Qilong Shen

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Angewandte Chemie International EditionVolume 58, Issue 23 p. 7524-7524 Author ProfileFree Access Qilong Shen First published: 25 October 2018 https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201811328AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Graphical Abstract “My favorite food is steamed whole fish. If I were not a scientist, I would be a writer …” Find out more about Qilong Shen in his Author Profile. Qilong Shen The author presented on this page has published more than 10 articles in Angewandte Chemie in the last 10 years, most recently: “Enantioselective Construction of Trifluoromethoxylated Stereogenic Centers by a Nickel-Catalyzed Asymmetric Suzuki–Miyaura Coupling of Secondary Benzyl Bromides”: W. Huang, X. Wan, Q. Shen, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 11986; Angew. Chem. 2017, 129, 12148. The work of Q. Shen has been featured on the back cover of Angewandte Chemie: “An Electrophilic Hypervalent Iodine Reagent for Trifluoromethylthiolation”: X. Shao, X. Wang, T. Yang, L. Lu, Q. Shen, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 3457; Angew. Chem. 2013, 125, 3541. Date of birth: October 4, 1974 Position: Professor, Laboratory of Organofluorine Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) E-mail: shenql@mail.sioc.ac.cn Homepage: http://shenqilong.sioc.ac.cn ORCID: 0000-0001-5622-153X Education: 1996 BS, Nanjing University 1999 MSc, SIOC, CAS 2002 MSc, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth 2007 PhD with Prof. John F. Hartwig, Yale University 2007–2010 Postdoc with Prof. Jeffrey S. Moore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Awards: 2016 National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, NSFC; 2018 Roche Chinese Young Investigator Award Current research interests: Organofluorine chemistry; electrophilic fluoroalkylating reagents; organometallic fluorine chemistry Hobbies: Hiking, reading My favorite food is steamed whole fish. If I were not a scientist, I would be a writer. If I won the lottery, I would set up my own research institute. The most important thing I learned from my parents is to stand up straight and do your best. I chose chemistry as a career because I was chosen as a member of my high-school chemistry olympiad team and I fell love with the subject. My greatest achievement has been the development of a family of electrophilic fluoroalkylating reagents. My favorite author (fiction) is Romain Rolland (who wrote the novel Jean Christophe). My favorite piece of music is Beethoven's “Moonlight” Sonata. My favorite quote is “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” (Percy Bysshe Shelley). The most significant scientific advance of the last 100 years has been the discovery of the DNA structure. My 5 top papers: 1“Copper-Catalyzed Trifluoromethylation of Aryl and Vinyl Boronic Acids with An Electrophilic Trifluoromethylating Reagent”: T. Liu, Q. Shen, Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 2342. (Site-specific trifluoromethylation made easy.) 2“N-Trifluoromethylthiosaccharin: An Easily Accessible, Shelf-Stable, Broadly Applicable Trifluoromethylthiolating Reagent”: C.-F. Xu, B.-Q. Ma, Q. Shen, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 9316; Angew. Chem. 2014, 126, 9470. (With a sweet component, this reagent makes trifluoromethylthiolated compounds readily accessible.) 3“Cooperative dual palladium/silver catalyst for direct difluoromethylation of aryl bromides and iodides”: Y. Gu, X. Leng, Q. Shen, Nat. Commun. 2014, 5, 5405. (A two-catalyst relay led to the first reported transition-metal-catalyzed difluoromethylation reaction.) 4“N-Difluoromethylthiophthalimide: A Shelf-Stable Electrophilic Regent for Difluoromethylthiolation”: D. Zhu, Y. Gu, L. Lu, Q. Shen, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 10547. (A stable yet reactive “one-stop-shop” reagent for difluoromethylthiolation.) 5“Direct of Difluoromethylation of Alcohols with an Electrophilic Difluoromethylated Sulfonium Ylide”: J. Zhu, Y. Liu, Q. Shen, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 9050; Angew. Chem. 2016, 128, 9196. (Umpolung reactivity in a sulfonium ylide—now it is electrophilic.) Volume58, Issue23June 3, 2019Pages 7524-7524 ReferencesRelatedInformation