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Overview

Wenjun Tang is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to the field of Chemistry, with a focus on Organic Chemistry as well as related subfields including Inorganic Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics centered primarily on catalysis and synthetic methodologies. Major thematic areas of work include:

  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Organoboron and Organosilicon Chemistry
  • Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods

Wenjun Tang has published in multiple prominent scientific journals, frequently contributing to:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Organic Letters
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry Frontiers

Some recent representative papers include:

  • "Enantioselective Cross-Coupling for Axially Chiral Tetra-ortho-Substituted Biaryls and Asymmetric Synthesis of Gossypol" (2020) published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Diastereodivergent Aldol-Type Coupling of Alkoxyallenes with Pentafluorophenyl Esters Enabled by Synergistic Palladium/Chiral Lewis Base Catalysis" (2022) published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Enantioselective Transformations in the Synthesis of Therapeutic Agents" (2023) published in Chemical Reviews
  • "Enantioselective Reductive Coupling of Imines Templated by Chiral Diboron" (2020) published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Phosphorus Ligands from the Zhang Lab: Design, Asymmetric Hydrogenation, and Industrial Applications" (2020) published in Chinese Journal of Chemistry

Frequent collaborators of Wenjun Tang include:

  • Guangqing Xu
  • He Yang
  • Zebin Yu
  • Ronghua Xu
  • Yanping Hou

Best Publications

  • New Chiral Phosphorus Ligands for Enantioselective Hydrogenation

    Wenjun Tang;Xumu Zhang

  • A Chiral 1,2-Bisphospholane Ligand with a Novel Structural Motif: Applications in Highly Enantioselective Rh-Catalyzed Hydrogenations

    Wenjun Tang;Xumu Zhang

  • P-Chiral Phosphorus Ligands Based on a 2,3-Dihydrobenzo[d][1,3]oxaphosphole Motif for Asymmetric Catalysis

    Guangqing Xu;Chris H. Senanayake;Wenjun Tang

  • Efficient Syntheses of Korupensamines A, B and Michellamine B by Asymmetric Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling Reactions

    Guangqing Xu;Wenzhen Fu;Guodu Liu;Chris H. Senanayake

  • Highly Effective Chiral Ortho-Substituted BINAPO Ligands (o-BINAPO): Applications in Ru-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenations of β-Aryl-Substituted β-(Acylamino)acrylates and β-Keto Esters

    Yong-Gui Zhou;Wenjun Tang;Wen-Bo Wang;Wenge Li

  • Chiral Monophosphorus Ligands for Asymmetric Catalytic Reactions

    Wenzhen Fu;Wenjun Tang

  • A general and special catalyst for Suzuki-Miyaura coupling processes.

    Wenjun Tang;Andrew G. Capacci;Xudong Wei;Wenjie Li

  • Solar radiation trend across China in recent decades: a revisit with quality-controlled data

    W.-J. Tang;K. Yang;J. Qin;C. C. K. Cheng

  • Enantioselective formation of quaternary carbon stereocenters in natural product synthesis: a recent update.

    Chengxi Li;Sherif Shaban Ragab;Guodu Liu;Wenjun Tang

  • Synthesis of Chiral α-Amino Tertiary Boronic Esters by Enantioselective Hydroboration of α-Arylenamides

    Naifu Hu;Guoqing Zhao;Yuanyuan Zhang;Xiangqian Liu

  • Enantioselective hydrogenation of tetrasubstituted olefins of cyclic β-(acylamino)acrylates

    Wenjun Tang;Shulin Wu;Xumu Zhang

  • A Bisphosphepine Ligand with Stereogenic Phosphorus Centers for the Practical Synthesis of β‐Aryl‐β‐Amino Acids by Asymmetric Hydrogenation

    Wenjun Tang;Weimin Wang;Yongxiang Chi;Xumu Zhang

  • Efficient Chiral Monophosphorus Ligands for Asymmetric Suzuki–Miyaura Coupling Reactions

    Wenjun Tang;Nitinchandra D. Patel;Guangqing Xu;Xiaobing Xu

  • Highly Efficient Synthesis of Chiral β-Amino Acid Derivatives via Asymmetric Hydrogenation

    Wenjun Tang;Xumu Zhang

  • Enantioselective Palladium-Catalyzed Dearomative Cyclization for the Efficient Synthesis of Terpenes and Steroids

    Kang Du;Pan Guo;Yuan Chen;Zhen Cao

  • Novel, tunable, and efficient chiral bisdihydrobenzooxaphosphole ligands for asymmetric hydrogenation.

    Wenjun Tang;Bo Qu;Andrew G. Capacci;Sonia Rodriguez

  • Design of Phosphorus Ligands with Deep Chiral Pockets: Practical Synthesis of Chiral β‐Arylamines by Asymmetric Hydrogenation

    Guodu Liu;Xiangqian Liu;Zhihua Cai;Guangjun Jiao

  • Parameterizing soil organic carbon’s impacts on soil porosity and thermal parameters for Eastern Tibet grasslands

    YingYing Chen;Kun Yang;WenJun Tang;Jun Qin

  • Phospholane–Oxazoline Ligands for Ir‐Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation

    Wenjun Tang;Weimin Wang;Xumu Zhang

  • Structural Revision and Total Synthesis of Azaspiracid-1, Part 2: Definition of the ABCD Domain and Total Synthesis

    K. C. Nicolaou;Theocharis V. Koftis;Stepan Vyskocil;Goran Petrovic

  • Copper Catalyzed Asymmetric Propargylation of Aldehydes

    Daniel R. Fandrick;Keith R. Fandrick;Jonathan T. Reeves;Zhulin Tan

  • Euler‐Lagrange computational fluid dynamics for (bio)reactor scale down: An analysis of organism lifelines

    Cees Haringa;Wenjun Tang;Amit T. Deshmukh;Jianye Xia

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris H. Senanayake
Chris H. Senanayake TCG GreenChem Inc.
Xumu Zhang
Xumu Zhang Southern University of Science and Technology
K. C. Nicolaou
K. C. Nicolaou Rice University
Matthias Eckhardt
Matthias Eckhardt Boehringer Ingelheim (Germany)
Frank Himmelsbach
Frank Himmelsbach Boehringer Ingelheim (Germany)
Dawei Ma
Dawei Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Herbert Nar
Herbert Nar Boehringer Ingelheim (Germany)
Lung Wa Chung
Lung Wa Chung Southern University of Science and Technology
Masayuki Satake
Masayuki Satake University of Tokyo
Peter M. Blumberg
Peter M. Blumberg National Institutes of Health

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