Postdoc
PI: Yang Yang
Specialization:
Wenzhen’s graduate research focused on the development of novel chiral phosphine ligands for Ni-catalyzed asymmetric reductive couplings.
Education:
Wenzhen received his PhD from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry under the direction of Prof. Wenjun Tang. Prior to UCSB, Wenzhen was a postdoctoral researcher working with Prof. Marcus Tius and Prof. James Turkson at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Publications:
“Engineered P450 Atom Transfer Radical Cyclases Are Bifunctional Biocatalysts: Reaction Mechanism and Origin of Enantioselectivity“ Yue Fu, Heyu Chen, Wenzhen Fu, Marc Garcia-Borras, Yang Yang* and Peng Liu*, Journal of the
American Chemical Society 2022, 144, 13344–13355.