Personal Profile
- 2000.09 - 2004.07: Shandong University, Bachelor’s degree
- 2004.09 - 2010.01: Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PhD student
- 2010.04 - 2011.01: Shanghai Desano Chemical & Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Project Leader, R&D Department
- 2011.03 - 2014.02: Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Germany, Postdoctoral Researcher, Organic Small-Molecule Catalysis
- 2014.06 - 2016.10: The Scripps Research Institute, USA, Research Associate, Hydrocarbon Bond Activation
- 2016.10 - 2017.10: Genomics Research Foundation (GNF), Novartis Research Foundation, USA, Postdoctoral Researcher, Organic Photochemistry
- 2017.11 - Present, East China University of Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Distinguished Research Fellow, Professor, PhD Supervisor, Group Leader
Research Interests
- Organic Chemistry: Focusing primarily on organic synthetic methodology and asymmetric catalysis, including transition metal catalysis, organic small-molecule catalysis, carbon–hydrogen bond activation and organic photochemistry, with a commitment to designing and developing innovative chiral ligands and catalysts.
Research Achievements
- 1. Enhanced Pyridine-Oxazoline Ligand-Enabled Pd(II)-Catalyzed Aminoacetoxylation of Alkenes for the Asymmetric Synthesis of Biaryl-Bridged 7‑Membered N‑Heterocycles and Atropisomers. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025
- 2. Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Unnatural Axially Chiral Biaryl δ-Amino Acid Derivatives via a Chiral Phenanthroline-Potassium Catalyst-Enabled Dynamic Kinetic Resolution. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024
- 3. Axially Chiral Copper Catalyst for Asymmetric Synthesis of Valuable Diversely Substituted BINOLs. ACS Catal. 2024
- 4. Second-Layer Chiral Environment-Induced Steric Hindrance Enables Catalyst Conformation Lockdown in Enantioselective Hypervalent Iodine Organocatalysis. ACS Catal. 2023
- 5. Conformational enantiodiscrimination for asymmetric construction of atropisomers. Nat. Commun. 2022
Awards and Honours
- 2020: Thieme Chemistry Journals Award
- 2018: National Programme for the Introduction of High-Level Overseas Talents (Youth Project)
- 2018: Shanghai Pujiang Talent Programme