Jian Zhang PhD

Professor of Pesticide Science

Master's Supervisor

State Key Laboratory of Green Pesticides

Contact details

Room 222, Building D, East Campus, Guizhou University

Emailjianzhang@gzu.edu.cn

Phone +86 851-88292170

Qualifications

BSc –University of Jinan, China 2013

MSc – Guizhou University, China 2017

PhD – Guizhou University, China 2022

Positions held

2022 – present Professor – Guizhou University, China

Profile

Jian Zhang is a young professor at the State Key Laboratory of Green Pesticides, mainly engaged in the creation of green pesticides and development of clean production processes. Under the guidance of Academician Baoan Song, he created the plant immune activator vanisulfane and the mesoionic insecticide Yizuochongmiding. He has published more than 10 papers in internationally renowned journals such asJ. Agric. Food Chem., Org. Lett., and has been granted 4 invention patents.

Selected recent publications (*corresponding authors)

Cui, H. H., Wu, Z. X., Zhang, L. M., Ma, Q. Q., Cai, D., Zhang, J* and Hu, D. Y* (2023) Design, synthesis, antibacterial activity, and mechanism of novel mesoionic compounds based on natural pyrazole isolated from an endophytic fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporioides.Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 71: 10018−10027.

Tang,X., Lei,L., Liao,A. J., Sun,W.,Zhang, J* and Wu, J* (2023) Morpholine derivatives in agrochemical discovery and development.Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry71: 13197−13208.

Wang,E. F., Luo,J. B., Zhang,L. M.,Zhang, J* and Jiang, Y. J*(2024) Copper-catalyzed oxidative [3 + 2] cycloaddition of enamines and pyridotriazoles toward indolizines.Organic Letters26: 1249−125.

Zhang, J., Song, R. J., Wu, S., Cai, D., Wu, Z. X., Hu, D. Y and Song, B. A* (2022) Design, synthesis, and insecticidal activity of novel pyrido[1,2 a]pyrimidinone mesoionic compounds containing an indole moiety as potential acetylcholine receptor insecticides. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 70: 5349−5356.

Zhang, J., Song, R. J., Wu, S., Cai, D., Wu, Z. X., Liu, Z. J.,Hu, D. Y and Song, B. A*(2021) Discovery of pyrido[1,2-a]pyrimidinone mesoionic compounds incorporating a dithioacetal moiety as novel potential insecticidal agents.Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 69, 15136-15144.

Zhang, J., He, F. C., Chen, J. X., Wang, Y. J., Yang, Y. Y., Hu, D. Y and Song, B. A* (2021) Purine nucleoside derivatives containing a sulfa ethylamine moiety: Design, synthesis, antiviral activity, and mechanism. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 69: 5575−5582.

Zhang, J., Zhao L., Zhu, C., Wu, Z. X., Zhang, G. P., Gan, X. H., Liu, D. Y., Pan, J. K.,Hu, D. Y and Song, B. A*(2017) Facile synthesis of novel vanillin derivatives incorporating a bis(2-hydroxyethyl)dithhioacetal moiety as antiviral agents.Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry65: 4582-4588.