Education   

2009-2014    Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science (SIOC, CAS) China  Received PhD degree in June, 2014 (with Prof. Ang Li).

2005-2009    Department of Chemistry,Lanzhou University. Received MS degree in June, 2009 (with Prof. Haoli Zhang)  

Academic Career

2020-            Professor (tenure-track), Institute of Elemento-organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, NankaiUniversity, Tianjin, China.

2017-2020    Professor, State key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.

2014-2016    Postdoctoral associate, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard University, U.S.A. (with Prof. Andrew Myers).

(1)     Natural Products Total Synthesis.

(2)     Total Synthesis Oriented Methodology Development.

(3)     Natural Products Biosynthesis.

Honors & Awards 
2020    Thieme Chemistry Journals Award

2018    Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)

2015    Top 100 Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)

2014    The Chu Yuet Wah Scholarship, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)

2014    Outstanding Graduates Awards, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)

2012    The Nien-chu Yang Scholarship, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)

Selected Publications

1. Total Synthesis of (±)-Spiroaxillarone A via a Reversible Sulfa-Michael Addition, Xianwen Long, Min Zhang, Xiaodong Yang and Jun Deng*, Org. Lett. 2022, 24, 1303-1307.

2. Bioinspired Network Analysis Enabled Divergent Syntheses and Structure Revision of Pentacyclic Cytochalasans, Hai Wu, Yiming Ding, Kun Hu, Xianwen Long, Chunlei Qu, Pema-Tenzin Puno* and Jun Deng*,  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 15963-15971. (Hot paper & selected as Cover)

3. Biosynthetically Inspired Divergent Syntheses of Merocytochalasans, Xianwen Long, Hai Wu, Yiming Ding, Chunlei Qu, and Jun Deng* Chem, 2021, 7, 212-223.

4. Biomimetic Total Synthesis of (±)-Carbocyclinone-534 Reveals Its Biosynthetic Pathway, Chunlei Qu, Xianwen Long, Yueqian Sang, Min Zhang, Xiaoli Zhao, Xiao-Song Xue, * and Jun Deng* Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 9421-9426.(Selected as Cover)

5. Total Synthesis of (−)‐Perezoperezone through an Intermolecular [5+2] Homodimerization of Hydroxy p‐Quinone, Yang Long, Yiming Ding, Hai Wu, Chunlei Qu, Hong Liang, Min Zhang, Xiaoli Zhao, Xianwen Long, Shu Wang, Pema-Tenzin Puno, Jun Deng* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 17552-17557. (Hot paper & selected as Frontispiece)

6. Total Synthesis of Asperchalasines A, D, E, and H, Xianwen Long, Yiming Ding, Jun Deng* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 14221-14224. (Highlighted by Synfact & Organic Chemistry Portal)

7. Biomimetic total synthesis of homodimericin A, Xianwen Long, Yunhong Huang, Yang Long and Jun Deng^* Org. Chem. Front., 2018, 5, 1152-1154.