
Introduction:
Name: Wei Zeng
Title: Professor
E-mail: zengwei@scut.edu.cn
Personal homepage: https://www2.scut.edu.cn/zengw/
Supervisor: PhD Supervisor
Area:
Organic Chemistry
Education:
Sichuan University (Ph.D, 2003).
The University of Hong Kong (Research Assistant, 2004-2005).
North Carolina State University-USA (Postdoc, 2005-2006).
The State University of New York at Buffalo-USA (Postdoc, 2006-2008).
South China University of Technology (2008).
Research interests:
Field of research: Synthetic methodology and asymmetric catalysis in organic chemistry.
Representative publications :
(1) Yang, C.; Zhou, X. Y.; Shen, L. X.; Ke, Z. F*.; Jiang, H. F.; Zeng, W*. “Mn(I)-catalyzed sigmatropic rearrangement of β, γ-unsaturated alcohols”. Nat. Commun. 2023, 14, 1862.
(2) Chen, F. J.; Shao, Y. X.; Li, M.K.; Yang, C.; Su, S. J*.; Jiang, H. F.; Ke, Z. F*.; Zeng, W*. “Photocatalyzed Cycloaromatization of Vinylsilanes with Arylsulfonyl Azides”. Nat. Commun. 2021, 12, 3304.
(3) Hu, X. W.; Shao, Y. X.; Xie, H. S*.; Chen, X.; Chen, F. J.; Ke, Z. F*.; Jiang, H. F.; Zeng, W*. “Direct Carbon-Carbon sigma Bond Amination of Unstrained Arylalkylketones”. ACS Catal. 2020, 10, 8402.
(4) Xie, H. S.; Ye, Z. R.; Ke, Z. F*.; Lan. J. Y.; Jiang, H. F*.; Zeng, W*. “Rh(III)-Catalyzed Regioselective Intermolecular N-Methylene Csp3-H Bond Carbenoid Insertion”. Chem. Sci. 2018, 9, 985.
(5) Xiao, X. S.; Hou, C.; Zhang, Z. H.; Ke, Z. F*.; Lan, J. Y.; Jiang, H. F.; Zeng, W*. “Ir(III)-Catalyzed Regioselective Intermolecular Unactivated Secondary Csp3-H Bond Amidation”, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 11897.
