Name: YAN Zhaohua 

Gender: Male

Job title:  Professor

Email Address:   College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanchang

University, 999 Xuefu Dadao, Nanchang 330031, P. R. China.

Education and Work Experience ：

2015.01 -- present:   College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanchang University, Professor.

2006.06 – 2014.12:    College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanchang University, Associate professor.

2005.09~2006.05:     CNH Technologies, Co.Ltd., USA, Senior research scientist.

2004.09—2005.08:    Harvard Medical School, USA, Postdoctor.

2001.09—2004.08:    Wayne State University, USA, Postdoctor.

2000.09—2001.08:    Calgary University, Canada, Postdoctor.

1999.09--2000.08:    ICSN, CNRS, France. Postdoctor.

1996.09—1999.06:    Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, CAS, PhD degree student

1995.07—1996.08:   Guangzhou Institute of Chemistry, CAS. Research assistant.

1992.09—1995.06:    Guangzhou Institute of Chemistry, CAS, Master degree student.

1988.09—1992.06:    Jiangxi Normal University, Bachelor degree student.

Teaching: Organic synthesis; organic chemistry; Fine chemistry engineering.

Research fields: Organic synthesis, new organic methods, medical chemistry.

Research projects:  Free radical reaction; Photo-redox reactions; new reactivities of cyclohexadienones.

Representative papers and patents： 

1.Guanghui Chen, Yong Shi,* Weisheng Tian,* Hongyan Xie, Zhaohua Yan,* Junmin Yu. “Demethylaromatization of cyclohexadienones by iodotriphenylphosphonium iodide”. Tetrahedron Lett. 2023, 117, 154365.

2.Hua Yao, Xiaoyang Zhong, Bingqing Wang, Sen Lin,* Zhaohua Yan*. “Cyanomethylation of the benzene rings and pyridine rings via direct oxidative cross-dehydrogenative coupling with acetonitrile”. Org. Lett. 2022, 24, 2030-2034.

3.Shengzhou Jin, Bo Xie, Sen Lin*, Cong Min, Ruihong Deng, Zhaohua Yan*. “Metal-free site-specifific hydroxyalkylation of imidazo[1,2‑a]pyridines with alcohols through radical reaction”. Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 3436-3440.

4.Chengmei Ai, Fuyuan Zhu, Yanmei Wang, Zhaohua Yan*, Sen Lin*. “SO2F2‑mediated epoxidation of olefifins with hydrogen peroxide”. J. Org. Chem. 2019, 84, 11928-11934.

5.Mingchuang He, Zhaohua Yan*, Fuyuan Zhu, Sen Lin*. “Copper-catalyzed coupling reactions of cyclobutanone oxime esters with sulfur nucleophiles at room temperature”. J.Org. Chem. 2018, 83, 15438-15448.