D.Eng.    Kyushu University, Japan

Postdoc. University of Colorado at Boulder, USA 

2003-            Associate Professor; Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China   

1987-1995    Research Assistant; Research Associate, Dalian Insitute of Chemical Physics, CAS, China  

HELLO process: High yield, Effecient pathway, Low loading, Low complexity, and Only target product

Functionalization of inert C-H bonds by atom-economy reactions

• Insertion 

• Dehydrogenation

Book:

"Oxidation of C-H Bonds" by Wenjun Lu, Lihong Zhou  ISBN: 978-1-119-09250-6, 528 pages, Wiley (Feb 2017) 

Published paper: 

ResearcherID (A-9960-2008)

ORCID (0000-0001-8077-7060)

Recent paper:

High conversion of methane to methyl ester at 298 K

Lai Xu, Chong Mei, Mengdi Zhao, Wenjun Lu* 

ChemRxiv, 2023, DOI 10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-hhfx1-v2

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2024, 14, 2244.

Visible-light-driven oxidative chlorination of alkyl sp³C-H bonds with HCl/air at room temperature

Lai Xu, Chong Mei, Wenjun Lu*

Synthesis, 2024, DOI: 10.1055/a-2261-3255

Organic Chemistry (I & II) for undergraduate students

ZL201810266510.1

ZL202210162179.5, WO2023159959, US20230391709

No open positions for graduate students.