Shou‐Fei Zhu

Shou-Fei Zhu received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Qi-Lin Zhou at the Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University in 2005. He then joined the faculty of the same institute and was promoted to full professor in 2013. He did a postdoctoral research in the University of Tokyo with Prof. Eiichi Nakamura from 2012 to 2013. His research interests focus on organic synthesis, particularly on those catalytic reactions containing hydrogen transfer as a key step. He developed novel “chiral proton shuttle” catalysts for metal-catalyzed reactions, which can realize efficient chiral control of proton transfer of active intermediates and have been recognized as “an area poised for further development”. He developed a catalytic insertion reaction of carbene into B‒H bond, which contains a critical hydrogen atom transfer process and provide “an attractive approach to chiral organoborons”. Moreover, he also developed various efficient transition-metal catalysts for the hydrogenation and hydrosilylation, which contain metal-hydride transfers as key steps and have been used for preparing bioactive compounds.