Li Wei-Dong Z.
Professor
Head of School of Life Science and Engineering
Email: wdli@swjtu.edu.cn
Links: https://faculty.swjtu.edu.cn/liweidong/en/index.htm
Address: Room 3604, No. 3rd Building, Jiulidi Campus, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu,
China
BIO
Education
1989-1993 Ph. D., Department of Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
Employment
Academic Appointments
2017-present Professor, School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University,
Chengdu, China
2011-2016 Professor, Innovative Drug Research Centre, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
2005-2011 Professor, State Key Laboratory and Institute of Elemento-organic Chemistry, Nankai
University, Tianjin, China
2002-2004 Senior Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, USA
1998-2004 Professor, Department of Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
1995-1998 Postdoctoral research, Harvard University, USA (with Prof. E. J. Corey)
Research Interests
(1) Total synthesis and structure modification of natural products.
(2) Organic and bio-organic reaction mechanism and catalysis.
(3) Development of novel organic synthetic methodology.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Principal Publications of the Last Five Years
1. Yan Ouyang, Yu Peng*, Wei-Dong Z. Li, * Nickel-mediated reductive coupling of neopentyl
bromides with activated alkenes at room temperature and its synthetic application. Tetrahedron,
2019, 75, 4486-4496.
2. Mao Sun, Wei-Dong Z. Li,* Fayang G. Qiu. Asymmetric Synthesis of the DEFG Rings of
Solanoeclepin A. Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 644-647.
3. Xiang Wu, Hai-Jun Wang, Yong-Shuang Huang, Wei-Dong Z.Li*. Intramolecular [2+2]
Cycloadditions of Alkyl(phenylthio)ketenes: Total Synthesis of (+)-Sphaerodiol. Org. Lett.
2018, 20, 1871-1874.
4. Zhi-Wei Zhang, Cui-Cui Wang, Hong Xue, Yu Dong, Jian-Hua Yang, Shouxin Liu,
Wen-Qing Liu, and Wei-Dong Z. Li*. Asymmetric Formal Synthesis of (-)-Cephalotaxine
via Palladium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Tsuji Allylation. Org. Lett. 2018, 20, 1050-1053.
5. Wu X, Li W D Z*. Unexpected Grob-type fragmentation of vinylogous
β-silyloxy-cyclobutanone into γ-lactone. Chin. Chem. Lett., 2017, 05, 56-58.
6. Guo-Zhen Ma, Peng-Fei Li, Lu Liu, Wei-Dong Z. Li, Li Chen. Diastereoselective
Synthesis of Cephalotaxus Esters via Asymmetric Mukaiyama Aldol Reaction. Org. Lett. 2017,
19, 2250-2253.
Selected Awards and Honors
1995 Young chemists award, CCS
1995 The second prize of Scientific and Technological Progress Award bythe Ministry of Education
of China
1999 The Special Professor of the Cheung Kong Scholars by the Ministry of Education of China
2000 The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (China)
2000 Henry Fok of Young Teachers Award Fund by the Ministry of Education of China
2001 The second prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress Award bythe Ministry of
Education of China
2006 Asian Core Program/Advanced Organic Chemistry Lectureship Award
2007 ACP Lectureship Award to Japan
2007 Wuxi Pharma Life Science Excellence Award
2008 The first Chinese Chemical Society and Royal Society of Chemistry Young Chemistry Prize
2018 Thousand Talents Program by Sichuan Province
TEACHING
Primary Teaching areas
Organic Chemistry
Current Courses
Drug Synthesis
GRADUATE SUPERVISION
I am available for supervision.
