Organic Chemistry,
Assistant Professor
Room A8004, Chemistry Building, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University 2005 Songhu Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai 200438, China
Photocatalytic and electrocatalytic reactions
Asymmetric catalysis
Total synthesis of natural products
2009.9-2013.6BSc, Department of Chemistry, Fuzhou University
2013.9-2018.6PhD, College of Chemistry and Molecular Science, Wuhan University
2018.8-2021.4Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University, USA
2021.4-2024.12Postdoctoral Fellowship, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
2025.3-Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University
2018, The Top Ten Academic Stars of Wuhan University
G. Zhang, M. D. Wodrich, N. Cramer*, “Catalytic enantioselective reductive Eschenmoser-Claisen rearrangements”, Science, 383, 395-401 (2024).
G. Zhang, N. Cramer*, “Reductive asymmetric aza-Mislow-Evans rearrangement by 1,3,2-diazaphospholene Catalysis”, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 62, e202301076 (2023).
B. M. Trost*,G. Zhang,+ H. Gholami,+ D. Zell, “Total synthesis of Kadcoccinic Acid A trimethyl ester”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 12286-12293 (2021). (+Co-first author)
B. M. Trost*, G. Zhang, “Ruthenium-catalyzed intermolecular coupling of vinylic 1,2-bisboronates with alkynes: stereoselective access to boryl-substituted homoallylic alcohols”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 7312-7316 (2020).
G. Zhang, Y. Lin , X. Luo , X. Hu, C. Chen, A. Lei*, “Oxidative [4+2] annulation of styrenes with alkynes under external-oxidant-free conditions”, Nat. Commun. 9, 1225 (2018).
G. Zhang, X. Hu, C-W Chiang, H. Yi, P. Pei, A. K. Singh, A. Lei*, “Anti-Markovnikov oxidation of β-alkyl styrenes with H2O as the terminal oxidant”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 138, 12037-12040 (2016).
G. Zhang, C. Liu, H. Yi, Q.Y. Meng, C. Bian, H. Chen, J.-X. Jian, L.-Z. Wu*, A. Lei*, “External oxidant-free oxidative cross-coupling: a photoredox cobalt-catalyzed aromatic C-H thiolation for constructing C-S bonds”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137, 9273-9280 (2015).
X. Hu,+ G. Zhang,+ L. Nie, T. Kong and Aiwen Lei*, “Electrochemical oxidation induced intermolecular aromatic C-H imidation”, Nat. Commun. 10, 5467 (2019). (+Co-first author)
X. Hu,+ G. Zhang,+ F. Bu, A. Lei*, “Photo-oxidation induced selective oxidative [4+2] imine/alkene annulation with H2 liberation”, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 57, 1286-1290 (2018). (+Co-first author)