Wei Zhang
Areas of Expertise
Fluorous Chemistry - Free-Radical Chemistry, Asymmetric Organocatalysis, Green Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry
Degrees
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
PhD in Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh,PA
BS in Chemistry (Analytical), Nanjing University, P. R. China
Professional Publications & Contributions
- Zhang, Wei. "Green chemistry aspects of fluorous techniques—opportunities and challenges for small-scale organic synthesis." Green Chemistry 11, no. 7 (2009): 911-920.
- Zhang, Wei. "Fluorous linker-facilitated chemical synthesis." Chemical reviews 109, no. 2 (2009): 749-795.
- Zhang, Wei. "Fluorous Mixture Synthesis (FMS) of Drug-like Molecules and Enantiomers, Stereoisomers, and Analogues of Natural Products." In Fluorine in Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology, pp. 335-359. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2009.
- Werner, Stefan, Simon D. Nielsen, Peter Wipf, David M. Turner, Peter G. Chambers, Steven J. Geib, Dennis P. Curran, and Wei Zhang. "Fluorous parallel synthesis of a piperazinedione-fused tricyclic compound library." Journal of combinatorial chemistry 11, no. 3 (2009): 452-459.
- Cai, Chun, Wen-Bin Yi, Wei Zhang, Ming-Gui Shen, Mei Hong, and Li-Yan Zeng. "Fluorous Lewis acids and phase transfer catalysts." Molecular diversity 13, no. 2 (2009): 209.
Additional Information
Professor Zhang's Laboratory website
Lab Location: ISC-3560 & 3570
The green chemistry research projects in Prof. Zhang's group are focused on the development of fluorous technologies for organic and medicinal chemistry applications. The unique phase separation-based fluorous technologies have been utilized in the development of a series of green techniques including chromatography-free separations, recyclable reagents and catalysts, atom economic multicomponent reactions, energy-focused microwave reactions, metal-free organocatalysis, aqueous media reactions, and modified reagents.
