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-present, Professor (tenure-track), Institute of Elemento-organic 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) Radical chemistry

(2) Transition metal catalysis.

(3) Asymmetric catalysis.

HONORS & AWARDS 
2017    Reaxys PhD Prize (Finalist)

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

2023    Thieme Chemistry Journals Award

EDITORAL BOARDS

2022-2024    Editorial Board of Frontier Reporters, Chinese Journal of Chemistry.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Wang, Q.; Cheng, J.-K.; Tang, S.-X.; Houk, K. N.*; Wang, F.* Stereoselective synthesis of tetra- and tri-substituted alkenyl nitriles via aminative ring-opening of cyclopropenes with iron-aminyl radical. Nat. Commun. 2025, 16, 3168.

2. Fan, F.-X.; Xu, H.; Tang, S.-X.; Dang, Y.*; Wang, F.* Iron-catalysed stereoselective NH transfer enables dynamic kinetic resolution of sulfoxides. Nat. Commun. 2025, 16, 1471.

3. Wang, Z.-L.; Cheng, J.-K.; Wang, F.* Iron-catalyzed C-7 selective NH2 amination of indoles. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202412103.

4. Ma, C.-R.; Huang, G.-W.; Xu, H.; Wang, Z.-L.; Li, Z.-H.; Liu, J.; Yang, Y.; Li, G.; Dang, Y.*; Wang, F.* Site-selective arene C–H amination with iron-aminyl radical. Nat. Catal. 2024,7, 636–645.

5. Fan, W.; Zhao, X.; Deng, Y.; Chen, P.; Wang, F.*; Liu, G.* Electrophotocatalytic Decoupled Radical Relay Enables Highly Efficient and Enantioselective Benzylic C−H Functionalization. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 21674-21682.

6. Jia, S.-M.; Huang, Y.-H.; Wang, Z.-L.; Fan, F.-X.; Fan, B.-H.; Sun, H.-X.; Wang, H.*; Wang, F.* Hydroamination of Unactivated Alkenes with Aliphatic Azides. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 16316-16324.