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

MoleculesSci.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”