On the afternoon of March 16, 2022, researcher Wang Congyang from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences was invited by Professor Huang Hui from the School of Materials Science and Optoelectronic Technology to give a lecture on "manganese group metal organocatalysis" at 2-329.
In his report, Professor Wang Congyang mainly introduced a series of progress made by his research group in the catalytic C-H bond functionalization of manganese group metals (especially manganese metal complexes), including manganese-catalyzed enyne addition reaction, manganese-catalyzed polar Addition reactions, manganese-catalyzed hydrogen transfer reactions, etc. In view of the particularity of manganese group metal complexes, Prof. Wang Congyang's research group developed catalytic strategies such as manganese acid synergistic catalysis and manganese base synergistic catalysis, which successfully solved the transformation of manganese group metals from stoichiometric catalysis to catalytic quantity catalysis. At the same time, a series of C-H bonds on aromatic rings were successfully functionalized and modified, and the functional groups were well tolerated.
Wang Congyang
Education background:
2000-2005 Ph.D., Peking University, Supervisor: Professor Xi Zhenfeng
1996-2000 Undergraduate, Nanjing University, Supervisor: Professor Sun Xiangzhen and Professor Pan Yi
work experience:
2015-present University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, post professor
2010-present, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, research group leader, researcher, doctoral supervisor
2007-2010 University of Münster, Germany, Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Supervisor: Prof. Frank Glorius
2005-2007 Peking University, postdoctoral fellow, supervisor: Professor Xi Zhenfeng
Awards and Honors:
2020 National Natural Science Foundation of China "Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars"
2020 CCL Outstanding Young Scholar Award
2019 The 10th Chinese Chemical Society-BASF Youth Knowledge Innovation Award
2019 The 5th China Homogeneous Catalysis Youth Award
2019 Chinese Chemical Society "Periodic Table of Elements for Young Chinese Chemists" event, spokesperson of manganese element
2019 Green Synthesis & Catalysis, Elsevier, Associate Editor
2017 Chinese Chemistry Letters, Elsevier, Associate Editor
2017 Chinese Journal of Chemistry, Wiley-VCH, Editorial Board Member of Rising Stars
2015 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award, Germany
2015 Asian Core Program Lectureship Award, Japan
2015 Asian Core Program Lectureship Award, Singapore
2013 National Natural Science Foundation of China "Outstanding Youth Science Fund"
2011 Alexander von Humboldt Equipment Subsidy, Germany
2010 "Introduction of Foreign Outstanding Young Talents Program" by Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2008 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, Germany
2006 First-class funding of the 38th China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
2005 Outstanding Graduate of Peking University