Organocatalytic Cycloadditions for Synthesis of Carbo- and Heterocycles

Min Shi is the vice director of State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIOC, CAS). Having obtained his PhD degree in 1991 at Osaka University, Japan, he had his postdoctoral research experience with Prof. Kenneth M. Nicholas at University of Oklahoma (1995-6) and worked as an ERATO Researcher in Japan Science and Technology Corporation (1996-8). Then, he was appointed as a full professor at SIOC since 1998. He has authored over 500 scientific publications, and his current research interests are on photochemistry, total synthesis of natural products, asymmetric synthesis, Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction, and fixation of CO2 using transition metal catalyst. Yin Wei received her PhD from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München (Germany) in 2009 under the direction of Professor Hendrik Zipse. Subsequently she joined Professor Min Shi's group at SIOC, CAS, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012. She has authored over 100 scientific publications, and she is mainly working on the theoretical studies of organocatalysis. Mei-Xin Zhao received her PhD from Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) in 2002 under the supervision of Professor Zhi-Tang Huang. She then worked at ICCAS and joined Professor Mei-Xiang Wang's group as Assistant Professor. During 2004 - 2006, she was a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Yian Shi at Colorado State University, USA and then was appointed as Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at East China University of Science and Technology. Her current research interests include asymmetric catalysis and new synthetic methods for the novel heterocyclic compounds. Jun Zhang received his PhD in 2006 under the supervision of Professor Guo-Xin Jin at Fudan University, China. During 2006-2009, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the research group of Professor Andy Hor at the National University of Singapore. Then he was appointed as Associate Professor of organic chemistry at East China University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on the development of novel organometallic catalysts and study on the reaction mechanism.