Gregory C. 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 | fugroup |
Gregory 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.