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Academician and Professor Martin Banwell is an internationally renowned expert in organic chemistry. He is now the Dean of Institute for Advanced and Applied Chemical Synthesis (IAACS) as well as a Master/PhD tutor, and his main study is the total synthesis of active natural products and research and development of new drugs. He was elected as an academician of Australian Academy of Sciences in 2004, and he is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Australian Chemical Society, as well as an honorary fellow of the Royal New Zealand Chemical Society. He was a highest-level (Level-E2) tenure-track professor at the Australian National University. In 2018, he was awarded the Officer Medal by the Australian Federal Government, the highest level award for Australian citizens, for his contribution in scientific research. In 2021, he was awarded the Chinese Government Friendship award by the Prime Minister Keqiang Li. Till now, he has published almost 400 SCI papers on journals like Nature Chemistry, Accounts of Chemical Research, and Organic Letters, and he was authorized for 13 international patents.

Education& Professional Experience：

2020–present

Dean, Institute for Advanced and Applied Chemical Synthesis, Jinan University

2013–2019  Professor

Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University

2008–2013  Dean

Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University

1977–1979  PhD (Specialty: Material chemistry)

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

1976–1977  Master of Science (Specialty: Material chemistry)

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

1972–1976  Bachelor of Science (Specialty: Material chemistry)

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Representative Publications in Recent 3 Years：

1.     Zhongnan Xu; Xin-Ting Liang; Ping Lan; Martin G. Banwell* ; Total syntheses of certain asperversiamides, linearly-fused and prenylated indole alkaloids, Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2024, 11: DOI:10.1039/d4qo00131a

2.     Qi Chen; Ping Lan; Shen Tan; Martin G. Banwell* ; The palladium-catalyzed glycosylation of halotropones, Organic Letters, 2023, 25: 384-388.

3.     Ting-Ting Yuan; Jing Chen; Le Nhan Pham; Sayan Paul; Lorenzo V. White; Jialong Li; Ping Lan; Michelle L. Coote; Martin G. Banwell*; Yu-Tao He ; Visible light-mediated syntheses of unsammetrical methylene-bridged bis-heterocycles via an alkoxy radical relay reaction, Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2023, 10: 4649-4657.

4.     Bingbing Sheng; Ping Lan; Jolynn Kiong; Zeinab G. Khalil; Robert J. Capon; Martin G. Banwell* ; Total syntheses of favolasins A, E, G and K, polyketides isolated from cultures of the Basidiomycetes fungi Favolaschia sp . BCC 18686 and Favolaschia calocera BCC 36684, Chinese Journal of Chemistry, 2023, 41: 1450-1464.

5.     Chengzhi Chen; Tingting Yuan; Ping Lan; Lorenzo V. White; Jing Chen; Martin G. Banwell* ; Syntheses and preliminary biological evaluations of the dibromopyrrole-containing marine natural products agesasine A, agesasine B, longamide E and various congeners, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2023, 26: e202300003.

6.     Yuqi Zhang; Ping Lan; Martin G. Banwell* ; Synthetic studies concerned with the proposed structure of ribisin F, a compound with nerve growth factor potentiating activity isolated from the medicinal fungus Phellinus ribis, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2023, 26: e202300010.

7.     Jia-Qing Chen; Yao-Wen Hai; Chun Qing; Min-Yi Liang; Martin G. Banwell*; Ping Lan ; The synthesis of certain fatty acid ester derivatives of trehalose and an investigation of their emulsifying properties and bioactivities , LWT-Food Science and Technology, 2023, 187: 115369.

8.     Yu Chen; Ping Lan; Martin G. Banwell* ; Total synthesis of denigrin E and its oxidative conversion into co-occurring metabolite denigrin D, Organic Letters, 2022, 24(15): 2931- 2934.

9.     Lorenzo V. White; Nan Hu; Yu‐Tao He; Martin G. Banwell*; Ping Lan ; Expeditious access to morphinans by chemical synthesis, Angewandte Chemie, 2022, e202203186.

10.  Martin G. Banwell*; Lorenzo V. White; Sebastian Young Ye ; Formal total syntheses of (+)- and (−)-aspidophytine from a common, homochiral precursor, The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2022, 87(21): 14407-14421.

11.  Yu Chen; Guang‐Yi Zhang; Chan Guo; Ping Lan; Martin G. Banwell*; Yu‐Tao He ; Silver‐ promoted radical ring‐opening/ pyridylation of cyclobutanols with N‐methoxypyridinium salts, Chemistry – A European Journal, 2022, 28(16): e202104627.

12.  Yu Chen; Michael G. Gardiner; Ping Lan; Martin G. Banwell* ; α-Iodo-α,β-unsaturated ketones as vicinal dielectrophiles: their reactions with dinucleophiles provide new annulation protocols for the formation of carbo- and heterocyclic ring systems, The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2022, 87: 6146-6160.

13.  Liangguang Yi; Yu-Tao He; Shen Tan; Lorenzo V. White; Ping Lan; Michael G. Gardiner; Zhipeng Pei; Michelle L. Coote; Martin G. Banwell* ; Total syntheses of the structures assigned to the marine natural products orthoscuticellines A–E, The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2022, 87: 12287-12296.

14.  Aymeric Cervi; Yen Vo; Christina L. L. Chai; Martin G. Banwell*; Ping Lan; Anthony C. Willis ; Gold(I)-catalyzed intramolecular hydroarylation of phenol-derived propiolates and certain related ethers as a route to selectively functionalized coumarins and 2H-chromenes, The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2021, 86(1): 178-198.

15.  Sebastian Ye; Martin G. Banwell* ; Chemoenzymatic and enantiomeric switching regimes enabling the synthesis of homochiral cyclohexa-2,5-dienones incorporating all-carbon quaternary centers, The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2021, 86(21): 15403-15412.

Contact：

Room 616, the Second Science and Technology Building, Jinan University, Guangzhou

Email：mgbanwell@jnu.edu.cn