(boronates) from Alkenes with CO as the C1 Source. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 14074-14079.

17. F.-P. Wu, J. Holz, Y. Yuan, X.-F. Wu*, Copper-Catalyzed Carbonylative Synthesis of β-Boryl Amides via Boroamidation of Alkenes. CCS Chem. 2020, 2, 2643-2654.

18. F.-P. Wu, D. Li, J.-B. Peng, X.-F. Wu*, Carbonylative Transformation of Allylarenes with CO Surrogates: Tunable Synthesis of 4-Arylbutanoic Acids, 2-Arylbutanoic Acids, and 4-Arylbutanals. Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 5699-5703.

19. F.-P. Wu, J.-B. Peng, X. Qi, J. Ying, X.-F. Wu*, Palladium-Catalyzed Solvent-Dependent Divergent Synthesis of Benzylformamides. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2018, 360, 3412-3417.

20. F.-P. Wu, J.-B. Peng, L.-S. Meng, X. Qi, X.-F. Wu*, Palladium-Catalyzed Ligand-Controlled Selective Synthesis of Aldehydes and Acids from Aryl Halides and Formic Acid, ChemCatChem 2017, 9,3121-3124.

21. F.-P. Wu, J.-B. Peng, L.-Y. Fu, X. Qi, X.-F. Wu*, Direct Palladium-Catalyzed Carbonylative Transformation of Allylic Alcohols and Related Derivatives. Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 5474-5477.