主要研究方向为手性卡宾配体设计和光化学反应,以第一作者在J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.等国际著名期刊发表论文十余篇,总引用600余次,授权发明专利一项,曾获德国洪堡奖学金、博士生国家奖学金及上海市优秀毕业生等荣誉。
[1] Yuan Cai, Triptesh Kumar Roy, Till JB Zähringer, Beatrice Lansbergen, Christoph Kerzig*, Tobias Ritter*. Arylthianthrenium salts for triplet energy transfer catalysis. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2024, 146, 30474-30482.
[2] Yuan Cai, Sagnik Chatterjee, Tobias Ritter*. Photoinduced Copper-Catalyzed Late-Stage Azidoarylation of Alkenes via Arylthianthrenium Salts. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 13542-13548.
[3] Yuan Cai, Shi-Liang Shi*. Enantioconvergent Arylation of Racemic Secondary Alcohols to Chiral Tertiary Alcohols Enabled by Nickel/N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalysis. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 11963-11968.
[4] Yuan Cai, Lin-Xin Ruan, Abdul Rahman, Shi-Liang Shi*. Fast Enantio- and Chemoselective Arylation of Ketones with Organoboronic Esters Enabled by Nickel/N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalysis. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 61,5262-5267.
[5] Yuan Cai, Xin-Tuo Yang, Shuo-Qing Zhang, Feng Li, Yu-Qing Li, Lin-Xin Ruan, Xin Hong, Shi-Liang Shi*. Copper-Catalyzed Enantioselective Markovnikov Protoboration of α-Olefins Enabled by a Buttressed N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligand. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 1376-1380.