Yan-Dong Zhang-State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces

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Professor

Office: Room 622, Lujiaxi Building

Address: State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces

Brief Introduction

l Ph.D., Peking Univ., Beijing, China (2008)

l Postdoc, Columbia Univ., USA (2008-2010)

l Assoc.~ Full Professor, Xiamen Univ. (2011- )

Research Interests

C-H activation, Natural product synthesis, Chemical biology, Medicinal Chemistry

Representative Publications

1. Two-Stage Syntheses of Clionastatins A and B, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 144, 8938 (2022).

2. Site-Specific Photochemical Desaturation Enables Divergent Syntheses of Illicium Sesquiterpenes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 143, 3256 (2021).

3. Merging C–H Vinylation with Switchable 6π-Electrocyclizations for Divergent Heterocycle Synthesis, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 142, 15585 (2020).

4. Conformational Design Principles in Total Synthesis, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 59, 14198 (2020).

5. Total Synthesis of Aplydactone by a Conformationally Controlled C−H Functionalization, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 56, 8187 (2017).

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