Rate My Professor Peiyuan Yu

Yu’s research centers on computational organic chemistry. Key publications include “Asymmetric Phosphoric Acid–Catalyzed Four-Component Ugi Reaction” (Science, 2018), “Organocatalytic [6+4] Cycloadditions via Zwitterionic Intermediates: Chemo-, Regio-, and Stereoselectivities” (Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018), “Mechanisms and Origins of Periselectivity of the Ambimodal [6+4] Cycloadditions of Tropone to Dimethylfulvene” (Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017), “Distortion-Controlled Reactivity and Molecular Dynamics of Dehydro-Diels–Alder Reactions” (Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2016), and “Transannular [6+4] and Ambimodal Cycloaddition in the Biosynthesis of Heronamide A” (Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015). His work has contributed to understanding reaction mechanisms in organic chemistry.