Dr. Zhihui Shao
Professor，Doctor Advisor
Office: Chemistry Building324
Email: zhihui_shao@hotmail.com
Address: School of Chemical Science and Technology, Yunnan University,
No. 2 North Cuihu Road, 650091 Kunming, P.R.China
Brief Introduction
Professor, Yunnan University (2007 - )
Senior Visiting Scholar, Stanford University (2014/09 - 2015/03)
Postdoc Fellow, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (04/2006 - 08/2007)
Postdoc Fellow, University of Montreal (08/2004 - 03/2006)
Ph.D., Lanzhou University (2001 - 2004)
Research Interests
Asymmetric catalysis, total synthesis
Representative Publications
1. Jun Dai, Dan Xiong, Tengrui Yuan, Juan Liu, Tao Chen, Zhihui Shao*. Chiral primary amine catalysis for asymmetric Mannich reactions of aldehydes with ketimines: stereoselectivity and reactivity.Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2017,56, 12697.
2. Yingcheng Wang, Liang Jiang, Long Li, Jun Dai, Dan Xiong, Zhihui Shao*. An arylation strategy to propargylamines: catalytic asymmetric Friedel−Crafts-type arylation reactions of C-alkynyl imines.Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2016,55, 15142.
3. Yingcheng Wang, Mingjie Mo, Kongxi Zhu, Chao Zheng, Hongbin Zhang, Wei Wang, Zhihui Shao*. Asymmetric synthesis of syn-propargylamines and unsaturated β-amino acids under Brønsted base catalysis.Nat. Commun.2015,6, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9544.
4. Zeqian Li, Shaoxiong Zhang, Shoutao Wu, Xiaolei Shen, Liwei Zou, Fengqun Wang, Xiang Li, Fangzhi Peng, Hongbin Zhang, Zhihui Shao*. Enantioselective palladium-catalyzed decarboxylative allylation of carbazolones: total synthesis of (-)-aspidospermidine and (+)-kopsihainanine A.Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2013,52, 4117.
5. Zhenting Du, Zhihui Shao*. Combining transition metal catalysis and organocatalysis - an update.Chem. Soc. Rev.2013,42, 1337.
APPOINTMENTS & POSITIONS
Member of American Chemical Society, 2016-2018
Vice Dean of School of Chemical Science and Technology, Yunnan University,2015-present
