Flow Chemistry-Enabled 10-step Asymmetric Synthesis of Cyproterone Acetate
via a Chemo-biocatalytic Strategy —A Development Story
Lecturer: CHEN Fen' er
CHEN Fen' er, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, professor and doctoral supervisor at Fudan University, currently serves as the President of Jiangxi Normal University. He obtained his Master’s degree in medicinal chemistry from the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at West China University of Medical Sciences and his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the School of Chemistry at Sichuan University. In 1995 and 1996, he served as a visiting scholar at Washington University in the USA and King’s College London in the UK, successively. Additionally, he holds positions as the Chairman of the Asian Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (AFMC), Director of the Medicinal Chemistry Committee of the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association, Director of the Pharmaceutical and Traditional Chinese Medicine Section of the Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Education, Vice Chairman of the 12th Council of the Shanghai Pharmaceutical Association, and serves as associate editor for several journals, including Green Synthesis&Catalysis, Pharmaceutical Fronts, Chinese Chemical Letters, Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering and Journal of Chinese Pharmaceutical Science.
Academician CHEN Fen' er has been recognized as the primary contributor in receiving 1 second prize of the National Award for Technological Invention, 1 second prize of the National Award for Science and Technology Progress, 3 first prizes of the Science and Technology Progress Award at the provincial and ministerial levels and 1 China Patent Gold Award. He has published over 400 academic papers in journals such as Nat Rev Chem,Chem Rev, J Am Chem Soc, Angew Chem Int Ed, Nat Commun., Chem Sci, ACS Catal, ACS Sustain Chem Eng, J Med Chem, Acta Pharm Sin B, and Org Lett. He has applied for more than 350 patents in China, the United States and the European Union, with 160 patents granted in China and abroad. He has also co-authored 8 academic books. In addition, he has received many awards and honors, such as the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Liang Ho Lee Foundation, the National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker Award, and recognition as one of the Top Ten Scientific and Technological Elites of Shanghai Municipality.
Lecture Time: 15:30 -17:30, November 21(Thursday), 2024
Venue: Room 244, Huiyuan Building, Qianhu campus, NCU
Organizers: Academic Committee of Nanchang University, School of Pharmacy of Nanchang University
