2024.10--至今    中国科学院上海有机化学研究所，副研究员

2023.11--2024.09  中国科学院上海有机化学研究所，助理研究员

2021.07--2023.11  中国科学院上海有机化学研究所，博士后

2020.07--2021.06  康龙化成（天津）药物制备技术有限公司，高级合成研究员

2015.09--2020.06，沈阳药科大学，药物化学，博士 

2011.09--2015.06，沈阳药科大学，基础药学基地班，学士

2019年 博士研究生国家奖学金

(1) Zi-Chao Wang, Xiaohua Luo, Jia-Wen Zhang, Chen-Fei Liu, Ming Joo Koh*, Shi-Liang Shi*. Enantioselective C-C Cross-Coupling of Unactivated Alkenes. Nat. Catal. 2023, 6, 1087–1097.

(2) Chen-Fei Liu, Zi-Chao Wang, Xiaohua Luo, Jiawei Lu, Charyl Hui Min Ko, Shi-Liang Shi*, Ming Joo Koh *. Synthesis of Tri-and Tetrasubstituted Stereocentres by Nickel-Catalysed Enantioselective Olefin Cross-Couplings. Nat. Catal. 2022, 5, 934-942.

(3) Zi-Chao Wang, Shi-Liang Shi*. Induced-Fit Chiral N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands for Asymmetric Catalysis. Acc. Chem. Res. 2025, 58, 2157–2177.

(4) Zi-Chao Wang, Lei Gao, Song-Yang Liu, Peng Wang,*, Shi-Liang Shi*. Facile Access to Quaternary Carbon Centers via Ni-Catalyzed Arylation of Alkenes with Organoborons. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, 147, 4, 3023–3031.   

(4) Zi-Chao Wang, Jia-Wen Zhang, Ming Joo Koh,*, Shi-Liang Shi*. Divergent and Selective Light Alkene Cross-Coupling. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, 62, e202310203.

(5) Zi-Chao Wang, Pei-Pei Xie, Youjun Xu, Xin Hong*, Shi-Liang Shi*. Low‐Temperature Nickel‐Catalyzed CN Cross-Coupling via Kinetic Resolution Enabled by a Bulky and Flexible Chiral N‐Heterocyclic Carbene Ligand. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 16077-16084.

(6) Hai-Yu Wu, Ming Joo Koh*, Zi-Chao Wang*, Shi-Liang Shi* Modular Access to Arylethylamines Enabled by Ni-Catalyzed Markovnikov-Selective Hydroarylation of Allylic Amines. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2025, e202503126.

(7) Jia-Wen Zhang, Hongli Wu, Di Shen, Rong-Kai Wu, Zi-Chao Wang*, Xin Hong*, Shi-Liang Shi* Enantioconvergent Negishi Cross-Coupling of Racemic sec-Alkylzinc Reagent with Aryl Halides Enabled by Bulky N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Pd Catalyst, CCS Chem. 2025, DOI: 10.31635/ccschem.025.202505591.  

(8) Zi-Chao Wang, Yan-Yu Li, Shuo-Qing Zhang, Xin Hong*, Shi-Liang Shi* Unsymmetric N-heterocyclic carbene ligand enabled nickel-catalysed arylation of bulky primary and secondary amines. Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 4390-4396.

(9) Zi-Chao Wang, Jian Gao, Yuan Cai, Xiaodong Ye, Shi-Liang Shi* Chemo- and Enantioselective Arylation and Alkenylation of Aldehydes Enabled by Nickel/ N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalysis. CCS Chem. 2022, 4, 1169-1179.  

(10) Zi-Chao Wang, Di Shen, Jian Gao, Xian Jia, Youjun Xu*, Shi-Liang Shi* Base-Catalysed Reductive Relay Hydroboration of Allylic Alcohols with Pinacolborane to Form Alkylboronic Esters. Chem. Common., 2019, 55, 8848.