Study and Working Experience

1. Education Background

2008   Zhejiang University  Ph.D.

2003   Zhejiang University  B.S.

2. Postdoctoral Fellowships

2010-2012   University of South Florida

2008-2010   Colorado State University

3. Working Experience

2012-present Professor, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University

Research Interests

1. Drugs design, synthesis and structure-activity relationships

2. Synthesis of bioactive natural products and their analogues

3. Synthetic methodology for heterocyclic compounds

Selected Publications

[1] Yan Zhang, Mingyun Shen, Sunliang Cui*, Tingjun Hou*, Synthesis and Antiproliferative Evaluation of 2-Hydroxylated (E)-Stilbenes, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2014, 24 (23), 5470-5472.

[2] Yan Zhang, Jing Zheng, Sunliang Cui*, Rh(III)-Catalyzed C-H Activation/Cyclization of Indoles and Pyrroles: Divergent Synthesis of Heterocycles”, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2014, 9 (14), 6490-6500.

[3] Jing Zheng, Yan Zhang, Sunliang Cui*, Rh(III)-catalyzed selective coupling of N-methoxy-1H-indole-1-carboxamides and aryl boronic acids, Organic Letters, 2014, 16 (13), 3560-3563.

[4] Qifan Wu, Yan Zhang, Sunliang Cui*, Divergent Syntheses of 2-Aminonicotinonitriles and Pyrazolines by Copper-Catalyzed Cyclization of Oxime Ester, Organic Letters, 2014, 16 (5), 1350-1353.

[5] Yan Zhang, Qifan Wu, Sunliang Cui*, Rh(III)-catalyzed C-H activation-desymmetrization of diazabicycles with arenes: facile synthesis of   functionalized cyclopentenes, Chemical Science, 2014, 5 (1), 297-302.

[6] Sunliang Cui*, Yan Zhang, Dahai Wang, Qifan Wu, Rh(III)-catalyzed C-H activation/[4+3] cycloaddition of benzamides and vinylcarbenoids: facile synthesis of azepinones, Chemical Science, 2013, 4 (10), 3912-3916.

[7] Sunliang Cui*, Yan Zhang, Qifan Wu, Rh(III)-catalyzed C-H activation/cycloaddition of benzamides and methylenecyclopropanes: divergence in ring formation, Chemical Science, 2013, 4 (9), 3421-3426.

Patents

Sunliang Cui, Yan Zhang, Tingjun Hou.

Synthesis and Antiproliferative Evaluation of 2-Hydroxylated (E)-Stilbenes, CN201410432114.

 Sunliang Cui, Yan Zhang, Jing Zheng.  

Synthesis of Pyrimido[1,6-a]indol-1(2H)-ones, CN201310755538.