Date of employment:  Aug. 1, 1993

Specialty:
Organometallic
Inorganic Chemistry

TEL (O): (886-5) 272-0411 ext. 66407

Email: chejyy@ccu.edu.tw

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B.S. in Chemistry, Chung Yuan Christian University, 1985

Ph.D. in  Chemistry, Purdue University, 1991

Postdoc Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab & University of California at Berkeley, 1991-1993

Associate Professor, National Chung Cheng University, 1993-

Research Interests

Organometallic Chemistry

Design of New d-Block Metal Catalyst Systems

Transition Metals Mediated Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation and Polymer Synthesis

Kinetic and Mechanistic Studies of Homogeneous Catalysis

Development of 2- and 3-Dimensional Polysiloxane Materials

• Chen, Y.-Y.; Chang, T.-C. and Yu, S. J. 2015, "Catalytic study of a nonleaching, recoverable and recyclable Au nanoparticle-supported palladium acetate for N-vinylation reaction of Sulfonamides." Journal of Catalysis, submitted.
• Chang, T.-C. and Yu, S. J., "Microwave-Assisted Catalytic Acetylation of Alcohols by Gold-Nanoparticle-Supported Gadolinium Complex." Synth. Commun., 2015, 45(5),651–662.
• Chou, C.-C.; Wu, K.-L.; Chi, Y.; Hu, W.-P.; Yu, S. J.; Lee, G.-H.; Lin, C.-L.; Chou, P.-T.,"Ru(II) Sensitizers with Heteroleptic Tridentate Chelates for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 2011, 50, 2054-2058.
• Young, J.-N.; Chang, T.-C.; Tsai, S.-C.; Yang, L. and Yu, S. J. "Preparation of a nonleaching, recoverable and recyclable palladium-complex catalyst for Heck coupling reactions by immobilization on Au nanoparticles" Journal of Catalysis, 2010, 272, 253–261.
• Tsai, S.-C.; Lin, Y.-Y; Young, J.-N. and Yu, Shuchun Joyce, "A Highly Efficient and Recyclable Gold Nanoparticles-Based Palladium(II) Interphase Catalysts for Heck Coupling Reactions." Journal of Catalysis, submitted.
• Lin, Y.-Y; Tsai, S.-C. and Yu, S. J. "Highly Efficient and Recyclable Au Nanoparticle-Supported Palladium(II) Interphase Catalysts and Microwave-Assisted Alkyne Cyclotrimerization Reactions in Ionic Liquids" J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 4920-4928.
• Tsai, S.-C.; Fu, Y.-S.; Liao, J.-H. and Yu, S. J. "A Versatile New Method for the Efficient Synthesis of a New Class of Aza-Based Phosphinic Amide Ligands via an Unusual P-C Cleavage " Helvetica Chimica Acta 2006, 89, 3007-3017.
• Chen, I.-H.; Yang, J.-N.; and Yu, S. J. "Recyclable organotungsten Lewis Acid and microwave assisted Diels-Alder reactions in water and in ionic liquids ". Tetrahedron 2004, 60, 11903-11909.
• Fu, Y.-S.; Tsai, S.-C.; Huang, C.-H.; Yen, S.-Y.; Hu, W.-P.; Yu, S. J. "Kinetic Study and Theoretical Modeling of the Diels-Alder Reactions of Cyclopentadiene and Cyclohexadiene with Methyl Vinyl Ketone. The Effects of a Novel Organotungsten Catalyst", J. Org. Chem., 2003, 68, 3068-3077.
• Wang, H.-S.; Yu, S. J. "Tandem Reactions of Friedel-Crafts/Aldehyde Cyclotrimerization Catalyzed by an Organotungsten Lewis Acid", Tetrahedron Lett. 2002, 43, 1051-1055.
• Fu, Y.-S. and Yu, S. J., "Immobilization of Homogeneous Palladium (II) Complex Catalysts on Novel Polysiloxane Materials with Controllable Solubility Properties. Important Implications for the Study of Heterogeneous Catalysis on Silica Surfaces", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 2001, 40, 437-440.
• Hwang, C.-B.; Fu, Y.-S.; Lu, Y.-L.; Jang, S.-W.; Chou, P.-T.; Wang, C. R. C. and Yu, S. J., "Synthesis, Characterization and Highly Catalytic Reactivity of Suspended Palladium Nanoparticles", Journal of Catalysis, 2000, 195, 336-341.
• Kuo, C.-Y.; Fuh, Y.-S.; Chaen, M.-C.; Yu, S. J., "Homogeneous Diels-Alder Catalysis by Organotungsten Lewis Acid Containing Tris(2-pyridyl)phosphine Ligand", Tetrahedron Letters, 1999, 40, 6451-6454.
• Kuo, C.-Y.; Fuh, Y.-S.; Shiue, J.-Y.; Lee, G.-H.; Peng, S.-M.; Yu, S. J, "Synthesis and Chemistry of Tris(2-pyridyl)phosphine Complexes of Group VI Transition Metals. X-ray Structural Studies of the Molybdenum Complexes", J. Organomet. Chem., 1999, 588, 260-267.
• Yu, S. J.; Felter, L.; Rothwell, I. P., "Intramolecular dehydrogenation of Alkyl Groups at Niobium Aryloxide Centers: Bonding and Reactivity of the Ensuing Niobacyclopropane Ring", Organometallics 1996, 15, 21.
• Yu, J. S. ; Ankianiec, B. C.; Rothwell, I. P., "Highly Stereoselective ( all cis ) Catalytic Hydrogenation of Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Group 5 Metal Aryloxide Compounds", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1992, 114, 1927.
• Yu, J. S.; Rothwell, I. P., "Catalytic Hydrogenation of Aryl-Phosphines by Niobium Aryloxide Compounds: High Yield and Efficient Synthesis of Cyclohexyl-Phosphine Ligands", J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun. 1992, 632.
• Yu, J. S.; Fanwick, P. E.; Rothwell, I. P., "The Structure of a Tetrahedral Niobium Oxo Compound [Nb(OC6H3Ph2-2,6)3(O)]", Acta. Cryst. 1992, 48, 1759.
• Yu, J. S.; Chesnut, R. W. ; Jacob, G. G.; Fanwick, P. E.; Rothwell, I. P., "A Mechanistic Study of the cyclometallation of o-Arylphenoxide Ligands at Group 5 Metal Centers", Organometallics 1991, 10, 321.
• Yu, J. S. ; Fanwick, P. E. ; Rothwell, I. P., "Intramolecular Alkane Dehydrogenation and Functionalization at Niobium Metal Centers", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1990, 112, 8171.