Prof. Dr. Chun-An Fan

Profile

Academic position	Full Professor
Research fields	Organic Molecular Chemistry,Natural Product Chemistry
Keywords	Natural Product Synthesis, Asymmetric Catalysis, Synthetic Methodology
Honours and awards	2025: Asian Core Program Lectureship Award (Japan), awarded by The 18th International Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia (ICCEOCA-18/ACP 2025) 2025: Wenkui Research Award, awarded by Lanzhou University 2019: ACP Lectureship Award (Hong Kong), awarded by The 14th International Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia (ICCEOCA-14/ACP 2019) 2019: Guohua Eminent Scholar Fellowship (Leading Talent), awarded by Lanzhou University 2019: Ten Thousand Talents Program (National High-Level Talents Special Support Plan), announced by the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee 2018: Innovative Talents Promotion Program (Young and Middle-aged Science and Technology Innovation Leading Talent), sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China 2018: National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China 2017: Asian Core Program / Advanced Research Network Lectureship Award (Korea & Taiwan), awarded by The 12th International Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia & The 3rd Advanced Research Network on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia (ICCEOCA-12 & ARNCEOCA-3) 2017: Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor Award in Gansu Province, awarded by Gansu Provincial Academic Degrees Committee and Gansu Provincial Department of Education 2016: National Natural Science Award of China, Second Prize (2nd Awardee), awarded by the State Council of China 2015: Chang Jiang Young Scholar of the Ministry of Education of China, sponsored by the Chang Jiang Scholars Program, the Ministry of Education, China 2015: Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education of China, First Prize (2nd Awardee), awarded by the Ministry of Education, China 2014: Asian Core Program Lectureship Award (Singapore & Thailand), awarded by The 9th International Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia & The 5th New Phase International Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia (ICCEOCA-9 & NICCEOCA-5) 2013: Excellent Young Scientists Fund, sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China 2012: Thieme Chemistry Journals Award, sponsored by Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart and New York 2010: The 12th Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation for Young Teachers in the Higher Education Institutions of China (Basic Research Projects), sponsored by The Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation, China 2008: Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, sponsored by the Ministry of Education, China 2006: National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Nomination Award of China, awarded by the Ministry of Education and the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, China 2005: Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of Lanzhou University 2005: Humboldt Research Fellowship, awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany 2003: Qiu Shi Graduate Scholarship, awarded by the Qiu Shi Science & Technologies Foundation, Hong Kong, China 2002: Award for Progress in Science and Technology of Gansu Province, First Prize (3rd Awardee), awarded by Gansu Province, China 2002: Innovative Talents Award for Graduates of Lanzhou University 2002: Tsung-Dao Lee Scholarship, awarded by Gansu Province, China 2001: Graduate Scholarship of Chinese Academy of Science

Current contact address

Country	People's Republic of China
City	Lanzhou
Institution	Lanzhou University
Institute	State Key Laboratory of Natural Product Chemistry
Homepage	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4837-3394

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Andreas Gansäuer	Kekulé-Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn
Start of initial sponsorship	01/11/2005

Programme(s)

2004	Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2010	Andreas Gansäuer, Lei Shi, Florian Keller, Peter Karbaum, Chun-An Fan: Regiodivergent epoxide opening (REO) via electron transfer: control elements. In: Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 2010, 1361-1369
2009	Andreas Gansäuer,* Florian Keller, Chun-An Fan, Peter Karbaum,: Regiodivergent Opening of Epoxides. In: Carsten Bolm, F. Ekkehardt Hahn, Activating Unreactive Substrates: The Role of Secondary Interactions.. Wiley-VCH, 2009. 397-409
2009	Andreas Gansäuer,* Matthias Otte, Frederik Piestert, Chun-An Fan: Sustainable radical reduction through catalyzed hydrogen atom transfer reactions (CHAT-reactions). In: Tetrahedron, 2009, 4984-4991
2008	Andreas Gansäuer,* Chun-An Fan, and Frederik Piestert : Sustainable Radical Reduction through Catalytic Hydrogen Atom Transfer. In: J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 6916-6917
2007	Andreas Gansäuer,* José Justicia, Chun-An Fan, Dennis Worgull, Frederik Piestert : Reductive C-C Bond Formation after Epoxide Opening via Electron Transfer. In: Michael J. Krische, Topics in Current Chemistry. Springer, 2007. 25-52
2007	Andreas Gansäuer,* Chun-An Fan, Florian Keller, and Peter Karbaum: Regiodivergent Epoxide Opening: A Concept in Stereoselective Catalysis beyond Classical Kinetic Resolutions and Desymmetrizations. In: Chem. Eur. J., 2007, 8084-8090
2007	Andreas Gansäuer,* Chun-An Fan, Florian Keller, and Jutta Keil: Titanocene Catalyzed Regiodivergent Epoxide Openings. In: J. Am. Chem. Soc. , 2007, 3484-3485