(Lecture, May. 20) Notice on the academic report of Tang Wenjun, Researcher of Shanghai Institute of Organic Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Title： Synthesis and Catalysis Facilitated by Ligand Design

Time: May 20, 2024 11:00-12:00 AM

Venue: Conference room 4th floor, Shaw Engineering Building

[Biography]

Tang Wenjun is a researcher at the National Key Laboratory of Small Molecule Regulation of Life Processes, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chief professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Hangzhou Institute of Advanced Research, National University of Science and Technology. PhD, Pennsylvania State University, USA; Postdoctoral Fellow, Scripps Research Institute, USA; He was a senior and chief scientist at Boehringer Ingelheim. Long engaged in asymmetric catalysis and pharmaceutical green manufacturing; A series of P-chiral phosphine ligands with unique structures have been developed, of which more than 100 have been commercialized, and eight ligands have been used in the study of new drugs at the kilogram scale. The developed asymmetric Suzuki coupling and dearomatization coupling reactions have become common methods in drug synthesis. The asymmetric reduction reaction of imine mediated by chiral bisborate was found, and the theory of pericyclic reaction involving bisborate was put forward. He has published more than 120 papers in international famous chemical journals, more than 40 domestic and international patents, and has realized patent transfer many times.

Announced by School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering