2004.9~2007.7: Finished High School Education at Chongqing Bashu Middle School 2007.9~2016.7: CCME, Peking University (in Professor Jianbo Wang's group) B.Sc thesis: Metal-Catalyzed Rearrangement of Cyclopropene-Cyclopropane System Ph.D thesis: The Application of Cyclopropenes and Cyclopropanols in Metal Carbene and Cycloaddition Reactions

Our research interests are focused on the development of new reactions, in particular the reactions involving catalytic metal carbene transformations.

Gold(I)-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization of Enynes Containing Cyclopropenes Changkun Li, Yi Zeng, Hang Zhang, Jiajie Feng, Yan Zhang and Jianbo Wang Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 6413-6417. Rh(I)-catalyzed carbonylative carbocyclization of tethered ene- and yne-cyclopropenes Changkun Li, Hang Zhang, Jiajie Feng, Yan Zhang and Jianbo Wang Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 3082-3085. Pd-Catalyzed Ring-Opening Cross-Coupling of Cyclopropenes with Aryl Iodides Hang Zhang, Bo Wang, Kang Wang, Guojun Xie, Changkun Li, Yan Zhang and Jianbo Wang Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 8050-8052. Studies on Zn(II)- or Rh(I)-Catalyzed Rearrangement of Silylated [1,1'-Bi(cyclopropan)]-2'-en-1-olsHang Zhang, Changkun Li, Guojun Xie, Bo Wang, Yan Zhang, Jianbo Wang J. Org. Chem. 2014, 79, 6286-6293. Rhodium(III)-Catalyzed Transannulation of Cyclopropenes with N-Phenoxyacetamides through C-H Activation Hang Zhang, Kang Wang, Bo Wang, Heng Yi, Fangdong Hu, Changkun Li, Yan Zhang, Jianbo Wang Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 13234-13238 (Angew. Chem. Most-Accessed Article in September 2014) Rh(II)-Catalyzed [2,3]-Sigmatropic Rearrangement of Sulfur Ylides Derived from Cyclopropenes and Sulfides Hang Zhang, Bo Wang, Heng Yi, Yan Zhang, Jianbo Wang Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 3322-3325. Pd(0)-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Allyl halides with alpha–Diazocarbonyl Compounds or N-Mesylhydrazones: Synthesis of 1,3-Diene Compounds Kang Wang, Shufeng Chen, Hang Zhang, Shuai Xu, Fei Ye, Yan Zhang, and Jianbo Wang Org. Biomol. Chem. 2016, 14, 3809-3820. Transition-Metal-Free Three-Component Reaction of Cyclopropenes, Aldehydes and AminesHang Zhang, Bo Wang, Heng Yi, Tong Sun, Yan Zhang and Jianbo Wang Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 13285-13287. Cu(I)-Catalyzed Chemoselective Coupling of Cyclopropanols with Diazo Esters: Ring-Opening C-C Bond Formations Hang Zhang, Guojiao Wu, Heng Yi, Tong Sun, Bo Wang, Yan Zhang, Guangbin Dong, Jianbo Wang Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 3945-3950. Ru(II)-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Cyclopropenes with Diazo Compounds: Formation of Olefins from two Different Carbene Precursors Bo Wang, Heng Yi, Hang Zhang, Tong Sun, Yan Zhang, and Jianbo Wang J. Org. Chem. 2018, 83, 1026-1032.