Name: Zhaohua YAN
Gender: Male
Job title: Professor
Email Address: College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanchang
University, 999 Xuefu Dadao, Nanchang 330031, P. R. China.
Education and Work Experience :
2006.06 – 2014.12: College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanchang University, Associate professor.
2005.09~2006.05: CNH Technologies, Co.Ltd., USA, Senior research scientist.
2004.09—2005.08: Harvard Medical School, USA, Postdoctor.
2001.09—2004.08: Wayne State University, USA, Postdoctor.
2000.09—2001.08: Calgary University, Canada, Postdoctor.
1999.09--2000.08: ICSN, CNRS, France. Postdoctor.
1996.09—1999.06: Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, CAS, PhD degree student
1995.07—1996.08: Guangzhou Institute of Chemistry, CAS. Research assistant.
1992.09—1995.06: Guangzhou Institute of Chemistry, CAS, Master degree student.
1988.09—1992.06: Jiangxi Normal University, Bachelor degree student.
Teaching: Organic synthesis; organic chemistry; Fine chemistry engineering.
Research fields: Organic synthesis, new organic methods, medical chemistry.
Research projects: Free radical reaction; Photo-redox reactions; new reactivities of cyclohexadienones.
Awards and Honors:
Representative papers and patents:
Guanghui Chen, Yong Shi,* Weisheng Tian,* Hongyan Xie, Zhaohua Yan,* Junmin Yu. “Demethylaromatization of cyclohexadienones by iodotriphenylphosphonium iodide”. Tetrahedron Lett. 2023, 117, 154365.
Hua Yao, Xiaoyang Zhong, Bingqing Wang, Sen Lin,* Zhaohua Yan*. “Cyanomethylation of the benzene rings and pyridine rings via direct oxidative cross-dehydrogenative coupling with acetonitrile”. Org. Lett. 2022, 24, 2030-2034.
Shengzhou Jin, Bo Xie, Sen Lin*, Cong Min, Ruihong Deng, Zhaohua Yan*. “Metal-free site-specifific hydroxyalkylation of imidazo[1,2‑a]pyridines with alcohols through radical reaction”. Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 3436-3440.
Chengmei Ai, Fuyuan Zhu, Yanmei Wang, Zhaohua Yan*, Sen Lin*. “SO2F2‑mediated epoxidation of olefifins with hydrogen peroxide”. J. Org. Chem. 2019, 84, 11928-11934.
Mingchuang He, Zhaohua Yan*, Fuyuan Zhu, Sen Lin*. “Copper-catalyzed coupling
reactions of cyclobutanone oxime esters with sulfur nucleophiles at room temperature”. J.
Org. Chem. 2018, 83, 15438-15448.
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