Xiao Zheng, Ph.D.
Professor in Medicinal Chemistry
Experience
Dr. Zheng received his Ph.D.in the Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Xiamen University in 2003. In 2005, he was employed as an associate professor of the Department of Pharmacy, School of Medicine, Xiamen University. In 2008, he went to Nanyang Technological University, Singapore as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2009, he returned to the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University and was employed as a professor in the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Xiamen University in 2020.
Research
Dr. Zheng's primary research interests include total synthesis of natural products, drug synthesis, and free radical methodologies.
Team
Zheng Lab is constituted of Ph.D. students and master students
Selected Publications (last 5 years):
1. | Hen-Hui Li, Jia-Qi Li, XiaoZheng,* and Pei-Qiang Huang,* Photoredox-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Cross-Coupling of -Amino Acids with Nitrones. Org. Lett. 2021, 23, 876. |
2. | Chen-Xi Ye, Yared Yohannes Melcamu, Heng-Hui Li, Jiang-Tao Cheng, Tian-Tian Zhang, Yuan-Ping Ruan, XiaoZheng,* Xin Lu* and Pei-Qiang Huang,* Dual Catalysis for Enantioselective Convergent Synthesis of Enantiopure Vicinal Amino Alcohols. Nat. Commun.2018, 9, 410. |
3. | Ting Fan, Ao Wang, Jia-Qi Li,Jian-Liang Ye,* Xiao Zheng*and Pei-Qiang Huang,* A Versatile One-Pot Synthesis of Polysubstituted Cyclopent-2-enimines from ,-Unsaturated Amides via Imino-Nazarov Reaction. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2018, 57, 10352–10356. |
4. | Xiao Zhengand Pei-Qiang Huang,* SmI2 and Titanocene-Mediated Coupling Reactions of α-Aminoalkyl Radicals and Applications to the Synthesis of Aza-Heterocycles (Review). Prog. Chem. 2018, 30, 528–546. |
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Email: zxiao@xmu.edu.cn
