Dr. Pengfei Li (李鹏飞)

Dr. Pengfei Li's Blog:
http://gr.xjtu.edu.cn/web/lipengfei/home

Address:
1 West Building, 99 Yanxiang Road, Xi’an,
Shaanxi, Province, 710054, P. R. China


Tel: 86-
Fax: 86-
Email: lipengfei@mail.xjtu.edu.cn


Employment
Jul/2015 –
Professor (教授)
Organic Chemistry Research Center (OCRC)
Frontier Institute of Science and Technology (FIST),
Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), Xi’an, China




May/2014 –Jun/2015
Lab Director II (实验室主任II类)
Organic Chemistry Research Center (OCRC)
Frontier Institute of Science and Technology (FIST),
Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), Xi’an, China


Nov/2011 – Apr/2014
Principal Investigator at the level of Professor,
Group Leader I (研究小组主任I类)
Organic Chemistry Research Center (OCRC)
Frontier Institute of Science and Technology (FIST),
Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), Xi’an, China


Mar/2010 – Oct/2011
Postdoctoral Associate (Advisor: Prof. Stephen L. Buchwald)
Department of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA


Apr/2005 – Sep/2006
Research chemist, Basilea Pharmaceutica (China) Ltd, Haimen, China


Jul/2004 – Mar/2005
Research chemist, Chinese Wisdom Institute of Medicine and Wisdom Pharmaceutica Co. Ltd, Haimen, China


Education


Oct/2006 – Feb/2010
Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry (Advisor: Prof. Dirk Menche)
Dissertation: Total synthesis of etnangien and studies towards the
total synthesis of rhizopodin
Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, and Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany

Sep/2001 – Jun/2004
M.S. in Organic Chemistry (Advisor: Prof. Zheng-Ming Li)
Dissertation: Synthesis and biological activities of novel
sulfonylurea compounds
Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Sep/1997 – Jul/2001
B.S. in Chemistry, Shanxi Normal University, Linfen, China


Honors and Awards


2015
Thieme Chemistry Journal Award, Germany

2015
“陕西省青年科技新星”, Shaanxi Province

2010
The highest honor (summa cum laude) for the Ph.D. dissertation in
Heidelberg University, Germany


Research Interests


Aromatic compounds as feedstocks, ligands (or catalysts) in catalytic C-X bond (X = B, Si, N, O) formation for making functional molecules.
Key words: catalysis, aromatic compounds, organoboron, C-X bond

1. Aromatic boron-centered ligands in catalysis.
2. Aromatic boron compounds: catalytic synthesis and transformations.
3. Catalytic dearomative reactions and their applications in synthesis of bioactive molecules.
4. High value-added fine chemicals by catalytic C-H to C-X transformations of arenes.
5. Catalytic synthesis of chiral polyaromatics as next generation OLED materials.







Representative Publications
1. Guanghui Wang, Liang Xu and Pengfei Li,* Double N,B-type Bidentate Boryl Ligands Enabling a Highly Active Iridium Catalyst for C-H Borylation, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 8058-8061.

2. Liang Xu, Shuai Zhang, Pengfei Li,* Boron-selective reactions as powerful tools for modular synthesis of diverse complex molecules, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2015, 44, DOI:10.1039/c5cs00338.
3. Liang Xu, Siyi Ding, Pengfei Li,* Site-differentiated Polyboron Arenes Prepared by Direct C-H Borylation and Their Highly Selective Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling Reactions, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 1822-1826.

4. Guanghu Tong, Zhi Liu, Pengfei Li,* Stereocontrolled Construction of the Tricyclic Framework of Tiglianes and Daphnanes by an Oxidative Dearomatization Approach, Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 2288-2291.
5. Xiaowu Liu, Fei Xiong, Xuanping Huang, Liang Xu, Pengfei Li,* and Xiaoxing Wu,* Copper-Catalyzed Trifluoromethylation-Triggered Neophyl-Type Rearrangement of α,α-Diaryl Allylic Alcohols, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 6962-6966.
6. Pengfei Li,* Jason S. Moore, Klavs F. Jensen,* A Microfluidic System for the Continuous Recycling of Unmodified Homogeneous Palladium Catalysts via Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation, ChemCatChem 2013, 5, 1729-1733.
7. Pengfei Li, Stephen L. Buchwald,* Continuous-Flow Synthesis of 3,3-Disubstituted Oxindoles by a Palladium-Catalyzed -Arylation/Alkylation Sequence, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 6396-6400.
8. Pengfei Li, Jun Li, Fatih Arikan, Wiebke Ahlbrecht, Michael Dieckmann, Dirk Menche*, Stereoselective Total Synthesis of Etnangien and Etnangien Methyl Ester, J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 2429-2444.
9. Pengfei Li, Jun Li, Fatih Arikan, Wiebke Ahlbrecht, Michael Dieckmann, Dirk Menche*, Total Synthesi of Etnangien, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 11678-11679.
10. Pengfei Li, Dirk Menche*, Cycloadditions in the Total Synthesis of Sporolide B, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 5078-5080.



For a full list of publications, see Research ID: E-3211-2012.
Dr. Pengfei Li's Blog: http://gr.xjtu.edu.cn/web/lipengfei/home



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