Min SHI
Professor
Cheung Kong Distinguished Professor
Contact Information
Office: Room 215, Researching Building 13
Email: mshi@sioc.ac.cn
Office Phone: +86 21 54925137
Office Fex: +86 21 64166128
Education
1991.03 Ph.D. Department of Chemical Process Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan
1988.03 M.S. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Gifu University, Japan
1984.08 B.S. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Institute of Chemical Engineering of East China, China.
Group Members
Researchers:
Dr. Meixin Zhao
Dr. Feijun Wang
Dr. Jun Zhang
Dr. Qin Xu
Ph.D. Students:
Dan Du, De Wang,Xiao-Nan Zhang, Fang-Le Hu, Yin-Wei Sun, Peng Gu, Liang-yong Mei, Jin-MingYang, Kai Chen, Yu Jiang, Peng-long Zhu
Research Interests
Green chemistry-Fixation of CO2 using transition metal catalyst, green nitration.
Developing new chiral ligands or organocatalysts in catalytic asymmetric synthesis, organocatalysis, Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction.
Chemistry of highly strained small rings, total synthesis of natural product.
Professional Experience
2005-now
Appointed as Cheung Kong Distinguished Professor, the Education Ministry of China
East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai, CHINA
1998-2005
Professor and Group Leader: April 1998-Now, State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC).
1996-1998
Inoue Photochirogenesis Project, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST) and worked on the photo-induced asymmetric reaction and synthesis.
1995-1996
University of Oklahoma, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, U.S.A., Prof. Kenneth M. Nicholas’s research group and worked on the fixation of CO2 using transition metal complexes.
1993-1995
Research Laboratory of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Gifu Pharmaceutical University, Japan and worked on the asymmetric synthesis, drug design, and molecular recognition.
Publication
1. Pei C.-K, Jiang Y, Wei Y, Shi M,* Enantioselective Synthesis of HighlyFunctionalized Phosphonate Substituted Pyrans or Dihydropyrans: Asymmetric[4+2] Cycloaddition of b, g-Unsaturated a-Ketophosphonates with Allenic Esters. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2012, 51,11328-11332.
2. Shi M*, Lu J-M, Wei Y, Shao L-X, Rapid generation of molecular complexity inthe Lewis or Brønsted acid-mediated reactions of methylenecyclopropanes. Acc.Chem. Res.2012, 45, 641-652.
3. LuB-L, Dai L-Z, Shi M,* Strained SmallRings in Gold-Catalyzed Rapid Chemical Transformations.Chem. Soc. Rev. 2012, 41, 3318-3339.
4. Lu B-L, Shi M,* Synthesis ofFunctionalized Polycyclic Compounds by Rh(I)-catalyzed IntramolecularCycloaddition of Yne-VDCPs and Ene-VDCPs. Angew. Chem., Int.Ed.2011, 50, 12027-12031.
5. Zhu Z-B, Wei Y, Shi M,* Recent Developments of Cyclopropene Chemistry. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2011, 40, 5534-5563.
6. ZhangD-H, Yao L-F, Wei Y, Shi M,*Gold(I)-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization of 1,6-Diynes Containing Propargylic Esterand Arenyne: Synthesis of 2,3-Disubstituted 3-Pyrroline Derivatives. Angew.Chem., Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 2583-2588.
