Name: Li Zhang

Title: Professor

Address: Room A506, Building 701, 199 Ren’ai Road, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Postcode: 215123

Email:li.zhang@suda.edu.cn

Homepage:https://www.x-mol.com/groups/li_zhang/

Biography

2024/01-now,Professor, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University

2020/10-2023/12, Postdoctoral Researcher, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (Supervisor: Prof. Tobias Ritter)

2015/09-2020/07, Ph.D., Center of Basic Molecular Science, Tsinghua University (Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Lei Jiao)

2011/09-2015/07,B.Sc., China Agricultural University

In January 2024, Li joined the College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Soochow University and started his independent academic research. Li's research interests focus on the investigation of organic reaction mechanisms, late-stage functionalization of drug molecules, and fluorination reactions. He has published multiple papers as the sole first author in renowned journals such asNat. Synth.,J. Am. Chem. Soc.(5 papers),Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., and others. In 2020, he received the Excellent Ph.D. Thesis Award from Tsinghua University. He also won Chemical, Chemical Engineering, and Materials Chambroad Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, as well as being a Reaxys PhD Prize finalist (global 45 winners).

Selected publications:

1. Zhang, L.; Yan, J.; Ahmadli, D.; Wang, Z.; Ritter, T.* Electron-Transfer-Enabled Concerted Nucleophilic Fluorination of Azaarenes: Selective C–H Fluorination of Quinolines.J. Am. Chem. Soc.2023,145, 20182−20188.

2. Zhang, L.; Israel, E. M.; Yan, J.; Ritter, T.* Copper-Mediated Etherification via Aryl Radicals Generated from Triplet States.Nat. Synth.2022, 1, 376-381.

3. Zhang, L.; Ritter, T.* A Perspective on Late-Stage Aromatic C–H Bond Functionalization.J. Am. Chem. Soc.2022,144, 2399-2414.

4. Zhang, L.; Wu, Z.-Q.; Jiao, L.* Photoinduced Radical Borylation of Alkyl Bromides Catalyzed by 4-Phenylpyridine.Angew. Chem., Int. Ed.2020,59, 2095-2099.

5. Zhang, L.; Jiao, L.* Visible-Light-Induced Organocatalytic Borylation of Aryl Chlorides.J. Am. Chem. Soc.2019,141, 9124-9128.

6. Zhang, L.; Jiao, L.* Super Electron Donors Derived from Diboron.Chem. Sci.2018,9, 2711-2722.

7. Zhang, L.; Jiao, L.* Pyridine-Catalyzed Radical Borylation of Aryl Halides.J. Am. Chem. Soc.2017,139, 607-610.

8. Zhang, L.; Yang, H.; Jiao, L.* Revisiting the Radical Initiation Mechanism of the Diamine-Promoted Transition-Metal-Free Cross-Coupling Reaction.J. Am. Chem. Soc.2016,138, 7151-7160.