Main Group Chemistry

As main group elements has play important roles in functional materials and pharmaceuticals, to further dig the potentials of main group element-containing reagents and functional molecules in synthetic chemistry is charming. The research in the Wang group is interested in developing main group elements (Si, Ge, S et al.)-mediated new reactions, methodologies for the synthesis of main group elements-involved functional molecules, and their applications in materials and synthetic chemistry.

Organosilane Chemistry

For representative reviews, see:
(a) Chang, X.; Ma, P.-L.; Chen, H.-C.; Li, C.-Y.*; Wang, P.* Asymmetric Synthesis and Application of Chiral Spirosilabiindanes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 8937–8940.
(b) Huang, Y.-H.; Wu, Y.; Zhu, Z.; Zheng, S.; Ye, Z.; Peng, Q.*; Wang, P.* Enantioselective Synthesis of Silicon-Stereogenic Monohydrosilanes by Rhodium-Catalyzed Intramolecular Hydrosilylation. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202113052.

Thianthrenation-Enabled C-H Functionalization

For representative reviews, see:
(a) Wu, J.; Wang, Z.; Chen, X.-Y.; Wu, Y.; Wang, D.; Peng, Q.* ; Wang, P.* para-Selective Borylation of Monosubstituted Benzenes Using a Transient Mediator. Sci. China Chem. 2020, 63, 336-340.
(b) Chen, X.-Y.; Nie, X.-X.; Wu, Y.; Wang, P.* para-Selective Arylation and Alkenylation of Monosubstituted Arenes Using Thianthrene S-Oxide as a Transient Mediator. Chem. Commun. 2020, 56, 5058-5061.
(c) Wu, Y.; Huang, Y.-H.; Chen, X.-Y.; Wang, P.* Site-Selective Silylation of Arenes Mediated by Thianthrene S‑Oxide. Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 6657-6661.