Research Associate
Date of birth & place |
Birth: Jan. 21, 1993, Wuhan, China |
Work Address |
Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Weijin Rd.94, Tianjin 300071, P.R. CHINA |
chao.fan@nankai.edu.cn |
2015-2020 Ph. D. in Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Nankai University (with prof. Qi-Lin Zhou).
2011-2015 B.S. in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University (with prof. Ai-Wen Lei).
2024.10- present Research Associate, State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University.
2021-2024 Postdoctoral Associate, ISIC-LSCI, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (with prof. Xi-Le Hu).
(1) Organometallic Chemistry
(2) Transition-Metal Catalysis
(3) Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis
(1) Fan, C.; Dhawa, U.; Qian, D.; Morel, J.; Hu, X. Regiodivergent and Enantioselective Synthesis of Cyclic Sulfones via Ligand-Controlled Nickel-Catalyzed Hydroalkylation. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202406767.
(2) Bera, S.; Fan, C. Enantio- and diastereoselective construction of vicinal C(sp3) centres via nickel-catalysed hydroalkylation of alkenes. Nat. Catal. 2022, 5, 1180-1187.
(3) Fan, C.; Zhou, Q.-L. Nickel-catalyzed group transfer of radicals enables hydrocyanation of alkenes and alkynes. Chem Catal. 2021, 1, 117-128.
(4) Fan, C.; Hou, J.; Chen, Y.-J.; Ding, K.-L.; Zhou, Q.-L. Rhodium-Catalyzed Regioselective Hydroformylation of Alkynes to α,β-Unsaturated Aldehydes Using Formic Acid. Org. Lett. 2021, 23, 2074-2077.
(5) Lv, X.-Y.#; Fan, C.#; Xiao, L.-J.; Xie, J.-H.; Zhou, Q.-L.; Ligand-enabled Ni-catalyzed enantioselective hydroarylation of styrenes and 1,3-dienes with arylboronic acids. CCS Chemistry. 2019, 1, 328-334.
(6) Fan, C.; Lv, X.-Y.; Xiao, L.-J.; Xie, J.-H.; Zhou, Q.-L. Alkenyl exchange of allylamines via nickel(0)-catalyzed C–C bond cleavage. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 2889-2893.