FACULTY

LAI Junshan Lab

LAI Junshan

Distinguished Research Fellow, Ph.D. Supervisor

  • E-mail:laijsh13@ncu.edu.cn

  • Address:Room 450, Medical Science and Technology Innovation Center

Biography
Research
Group Members
Publications

Study Experiences

2009-2013 Nanchang University, BS

2013-2016 Lanzhou University, MS

2016-2020 ICIQ/URV, PhD

Research Experiences

2021-2025 UBC, Postdoctoral

2025-now Nanchang University, PI

Honor & Awards

2021.5-2025.3 UBC Postdoctoral Research Fellow

2020 URV CUM LAUDE

2017.4-2020.11 Ministerio FPI grant

2016.10-2017.4 ICIQ PhD Fellowship Programme

2015 National Scholarship for Postgraduate students

2014 National Scholarship for Postgraduate students

2014 Miyoshi Graduate of Lanzhou University

Research Area

1,Artificial intelligence (AI) in asymmetric catalysis

2,asymmetric catalysis and continuous flow chemistry

3, Organic electrochemistry and synthetic methodology

4,Applications of asymmetric catalysis in drug and natural product synthesis



1. Applications of asymmetric catalysis in drug and natural product synthesis

2. Organic electrochemistry and synthetic methodology

3. Catalyst immobilization and continuous flow chemistry

4. artificial intelligence (AI) in asymmetric catalysis



1. Junshan Lai, Benjamin List*, Jolene P. Reid1*. Spirocyclic Bis-Indole Chiral Architectures for Asymmetric Catalysis. Nature commun. 2025, 16, accepted.

2. Isaiah O. Betinol§; Junshan Lai§; Saumya Thakur; Jolene Reid*. A Data-Driven Workflow for Assessing and Predicting Generality in Asymmetric Catalysis. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 12870–12883. §并列第一作者)

3. Junshan Lai, Jolene Reid*. Interrogating the thionium hydrogen bond as a noncovalent stereocontrolling interaction in chiral phosphate catalysis. Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 11065-11073.

4. Junshan Lai; Jolene P. Reid*. A Bulky Imidodiphosphorimidate Brønsted Acid Enables Highly Enantioselective Prins-semipinacol Rearrangements. ACS Catal. 2024, 14,8518-8527.

5. Junshan Lai, Mauro Fianchini, Miquel A. Pericàs*. Development of Immobilized SPINOL-Derived Chiral Phosphoric Acids for Catalytic Continuous Flow Processes. Use in the Catalytic Desymmetrization of 3,3-Disubstituted Oxetanes. ACS Catal. 2020, 10, 14971-14983.