Description: Chiral Phosphorous Based Ligands in Earth-Abundant Transition Metal Catalysis summarizes the most significant progress in the field of chiral phosphine ligand chemistry and a broad range of earth-abundant transition metal/chiral phosphine ligand-catalyzed enantioselective transformations. The book provides an authoritative and in-depth understanding of important topics about asymmetric catalysis based on earth-abundant transition metals/chiral phosphine ligands, making it ideal for organic chemistry researchers working in the field of asymmetric catalysis, synthetic methodologies and total synthesis.The development of new chiral phosphine ligands to achieve precise stereo control in many earth-abundant transition metal-catalyzed reactions is a very important field in organic synthesis, materials science and medicinal chemistry. The asymmetric synthesis promoted by transition metal/chiral phosphine ligands provides one of the most ideal ways to produce valuable optically active chemicals.
Brief description: Prof. Junliang Zhang obtained his B.S. degree in Chemistry in 1997 from Tianjin University and PhD degree from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2002 under the supervision of Prof. Shengming Ma. Then he worked as a postdoctoral fellow successively in University of Cologne (Humboldt Fellowship) and then University of Chicago. In 2006, he joined East China Normal University as a full professor. Then he moved to Fudan University in 2017 as professor of chemistry. His recent research interests include enyne chemistry, small ring chemistry and recently focus on developing novel chiral sulfinamide-based phosphine ligands in asymmetric catalysis. He has got several international awards, and published over 150 scientific articles and 5 book chapters.