University of Basel

Department
of Chemistry

Research Group Gillingham

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Pinwen Cai

Department of Chemistry
University of Basel
St. Johanns-Ring 19
CH-4056 Basel
Switzerland

Lab: 308
phone: +41 (0)61 207 09 69
email: pinwen.cai@clutterunibas.ch

Background

 

Pinwen got his Bachelor’s degree at Jiangnan University, China. After graduation, he went to Prof. Yan-kai Liu’s group pursuing his Master’s degree at Southwest Jiaotong University, China, focused on small organic molecule catalysis. After obtained his master degree, he started his career as a chemist with DNA-Encoded Library. He started his PhD in our group in 2020.

Research Experience

  • Current: PhD Student in the area of DNA-encoded library.
  • 2016-2020: Focused on the synthesis of DNA-encoded Library and DNA compatible chemistry developing supervised in HitGen, China.
  • 2014-2016: 24 months master’s thesis in Ocean University of China
  • 2013: 6 months bachelor’s thesis in Jiangnan University

Education

Master degree in organic chemistry: Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yan-kai Liu
Project: The Attractive Application of Lactol Chemistry: From Racemic Lactol to Natural Product Skeleton

Bachelor degree in biotechnology: Jiangnan University, China
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Xiaobei Zhan
Project: The qualitative analysis of nine novel polysaccharides

Bibliography

Synthesis of C3-Alkylated Indoles on DNA via Indolyl Alcohol Formation Followed by Metal-Free Transfer Hydrogenation
Pinwen Cai, Guanyu Yang, Lanzhou Zhao, Jinqiao Wan, Jin Li and Guansai Liu
Organic Letters 2019, 21, 17, 6633─6637. doi:10.1021/acs.orglett.9b02132

The attractive application of lactol chemistry: from racemic lactol to natural product skeleton
Pin-Wen Cai, Zhi-Hao You, Liang-Hui Xie, Rui Tan, Zhi-Ping Tong and Yan-Kai Liu
Synthesis2016, 48, 16, 2581─2594. doi:10.1055/s-0035-1561972

A highly efficient route to C-3 alkyl-substituted indoles via a metal-free transfer hydrogenation
Cai Chen, Huan-Xi Feng, Zhi-Long Li, Pin-Wen Cai, Yan-Kai Liu, Lian-Hai Shan and Xian-Li Zhou
Tetrahedron Letters2014, 55, 28, 3774─3776. doi:10.1016/j.tetlet.2014.05.064

 

 

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