Yang Xiong

The aim of our research is the discovery, development and application of new catalytic methods in organic chemistry (photochemistry and organometallic chemistry) and medicinal chemistry. It is our hope that our research could provide some better solutions to current existing issues and make a contribution to uncovering the mysteries of nature and improving the fundamental understanding of science.

2022.06-Present   Hongshen Young Professor, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Innovative Drug Research Centre, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China

2019.12-2022.04  Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Chair of Organic Chemistry I, Department of Chemistry,Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany; Advisor：Prof. Dr. Thorsten Bach

2019.09-2019.11  Researcher (academic exchange), State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China; Advisor: Prof. Dr. Can Li

2014.09-2019.06  Ph.D., State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China; Advisor: Prof. Dr. Guozhu Zhang

2010.09-2014.06  B.S., Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Organic Chemistry (photochemistry, organometallic chemistry)

Medicinal Chemistry

(1) Yang Xiong, Johannes Großkopf, Christian Jandl, and Thorsten Bach*, Visible Light-Mediated Dearomative Hydrogen Atom Abstraction/Cyclization Cascade of Indoles. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2022, e20220055.

(2) Yang Xiong and Guozhu Zhang*, Enantioselective 1,2-Difunctionalization of 1,3-Butadiene by Sequential Alkylation and Carbonyl Allylation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 2735.

(3) Yang Xiong, Xiaodong Ma and Guozhu Zhang*, Copper-Catalyzed Intermolecular Carboamination of Alkenes Induced by Visible Light. Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 1699.

(4) Yang Xiong and Guozhu Zhang*, Visible-Light-Induced Copper-Catalyzed Intermolecular Markovnikov Hydroamination of Alkenes. Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 7873. 

(5) Yang Xiong, Youwen Sun and Guozhu Zhang*, Copper-Catalyzed Synthesis of β-azido Sulfonates or Fluorinated Alkanes: Divergent Reactivity of Sodium Sulfinates. Org. Lett. 2018, 20, 6250.

(6) Yang Xiong and Guozhu Zhang*, Enantioselective Synthesis of Quaternary Stereocenters via Chromium Catalysis. Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 5094.

(7) Hongshuang Li^‡, Yang Xiong^‡ and Guozhu Zhang*, Rhodium-Catalyzed Annulations of 1,3-Dienes and Salicylaldehydes/2-Hydroxybenzyl Alcohols Promoted by 2-Ethylacrolein. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2018, 360, 4246. (^‡Co-first Author)

(8) Yang Xiong, Sijia Li, Haijing Xiao and Guozhu Zhang*, Recent Advances in Visible-Light-Promoted Copper Catalysis in Organic Reactions. Synthesis, 2021, 53, 4327.

(9) Yang Xiong, Youwen Sun and Guozhu Zhang*, Recent Advances on Catalytic Asymmetric Difunctionalization of 1,3-Dienes. Tetrahedron Lett. 2018, 59, 347.

(10) Yang Xiong, Rui Guo and Guozhu Zhang*, 48.3.3 Cyclobutanes (Update 2021), Science of Synthesis Knowledge Updates, 2021, 2, 442. (chapter)