Prof. Guanqi Qiu leads a physical organic chemistry group focused on establishing fundamental principles of organic reactivity. The group aims to systematically modulate and exploit intrinsic reactivity to enable new strategies for controlling selectivity in catalysis and reaction design, combining experiment-led conceptual theory with computational support. A second major direction is exploring quantum mechanical tunneling in organic synthesis under ambient conditions, including developing new diagnostic approaches and identifying reaction classes where tunneling can be harnessed as a reactivity and selectivity element.
