(1) Total synthesis of bioactive natural product and methodology development.

(2) Fluorination chemistry.

HONORS AND AWARDS

2015              Chinese Chemical Society Award for Outstanding Young Chemist

2015              Asian Core Program Lectureship Award

2016              Thieme Chemistry Journal Award

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1      ShuoGuo,Fei Chong, RuiGuo, Liang Wang,Pingping Tang*, Asymmetric silver-catalyzed intermolecular bromotrifluoromethoxylation of alkenes with a new trifluoromethoxylation reagent, Nature Chemistry. 2016, accepted.

2      RuiGuo, Zhengjuan Zhang, Feng Shi, Pingping Tang*, Tunable cascade reaction of aryl diazonium salts and trialkylamine: synthesis of monofluorinatedarylhydrazones and gem-difluorinated azo compounds, Org. Lett.2016, 18, 1008-1011.

3      Liang, Wang, Hengtao Wang, Yihang Li, Pingping Tang*, Total synthesis of schilancitrilactones B and C, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2015, 54, 5732-5735.

4      ShuoGuo, Xiaofei Zhang, Pingping Tang*, Silver-mediated oxidative aliphatic C-H trifluoromethylthiolation,Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2015, 54, 4065-4069.

5      RuiGuo, Haodong Yang, Pingping Tang*, Silver-catalyzed meerweinarylation: intermolecular and intramolecular fluoroarylation of styrenes, Chem. Commun.2015, 51, 8829-8832.

6      Xiaofei Zhang, Haodong Yang, Pingping Tang*, Transition-metal free oxidative aliphatic C-H azidation, Org. Lett.2015, 17, 5828-5831.

7      Xiaofei Zhang, ShuoGuo, Pingping Tang*, Transition-metal free oxidative aliphatic C-H fluorination, Org. Chem. Front.2015, 2, 806-810.

8      Peng Xu, ShuoGuo, Liyan Wang, Pingping Tang*, Silver-catalyzed oxidatived benzylic C-H activation for the synthesis of difluoromethylatedarenes, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2014, 53, 5955-5958.