
SYNTHETIC ORGANIC CHEMISTRY @HKU
Research Group of P Chiu
The University of Hong Kong

Latest Group News
March 31, 2026
Congratulations to Qin Han, and Zengsheng for their new paper in Chem. Asian J.!
Title: Inter- and Intramolecular (4+3) Cycloadditions with Epoxy Allylsilanes as Dienophiles.
March 16, 2026
Congratulations to Yinuo, Yongjie and Antonio for their new paper in ACS Catalysis!
Title: Highly Enantioselective Reductions of 2H-Azirines
January 8, 2026
Congratulations to Yinuo, Ruby and Antonio for their new paper in JACS!
Title: Ring-opening Alkyne Metathesis Polymerization Catalyzed by a Bench Stable Rhenium Complex
August 5, 2025
Congratulations to Zengsheng for his new paper in Angewandte Chemie!
Title: Exo-selective Intramolecular (4+3) Cycloadditions to trans-Fused Perhydroazulenes: An Asymmetric Formal Synthesis of (-)-Pseudolaric acid B
July 8, 2025
Congratulations to Zengsheng for his contribution to our new paper in Nature Comm.!
Title: Tetrandrine regulates NAADP-mediated calcium signaling through a LIMP-2-dependent and sphingosine-mediated mechanism
March 22, 2025
Congratulations to Yinou, Elvis and Antonio for their new paper in Angewandte Chemie!
Title: Enantiomerically Enriched Aziridine-2-carboxylates via Copper-Catalyzed Reductive Kinetic Resolution of 2H-Azirines
February 21, 2025
Welcome to our new student RA, Kenneth!
February 15, 2025
Welcome to our new internship student from Belgium, Lois!
January 16, 2025
Welcome to our new TPg student, Yujia!
March 20, 2023
Welcome to our new postdoc, Gary Chen!
Gary obtained his PhD with Prof Tamio Hayashi and Prof. Shunsuke Chiba from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
March 14, 2023
Congratulations to Yinuo for getting the Aglaia HKU Chemistry Postgraduate Student Award in 2023!
Yinuo was awarded the Second Prize!
January 10, 2023
Welcome to our new Research Assistant Professor, Antonio Rizzo!
Antonio obtained his PhD with Prof. Dirk Trauner from LMU Munich, then postdoctoral work at Seoul National University with Prof. David Chen and Prof. Tae-Lim Choi.
February 7, 2023
Welcome to our new undergraduate student, Raffi!