1) Development of novel, efficient, and practical synthetic organic reactions, with a focus on asymmetric syntheses and catalytic reactions. 2) Design and syntheses of new functional polymers.

​2011.10-2012.10, JSPS Postdoctoral Scholar in the Laboratory of Prof. Motomu Kanai, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the University of Tokyo;

2012.11-2016.5 Postdoctoral Fellow in the Group of Prof. Stephen L. Buchwald, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;

2016.6-Present, PI, Professor, State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences;  

1) Shi-Liang Shi, Zackary L. Wong, Stephen L. Buchwald*

“Copper-Catalyzed Enantioselective Stereodivergent Synthesis of Amino Alcohols”

Nature 2016, 532, 353–356.

2) Yang Yang†, Shi-Liang Shi†, Dawen Niu, Peng Liu, Stephen L. Buchwald*

“Catalytic Asymmetric Hydroamination of Unactivated Internal Olefins to Aliphatic Amines”

Science 2015, 349, 62–66. (†: Co-first author)

(Highlighted in Chemistry World and Chemical & Engineering News)

3) Shi-Liang Shi, Stephen L. Buchwald*

“Copper-catalysed Selective Hydroamination Reactions of Alkynes”

Nature Chemistry 2015, 7, 38–44. (Highlighted in Nature. Nature 517, 280–281)

4) Shi-Liang Shi, Stephen L. Buchwald*

“Palladium-Catalyzed Intramolecular C–H Difluoroalkylation: Synthesis of Substituted 3,3-Difluoro-2-oxindoles”

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 1646-1650.

5) Shi-Liang Shi, Xiao-feng Wei, Yohei Shimizu, Motomu Kanai* 

“Copper(I)-Catalyzed Enantioselective Incorporation of Ketones to Cyclic Hemiaminals for the Synthesis of Versatile Alkaloid Precursor”

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 17019-17022.

6) Shi-Liang Shi, Motomu Kanai* and Masakatsu Shibasaki*

“Asymmetric Synthesis of Dihydropyranones from Ynones by Sequential Copper(I)-Catalyzed Direct Aldol and Silver(I)-Catalyzed Oxy-Michael Reactions”

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 3932-3935.

7) Shi-Liang Shi, Li-Wen Xu, Kounosuke Oisaki, Motomu Kanai* and Masakatsu Shibasaki*

“Identification of Modular Chiral Bisphosphines Effective for Cu(I)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylation and Propargylation of Ketones” 

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 6638-6639.

8) Yohei Shimizu, Shi-Liang Shi, Hiroyuki Usuda, Motomu Kanai* and Masakatsu Shibasaki* 

“Catalytic Asymmetric Total Synthesis of ent-Hyperforin”

Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 1103-1106.

1) Development of novel, efficient, and practical synthetic organic reactions, with a focus on asymmetric syntheses and catalytic reactions. 2) Design and syntheses of new functional polymers.

2010        Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad

2008-2011   Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho: MEXT) Scholarship

2011-2013   Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowships (DC2 and PD)

2016        “Thousand Talents Program” Young Investigator Award