People
Organic Chemistry
Dr. Guofu Zi 
Ph.D (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Postdoc. (University of California at Berkeley)
Address: Department of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
Phone: +86-18911558150
Fax: +86-10-5880 2075
E-mail：[email protected]
Group homepage：//chem1.gcth8.com/ziguofu
Teaching
Chemical Synthesis Experiment I, Organic Synthesis
Research Interests
Organic Synthesis, Asymmetric Synthesis, Organometallic Synthesis and Homogenous Catalysis.
Representative papers
- Lei Zhang, Guohua Hou, Guofu Zi,* Wanjian Ding,* and Marc D. Walter*. “Influence of the 5f Orbitals on the Bonding and Reactivity in Organoactinides: Experimental and Computational Studies on a Uranium Metallacyclopropene”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 5130-5142.
- Bo Fang, Lei Zhang, Guohua Hou, Guofu Zi,* De-Cai Fang* and Marc D. Walter*. “C-H bond activation induced by thorium metallacyclopropene complexes: A combined experimental and computational study”, Chem. Sci. 2015, 6, 4897-4906.
- Dao Zhang,* and Guofu Zi*. “N-Heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes of group 4 transition metals”, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2015, 44, 1898-1921.
- Bo Fang, Wenshan Ren, Guohua Hou, Guofu Zi,* De-Cai Fang,* Laurent Maron,* and Marc D. Walter*. “An Actinide Metallacyclopropene Complex: Synthesis, Structure, Reactivity and Computational Studies”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 17249-17261.
- Wenshan Ren, Enwei Zhou, Bo Fang, Guohua Hou, Guofu Zi*, De-Cai Fang*, and Marc D. Walter*. “Experimental and Computational Studies on the Reactivity of a Terminal Thorium Imido Metallocene towards Organic Azides and Diazoalkanes”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 11310-11314.
- Wenshan Ren, Enwei Zhou, Bo Fang, Guofu Zi*, De-Cai Fang*, and Marc D. Walter*. “Si-H Addition followed by C-H bond activation induced by a terminal thorium imido metallocene: A combined experimental and computational study”, Chem. Sci. 2014, 5, 3165-3172.
- Wenshan Ren, Wayne W. Lukens, Guofu Zi*, Laurent Maron*, and Marc D. Walter*. “Is the bipyridyl thorium metallocene a low-valent thorium complex? A combined experimental and computational study”, Chem. Sci. 2013, 4, 1168-1174.
- Wenshan Ren, Guofu Zi*, De-Cai Fang*, and Marc D. Walter*. “Thorium Oxo and Sulfido Metallocenes: Synthesis, Structure, Reactivity and Computational Studies”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 13183-13196.