Prof. Dr. Yi-Hung Chen

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsOrganic Molecular Chemistry
Keywordsreaction mechanism studies, XAFS, reagent development for natural product synthesis

Current contact address

CountryPeople's Republic of China
CityWuhan
InstitutionWuhan University of Technology
InstituteResearch Institute for Advanced Materials

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Paul KnochelInstitut für Organische Chemie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Start of initial sponsorship01/08/2007

Programme(s)

2006Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2019Dan Wang, Pan Wang, Shengchun Wang, Yi-Hung Chen, Heng Zhang, Aiwen Lei : Direct electrochemical oxidation of alcohols with hydrogen evolution in continuous-?ow reactor . In: Nature communication, 2019,
2019Li Sun, Yong Yuan, Min Yao, Han Wang, Daoxin Wang, Meng Gao, Yi-Hung Chen*, Aiwen Lei*: Electrochemical Aminoselenation and Oxyselenation of Styrenes with Hydrogen Evolution. In: Org. Lett., 2019, 1297-1300
2019Simon Graßl, Yi-Hung Chen, Clémence Hamze, Carl Phillip Tüllmann, Paul Knochel: Late Stage Functionalization of Secondary Amines via a Cobalt-Catalyzed Electrophilic Amination of Organozinc Reagents. In: Org. Lett., 2019, 494-497
2018Yi-Hung Chen, Simon Graßl, and Paul Knochel: Cobalt-Catalyzed Electrophilic Amination of Aryl- and Heteroarylzinc Pivalates with N-Hydroxylamine Benzoates. In: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 1108-1111
2017J. M. Hammann, L. Thomas, Y.-H. Chen, D. Hass, P. Knochel Cobalt-Catalyzed Cross-Couplings of Bench-Stable Alkynylzinc Pivalates with (Hetero)Aryl and Alkenyl Halides. In: Org. Lett. , 2017, 3847-3850
2017Yi-Hung Chen, Mario Ellwart, Georgios Toupalas, Yusuke Ebe, and Paul Knochel*: Preparation and Application of Solid, Salt-Stabilized Zinc Amide Enolates with Enhanced Air and Moisture Stability. In: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2017, 4612-4616
2017Y-H. Chen, C. P. Tüllmann, M. Ellwart, P. Knochel Preparation of Solid Polyfunctional Alkynylzinc Pivalates with Enhanced Air and Moisture Stability for Organic Synthesis. In: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. , 2017, 9236-9239
2017Y.-H. Chen, M. Ellwart, V. Malakhov, P. Knochel Solid Organozinc Pivalates: A New Class of Zinc Organometallics with Greatly Enhanced Air- and Moisture Stability. In: Synthesis , 2017, 3215-3223
2009Yi-Hung Chen, Mai Sun, Paul Knochel: LiCl-Mediated Preparation of Functionalized Benzylic Indium(III) Halides and Highly Chemoselective Palladium-Catalyzed Cross- Coupling in a Protic Cosolvent. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2009, 2236-2239
2009Yi-Hung Chen, Claney L. Pereira, Frank E. McDonald: Total Synthesis of the Sphingolipid Biosynthesis Inhibitor Fumonisin B1. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 6066-6067
2008Yi-Hung Chen, Paul Knochel: Preparation of Aryl and Heteroaryl Indium(III) Reagents by the Direct Insertion of Indium in the Presence of LiCl. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2008, 7648-7651