Wang, Xiaoming----State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry 345 Lingling Lu, Shanghai

Wang, Xiaoming Professor

State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry

Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, CAS

345 Lingling Lu, Shanghai 200032

Phone/Fax: +86 21 54925578

Education:

09/2009 - 07/2014: Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry. (Supervisor: Prof. Kuiling Ding)

09/2005 - 07/2009: B.S. in Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

Academic Career:

03/2019 - present: Research Professor at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

02/2018 - 03/2019: Postdoc research in University of Tokyo, Japan (with Prof. Kyoko Nozaki).

09/2014 - 01/2018: Postdoc research in University of Münster, Germany (With Prof. Frank Glorius).

Awards & Honors:

Humboldt Research Fellowship, Germany.

CAS President Award

CAS Excellent PhD Dissertations

2020 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award

Research Interest:

The Development of Novel Transition Metal Complexes and Their Application in Catalysis

Selected Publications:

1. Wang, X.; Seidel, F. W.; Nozaki, K.* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 12955–12959. Synthesis of Polyethylene with in-chain α,β-Unsaturated Ketone and Isolated Ketone Units by Pd-catalyzed Ring-opening Copolymerization of Cyclopropenones with Ethylene.

2. Wang, X.; Nozaki, K.* .J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 15635-15640. Selective Chain-end Functionalization of Polar Polyethylenes: Orthogonal Reactivity of Carbene and Polar Vinyl Monomers in Their Copolymerization with Ethylene.

3. Wang, X.;^& Li, Y.;^& Knecht, T.; Daniliuc, C. G.; Houk, K. N.*; Glorius, F.* (&Both authors contributed equally.) Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 5520-5524. Unprecedented Dearomatized Spirocyclopropane in a Sequential Rh(III)-catalyzed C-H Activation and Rearrangement Reaction.

4. Wang, X.; Lerchen, A.; Daniliuc, C. G.; Glorius, F.* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 1712-1716. Efficient Synthesis of Arylated Furans Enabled by a Sequential Rh-catalyzed Arylation and Cycloisomerization of Cyclopropenes.

5. Wang, X.; Gensch, T.; Lerchen, A.; Daniliuc, C. G.; Glorius, F.* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 6506-6512 (Top 20 most read JACS papers in May, 2017. Highlighted by Chemistry Views). Cp*Rh(III)/Bicyclic Olefin Cocatalyzed C-H Bond Amidation by Intramolecular Amide Transfer.

6. Wang, X.; Lerchen, A.; Gensch, T.; Knecht, T.; Daniliuc, C. G.; Glorius, F.* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 1381-1384. Combination of Cp*RhIII-Catalyzed C-H Activation and a Wagner–Meerwein-Type Rearrangement.

7. Wang, X.; ^& Yu, D.-G.; ^& Glorius, F.* (&Both authors contributed equally.) Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 10280. Cp*Rh(III)-Catalyzed Arylation of sp3 C-H Bonds.

8. Wang, X.; Guo, P.; Han, Z.; Wang, X.; Wang, Z.; Ding, K.* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 405-411. Spiroketal-Based Diphosphine Ligands in Pd-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Amination of Morita-Baylis-Hillman Adducts: Exceptionally High Efficiency and New Mechanism.

9. Wang, X.; Meng, F.; Wang, Y.; Han, Z.; Chen, Y.-J.; Liu, L.*; Wang, Z.*; Ding, K.* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 9276-9282 (Highlighted by SYNFACTS, 2012, 1286). Aromatic Spiroketal Bisphosphine Ligands: Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Amination of Racemic Morita–Baylis–Hillman Adducts.

10. Wang, X.; Han, Z.; Wang, Z.*; Ding, K.* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 936-940 (Highlighted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 9486-9488 and SYNFACTS, 2012, 412). Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Aromatic Spiroketals by SpinPhox/Iridium(I)-Catalyzed Hydrogenation and Spiroketalization of α,α’-Bis(2-hydroxyarylidene)-Ketones.