Professor Zhi-Min Chen has been honored as a recipient of the National High-Level Young Outstanding Talents Program and a specially-appointed professor (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai universities. He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from Fuzhou University in 2009 and received his Ph.D. in Natural Sciences from Lanzhou University in 2014 (under the supervision of Professor Yong-Qiang Tu). He subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (under the supervision of Professor Yong-Qiang Tu) and the University of Utah (under the supervision of Professor Matthew S. Sigman). In 2017, he joined the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University as a tenure-track associate professor and doctoral supervisor, and was promoted to full professor in 2024.

His research focuses primarily on chiral organochalcogen chemistry, aiming to achieve the efficient synthesis of various chiral sulfur and selenium compounds through the development of new catalysts, reagents, and strategies. He further investigates reaction mechanisms and functional applications. To date, he has published over 60 papers, including more than 40 as corresponding/first author in journals such as CCS Chem. (1), J. Am. Chem. Soc. (3), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (8), and Nat. Commun. (2). He has been granted five authorized Chinese invention patents. His research achievements have been positively highlighted and reviewed by Synfacts and other platforms, and have been included in several monographs, including Organocatalytic Sigmatropic Reactions.

Main research interests:

1. Chiral Organochalcogen Chemistry: Chiral organosulfur chemistry, organoselenium chemistry, organotellurium chemistry

2. Design, Synthesis, and Asymmetric Catalytic Applications of Artificial Enzyme/Mimetic Enzyme Catalysts

3. Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Products and Pharmaceutical Molecules

Email: chenzhimin221@sjtu.edu.cn