Gregory (Greg) C. Fu is a Professor of

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at the

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and 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

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.. He was awarded an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award in 1998-1999. He was awarded the Elias J. Corey Award from the

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in 2004.

Education

Gregory Fu received his BS from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

in 1985, where he worked in the laboratory of Professor

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, then completed his PhD at

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in 1991 under Professor

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. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Professor

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at the

from 1991 to 1993, before accepting an assistant professor position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked from 1993 to 2012. In 2012, he was appointed the Altair Professor of Chemistry at Caltech. Professor Fu is currently the Norman Chandler Professor of Chemistry at Caltech.

Awards and honors

* Received the Elias J. Corey Award of the

in 2004 * Received the

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of the

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in 2006 * Elected to the

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, 2007 * Received the Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry of the

in 2012 * Elected to the

, 2014 * Received the Herbert C. Brown Award of the

in 2018

References

External links

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