Personal Information

Fen Wang

Research Associate  Professor

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,

Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710062, China

Tel: 029-8531-8783

E-mail: fenwang@snnu.edu.cn

Background

2018.07---present, Associate Research Fellow, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University.

2016.06---2018.07, Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Manchester, UK.

2010.09---2016.07, Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, Advisor Prof.Xingwei Li, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Awards

Newton Postdoctoral Scholarship

Publications

1. Rh(III)-Catalyzed Tandem Oxidative Olefination−Michael Reactions between Aryl Carboxamides and Alkenes. Fen Wang, Guoyong Song, and Xingwei Li*. Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 5430–5433.

2. Transition metal-catalysed couplings between arenes and strained or reactive rings: combination of C–H activation and ring scission. Fen Wang, Songjie Yu and Xingwei Li*. Chem. Soc. Rev., 2016, 45, 6462-6477.

3. Rhodium(III)-Catalyzed Atroposelective Synthesis of Biaryls by C−H Activation and Intermolecular Coupling with Sterically Hindered Alkynes. Fen Wang, Zisong Qi, Yuxia Zhao, Shuailei Zhai, Guangfan Zheng, Ruijie Mi, Zhiyan Huang, Xiaolin Zhu, Xiaoming He, Xingwei Li*. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 13288-13294.

4. Rhodium-Catalyzed C−H Activation-Based Construction of Axially and Centrally Chiral Indenes through Two Discrete Insertions. Fen Wang, Jierui Jing, Yanliang Zhao, Xiaohan Zhu, Xue-Peng Zhang, Liujie Zhao, Panjie Hu, Wei-Qiao Deng, Xingwei Li*. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 16628-16633.

5. Rhodium-Catalyzed Annulative Approach to N-N Axially Chiral Biaryls via C-H Activation and Dynamic Kinetic Transformation. Xiaohan Zhu, Hongli Wu, Yishou Wang, Genping Huang,* Fen Wang* and Xingwei Li. Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 8564-8569.

6. Rhodium-catalyzed enantioselective and diastereodivergent access to diaxially chiral heterocycles. Yishou Wang, Xiaohan Zhu, Deng Pan, Fen Wang*,Ruijie Mi, Genping Huang* and Xingwei Li*. Nature Communications, 2023, 14, 4661.