姓名:蔡援
职称:特任研究员
单位:中国科学技术大学
邮箱:caiyuan@ustc.edu.cn
课题组依托机器化学家团队开展深度交叉研究，联合构建“有机自动化实验—理论计算—人工智能”全链条研究平台，致力于解决有机合成方法学领域的关键科学问题。实验室配备先进自动化高通量催化反应装置、光谱表征设备及计算集群，支持从分子设计到机理研究的全链条科研工作。目前，累计发表研究论文20余篇，包括J. Am. Chem. Soc.（4篇）, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.（5篇）等。
1. Yuan Cai, Mahiob Dawor, Gaurav Gaurav, Tobias Ritter*. Kharasch-Type Haloalkylation of Alkenes by Photoinduced Copper Catalysis. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 18438–18444.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
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.