Education   

2011-2016   State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China. Received Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, June 2016 (with Prof. Guosheng Liu).

2007-2011    College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science & Technology, Qingdao, China. Received B.S. in Applied Chemistry, June 2011

Academic Career

2021-            Professor (tenure-track), Institute of Elemento-organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.

2017-2020    Postdoctoral associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A. (with Prof. Shannon S. Stahl)

2016-2017    Research assistant, State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.

(1)     Main group and transition metal catalysis.

(2)     Asymmetric catalysis.

Honors & Awards 
2017    Reaxys PhD Prize (Finalist)

2019    First prize of Shanghai Natural Science Award (2/5)

Professional Memberships

2022-    Editorial Board of Frontier Reporters, Chinese Journal of Chemistry.

Selected Publications

1. Zhang, Z.^#; Wang, F.^#; Mu, X.; Chen, P.; Liu G.* Copper-Catalyzed Regioselective Fluorination of Allylic Halides.Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 7549.(# Contribute equally to this work)

2. Wang, F.; Chen, P.; Liu, G.* Copper-Catalysed Asymmetric Radical Cyanation. Nat Synth 2022, 1, 107-116.

3. Wang, F.; Gerken, J. B.; Bates, D. M.; Kim, Y. J.; Stahl, S. S.* Electrochemical Strategy for Hydrazine Synthesis: Development and Overpotential Analysis of Methods for Oxidative N–N Coupling of an Ammonia Surrogate. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 12349.

4. Wang, F.; Stahl, S. S.* Electrochemical Oxidation of Organic Molecules at Lower Overpotential: Accessing Broader Functional Group Compatibility with Electron−Proton Transfer Mediators. Acc. Chem. Res. 2020, 53, 561.

5. Wang, F.; Stahl, S. S.* Merging Photochemistry with Electrochemistry: Functional Group Tolerant Electrochemical Amination of C(sp3)–H Bonds. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 6385.

6. Wang, F.; Rafiee, M.; Stahl, S. S.* Electrochemical Functional-Group-Tolerant Shono-Type Oxidation of Cyclic Carbamates Enabled by Aminoxyl Mediators. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 6686.

7. Wang, F.; Chen, P.; Liu, G.* Copper-Catalyzed Radical Relay for Asymmetric Radical Transformations. Acc. Chem. Res. 2018, 51, 2036.

8. Wang, F.^#; Wang, D.^#; Zhou, Y.; Liang L.; Lu, R.; Chen, P.; Lin, Z.; Liu, G.* Divergent Synthesis of CF3-Substituted Allenyl Nitriles by Ligand-Controlled Radical 1,2- and 1,4-Addition of 1,3-Enynes. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 7140. (# Contribute equally to this work)

9. Zhang, W.^#; Wang, F.^#; McCann, S. D.; Wang, D.; Chen, P.; Stahl, S.*; Liu, G.* Enantioselective Cyanation of Benzylic C–H Bonds via Copper-Catalyzed Radical Relay. Science, 2016, 353, 1014. (# Contribute equally to this work)

10. Wang, F.; Wang, D.; Wan, X.; Wu, L.; Chen, P.; Liu, G.* Enantioselective Copper-Catalyzed Intermolecular Cyanotrifluoromethylation of Alkenes via Radical Process. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 15547.

11. Wang, F.; Zhu, N.; Chen, P.; Ye, J.; Liu, G.* Copper-Catalyzed Trifluoromethyl-azidation of Alkynes: Efficient Access to CF₃-Substituted Azirines and Aziridines. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 9356.

12. Wang, F.; Wang, D.; Mu, X.; Chen, P.; Liu, G.* Copper-Catalyzed Intermolecular Trifluoromethylarylation of Alkenes: Mutual Activation of Arylboronic Acid and CF₃⁺ Reagent. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 10202.

13. Wang, F.; Qi, X.; Liang, Z.; Chen, P.; Liu, G.* Copper-Catalyzed Intermolecular Trifluoromethylazidation of Alkenes: Convenient Access to CF₃-Containing Alkyl Azides. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 1881.