
Prof. Dr. Ruimao HUA
Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Tel.: +86-10-62792596;
Fax: +86-10-62771149
E-mail: ruimao@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
RESEARCH INTEREST
Alkyne Chemistry, Organic Materials
EDUCATION
1992-1996 Ph. D. Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
1986-1989 M. Sc. Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1982-1986 B. Sc. Fujian Normal University
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
1989-1992 Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Assistant Researcher
1996-2002 National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research (Japan), Research Fellow
2002-present Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University, Professor of Chemistry
MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD
Molecules、Sci.、Mini-Reviews in Organic Chemistry
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
1. Jiaying Lv, Huixin Liu, Le Lu, and Ruimao Hua*
Copper(I)-Catalyzed Syntheses of Benzo[b]fluorenes by the Cascade Reactions of 2‑Alkynylbenzaldehyde N‑Tosylhydrazones and Aromatic Terminal Alkynes.
The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2022, 87, 16011-16018
2. Le Lu, Ruimao Hua*
A Monomer-Polymer-Monomer (MPM) Organic Synthesis Strategy: Synthesis and Application of Polybenzofuran for Functionalizing Benzene Ring of Benzofuran.
Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry 2021, 10, 1846-1846
3. Yiming Zhou, Ruimao Hua*
Synthesis of 1-Benzyl-, 1-Alkoxyl-, and 1-Aminoisoquinolines via Rhodium(III)- Catalyzed Aryl C−H Activation and Alkyne Annulation.
The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2021, 86, 8862-8872
4. Liyao Zheng, Ruimao Hua*
C–H Activation and Alkyne Annulation via Automatic or Intrinsic Directing Groups: Towards High Step Economy
Chemical Record 2018, 18, 556-569 (personal account).
5. Le Lu, Huixin Liu, Ruimao Hua*
HNO3/HFIP: A Nitrating System for Arenes with Direct Observation of π‑Complex Intermediates.
Organic Letters 2018, 20, 3197-3201.
6. Liyao Zheng, Yunhui Bin, Yunpeng Wang, Ruimao Hua*
Synthesis of Natural Product-like Polyheterocycles via One-Pot Cascade Oximation, C-H Activation and Alkyne Annulation.
The Journal of Organic Chemistry2016,81, 8911-8919
7. Biao Guo, Liyao Zheng, Lei Zhang, Ruimao Hua*
Synthesis of Benzofulvene Derivatives from Diarylacetylenes via Pd(II)-Catalyzed Alkyne-Directed C(sp2)-H Bond Activation.
The Journal of Organic Chemistry2015,80, 8430-8434
8. Biao Guo, Yiming Zhou, Lei Zhang, Ruimao Hua*
Bronsted Acid-Promoted One-Pot Synthesis of Chrysene Derivatives via Isochromenylium Intermediate Formedin Situ.
The Journal of Organic Chemistry2015,80, 7635-7641
9. Lei Zhang, Liyao Zheng, Biao Guo, Ruimao Hua*
One-Pot Synthesis of Multisubstituted 2-Aminoquinolines from Annulation of 1-Aryl Tetrazoles with Internal Alkynes via Double C-H Activation and Denitrogenation.
The Journal of Organic Chemistry2014,79, 11541-11548
10. Biao Guo, Liyao Zheng, Lichen Yang, Ruimao Hua*
Synthesis of Chrysene Derivatives via Copper-Catalyzed One-Pot Dimerization of 2-Alkynyl-1-acetylbenzenes.
The Journal of Organic Chemistry2014,79, 4352-4357
11. Liyao Zheng, Ruimao Hua*
Modular Assembly of Ring-Fused and π-Extended Phenanthroimidazoles via C-H Activation and Alkyne Annulation.
The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2014, 79, 3930-3936
12. Liyao Zheng, Jia Ju, Yunhui Bin, Ruimao Hua*
Synthesis of Isoquinolines and Heterocycle-Fused Pyridines via Three-Component Cascade Reaction of Aryl Ketones, Hydroxylamine, and Alkynes.
The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2012, 77, 5794-5800
13. Jie Li, Ruimao Hua*, Tao Liu
Highly Chemo- and Stereoselective Palladium-Catalyzed Transfer Semihydrogenation of Internal Alkynes Affording cis-Alkenes.
The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2010, 75, 2966-2970
14. Ming Li, Ruimao Hua*
Ru3(CO)12-Catalyzed Reactions of Catechols with Alkynes: An Atom-Economic Process for the Synthesis of 2,2-Disubstituted 1,3-Benzodioxoles from the Double Addition of the O-H Bond Across a Triple Bond.
The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2008, 73, 8658-8660
15. Hanxiang Zeng, Ruimao Hua*
Palladium-Catalyzed Hydrophenylation of Alkyne with Sodium Tetraphenylborate under Mild Conditions.
The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2008, 73, 558-562
Book and Chapters
1. Ruimao Hua, Addition Reactions with Unsaturated Hydrocarbons, Wiley-VCH GmbH, April, 2022; ISBN 9783527804801
2. Ruimao Hua* and Sushmita Roy, Organocatalytic Transformation of Carbon Dioxide, chapter 5 in “Recent Advances in Organocatalysis”, edited by Iyad Karame & Hassan Srour (2016, InTech).
3. Ruimao Hua, Copper-Catalyzed Alkynylation and Alkenylation Reaction of Alkynyl Derivatives: New Access to Diynes and Enynes, chapter 12 in “Copper-Mediated Cross-Coupling Reactions”, edited by Gwilherm Evano & Nicolas Blanchard (2013, Wiley)
4. Guest editor: Current Organic Chemistry, 2011, 15, 5: “Recent Progress in the Synthesis and Applications of Cyclic Compounds”