The Wang Laboratory in the college of chemistry at Nankai university seeks to address challenges in the realm of organic synthesis by designing new strategies and catalysts. We are pursuing novel strategies to tame and deploy the radical intermediates, historically recognized as highly reactive, but uncontrollable species, for the assembly of useful structures in a selective manner. Electrocatalysis, photoredox catalysis and transition metal catalysis are leveraged for mild generation and selective transformation of these open shell intermediates, and converting various readily accessible feedstocks, such as alkane, alkenes and arenes, to important building blocks and pharmacophores. Radical-mediated (enantio)selective amination are currently of particular interest to our group.