Name: Zhen ZHANG

Gender: Male

Job title: Special-term Professor

Email Address: zhangzhen@ncu.edu.cn

Education and Work Experience ：

2024.09 -- present: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanchang University, Special-term Professor.

2019.12~2024.08: Nanchang University, postdoctor (assistant research fellow). Advisor: Prof. Hu Cai

2013.09~2019.12: Lanzhou University, doctor degree (joined study of master and doctoral degree). Advisor: Prof. Yong-Qiang Tu

2009.09~2013.06: Lanzhou University, bachelor degree. Advisor: Prof. Yong-Qiang Tu

Teaching：

Research fields: Free radical chemistry, green chemistry, asymmetric catalysis and total synthesis of natural products.

Research projects：2025.01~2027.12 National Natural Science Foundation of China (22401131).

Awards and Honors：

Representative papers and patents：

Papers:

1、Zhen Zhang*; Shusheng Yue; Bo Jin; Ruchun Yang; Shengchun Wang; Tianqi Zhang; Li Sun; Aiwen Lei*; Hu Cai *, Para-Selective Nitrobenzene Amination Lead by C(sp2)-H/N-H Oxidative Cross-Coupling through Aminyl Radical, Nature Communications, 2024, 15, 4186.

2、Zhangqiang Yan; Zhen Zhang*; Tao Wen; Lihua Ye; Bo Jin; Chihong Zhang; Wenkun Wang; Zhong-Ning Chen; Hu Cai*, tBuOK/DMSO/O2 catalyzed direct α-C(sp3)–H alkylation with styrenes: productive α-amino radicals for hydroaminoalkylation, Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2023, 10, 2714.

3、Tao Wen; Zhen Zhang*; Lihua Ye; Chihong Zhang; Bo Jin; Wenkun Wang; Zhong-Ning Chen; Hu Cai*, Metal-free heteroarene C(sp2)–H amination with unprotected (hetero)arylamines, Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2023, 10, 3045.

4、Chihong Zhang; Zhen Zhang*; Deliang Wang; Wenkun Wang; Bo Jin; Tao Wen; Lihua Ye; Zhong-Ning Chen; Hu Cai*, DMSO/tBuONa/O2-mediated efficient syntheses of diverse quinoxalines through α-imino radicals, Chemical Communications, 2023, 59, 5217.

5、Zhen Zhang; Yong-Qiang Tu*; Xiao-Ming Zhang; Fu-Min Zhang; Shao-Hua Wang, Copper-catalyzed highly diastereoselective cross-dehydrogenative coupling between 8-hydroxyisochromanes and 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds, Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2019, 6, 2275.

6、Zhen Zhang; Cheng Li; Shao-Hua Wang; Fu-Min Zhang; Xue Han; Yong-Qiang Tu*; Xiao-Ming Zhang*, Tandem SN2′ nucleophilic substitution/oxidative radical cyclization of aryl substituted allylic alcohols with 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2017, 15, 3239.

7、Dao-Yong Zhu; Zhen Zhang; Xue-Qing Mou; Yong-Qiang Tu*; Fu-Min Zhang; Jin-Bao Peng; Shao-Hua Wang; Shu-Yu Zhang, Gold(I)/Copper(II)-Cocatalyzed Tandem Cyclization/Semipinacol Reaction: Construction of 6-Aza/Oxa-Spiro[4.5]decane Skeletons and Formal Synthesis of (±)-Halichlorine, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 2015, 357, 747.

8、Zhi-Min Chen; Zhen Zhang, Yong-Qiang Tu*; Ming-Hui Xu; Fu-Min Zhang; Chen-Chen Li; Shao-Hua Wang, A Mn(III)/TEMPO-co-mediated tandem azidation–1,2-carbon migration reaction of allylic silyl ethers, Chemical Communications, 2014, 50, 10805.

Patents:

1. Zhen Zhang, Hu Cai, Tao Wen, Bo, Jin, Lihua Ye, Wenkun Wang, A method for 5H-pyrazine and [2,3-b] indole compounds. Application (patent) No.: CN202311048129.5.

2. Zhen Zhang, Hu Cai, Bo Jin, Sicheng Qi, Jingxi Yu, A method for phenylanisidine compounds. Application (patent) No.: CN202311231872.4.

4、 Hu Cai, Zhen Zhang, Tao Wen, Chihong Zhang, Bo Jin, Lihua Ye, A method for α-carboline and derivatives. Application (patent) No.: CN202310163201.2.

5、 Hu Cai, Zhen Zhang, A method for (S) -3-cyclohexene-1-formic acid and intermediates. Application (patent) No.: CN202311122816.7.

6、 Hu Cai, Zhen Zhang, A method for synthesis of p-nitroaniline compounds. Application (patent) No.: CN202410896529.X.

7、 Hu Cai, Yongfa Xie, Zhen Zhang, Ruchun Yang, Tianqi Zhang, Zhangqiang Yan, A method for N-aryl substituted heterocyclic compounds. Application (patent) No.: CN202010757079.8.