Research Field: Enantioselective Fluorescent Recognition, Chiral Supramolecular Assembly
Education And Academic Experience：
Nov.2013 – present Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Sichuan University
Aug. 2008 – Aug. 2013 Ph.D, Organic Chemistry，Speciality: Enantioselective Fluorescent Sensors, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, U.S.A. Research Advisor: Prof. Lin Pu
Sep. 2004 – Jun. 2008 B.S., Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, P. R. China
Research Funds
General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (2022 – 2025)
Youth Fund Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (2016 – 2018)
Applied Basic Reseach Project of Science and Technology Department of Sichuan Province (2021 – 2023)
Science and Technology Leading Talents Cultivation Project of Sichuan University (2019 – 2020)
Spark Project of Sichuan University (2019 – 2021)
Enterprise Technology Development Project（2014 – 2016）
Honors and Awards
2019 Second Prize for the Scientific and Technological Progress Award of Sichuan Province
2021 First Prize for the Teaching Achievement Award of Sichuan University
2021 Excellent Teaching Quality Award of Sichuan University
2020 Excellent Teaching Quality Award of Sichuan University
2018 Sichuan University Hundred Talents Program B
2018 Excellent Teaching Quality Award of Sichuan University
2017 Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Advisor of Sichuan University
2015 Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Advisor of Sichuan University
2015 Excellent Instructor of Extracurricular Science and Technology Practice Activities of Sichuan University
2014 Teaching Quality Excellence Award of Sichuan University
Representative Publications
1. Jiang, Y.; Huang, Z.; Zhang, J.; Yu, X.-Q.; Yu, S., Construction of a novel coordination polymer for selective fluorescence recognition and efficient adsorption of tryptophan in aqueous solution. Sep. Purif. Technol. 2023, 318, 123962.
2. Yang, J.; Jiang, L.; Tian, J.; Yu, S.; Yu, X.; Pu, L., Fluorous Phase-Enhanced Fluorescent Sensitivity for Enantioselective Recognition of Lysine. Org. Lett. 2022, 24 (50), 9327-9331.
3. Zhao, F.; Wang, Y.; Wu, X.; Yu, S.; Yu, X.; Pu, L., Sulfonation of 3,3 '-Diformyl-BINOL for Enantioselective Fluorescent Recognition of Amino Acids in Water. Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26 (32), 7258-7262.
4. Tian, J.; Wang, Y.; Chen, Y.; Zhao, F.; Jiang, Y.; Yu, S.; Yu, X.; Pu, L., Chemoselective and enantioselective fluorescent recognition of glutamic and aspartic acids. Chem. Commun. 2020, 56 (95), 15012-15015.
5. Iqbal, S.; Yu, S.; Jiang, L.; Wang, X.; Chen, Y.; Wang, Y.; Yu, X.; Pu, L., Simultaneous Determination of Concentration and Enantiomeric Composition of Amino Acids in Aqueous Solution by Using a Tetrabromobinaphthyl Dialdehyde Probe. Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25 (42), 9967-9972.
6. Wang, Y.; Hu, L.; Zhao, F.; Yu, S.; Tian, J.; Shi, D.; Wang, X.; Yu, X.; Pu, L., Polymer Amplified Enantioselectivity in the Fluorescent Recognition of Prolinol. Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23 (70), 17678-17681.
7. Hu, L.; Yu, S.; Wang, Y.; Yu, X.; Pu, L., Enhanced Fluorescence of 3,3 '-Diformyl BINOL by Functional Secondary Amines. Org. Lett. 2017, 19 (14), 3779-3782.
8. Xu, Y.; Yu, S.; Chen, Q.; Chen, X.; Xiao, M.; Chen, L.; Yu, X.; Xu, Y.; Pu, L., Greatly Enhanced Fluorescence by Increasing the Structural Rigidity of an Imine: Enantioselective Recognition of 1,2-Cyclohexanediamine by a Chiral Aldehyde. Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22 (17), 5963-5968.
9. Xu, Y.; Yu, S.; Chen, Q.; Chen, X.; Li, Y.; Yu, X.; Pu, L., Fluorescent Recognition of 1,2-Diamines by a 1,1′-Binaphthyl-Based Trifluoromethyl Ketone. Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22 (34), 12061-12067.
10. Wen, K.; Yu, S.; Huang, Z.; Chen, L.; Xiao, M.; Yu, X.; Pu, L., Rational design of a fluorescent sensor to simultaneously determine both the enantiomeric composition and the concentration of chiral functional amines. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137 (13), 4517-24.
11. In-Nam, K.; Huang, Z.; Yu, S.; Wen, K.; Yu, X.; Pu, L., Zn(II) promoted dramatic enhancement in the enantioselective fluorescent recognition of functional chiral amines by a chiral aldehyde. Chem. Sci. 2014, 5 (9), 3457-3462.
12. Huang, Z.; Yu, S.; Zhao, X.; Wen, K.; Xu, Y.; Yu, X.; Xu, Y.; Pu, L., A Convenient Fluorescent Method to Simultaneously Determine the Enantiomeric Composition and Concentration of Functional Chiral Amines. Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20 (50), 16458-16461.
13. Yu, S. S.; Pu, L., One enantiomeric fluorescent sensor pair to discriminate four stereoisomers of threonines. Sci. China Chem. 2013, 56 (3), 301-306.
14. Yu, S. S.; Plunkett, W.; Kim, M.; Pu, L., Simultaneous Determination of Both the Enantiomeric Composition and Concentration of a Chiral Substrate with One Fluorescent Sensor. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134 (50), 20282-20285.
15. Yu, S. S.; Pu, L., Pseudoenantiomeric Fluorescent Sensors in a Chiral Assay. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132 (50), 17698-17700.
Participated Textbooks and Monographs
Spectral Ananlysis (2nd Ed.), Chemical Industry Press, 2022.
Macrocyclic Polyamines, Wiley-VCH, 2018.
Comprehensive Supramolecular Chemistry II, Oxford: Elsevier, 2017.
