Photoinduced Wolff Rearrangement: Lighting the Way of Ketene Cyclization under Pd Catalysis
Time
3:00 PM, October 21, 2026 (Beijing)Zoom Meeting Link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/5794183252?pwd=qSfRtSSfbVWKTaYr60WRjPqOdT7IdR.1
Meeting ID: 579 418 3252
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Contact Us
Email: chiralchem@sciexplor.comSpeaker
Prof. Liangqiu Lu
Engineering Research Center of Photoenergy Utilization for Pollution Control and Carbon Reduction, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Prof. Liangqiu Lu is a Professor and doctoral supervisor at Central China Normal University. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Central China Normal University in 2005 and 2011, respectively, and conducted postdoctoral research at the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis in Germany under Prof. Matthias Beller. He was promoted to Professor in 2015. He has received numerous honors, including the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award, Thieme Chemistry Journals Award, Hubei Provincial Natural Science First Prize, and the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, and has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher both in China and globally. He serves as a consultant or editorial board member for several journals and organizations, including Chiral Chemistry.
His research focuses on green synthesis and asymmetric catalysis, with particular interests in visible-light-induced organic photochemical synthesis and metal-catalyzed dipolar cycloaddition reactions.
Host
Prof. Guangfan Zheng
Department of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin, China.
Prof. Guangfan Zheng is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Northeast Normal University. He received his B.S. degree from Jilin University in 2010 and his Ph.D. degree from Northeast Normal University in 2017. Following his graduation, he worked as an Assistant Researcher at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2017–2018) and as an Associate Researcher at Shaanxi Normal University (2018–2020). He joined Northeast Normal University as an Associate Professor in 2020 and was promoted to Professor in 2025.
His research focuses on photocatalytic organic synthesis, with particular interests in developing novel radical cascade reactions and asymmetric catalysis to achieve the high-value transformation of common feedstocks such as olefins, aldehydes, and carboxylic acid derivatives. He has published over 40 SCI papers in internationally renowned journals.
His research focuses on photocatalytic organic synthesis, with particular interests in developing novel radical cascade reactions and asymmetric catalysis to achieve the high-value transformation of common feedstocks such as olefins, aldehydes, and carboxylic acid derivatives. He has published over 40 SCI papers in internationally renowned journals.
Discussant
Prof. Lu Liu
Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
Lu Liu is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. His research focuses on carbene-based green organic synthesis and asymmetric catalysis. His group develops catalytic methods for highly chemo-, regio-, and stereoselective C–H bond functionalization, Wolff rearrangements, and C–X bond editing (X = C, N, S, O, F, etc.).
Prof. Liu has published more than 80 research papers in leading journals, including Chem. Soc. Rev., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Nat. Commun., Chem. Sci., and ACS Catal. He was selected for the the Shanghai Pujiang Program and the RSC ChemComm Emerging Investigators distinction, among other honors. He serves on the editorial boards of Molecules, Chiral Chemistry, and Chemical Reagents.
Prof. Liu has published more than 80 research papers in leading journals, including Chem. Soc. Rev., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Nat. Commun., Chem. Sci., and ACS Catal. He was selected for the the Shanghai Pujiang Program and the RSC ChemComm Emerging Investigators distinction, among other honors. He serves on the editorial boards of Molecules, Chiral Chemistry, and Chemical Reagents.


