Title: A Step Beyond the Boundary of Traditional Aryne Chemistry (Exploring the Boundary of Traditional Aryne Chemistry)

Lecturer: Professor Li Yang (Chongqing University)

Time: March 20,2025(Thursday)16:00-17:30

Venue: Room 0304, Building 33Invited by: Professor Zhang Wei

Organizer: Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.

Abstract:

Polycyclic structures are widely present in natural products with biological activity, pharmaceutical molecules, and organic functional materials. Efficiently and rapidly constructing specific polycyclic structures has significant research importance. Although the benzene ring can be quickly synthesized through various methods, the traditional bottleneck is that it cannot simultaneously achieve the activation of other positions on the benzene ring, thus failing to exert the role of polycyclic structures. This study aims to break through the traditional limitations of benzene ring activation, develop strategies for 1,2-benzene (polycyclic benzene) and simple benzene ring activation, and achieve the transformation of various benzene rings into polycyclic structures.

Lecturer's Profile:

Professor Li Yang, Ph.D., is a doctoral supervisor and the leader of the National Outstanding Youth Fund project, Chongqing Science and Technology Innovation Talent. He obtained his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Jilin University in 2000.He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside in 2006.From 2006 to 2012, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Toronto and the University of California, Riverside. He joined the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Chongqing University in July 2012.He received the First Prize of Chongqing Natural Science in 2023, the Thieme Chemistry Journals Award in Germany in 2016, and the Asian Core Program (ACP)Lectureship Awards in Singapore and Thailand in 2019.