Position: Associate Professor
School/Academic Group: School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Email: kun.shen@whu.edu.cn
Education：
2004.09 – 2008.06 Wuhan University, College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, B.S. in Chemistry
2008.09 – 2013.07 Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ph.D.
Working Experience：
2018.09 – Present Wuhan University, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Associate Researcher, Associate Professor
2013.08 – 2018.07 Duke University (USA), Department of Chemistry, Postdoc
Current Teaching Interests/Responsibilities:
Organic Chemistry
Research Interests:
Synthetic Methodology: Asymmetric Synthesis of Chiral Drugs and Natural Products
Innovative Drug Discovery and Development
Mechanistic Studies of Drug-Target Interactions
Publications：
1.Shen, K.; Wang, Q.* “Copper-Catalyzed Alkene Aminoazidation as a Rapid Entry to 1,2-Diamines and Installation of an Azide Reporter onto Azahetereocycles.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 13110–13116.
2.Shen, K.;# Logan, A. W. J.;# Colell, J. F. P.;# Bae, J.; Ortiz, G. X.; Theis, T.; Warren, W. S.;* Malcolmson, S. J.;* Wang, Q.* “Diazirines as Potential Universal Molecular MRI Tags: Probing the Requirements for Efficient and Long-Lived SABRE-Induced Hyperpolarization.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 12112–12116.
3.Shen, K.; Wang, Q.* “Copper-Catalyzed Aminoalkynylation of Alkenes with Hypervalent Iodine Reagents.” Chem. Sci. 2017, 8, 8265–8270.
4.Hemric, B. N.; Shen, K.; Wang, Q.* “Copper-Catalyzed Amino Lactonization and Amino Oxygenation of Alkenes Using O-Benzoylhydroxylamines.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 5813–5816.
5.Shen, K.; Wang, Q.* “Copper-catalyzed Aminotrifluoromethylation of Alkenes: A Facile Synthesis of CF3-Containing Lactams.” Org. Chem. Front. 2016, 3, 222–226.
6.Shen, K.; Wang, Q.* “Copper-Catalyzed Diamination of Unactivated Alkenes with Hydroxylamines.”Chem. Sci. 2015, 6, 4279–4283.
7.Shen, K.; Han, X.;* Lu, X.* Hu, Z. “Cationic Pd(II)-Catalyzed Arylative Cyclization of 1,6-Enynes with Arylboronic Acids.” Tetrahedron Lett. 2017, 58, 3768–3771.
8.Shen, K.; Han, X.;* Xia, G.; Lu, X.* “Cationic Pd(II)-Catalyzed Cyclization of N-tosyl-aniline Tethered Alkynyl Ketones Initiated by Hydropalladation of Alkynes: A Facile Way to 1,2-Dihydro- or 1,2,3,4-Tetrahydroquinoline Derivatives.” Org. Chem. Front. 2015, 2, 145–149.
9.Shen, K.; Han, X.;* Lu, X.* “Cationic Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Reductive Cyclization of Alkyne-Tethered Ketones or Aldehydes Using Ethanol as Hydrogen Source.” Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 1732–1735.
10.Shen, K.; Han, X.;* Lu, X.* “Cationic Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Highly Enantioselective Arylative Cyclization of Alkyne-Tethered Enals or Enones Initiated by Carbopalladation of Alkynes with Arylboronic Acids.” Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 1756–1759.
