Chunli Cao

Postdoctoral Research Associate

ccao@indiana.edu

Education

2008-present - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Indiana University, Research Advisor: Michael S. VanNieuwenhze. Project: The synthesis of a Plusbasin analogue.

2008 - Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science. Research Advisor: Yong Tang. Focus on organocatalytic asymmetric Michael addition reactions and tandem reactions.

2003 - B.S. Chemistry, Lanzhou University








Publications

Cu(OTf)2/trisoxaoline catalyzed asymmetric Friedel-Crafts reaction of pyrroles with alkylidene malonates.
Tetrahedron (2008), 64(47), 10676-10680

Enantioselectively Organocatalytic Michael Addition of Ketones to Alkylidene Malonates.
J. Org. Chem., 2007, 72 (11), pp 4073–4076

Enantioselective Formal [3+3] Annulation for the Direct Construction of Bicyclic Skeletons with Four Stereogenic Centers.
Org. Lett., 2007, 9 (21), pp 4151–4154

Pyrrolidine-thiourea as a bifunctional organocatalyst: Highly enantioselective Michael addition of cyclohexanone to nitroolefins.
Org. Lett., 2006, 8 (14), pp2901-2904