Assoc. Prof. Lingkui Meng completed his PhD from Wuhan University under the supervision of Prof. Aiwen Lei in 2014. He then joined the group of Prof. Kenichiro Itami at Nagoya University as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. In 2016, he started his new career as an Associate Professor in the School of Pharmacy at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He published over 20 research papers in high impacted journals, including Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. and J. Am. Chem. Soc. etc. His current research interests focus on carbohydrate chemistry, organometallic chemistry and medicinal chemistry.

Selective Publications

1) Glycosylation Enabled by Successive Rhodium(II) and Brønsted Acid Catalysis (Lingkui Meng, Peng Wu, Jing Fang, Ying Xiao, Xiong Xiao, Guangsheng Tu, Xiang Ma, Shuang Teng, Jing Zeng, Qian Wan* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 114, 11775. IF:14.695);

2) Thiophene-Fused π-Systems from Diarylacetylenes and Elemental Sulfur. (Lingkui Meng, Takao Fujikawa, Motonobu Kuwayama, Yasutomo Segawa,* and Kenichiro Itami* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 10351. IF:14.695);

3) HOTf-Catalyzed Synergetic Oxidative Cyclization/[3+2] Cyclization of Quinones with Olefins. (Lingkui Meng, Guanghui Zhang, Chao Liu, Kun Wu, and Aiwen Lei* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 10195. IF:12.257);

4) C–H Alkenylation of Azoles with Enols and Esters by Nickel Catalysis. (Lingkui Meng, Yuko Kamada, Kei Muto, Junichiro Yamaguchi,* and Kenichiro Itami* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 10048. IF:12.257);

5)  Calcium Hypophosphite Mediated Deiodination in Water: Mechanistic  Insights and Applications in Large Scale Syntheses of D-Quinovose and  D-Rhamnose (Zejin Song^#, Lingkui Meng^#, Ying Xiao, Xiang Zhao, Jing Fang, Jing Zeng, Qian Wan* Green Chem. 2019, 21, 1122. IF:9.405);

6) Palladium-catalysed aerobic oxidative Heck-type alkenylation of Csp3-H for pyrrole synthesis. (Lingkui Meng, Kun Wu, Chao Liu and Aiwen Lei* Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 5853. IF:6.164);

7) Palladium Catalyzed a-Selective Oxidative Heck Reaction of Electron Rich Olefin. (Lingkui Meng^#, Chao Liu^#, Wei Zhang, Chao Zhou and Aiwen Lei* Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 1110. IF:6.164);

8)  Palladium-catalyzed aerobic (1+2) annulation of Csp3–H bonds with  olefin for the synthesis of 3-azabicyclo[3.1.0]hex-2-ene. (Kun Wu^#, Lingkui Meng,^# Mingming Huai, Zhiliang Huang, Chao Liu, Xiaotian Qi and Aiwen Lei* Chem. Commun. 2017, 53, 2294. IF:6.164);

9) Interrupted Pummerer Reaction in Latent/Active Glycosylation. (Lingkui Meng, Jing Zeng, Qian Wan* Synlett 2018, 29, 148. IF=2.418);

10) Zinc Chloride Enhanced Arylations of Secondary Benzyl Trifluoroacetates in the Presence of β-Hydrogen Atoms. (Hui Duan, Lingkui Meng, Denghui Bao, Heng Zhang, Yao Li, and Aiwen Lei* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 6387. IF=12.257) ;