叶萌春 教授
Prof. Mengchun Ye (M.-C. Ye)
Tel: 86-22-23504701
E-mail: mcye@nankai.edu.cn
Group Home Page: https://yechem.nankai.edu.cn
EDUCATION
2001-2006 Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, CAS. Received Ph.D. Degree in July, 2006 (with Prof. Yong Tang)
1997-2001 College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, China. Received BSc Degree in June, 2001.
ACADEMIC CAREER
2014-, Professor, Institute of Elemento-organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, CHINA.
2009-2013, Postdoctoral associate, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, Sandiego, USA. (with Prof. Jin-Quan Yu).
2006-2009, Postdoctoral associate, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. (with Prof. HengmingKe).
RESEARCH AREAS
(1) Transition metal catalysis and asymmetric catalysis.
(2) Synthetic chemistry and inert chemical bond activation.
HONORS & AWARDS
2023 Award for National Outstanding Young Scientist (the National Natural Science Foundation of China)
HONORS & AWARDS
2023- Member, Editorial Board of Sci. China Chem
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Weiwei Xu, Yanan Sun, Yuqing Jiang, Xueyuan Yan, Zhixuan Gao, Haorui Wang, Genping Huang,* Qi-Lin Zhou, and Mengchun Ye*, Enantioselective Carbonylative Cyclization of Alkenes with C−H Bonds for Synthesis of γ‑Lactams Bearing an α‑Quaternary Carbon, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 96–103.
Haorui Wang, Jiang-Fei Li, Mengying Xu, Qi-Lin Zhou, Weiwei Xu,* Mengchun Ye*, Enantioselective Construction of Oxindoles Bearing a Quaternary Carbon via Ni–Al Bimetal-Catalyzed Formyl C–H Alkylation, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202413652.
Feng-Ping Zhang, Rong-Hua Wang, Jiang-Fei Li, Hao Chen,* Madala Hari Babu,* Mengchun Ye*, Intermolecular Carbophosphination of Alkynes with Phosphole Oxides via Ni–Al Bimetal-Catalyzed C–P Bond Activation, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, e202314701.
Rong-Hua Wang, Wei-Wei Xu, Hongli Wu , Yue Li , Jiang-Fei Li , Tao Zhang , Genping Huang, Mengchun Ye*, Ni-catalyzed benzylic β-C(sp3)–H bond activation of formamides, Nat. Comm. 2022, 13, 7892–7900.
Jiang-Fei Li, Deng Pan, Hao-Rui Wang, Tao Zhang, Yi Li, Genping Huang,* and Mengchun Ye*, Enantioselective C2−H Alkylation of Pyridines with 1,3-Dienes via Ni−Al Bimetallic Catalysis, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 41, 18810–18816.
Tao Zhang, Yu-Xin Luan, Nelson Y. S. Lam, Jiang-Fei Li, Yue Li, Mengchun Ye,* Jin-Quan Yu,* A Directive Ni Catalyst Overrides Conventional Site-Selectivity in Pyridine C–H Alkenylation, Nat. Chem. 2021, 13, 1207–1213.
