Ph.D. Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Advisor: Guosheng Liu
Wen was born and raised in Quanjiao, a small county in Anhui Province, China. He obtained his B.S. degree in chemistry from Sichuan University under the supervision of Prof. Xiangge Zhou and Prof. Jingsong You in 2013. Then he moved to Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) in pursuit of his PhD degree in organic chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Guosheng Liu. His PhD research was mainly focused on enantioselective functionalization of C-H bonds via copper catalyzed radical relay process. In Dec 2018, he started his postdoctoral research in Song’s lab at Cornell University where he has focused on the development of novel methodology for the synthesis of bioactive molecules.
Publications:
1. Zhang, W.; # Wang, F.; # McCann, S. D.; Wang, D.; Chen, P.; Stahl, S. S.; Liu, G. “Enantioselective Cyanation of Benzylic C–H bonds via Copper-Catalyzed Radical Relay.” Science 2016, 353, 1014-1018. (#These authors contributed equally to this work.)
2. Zhang, W.; Chen, P.; Liu, G. “Copper-Catalyzed Arylation of Benzylic C–H bonds with Alkylarenes as the Limiting Reagents.” Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 7709-7712. (Highlighted by Synfacts, 2017, 13, 858)
3. Zhang, W.; Chen, P.; Liu, G. “Enantioselective Palladium (II)-Catalyzed Intramolecular Aminoarylation of Alkenes by Dual N-H and Aryl C-H Bond Cleavage.” Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 5336-5340. (Highlighted by Synfacts, 2017, 13, 723)
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