yongqiang zhang
ph.d., associate professor
tel： 86-021-64253299
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office: room 402, west researching building 14
address: 130 mei-long road, shanghai 200237, p. r. china
institution: school of pharmacy, east china university of science and technology
professional experience
2006.06-2008.07 organic chemist, basilea pharm (china)
2013.09-2015.09 post-doctor, the university of utah (usa)
2009.09-2013.07 ph.d., second military medical university (china)
2008.09-2009.07 shanghai jiao tong university (china)
2003.09-2006.06 m.s., soochow university (china)
1999.09-2003.07 b.s., datong university (china)
researching interests
2) the development of natural product based anti-cancer/anti-infective drugs.
representative publications
1) logan r. hoggard†, yongqiang zhang† (co-first author), min zhang, vanja panic, john a. wisniewski, and haitao ji; rational design of selective small-molecule inhibitors for β-catenin/b-cell lymphoma 9 protein–protein interactions; j. am. chem. soc.2015, 137, 12249–12260.
2) j. leon catrow†, yongqiang zhang† (co-first author), min zhang, and haitao ji*; discovery of selective small-molecule inhibitors for the β-catenin/t-cell factor protein–protein interaction through the optimization of the acyl hydrazone moiety; j. med. chem.2015, 58, 4678–4692.
3) yongqiang zhang, kevin b. teuscher, haitao ji; direct α-heteroarylation of amides (α to nitrogen) and ethers through a benzaldehyde-mediated photoredox reaction; chem. sci.2016, 7, 2111–2118.
4) shihui liu, aoxia liu, yongqiang zhang* (corresponding author) and wei wang*; direct ca-heteroarylation of structurally diverse ethers via a mild n-hydroxysuccinimide mediated cross-dehydrogenative coupling reaction; chem. sci.2017, 8, 4044-4050.
5) wenbin cai, huaqiang fan, dazhong ding, yongqiang zhang*(corresponding author) and wei wang* ; synthesis of z-alkenes via visible light promoted photocatalytic e - z isomerization under metal-free conditions; chem. commun., 2017, 53, 12918-12921.
6) huaqiang fan, peng pan, yongqiang zhang* and wei wang*. synthesis of 2‑quinolinones via a hypervalent iodine(iii)-mediated intramolecular decarboxylative heck-type reaction at room temperature. org. lett.2018, 20, 7929−7932.
7) shihui liu, peng pan, huaqiang fan, hao li, wei wang* and yongqiang zhang*. photocatalytic c–h silylation of heteroarenes by using trialkylhydrosilanes. chem. sci. 2019, 10, 3817-3825.
8) yingying ma, shihui liu, yifan xi, hongrui li, kai yang, zhihao cheng, wei wang* and yongqiang zhang*. highly stereoselective synthesis of aryl/heteroaryl-c-nucleosides via the merger of photoredox and nickel catalysis. chem. commun. 2019, doi: 10.1039/c9cc07184a.
