Education:
2000.08 ~ 2002.12 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, 2002.12 ~ 2008.07
2003.09 ~ 2007.06 Department of Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
2008.08 ~ so far Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Xiamen University School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
2011.09 ~ 2012.09 Visiting Scholar, University of Liverpool, UK
Principal Research Interests:
Organic metal chemistry and asymmetric catalysis
Selected Recent Publications:
1. Wenjing Zhang, Sunhong Ruan, Weiyi Shen, Zhe Wang, Dongli An, Yanyun Li*, Jingxing Gao, Highly enantioselective reduction of ketones in air catalyzed by Rh-based macrocycles, Catal. Commun. 119, 153-158 (2019)
2. Zhe Wang, Shenluan Yu, Zanbin Wei, Dongli An, Yanyun Li*, Jingxing Gao, Synthesis, characterization of novel Nickel(II) complexes with PxNy-type ligands and their application in reduction of ketones, J. Organomet. Chem. 898, 120882 (2019)
3. Meng Tao, Fang Wu, Teng Li, Yanyun Li*, Jingxing Gao, Novel chiral multidentate P3N4-type ligand for asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of aromatic ketones, Chin. Chem. Lett. 28, 97-100 (2017)
4. Fang Wu, Wenjing Zhang, Dongli An, Yanyun Li*, Jingxing Gao, Asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of ketones catalyzed by chiral multidentate aminophosphine ligands/iron cluster, Chin. J. Org. Chem. 37, 1295-1299 (2017)
5. Dong Zhang, Enze Zhu, Zhiwei Lin, Zanbin Wei, Yanyun Li*, Jingxing Gao, Enantioselective hydrogenation of ketones catalyzed by chiral cobalt complexes containing PNNP ligand, Asian J. Org. Chem. 5, 1323-1326 (2016)
6. Yanyun Li*, Shenluan Yu, Weiyi Shen, Jingxing Gao,* Iron-, cobalt-, and nickel-catalyzed asymmetric transfer hydrogenation and asymmetric hydrogenation of ketones, Acc. Chem. Res. 48, 2587-2598 (2015)
7. Yanyun Li, Shenluan Yu, Xiaofeng Wu, Jianliang Xiao*, Weiyi Shen, Zhenrong Dong, Jingxing Gao*, Iron catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of ketones, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136, 4031-4039 (2014)
8. Li Zeng, Fang Wu, Yanyun Li*, Zhenrong Dong, Jingxing Gao, Synthesis and characterization of novel chiral bidentate P,N-containing ligands and ruthenium(II) complex. The application in asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of ketones, J. Organomet. Chem. 762, 34-39 (2014)
9. Shenluan Yu, Weiyi Shen, Yanyun Li*, Zhenrong Dong, Yaqing Xu, Qi Li, Juanni Zhang, Jingxing Gao*, Iron-catalyzed highly enantioselective reduction of aromatic ketones with chiral P2N4-type macrocycles, Adv. Synth. Catal. 354, 818-822 (2012)
10. Juanni Zhang, Xiangren Yang, Han Zhou, Yanyun Li*, Zhenrong Dong, Jingxing Gao*, Oxidative kinetic resolution of racemic secondary alcohols in water with chiral PNNP/Ir catalyst, Green Chem. 14, 1289-1292 (2012)
