Gregory Fu
Gregory Chung-Wei Fu | |
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| Born | June 17, 1963 |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Organic chemistry |
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| Thesis | The transition metal-catalyzed hydroboration reaction: synthetic applications and mechanistic studies (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | David A. Evans |
| Other academic advisors | K. Barry Sharpless Robert H. Grubbs |
| Website | http://fugroup.caltech.edu/ |
Gregory (Greg) C. Fu is an American chemist who is a professor of organic chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, where he is the Norman Chandler Professor of Chemistry. The current research interests of the Fu laboratory include metal-catalyzed coupling reactions and the design of chiral catalysts. In particular, the group is focused on the development of nickel-catalyzed enantioselective cross-couplings of alkyl electrophiles and on photoinduced, copper-catalyzed carbon–heteroatom bond-forming reactions. The group works in collaboration with the laboratory of Professor Jonas C. Peters.
In 2014, he was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was awarded an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award in 1998-1999. He was awarded the Elias J. Corey Award from the American Chemical Society in 2004.
Professor Fu is also the inventor of the ferrocene analogous planar DMAP catalyst.