News Archives

2021

  • Congratulations to Weiyan Ni and Runze Mao for winning Chinese Government Awards for self-financed students abroad.
  • Congratulations to Weiyan Ni for winning Swiss National Science Foundation Early-Post Mobility Fellowships.
  • [October] Congratulations to Miyeon Chang who was awarded BASF Monthey Prize for the best master thesis in chemistry at EPFL, and Syngenta Monthey Prize for the best average grade in the master’s programme.

2020

  • [December] Congratulations to Runze Mao for winning a top 8% EPFL PhD thesis distinction.
  • Congratulations to Lichen Bai and Runze Mao for winning Swiss National Science Foundation Early-Post Mobility Fellowships.
  • Prof. Hu is elected member of the Academia Europaea.
  • Prof. Hu won the 2020 International Catalysis Award from the International Association of Catalysis Societies. See details.

2019

  • Prof. Hu is elected as Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences.
  • [August] Congratulations to Runze Mao for being selected as one of the finalists of the 2019 Reaxys PhD prize. See details.
  • [July] Congratulations to Lichen Bai for winning a travel award from Swiss Chemical Society and SCNAT. See details.
  • [June] Press release of our work in Fe-catalyzed CO2 electroreduction: Carbon-neutral fuels move a step closer. See details.
  • [May] Prof. Hu received the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Homogeneous Catalysis Award. See details. And EPFL news release.
  • [March] We welcome Ms. Christelle Turla Aurélya as a new apprentice.
  • [February] Press release of our work in oxygen evolution catalysis: A water-splitting catalyst unlike any other, see details.
  • [February] Press release of our work in Photoelectrocatalytic Arene C-H Amination: Light-based production of drug-discovery molecules, see details. See also a highlight in Chemistry World: Solar cell tries its hand at organic synthesis.

2017

  • [November ] Prof. Hu received the National Latsis Prize, from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) on behalf of the International Latsis Foundation. See press release from SNSF, in English and French. See also the EPFL version of News and video, with a sneak view of the lab.
  • [October ] Congratulations to Carlos Morales-Guio, a former PhD student, who has won the ABB award for his PhD thesis. See details. 
  • [August] Congratulations to Dr. Chi Wai Cheung who has obtained a faculty position in Tianjin University, China. Chi Wai will start as associate professor on September 1st, 2017.
  • [July] Congratulations to Lucas-Alexandre Stern who has just successfully completed his public defense and is awarded a D.Sc degree from EPFL.
  • [July] Prof. Hu won the 2017 Tajima Prize of the International Society of Electrochemistry. See news.
  • [June] Congratulations to Dr. Tao Xu who has obtained a professorship in Tongji University, Shanghai, China. Tao will start his new position on July 1st, 2017.
  • [Latest paper, March ] We published in Nature Communications a new synthetic method for amides starting from esters and nitroarenes.  See details.
  • [March] Prof. Hu received the 2017 Organic Letters Outstanding Publication of the Year Lectureship Award. See news release from ACS. Also EPFL news.
  • [Latest paper, March ] We published in Electrochimica Acta a study of CoP-coated Cu2O photocathod for solar hydrogen production. See details.
  • [Latest paper, January] We published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences a synthetic model of lactate racemase, the first metalloenzyme to have a metal pincer complex in the active site. See details.
  • [Latest paper, January] We published in Organometallics a communication about an unique Fe(I) ferrate complex. See details.
  • [January] Congratulations to Fedor Zhurkin who just successfully defended his PhD thesis and received a D.Sc degree from EPFL! Good luck for the future.

2016

  • Congratulations to Carlos Morales-Guio and Ivan Buslov for winning Swiss National Science Foundation Early-Post Mobility Fellowships.
  • [October] Congratulations to Dr. Fang Song who has won one of the Clariant CleanTech Awards Switzerland.
  • [September] Prof. Hu received the Bau Family Award in Inorganic Chemistry. See EPFL news.
  • [September] Nature published a News story “The new breed of cutting-edge catalysts”, which featured our work in nickel catalysis. See details.
  • [August] EPFL press release on our amination paper. See details.
  • [Latest paper, August] The lab publishes two papers in Nature Communications this month. The first paper describes a nickel iron selenide-derived oxygen evolution catalyst (See details). The second paper reports a new Fe-catalyzed carbon-nitrogen bond formation reaction to make amines from nitroarenes and alkyl halides (See details).
  • [Latest paper, June] We published in Journal of the American Chemical Society a comprehensive study of oxidatively electrodeposited transitoin metal (oxy)hydroxides as oxygen evolution catalysts. See details.
  • [Latest paper, June] We published in Journal of Organic Chemistry an iron-copper catalyzed three component coupling of alkyne, alkyl halide, and allylic halide to give 1,4-dienes in high stereoselectivity. See details.
  • [May] Xile Hu is promoted to Full Professor at EPFL, effective June 1st, 2016. See news.
  • [May] Congratulations to Dr. Ligang Feng, a former postdoc of the group, who has obtained a professorship in Yangzhou University, China.
  • [Latest paper, April] We published in Organic Letters a novel reaction to use alkoxy silanes as surrogates of gaseous and flammable hydrosilanes in nickel-catalyzed hydrosilylation of alkenes. See details.
  • [March] Congratulations to Thomas Di Franco who just won the best poster award in the Anatolian Conference on Synthetic Organic Chemistry.
  • [Latest paper, March] We published in Journal of the American Chemical Society the development of a functional model of [Fe]-hydrogenase. See details.
  • [Latest paper, February] We published in ChemSusChem efficient water splitting catalyzed by cobalt phosphide nanoparticles. See details.
  • [Latest paper, January] We published in Energy & Environmental Science a new method to synthesize a nanoporous Co-based oxygen evolution catalyst by selective electrochemical etching of perovskite nanocubes. See details.

2015

  • [December] We published in ACS Catalysis the development of a new nickel pincer complex that is an efficient catalyst for the cross coupling of secondary alkyl halides. See details.
  • [November] Together with Seigo Shima of Max Plank Institute in Marburg and other collaborators, We report in Nature Chemistry a new mechanistic understanding of [Fe]-hydrogenase by reconstitution of semi-synthetic enzymes using model complexes. See details.  See also EPFL press release.
  • [October] Congratulations to Lucas-Alexandre Stern and Fedor Zhurkin for winning the teaching assistant awards.
  • [October] We report in Angewandte Chemie International Edition chemoselective alkene hydrosilylation catalyzed by nickel pincer complexes including Nickamine. .See details.

♦ [September] We report in Organic Letters that Nickamine can be applied for the first Ni-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of Alkyl Halides with B-Alkenyl-9-Borabicyclo[3.3.1]nonanes. See details.
♦ [September] Congratulations to Ivan Buslov and Lucas-Alexandre Stern for their award-winning presentations in the Fall Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society. Ivan was the runner up for the best oral presentation in inorganic and coordination chemistry, and Lucas won the best poster presentation in catalysis science and technology.
♦ [August] Prof. Hu received the Young Researcher Award from the European Federation of Catalysis Society. The award is given once every two years to a researcher under the age of 40, for individual contributions in the field of catalysis with emphasis on theoretical or experimental discovery and understanding of new catalysts and catalytic processes, synthesis and catalytic function of novel inorganic solids and complexes, mechanisms of reactions, deactivation phenomena. See announcement on the EPFL website. 
♦ [July] We published in Journal of the American Chemical Society the development of an optically transparent oxygen evolution catalyst and its application for unassisted sunlight-driven water splitting. See details.
♦ [July] We published in Chemical Communications a paper describing the significant promotional effect of several imidazolium-based ionic liquids in MoO2-catalyzed electrochemical CO2 reduction. See details.
♦ [July] The European Commission has published a story of our research, “The green catalysts of change”. The story describes the project that is supported by an ERC starting grant. See details.
♦ [July] Congratulations to Dr. Peng Ren, a former Ph.D. student, for having obtained a faculty position in the Shenzhen Campus of the Harbin Institute of Technology in China. Good luck!
♦ [June] Chemistry World, the trade journal of Royal Society of Chemistry, publishes a highlight of our recent paper on the bifunctional activity of Ni2P in water splitting. See details.
♦ [June] We published in Energy & Environmental Science a paper describing the bifunctional activity of Ni2P for both hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions. See details.
♦ [June] We published a review paper “Hydrogen-activating models of hydrogenases” in Coordination Chemistry Reviews. See details.
♦ [May] Congratulations to Carlos Morales-Guio, who has won a Chemistry Travel Award from the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT), the Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) and the Swiss Society for Food and Environmental Chemistry.
♦ [May] We published in Journal of the American Chemical Society the development of solar hydrogen production by amorphous silicon photocathodes coated with a magnetron sputter deposited Mo2C catalyst. See details.
♦ [April] We published in Journal of the American Chemical Society a new method for Z-selective olefin synthesis via Fe-catalyzed reductive coupling of alkyl halides with terminal arylalkynes. See details.
♦ [April] We published in Organometallics chemoselective hydrogenation and transfer hydrogenation of aldehydes catalyzed by iron(II) PONOP pincer complexes. See details.
♦ [March] In collaboration with Hansen and Rossmeisl from DTU, we published in Phasical Chemistry and Chemical Physics a study of the active site of Ni2P for hydrogen evolution. See details. 
♦ [Latest paper, February] We published in Synthesis a Fe-catalyzed cross coupiing reaction. See details.
♦ [January] We published in ACS Catalysis a study on Ni-catalyzed direct alkylation of terminal alkynes. See details.

2014

♦ [December] We published in Journal of the American Chemical Society a in-situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy study of amorphous molybudenum sulfide hydrogen evolving catalyst. See details.
♦ [December] We published in Organometallics a mechanistic study of iron-catalyzed coupling reactions. See details.
♦ [December] We published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition a copper-catalyzed  β-γ-unsaturated ketones through 1,2-addition of α-carbonyl iodides to alkynes. See details. 
♦ [November] We published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition the first efficient photoelectrochemical hydrogen evolution in alkaline solutions using Cu2O coated with earth abundant catalysts. See details.
♦ [November] We published in Journal of the American Chemical Society  the discovery of a new efficient oxygen eovlution catalyst: CoMn layered double hydroxide. See details.
♦ [October] We published in Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis a transition-metal-free intermolecular C-H amination of ethers. See details.
♦ [August] Prof. Hu received the “European Medal for Bioinorganic Chemistry” and delivered a Plenary Award Lecture in the Eurobic meeting. See ISIC News.
♦ [August] We published in Accounts of Chemical Research an account of our development of amorphous molybdenum sulfide hydrogen evolving catalysts. See details.
♦ [July] We published in Organometallics a mechanistic study of Ni-catalyzed alkyl-aryl Kumada coupling. See details.
♦ [July] We published in Nature Communications a new method to improve the catalytic acitivty of metal oxides for the oxygen evolution reaction. See details.  And EPFL press release.
♦ [June] Prof. Hu was appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal ACS Catalysis.
♦ [May] We published in Organic Letters an efficient and simple iron-catalyzed cross coupling of secondary alkyl halides with alkynyl Grignard reagents. See details.
♦ [April] Prof. Hu was awarded an “Organometallics Young Investigator Fellowship” by the American Chemical Society Division of Organic Chemistry and the ACS journal Organometallics. See details. See ISIC news release.
♦ [April] Prof. Hu was namded a “Rising Star” by the International Conference on Coordination Chemistry. ISIC news and meeting details.
♦ [March] We published a paper in Angewandte Chemie International Edition describing a new iron-catalyzed perfluoroalkylation reaction. See details.
♦ [February] We published two papers on the electrocatalytic activity of Ni2P. One in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics on the activity in hydrogen evolution. The other in Energy & Enviornmental Science on the promotion of Pt by Ni2P in electrochemical methanol oxidation.
♦ [February] We published a paper in Chemical Communications describing MoO2 as a new catalyst for electrochemical CO2 reduction in organic solvent. See details.
♦ [January] We publsihed, in a collaboration with the Grätzel group, a paper in Nature Communications: Hydrogen evolution from a copper(I) oxide photocathode coated with an amorphous molybdenum sulphide catalyst. See the paper. And EPFL press release.

2013

♦ [December] Prof. Hu is appointed as member of the Editorial Board of the journal – Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. This journal is a collaboration between the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Chinese Chemical Society, and Peking University.
♦ [December] Prof. Hu is appointed as member of the International Advisory Board of the Wiley journal – Chemistry, an Asian Journal.
♦ [December] Congratulations to Jan Breitenfeld for a successful Ph.D. defense. Well done, Dr. Breitenfeld!
♦ [October] Congratulations to Thomas Di Franco for the teaching award from the section of chemistry and chemical engineering. 
♦ [October] Congratulations to Jan Breitenfeld for winning the Runners Up award for best oral presentations in the inorganic and coordination chemistry section of the Swiss Chemical Society Meeting 2013.
♦ [September] Our work in Nickamine-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of alkyl halides is published in Synthesis. See details.
♦ [August] We published in Chemical Communications a study of the electron transport in amorphous molybdenum sulfide hydrogen evolution catalyst.See details.
♦ [July] We just published in ACS Catalysis an electrochemical and spectroscopic study of the growth and activation of amorphous molybdenum sulfide films which are an active catalyst for hydrogen evolution. See details.
♦ [July] We just published in Journal of the American Chemical Society a comprehensive mechanistic study of nickel-catalyzed alkyl-alkyl Kumada coupling reactions. See details. 
♦ [June] Congratulations to Heron Vrubel who had just passed his public defense and was awarded a D.Sc degree from EPFL. Well done Dr. Vrubel.
♦ [April] This month our group published three papers on our biomimetic chemistry of [Fe]-hydrogenase. See details.
♦ [March] Prof. Hu is awarded the Chemical Society Reviews Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2013. See details.

2012

♦ Congratulations to Peng Ren for winning Swiss National Science Foundation Early-Post Mobility Fellowships.

♦ [December] Prof. Hu is awarded “tenure”; he will be an associate professor effective January 1, 2013.
♦ [December] Prof. Hu is selected as a member of the newly established Young Academy of Europe.
♦ [November] Congratulations to Peng Ren who just successfully delivered his public defense and was awarded a D.Sc degree from EPFL. Well done Dr. Ren and good luck in Oxford!
♦ [October] Our latest work on hydrogen evloution catalysis “Molybdenum boride and carbide catalyze hydrogen evolution in both acidic and basic solutions” is published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. See details.
♦ [October] Prof. Hu is appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of Chemical Communications.
♦ [September] We published a review on “organic catalysts for photoelectrochemical and electrochemical CO2 reduction” in Chemical Society Reviews. See details.
♦ [September] Prof. Hu was invited as one of the “Young Scientists” to participate in World Economic Forum’s 2012 Annual Meeting of the New Champions (Summer Davos). 34 scientists around the globe in all disciplines were selected for this year’s meeting. Prof. Hu was representing ERC in this event.See details.
♦ [September] Congratulations to Pablo Perez who won a teaching award from the section of chemistry and chemical engineering.
♦ [August] Our latest result on bio-mimetic chemistry of [Fe]-hydrogenase is published in Chemistry, A European Journal. See details.
♦ [July] Our latest results in cross coupling reactions of alkyl halides are published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (copper catalysis, see details) and Organic Letters (nickel catalysis, see details).
♦ [June] Our latest result on hydrogen evolution catalyzed by amorphous molybdenum sulfide materials is published in chemical science – “Fe, Co, and Ni ions promote the catalytic activity of amorphous molybdenum sulfide films for hydrogen evolution”. See details.
♦ [May] Congratulations to Peng Ren for receiving the SNSF postdoctoral fellowship, which will support his future postdoc study in the labs of Prof. Andrew Weller and Dr. Michael Willis in University of Oxford.
♦ [May] Congratulations to Peng Ren for receiving the 2012 SCNAT/SCS travel award.
♦ [April] Congratulations to Dr. Oleg Vechorkin, our recent Ph.D. student alumini, who has won the EPFL doctorate award (Prix EPFL de Doctorats). This prestigious prize is awarded every year to only two individuals (out of about 350) who have completed a thesis of exceptional quality, evidenced by its originality, the impact of the results, and the presentation of the work.
♦ [January] Our paper “hydrogen evolution catalyzed by MoS3 and MoS2 particles” is published in Energy and Environmental Science. See details.
♦ [January] Our paper “Reversible protonation of a thiolate ligand in an [Fe]-hydrogenase model complex” is published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. See details.

2011

♦ Congratulations to Oleg Vechorkin for winning Swiss National Science Foundation Early-Post Mobility Fellowships.

♦ [December] Congratulations to Dr. Stéphane Fierro, our recent postdoc alumni, who has obtained a position as assistant professor in Keio University, Japan.
♦ [October] Our paper “Cross coupling of non-activated alkyl halides with alkynyl Grignard reagents: A nickel pincer complex as the catalyst” is published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. See details.
♦ [August] We publish a perspective in the journal Chemical Science on Ni-catalyzed cross coupling of non-activated alkyl halides.
♦ [August] We publish a perspective in the journal Energy & Environmental Science. In this paper we give a tutorial review on the development of molybdenum and tungsten sulfides as hydrogen evolution catalysts. We also report the stability and mechanistic implication of amorphous MoSx (x = 2 and 3) catalysts.
♦ [July] Congratulations to Dr. Dafa Chen who has just obtained a position as full professor of chemistry at the Harbin Institute of Technology in China. Dafa will start there on October 2011.
♦ [June] Congratulations to Oleg Vechorkin for being selected as one of the finalists for the DSM Science and Technology Awards (south) 2011.
♦ [June] Our “Nickamine” catalyst is featured in the 2nd issue of Aldrich ChemFiles 2011 (pages 4-5).
♦ [May] Congratulations to Daniel Merki for receving the 2011 Swiss Academy of Science/Swiss Chemical Society Chemistry Travel Award.
♦ [May] Our paper “A Five-Coordinate Iron Center in the Active Site of [Fe]-Hydrogenase: Hints from a Model Study” is published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. See details.
♦ [April] “A Chance Discovery May Revolutionize Hydrogen Production” – our work on catalytic hydrogen production is highlighted on the front page of EPFL. See press release. The news has generated interest in the media and blog sphere.
♦ [April] Our paper describing the discovery of a new class of highly efficient and non-precious hydrogen evolution catalysts is published in Chemical Science. See details! And check out RSC press release.
♦ [April] Our full paper on a new generation of Ni catalysts is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The title of the article is “A Structure-Activity Study of Ni-Catalyzed Alkyl-Alkyl Kumada Coupling. Improved Catalysts for Coupling of Secondary Alkyl Halides.” See details.
♦ [April] An international patent application based on a priority European patent application “Amorphous transition metal sulfide films or solids as efficient electrocatalysts for hydrogen production from water or aqueous solutions” has been filed. The patent is based on our discovery of new hydrogen evolution catalysts.
♦ [February] “Nickamine” will be collected by the Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis. Nickamine is a nickel based catalyst that we developed for challenging C-C bond formation and C-H functionalization reactions. Since late 2010, Nickamine is in the market, available from Sigma-Aldrich with the product number #728551.
♦ [January] Our work in Ni-catalyzed direct C-H functionalization was highlighted by Nachrichten aus der Chemie of the German Chemical Society (Werz et al., 2011, 59, 40).

2010
♦ [December] Prof. Hu received the 2011 “Thieme Chemistry Journal Award”.
♦ [November] Prof. Hu was selected as the recipient of the 2011 Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society. He will deliver the award lecture in the Fall Meeting and General Assembly of the Swiss Chemical Society on September 9, 2011 in Lausanne.
♦ [November] Our work in Ni-catalyzed Kumada coupling of alkyl halides was highlighted in ChemCatChem (Carretero et al., ChemCatChem, 2010, 2, 1384).
♦ [August] Prof. Hu was awarded an ERC starting grant from the European Research Council. He will use this grant to develop “catalysts made of earth-abundant elements for energy and sustainability”.
♦ [August] Our mechanistic paper “Why are (NN2)Ni pincer complexes active for alkyl-alkyl coupling: ß-H elimination is kinetically accessible but thermodynamically uphill” is published in Organometallics. See details. It is the 3rd most accessed article in Organometallics in August 2010.
♦ [August] “Nickamine” is in the market! It will be available from Sigma-Aldrich with the product number #728551. Nickamine is a nickel based catalyst that we developed for challenging C-C bond formation and C-H functionalization reactions.
♦ [August] Our paper “[Fe]-Hydrogenase Models Featuring Acylmethylpyridinyl Ligands” is accepted in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. See details!
♦ [July] Our paper “Carbon Dioxide as the C1 Source for Direct C—H Functionalization of Aromatic Heterocycles” is published in Organic Letters. See details.
♦ [June] Our C-H alkylation chemistry (Angew. Chem. 2010, 122, 3125; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 3061) was highlighted by Nachrichten aus der Chemie of the German Chemical Society (2010, 58, 630).
♦ [March] Our C-H functionalization chemistry “The Nickel/Copper-Catalyzed Direct Alkylation of Heterocyclic C-H Bonds” is published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. See details.

2009
♦ [December] Our bio-mimetic chemistry “Synthesis and reactivity of iron acyl complexes modeling the active site of [Fe]-hydrogenase” is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. See details.
♦ [November] The journal ‘Synform’ publishes a story to highlight our work on Ni-catalyzed alkyl-aryl coupling (JACS 2009, 131, 9756-9766) (Synform, 2009, 09).
♦ [November] Our work on Ni-catalyzed Sonogashira coupling of alkyl halides (JACS 2009, 131, 12078-12079) is selected by the journal ‘Synfacts’ as ‘SYNFACT of the month’ for December 2009 (Synfacts, 2009, 1383).
♦ [September] Our work on Ni-catalyzed alkyl-aryl coupling (JACS 2009, 131, 9756-9766) is selected by the journal ‘Synfacts’ as ‘SYNFACT of the month’ for October 2009 (Synfacts, 2009, 1139).
♦ [August] Our communication “Ni-Catalyzed Sonogashira Coupling of Non-activated Alkyl Halides: Orthogonal Functionalization of Alkyl Iodides, Bromides, and Chlorides” is published by the Journal of the American Chemical Society. See details. It is one of the most accessed articles of JACS in August 2009.
♦ [June] Our work on Ni-catalyzed alkyl-alkyl coupling (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 2937-2940) is selected by the journal ‘Synfacts’ as ‘SYNFACT of the month’ for June 2009 (Synfacts, 2009, 0655).
♦ [June] Our full paper “Functional group tolerant Kumada-Corriu-Tamao coupling of non-activated alkyl halides with aryl and heteroaryl nucleophiles: Catalysis by a nickel pincer complex permits the coupling of functionalized Grignard reagents” is published online by the Journal of the American Chemical Society. See details.
♦ Daniel Merki joined the lab as a Ph.D. student. Daniel studied at ETH Zurich where he obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemistry. He arrived on April 1st. Welcome, Daniel!
♦ [March] Our bio-inorganic paper “An Iron Carbonyl Pyridonate Complex Related to the Active Site of the [Fe]-Hydrogenase (Hmd)” is published online in Inorganic Chemistry. See details.
♦ [February] Our full paper “Nickel Complexes of a Pincer Amidobis(amine) Ligand: Synthesis, Structure, and Activity in Stoichiometric and Catalytic C-C Bond Forming Reactions of Alkyl Halides” is published online by Chemistry, A European Journal. See details.
♦ [January] Our communication “Ni-Catalyzed Cross Coupling of Non-Activated and Functionalized Alkyl Halides with Alkyl Grignard Reagents” is published online by Angewandte Chemie International Edition. See details. It is highlighted as a ‘hot’ paper by the editors of Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. News release Feb. 19, 2009.

2008
♦ On June 4, our first EPFL paper “Nickel Complexes of a Pincer NN2 Ligand: Multiple Carbon-Chloride Activation of CH2Cl2 and CHCl3 Leads to Selective Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation” was published by the Journal of the American Chemical Society. See details.

2007
♦ On July 4, Prof. Xile Hu was formally appointed as a tenure-track assistant professor of chemistry by the board of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. See press release: http://actualites.epfl.ch/presseinfo-com?id=477