Zhang Yao
Associate Professor
College of Chemistry
Eastern Liaoning University
China
Biography
ZHANG Yao, associate professor at College of Chemistry, Liaoning University. Yao obtained his B.S. in Chemistry at Soochow University in 2007. In the same year, he went abroad to Singapore and obtained his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at Nanyang Technological University in 2011 under the supervision of Prof. HONG Soon Hyeok. After that he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in Prof. ZHAO Yu’s group at National University of Singapore in the field of asymmetric catalysis. He joined Liaoning University in early 2015.
Research Interest
Organometallic chemistry, asymmetric catalysis, organic synthesis
Publications
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Yao Zhang, Ching-Si Lim, Derek Sui Boon Sim, Hui-Jie Pan, Yu Zhao*, Catalytic enantioselective amination of alcohols using borrowing hydrogen methodology: cooperative catalysis by iridium and chiral phosphoric acid, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 1399-1403.
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Zi-Qiang Rong#, Yao Zhang#, Raymond Hong Bing Chua, Hui-Jie Pan, Yu Zhao*, Dynamic kinetic asymmetric amination of alcohols: from a mixture of four isomers to diastereo- and enantiopure α‑branched amines, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 4944-4947
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Hui-Jie Pan, Yao Zhang, Chunhui Shan, Zhaoyuan Yu, Yu Lan,* Yu Zhao*, Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Imines using Alcohol: Efficiency and Selectivity are Influenced by the Hydrogen Donor,Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 9615-9619.
