Faculty & Staff Directory
Qingjiang Li
Title: Assistant Professor
Email: Qingjiang.Li@umb.edu
Department: Chemistry
Areas of Expertise
Carbohydrate Chemistry – Chemical synthesis, enzymatic synthesis, and methodology. Carbohydrate Application in immunology and drug discovery.
Degrees
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida
PhD in Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University
MS in Organic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, P. R. China
Professional Publications & Contributions
- Li, Qingjiang; Guo, Jiatong; Guo, Zhongwu.* “Direct access to various C3-substituted sialyl glycal derivatives from 3-iodo-sialyl glycal”. Org. Biomol. Chem. 46, 10169-10173 (2021).
- Li, Qingjiang; Jaiswal, Mohit; Rohokale, Rajendra S.; Guo, Zhongwu.* “A Diversity-Oriented Strategy for Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Glycosphingolipids and Related Derivatives” Org. Lett. 22, 8245-8249 (2020).
- Rohokale, Rajendra S.; Li, Qingjiang; Guo, Zhongwu.* “A Diversity-Oriented Strategy for Chemical Synthesis Glycosphingolipids: Synthesis of Glycosphingolipid LcGg4 and Its Analogs and Derivatives” J. Org. Chem. 86, 1633-1648 (2021).
- Li, Qingjiang; Jiang, Wenjie; Guo, Jiatong; Jaiswal, Mohit; Guo, Zhongwu.* “Synthesis of Lewis Y Analogues and Their Protein Conjugates for Structure-Immunogenicity Relationship Studies of Lewis Y Antigen”, J. Org. Chem. 84, 13232-13241 (2019).
- Li, Qingjiang; Guo, Zhongwu.* “Synthesis of the Cancer-Associated KH-1 Antigen by Block Assembly of Its Backbone Structure Followed by One-Step Grafting of Three Fucose Residues”, Org. Lett. 19, 6558-6561 (2017).
Additional Information
Lab Location: ISC-3560
Carbohydrate chemistry is an interdisciplinary field at the interface of chemistry and biology and mindsets of multidisciplinary collaboration are practiced in our research. While specialized in the chemical/enzymatic synthesis of carbohydrate molecules and methodology development, the research projects in the Li lab extent to their biological applications, especially in immunology and drug discovery. Here at UMB chemistry, the principles of green chemistry will also be integrated into our projects of methodology development.