Yu Meng

Yu Meng

Graduate, class of 2026

Tsinghua University

孟煜 (Yu Meng)

Yu Meng was born in Chongqing, China in 2004. He has won silver medals in National Chemistry Olympics Competitions of 2020 and 2021. He has showed great interest towards organic chemistry during his high school period and joined the Jiao group in 2024 as an undergraduate student. Now he is working on the development of cooperative ligands for palladium catalysis. From September 2026, he will continue pursuing his PhD in the Jiao Research Group.

Interests
  • Ligand design
  • Catellani reaction
Education
  • BSc in chemistry, 2026

    Tsinghua University

Publications

  1. Yu-Xiu Li, Yu Meng, Lei Jiao* "Beyond Ring Strain: Deciphering the Role of Ligand Structure in Pd-Olefin Cooperative Catalysis" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2026, Articles ASAP.
  2. Yu-Xiu Li, Cheng-Hao Zong, Yu Meng, Lei Jiao* "Complementary Site Selectivity in Ortho-Alkylative Vicinal Difunctionalization Reactions of Iodoarenes Enabled by Palladium–Olefin Catalysis." Nat. Synth. 2026, 5, 240-250.