Xun Sun was born in the P. R. of China and he is currently pursuing PhD track study within the BRG. His reasearch focused on the development of StReCH and related technologies for the stereospecific synthesis of carbon-carbon single bonds and carbon-carbon double bonds. Xun achieved the first one-pot triple StReCH reaction for the stereochemically programmed synthesis of a contiguous stereotriad motif .

"Stereospecific Synthesis of Alkenes by Eliminative Cross-Coupling of Enantioenriched sp3-Hybridized Carbenoids," Wu, Z.; Sun, X.; Potter, K.; Cao, Y.; Zakharov, L. N.; Blakemore, P. R. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 12285-12289. [LINK][abstract][SI]

"Programmed Synthesis of a Contiguous Stereotriad Motif by Triple Stereospecific Reagent-Controlled Homologation," Sun, X.; Blakemore, P. R. Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 4500-4503. [LINK][abstract][SI]