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  • 2009 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Liming Zhang is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of chemistry, with a particular focus on organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry, plant science, and molecular biology. Zhang's work is documented through multiple publications, contributing significantly to several topics within these fields.

The main topics covered by Zhang include:

  • Catalytic Alkyne Reactions
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods
  • Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography

Among recent notable papers, Zhang is connected to works such as:

  • "Homogeneous Gold-Catalyzed Oxidation Reactions," 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • "A 'Traceless' Directing Group Enables Catalytic SN2 Glycosylation toward 1,2-cis-Glycopyranosides," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Maleimides in Directing-Group-Controlled Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Selective C−H Alkylation," 2021, European Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • "Gold-catalysed asymmetric net addition of unactivated propargylic C-H bonds to tethered aldehydes," 2021, Nature Catalysis
  • "Enantioselective Dearomative Cyclization Enabled by Asymmetric Cooperative Gold Catalysis," 2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Zhang frequently collaborates with several co-authors, notably:

  • Xinpeng Cheng
  • Ke Zhao
  • Philip Kohnke
  • Xu Ma
  • Yongliang Zhang

The scientist's work appears consistently in prominent publication venues including:

  • Organic Letters
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The Cambridge Structural Database

Liming Zhang received the distinction of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Gold and platinum catalysis of enyne cycloisomerization

    Liming Zhang;Jianwei Sun;Sergey A. Kozmin

  • Catalytic asymmetric dearomatization (CADA) reactions of phenol and aniline derivatives

    Wen-Ting Wu;Liming Zhang;Shu-Li You

  • A Non-Diazo Approach to α-Oxo Gold Carbenes via Gold-Catalyzed Alkyne Oxidation

    Liming Zhang

  • Tandem Au-catalyzed 3,3-rearrangement-[2 + 2] cycloadditions of propargylic esters : Expeditious access to highly functionalized 2,3-indoline-fused cyclobutanes

    Liming Zhang

  • Homogeneous gold-catalyzed oxidative carboheterofunctionalization of alkenes.

    Guozhu Zhang;Li Cui;Yanzhao Wang;Liming Zhang

  • Efficient synthesis of cyclopentenones from enynyl acetates via tandem Au(I)-catalyzed 3,3-rearrangement and the Nazarov reaction.

    Liming Zhang;Shaozhong Wang

  • DFT study of the mechanisms of in water Au(I)-catalyzed tandem [3,3]-rearrangement/Nazarov reaction/[1,2]-hydrogen shift of enynyl acetates: a proton-transport catalysis strategy in the water-catalyzed [1,2]-hydrogen shift.

    Fu-Qiang Shi;Xin Li;Yuanzhi Xia;Liming Zhang

  • Alkynes as Equivalents of α-Diazo Ketones in Generating α-Oxo Metal Carbenes: A Gold-Catalyzed Expedient Synthesis of Dihydrofuran-3-ones

    Longwu Ye;Li Cui;Guozhu Zhang;Liming Zhang

  • An Efficient [2 + 2 + 1] Synthesis of 2,5-Disubstituted Oxazoles via Gold-Catalyzed Intermolecular Alkyne Oxidation

    Weimin He;Chaoqun Li;Liming Zhang

  • Gold-catalyzed homogeneous oxidative cross-coupling reactions.

    Guozhu Zhang;Yu Peng;Li Cui;Liming Zhang

  • Au-Catalysed oxidative cyclisation

    Zhitong Zheng;Zhixun Wang;Youliang Wang;Liming Zhang

  • Gold‐Catalyzed Intramolecular Redox Reaction of Sulfinyl Alkynes: Efficient Generation of α‐Oxo Gold Carbenoids and Application in Insertion into RCO Bonds

    Guotao Li;Liming Zhang

  • Experimental and computational evidence for gold vinylidenes: generation from terminal alkynes via a bifurcation pathway and facile C-H insertions.

    Longwu Ye;Yanzhao Wang;Donald H. Aue;Liming Zhang

  • Gold-Catalyzed One-Step Practical Synthesis of Oxetan-3-ones from Readily Available Propargylic Alcohols

    Longwu Ye;Weimin He;Liming Zhang

  • Gold-catalyzed assembly of heterobicyclic systems.

    Liming Zhang;Sergey A. Kozmin

  • A Flexible and Stereoselective Synthesis of Azetidin‐3‐ones through Gold‐Catalyzed Intermolecular Oxidation of Alkynes

    Longwu Ye;Weimin He;Liming Zhang

  • Homogeneous Gold-Catalyzed Oxidation Reactions.

    Zhitong Zheng;Xu Ma;Xinpeng Cheng;Ke Zhao

  • Tempering the reactivities of postulated α-oxo gold carbenes using bidentate ligands: implication of tricoordinated gold intermediates and the development of an expedient bimolecular assembly of 2,4-disubstituted oxazoles.

    Yingdong Luo;Kegong Ji;Yuxue Li;Liming Zhang

  • Au-containing all-carbon 1,4-dipoles: generation and [4 + 2] annulation in the formation of carbo-/heterocycles.

    Guozhu Zhang;Xiaogen Huang;Guotao Li;Liming Zhang

  • Gold-catalyzed cycloisomerization of siloxy enynes to cyclohexadienes.

    Liming Zhang;Sergey A. Kozmin

  • Umpolung Reactivity of Indole through Gold Catalysis

    Biao Lu;Yingdong Luo;Lianzhu Liu;Longwu Ye

  • Gold-catalyzed highly regioselective oxidation of C-C triple bonds without acid additives: propargyl moieties as masked α,β-unsaturated carbonyls.

    Biao Lu;Chaoqun Li;Liming Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Long-Wu Ye
Long-Wu Ye Xiamen University
Shu-Li You
Shu-Li You Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wenting Wu
Wenting Wu China University of Petroleum, Beijing
Jianwei Sun
Jianwei Sun Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Vincent J. Catalano
Vincent J. Catalano University of Nevada Reno
Giuseppe Zanoni
Giuseppe Zanoni University of Pavia
Michael P. Cava
Michael P. Cava University of Alabama
Robin D. Rogers
Robin D. Rogers University of Alabama
Can Li
Can Li Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Norbert O. Reich
Norbert O. Reich University of California, Santa Barbara

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