Education:
1996 - 2000 studied at the Department of Chemistry, Lanzhou University, received a Bachelor of Organic Chemistry.
2000 - 2005 in Nankai University under the guidance of Professor Zhou Qilin engaged in asymmetric catalytic and synthetic research work
2005 received a doctorate in organic chemistry. Then went to the University of Basel, Switzerland, in collaboration with Professor Andreas Pfaltz for postdoctoral research.
Since October 2008, he has been an associate professor of Xiamen University School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.
Principal Research Interests:
Organic synthesis methods, the application of metal organic compounds in organic synthesis, asymmetric catalysis and synthesis, the synthesis of natural and non-natural compounds with biological activity
Selected Recent Publications:
Highly Efficient Suzuki Cross-Coupling Catalyzed by Palladium/Phosphine- Imidazolium Carbene System Ai-E Wang, Jun Zhong, Jian-Hua Xie, Kai Li ,Qi-Lin Zhou*. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2004, 346, 595-598.
Synthesis of Triaryl Phosphine- Functionalized N-heterocyclic Carbene Ligands and Their Application in Heck Reaction Ai-E Wang, Jian-Hua Xie, Li-Xin Wang, Qi-Lin Zhou*. Tetrahedron 2005, 61, 259-266.
New phosphine-functionalized N-heterocyclic carbene ligands for palladium-catalyzed hydroarylation reaction Jun Zhong, Jian-Hua Xie, Ai-E Wang, Wei Zhang, Qi-Lin Zhou*. Synlett 2006, 1193-1196.
Enantio- and Diastereoselective Hydrogenation of Farnesol and O-Protected Derivatives: Stereocontrol by Changing the C=C Bond Configuration Aie Wang, Bettina Wüstenberg, Andreas Pfaltz*. Angew. Chem. 2008, 120, 2330-2332; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 2298-2300.
Recent Progress in Iridium- Catalyzed Enantioselective Hydrogenation: Tetrasubstituted Olefins and Polyenes Marcus G. Schrems, Aie Wang, Andreas Pfaltz*. Chimia, 2008, 62, 506-509.
