Organoboron chemistry, Radical chemistry, Selective oxidation
Experience
Professor and PI, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, 2021/1 - present
Associate Professor and PI, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, 2020/1 - 2021/1
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Pittsburgh
Supervisor: Prof. Dennis P. Curran, 2016/10 - 2019/10
Postdoctoral Scholar, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS
Supervisor: Prof. Guangwen Chen and Prof. Shuang Gao., 2015/1 - 2016/9
Education
Ph.D. Organic Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS
Supervisor: Prof. Shuang Gao, 2011/9 - 2015/7
M.S. Medicine Chemistry, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University
Supervisor: Prof. Guoliang Chen, 2008/9 - 2011/7
1. Luo, H. H.; Wang, L. Y.; Shang, S. S.; Li, G. S.; Lv, Y.; Gao, S.*; Dai, W.*, Cobalt Nanoparticles-Catalyzed Widely Applicable Successive C-C Bond Cleavage in Alcohols to Access Esters, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 19268-19274.
2. Dai, W.; Geib, S. J.; Curran, D. P.*, 1,4-Hydroboration Reactions of Electron-Poor Aromatic Rings by N-Heterocyclic Carbene Boranes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 6261-6276.
3. Dai, W.; Geib, S. J.; Curran, D. P.*, Ring-Opening Reactions of NHC-Boriranes with In Situ Generated HCl: Synthesis of a New Class of NHC-Boralactones, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 3623-3629.
4. Dai, W.; Geib, S. J.; Curran, D. P.*, Facile Synthesis of α-N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Boryl Ketones from N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Boranes and Alkenyl Triflates, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 12355-12361.
5. Dai, W.; McFadden, T. R.; Curran, D. P.*; Fru?chtl, H. A.; Walton, J. C., 5-Endo Cyclizations of NHC-Boraallyl Radicals Bearing Ester Substituents: Characterization of Derived 1, 2-Oxaborole Radicals and Boralactones, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 15868-15875.
6. Dai, W.*; Shang, S.; Lv, Y.; Li, G.; Li, C.*; Gao, S.*, Highly Chemoselective and Enantioselective Catalytic Oxidation of Heteroaromatic Sulfides via High-Valent Manganese (IV)–Oxo Cation Radical Oxidizing Intermediates, ACS Catal. 2017, 7, 4890-4895.
7. Dai, W.; Li, J.; Li, G.; Yang, H.; Wang, L.; Gao, S.*, Asymmetric epoxidation of alkenes catalyzed by a porphyrin-inspired manganese complex, Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 4138-4141.