Patent support across chemical, materials and life sciences

Lu Liu draws from her technical background in chemistry to assist clients with a variety of intellectual property matters, including drafting and prosecution of patent applications and conducting freedom-to-operate, patentability and due diligence analyses. Lu assists clients on several technologies, including:

• Polymer and materials science, such as polyolefins, adhesives, wire and cable coating materials and nanomaterials
• Chemicals and pharmaceuticals, such as small-molecule therapeutics, catalysts, antibiotics and bioactive materials

Lu conducted doctoral research regarding the development of novel synthetic methods for fluorinated amine stereotriads and new synthetic methods for light-initiated nitrogen-centered radical addition to allenes. She is an author of research and review articles in multiple peer-reviewed journals, including Chemical Reviews, Organic Letters, Chemistry – A European Journal and Crystal Growth & Design. Lu also co-authored a book chapter regarding allene aziridination.

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Education

• Northern State University (B.A. and B.S., 2014)
  • Chemistry; English Language and Literature
  • Undergraduate Research Grants

• Shanghai University of International Business and Economics (B.A.)
  • Major: English Translation and Interpretation, Minor: French

• University of Wisconsin - Madison (Ph.D., 2019)
  • Philosophy, Chemistry (Organic Division)
  • Thesis title: "Part I: fluorinated amine stereotriads via allene amination and Part II: visible-light-assisted intramolecular amidation of allenes"
  • Goering Organic Chemistry Award

• "An Enantiotropic Disorder–Partial Order Solid-state Transformation in a Molecular Solid Involving a Phase with Z’=12"
• "Fluorinated Amine Stereotriads via Allene Amination"
• "Mechanistic Aspects and Synthetic Applications of Radical Additions to Allenes"
• "Regioselective Intramolecular Allene Amidation Enabled by an EDA Complex"
• “Allene Aziridination as a Tool for the Synthesis of Complex Amines”