Zi Research Group

@ State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University

CONTACT INFORMATIONS

Prof. Weiwei Zi (W.  Zi)

Tel: 86-22-83662986

E-mail: zi@nankai.edu.cn

EDUCATION

2006-2011   Ph.D., Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, CAS.   (with Prof. Dawei Ma)

2002-2006   B.S., Lanzhou University  (with Prof. Haoli Zhang)

ACADEMIC CAREER

From 2016  Professor (tenure track), Institute of Elemento-organic Chemistry, Nankai University,Tianjin, CHINA.

2012-2016  Postdoctoral associate, Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A.    (with Prof. F. Dean Toste).

2011-2012  Assistant researcher, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, CAS

RESEARCH AREAS

(1) Transition-Metal Catalysis   （过渡金属催化）

(2) Natural Products Synthesis  （天然产物全合成）

HONORS AND AWARDS

2016    Young Thousand Talents Plan (国家青年千人)

2011    Dean Excellence Award of CAS Award（中科院院长优秀奖）

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Weiwei Zi, F. Dean Toste*, Recent Advances in Enantioselective Gold Catalysis. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2016, 45, 4567-4589.

2. Weiwei Zi, F. Dean Toste*, Gold(I)-Catalyzed Enantioselective Desymmetrization of 1,3-Diols through Intramolecular Hydroalkoxylation of Allenes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 14447-14451.

3.  Hongmiao Wu,† Weiwei Zi,† Guigen Li, HongjianLu*, F. Dean Toste*, Gold(I)-Catalyzed Desymmetrization of 1,4-Dienes by an Enantioselective Tandem Alkoxylation/Claisen Rearrangement. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 8529-8532.  (†equally contribution)

4. Weiwei Zi, Hongmiao Wu, F. Dean Toste*,Gold(I)-Catalyzed Dearomative Rautenstrauch Rearrangement: Enantioselective Access to Cyclopenta[b]indoles. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 3225-3228.

5. Weiwei Zi, Zhiwei Zuo, Dawei Ma*, Intramolecular Dearomative Oxidative Coupling of Indoles: A Unified Strategy for Total Synthesis of Indoline Alkaloids. Acc. Chem. Res. 2015, 42, 702-711.

6. Weiwei Zi,† Yi-Ming Wang,† F. Dean Toste*, An In Situ Directing Group Strategy for Chiral Anion Phase-Transfer Fluorination of Allylic Alcohols. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 12864-12867. (†equally contribution)

7. Weiwei Zi, F. Dean Toste*, Gold(I)-Catalyzed Enantioselective Carboalkoxylation of Alkynes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135,12600-12603.

8. Weiwei Zi, Weiqing Xie, Dawei Ma*, Total Synthesis of Akuammiline Alkaloid (-)-Vincorine via Intramolecular Oxidative Coupling. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 9126-9129.

9. Weiwei Zi, Shouyun Yu, Dawei Ma*, A Convergent Route to the Galbulimima Alkaloids (-)- GB 13 and (+)- GB 16. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 34, 5887-5890.