Education
2014-2019 Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, China (with Prof. Qi-Lin Zhou).
2010-2014 Material Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Academic Career
2025- Principal Investigator, State Key Laboratory of Elemento-organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, CHINA.
2021-2025 Postdoctoral associate, Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA (with Prof. Huimin Zhao)
2020-2021 Postdoctoral associate, State Key Laboratory and Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry Nankai University, Tianjin, China (with Prof. Qi-Lin Zhou)
Research Areas
(1) Synthetic Biology, Biocatalysis, Photocatalysis
(2) Computation, Automation, Machine Learning
Selected Publications
Zhang, Z.†; Li, M.-L.†; Harrison, W.; Lu, J.; Zhao, Z.; Yuan, Y.; Zhao, H.* Photoenzymatic Stereoablative Enantioconvergence of γ-Chiral Oximes via Hydrogen Atom Transfer. Nat. Catal. 2025, Accepted. (†Contribute Equally)
Li, M.-L.; Yuan, Y.; Harrison, W.; Zhang, Z.; Zhao, H.* Asymmetric Photoenzymatic Incorporation of Fluorinated Motifs into Olefins. Science 2024, 385, 416-421
Li, M.-L.; Harrison, W.; Zhang, Z.; Yuan, Y.; Zhao, H.* Remote Stereocontrol with Azaarenes via Enzymatic Hydrogen Atom Transfer. Nat. Chem. 2024, 16, 277-284.
Pan, J.-B.; Zhang, X.-G.; Shi, Y.-F.; Han, A.-C.; Chen, Y.-J.; Ouyang, J.; Li, M.-L.*; Zhou, Q.-L.*, A Spiro Phosphamide Catalyzed Enantioselective Proton Transfer of Ylides in a Free Carbene Insertion into N−H Bonds. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202300691.
Li, M.-L.†; Pan, J.-B.†; Zhou, Q.-L.* Enantioselective Synthesis of Amino Acids from Ammonia. Nat. Catal. 2022, 5, 571–577. (†Contribute Equally)
Li, M.-L.; Yu, J.-H.; Li, Y.-H.; Zhu, S.-F.*; Zhou, Q.-L.* Highly Enantioselective Carbene Insertion into N–H Bonds of Aliphatic Amines. Science 2019, 366, 990–994.
