自2003年开展工作以来，组内研究方向集中在芳香化合物的不对称氢化、新型不对称催化体系的设计与应用及这些新方法学在天然产物和手性药物合成中的应用等方面，获得突出成绩，我组三篇文章入选化物所高引用科技论文前列，SCI引用次数均超100次。获大连化物所高被引用科技论文奖励。文章如下：

1）Wen-Bo Wang, Sheng-Mei Lu, Peng-Yu Yang, Xiu-Wen Han, Yong-Gui Zhou.* Highly Enantioselective Iridium-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Heteroaromatic Compounds, Quinolines. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 10536-10537.

2）Yong-Gui Zhou.* Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Heteroaromatic Compounds. Acc. Chem. Res. 2007, 40, 1357-1366.

3）Sheng-Mei Lu, Xiu-Wen Han, Yong-Gui Zhou.* Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Quinolines Catalyzed by Iridium with Chiral Ferrocenyloxazoline Derived N,P Ligands. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2004, 346, 909-912.

另外一篇文章被评为化物所近期热点文章。

4）Duo-Sheng Wang, Qing-An Chen, Wei Li, Chang-Bin Yu, Yong-Gui Zhou,* and Xumu Zhang.* Pd-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Unprotected Indoles Activated by Bronsted Acids. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 8909-8911.