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HE Chuan
Associate professor
0755-88018382
hec@sustech.edu.cn

Dr. Chuan He, Associate Professor, PI. National Distinguished Young Expert, NSFC Outstanding Young Scholar, Guangdong Province Pearl River Youth Talent, Shenzhen Overseas High-Level Talent, Shenzhen Excellent Science and Technology Innovation Distinguished Young Scholar.

 

2004-2008, B.S., College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, China.

2008-2013, Ph.D., College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, China, Supervisor: Prof. Aiwen Lei.

2013-2017, Postdoc (Marie Curie Research Fellow), Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, Supervisor: Prof. Matthew Gaunt.

2018-present, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, China, PI.

 

Research Interests:

Chiral Organosilicon Chemistry; Chiral Organoboron Chemistry; Electrocatalytic Heteroatom Chemistry; Chiral Organic Functional Materials.

 

We are always looking for talented, self-motivated and creative individuals with interests in any of the following areas: Transition Metal Catalysis, Asymmetric Catalysis, Organo-Material Chemistry. If you are interested in joining the group, please contact me directly.

 

Representative Publications

(1) Yang, B.; Gao, J.; Tan, X.; Ge, Y.;* He, C.* Chiral PSiSi-Ligand Enabled Iridium-Catalyzed Atroposelective Intermolecular C−H Silylation, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202307812.

(2) Liu, M.-M.; Xu, Y.; He, C.* Catalytic Asymmetric Dehydrogenative Si–H/N–H Coupling: Synthesis of Silicon-Stereogenic Silazanes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 11727–11734.

(3) Zu, B.; Guo, Y.; Ren, L-Q.; Li, Y.;* He, C.* Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of Boron-Stereogenic BODIPYs, Nat. Synth. 2023, 2, 564–571.

(4) Yuan, W.; Zhu, X.; Xu, Y.; He, C.* Synthesis of Si-Stereogenic Silanols by Catalytic Asymmetric Hydrolytic Oxidation, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202204912.

(5) Chen, S.; Zhu, J.; Ke, J.; Li, Y.; He, C.* Enantioselective Intermolecular C−H Silylation of Heteroarenes for the Synthesis of Acyclic Si-Stereogenic Silanes, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202117820.

(6) Zu, B.; Guo, Y.; He, C.* Catalytic Enantioselective Construction of Chiroptical Boron-Stereogenic Compounds, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 16302−16310.

(7) Guo, Y.; Liu, M.-M.; Zhu, X.; Zhu, L.; He, C.* Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Silicon-Stereogenic Dihydrodibenzosilines: Silicon-Central to Axial Chirality Relay, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 13887−13891.

(8) Zhu, J.; Chen, S.; He, C.* Catalytic Enantioselective Dehydrogenative Si−O Coupling to Access Chiroptical Silicon-Stereogenic Siloxanes and Alkoxysilanes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 5301−5307.

(9) Ke, J.; Liu, W.; Zhu, X.; Tan, X.; He, C.* Electrochemical Radical Silyl-Oxygenation of Activated Alkenes, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 8744−8749.

(10) Chen, S.; Mu, D.; Mai, P-L.; Ke, J.; Li, Y.; He, C.* Enantioselective Construction of Six- and Seven-Membered Triorgano-Substituted Silicon-Stereogenic Heterocycles, Nat. Commun. 2021, 12, 1249.

(11) Yang, B.; Yang, W.; Guo, Y.; You, L.; He, C.* Enantioselective Silylation of Aliphatic C–H Bonds for the Synthesis of Silicon-Stereogenic Dihydrobenzosiloles, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 22217−22222.

(12) Mu, D.; Yuan, W.; Chen, S.; Wang, N.; Yang, B.; You, L.; Zu, B.; Yu, P.; He, C.* Streamlined Construction of Silicon-Stereogenic Silanes by Tandem Enantioselective C−H Silylation/Alkene Hydrosilylation, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 13459−13468.