Hui-Qi Ni, PhD
Doctoral Thesis: Novel Pd-Catalyzed Alkene Annulation Reactions to Streamline Carbo- and Heterocycle Synthesis
Research Focus: Ni's work focused on (hetero)annulations of non-conjugated alkenes by taking advantage of 8-aminoquinoline (AQ) as a removable directing group.
Undergraduate Institution: University of Science and Technology of China
Noteworthy Publications: Redox-Paired Alkene Difunctionalization Enables Skeletally Divergent Synthesis, Journal of the American Chemical Society (2023); Mapping Ambiphile Reactivity Patterns in the Anti-(Hetero)annulation of Non-Conjugated Alkenes via Pd(II)/Pd(IV) Catalysis, Angewandte Chemie-International Edition (2022); Anti-Selective [3+2] (Hetero)annulation of Nonconjugated Alkenes via Directed Nucleopalladation, Nature Communications (2020)
Honors and Awards: Baxter Foundation Fellowship (2019-2020)
Looking Back: "My success in graduate school wouldn't have been possible without my advisor Professor Keary M. Engle."
Next Steps: "Currently I am a postdoctoral researcher working with Professor Nathanael Gray at Stanford University. I am looking forward to developing new drugs for cancer treatment. I hope I can have the opportunity to work in academia in the future."
Join us at 10 a.m. PDT on Friday, May 17, 2024 for our Commencement Ceremony Livestream! Ni wil be introduced by her advisor, Prof. Keary Engle, who will deliver a few words about her graduate experience. Viewers will also learn about our many other 2024 graduates, who are now setting out to build careers that will profoundly impact the future of biomedical research.
