Si-Cong Chen

Si-Cong Chen

Undergraduate, 2014-2018

Peking University

陈思聪(Si-Cong Chen)

Si-Cong Chen was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu province in 1996. He entered Tsinghua University in 2014 and then joined the Jiao group in the same year, where he focused on the studies on total syntheses of natural products and theorical calculation of chemical reactions.

After obtaining his bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 2018, he continued his research in organic chemistry as a PhD student at College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University (in Tuoping Luo research group). His interest is solving challenges of chemistry and more areas.

Interests
  • Total synthesis
  • Radical chemistry
  • Computational chemistry
Education

  • BSc in chemistry, 2018

    Tsinghua University

Publications

  1. Hao-Yi Du, Si-Cong Chen, Xiao-Jun Su, Lei Jiao*, Ming-Tian Zhang* "Redox-Active Ligand Assisted Multielectron Catalysis: A Case of CoIII Complex as Water Oxidation Catalyst." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 1557-1565.
  2. Ze-Xin Zhang, Si-Cong Chen, Lei Jiao* "Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (+)-Minfiensine by an Asymmetric Cascade Cyclization Strategy." Synlett 2017, 28, 2199-2204.
  3. Ze-Xin Zhang, Si-Cong Chen, Lei Jiao* "Total Synthesis of (+)-Minfiensine: Construction of the Tetracyclic Core Structure by an Asymmetric Cascade Cyclization." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 8090-8094.