Teaching

Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds, Organic Chemistry Experiment

Research Interests

Asymmetric Catalytic Synthesis

Representative papers

1. Hou, G.-H.; Li, W.; Ma, M.-F.; Zhang, X.; Zhang X.* Highly Efficient Iridium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Unprotected ?-Enamine esters. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 12844-12846. (SYNFACTS, Highlight).
2. Hou, G.-H.; Tao, R.; Sun, Y.-K; Zhang X.*; Gosselin, F. Iridium-Monodentate Phosphoramidite-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Substituted Benzophenone N-H Imines. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 2124-2125.
3. Hou, G.-H.; Gosselin, F.; Li, W.; McWilliams, J.; Sun, Y.-K; Weisel, M.; O’Shea, P.; Chen, C.-Y.; Davies, I.; Zhang, X.* Enantioselective Hydrogenation of N-H Imines. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 9882-9883. (SYNFACTS, Highlight).
4. Hou, G.-H.; Xie, J.-H; Yan, P.-C.; Zhou, Q.-L.* Iridium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Cyclic Enamines. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 1366-1367.
5. Hou, G.-H.; Xie, J.-H.; Wang, L.-X.; Zhou, Q.-L.* Highly Efficient Rh(I)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Enamines Using Monodente Spiro Phosphonite Ligands. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 11774-11775.