Academic Career

2006-Date     Professor, Department of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.

2001-2005     Associate professor, Department of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin,  China.

1998-2000     Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.

(1) Organic synthesis

(2) Organometallic chemistry

Honors& Awards

2004   Young Chemist Award of the Chinese Chemical Society

2004   Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University

Selected Publications

1. You Lv, Hanlu Liu, Lifan Wang, Kun Li, Wei Gao, Xiaoyu Liu, Liangfu Tang*, Tatiana A. Kalinina, Tatiana V. Glukhareva, Zhijin Fan*, Discovery of novel 3,4-dichloroisothiazole-containing coumarins as fungicidal leads, J. Agric. Food Chem. 2021, 69, 4253-4262.

2. Xiao-Yu Liu, Xi-Meng Luo, Liang-Fu Tang*, Synthesis of benzazepinoiso- indolinone and bridged tricyclic isoindolinone derivatives, Tetrahedron 2020, 76, 131341.

3. Geng-Wen Yin, Huan Yang, Wei-Yi Gao, Liang-Fu Tang*, The Sn-C bond reactivity in 1,1-bis(heteroaryl)-2-triorganostannylethanes toward tungsten carbonyl derivatives, J. Organomet. Chem. 2019, 880, 341-348.

4. Yi Xu, Xiao-Yu Liu, Zhi-Hong Wang, Liang-Fu Tang*, Synthesis of 3-acyl, methylene and epoxy substituted isoindolinone derivatives via the ortho-lithiation/cyclization procedures of aromatic imines with carbon monoxide, Tetrahedron 2017, 73, 7245-7253.

5. Yi Xu, Xiao-Yu Liu, Zi-Qi Wang, Liang-Fu Tang*, A convenient synthesis of N-vinyl enamides via the lithiation and ring-opening reaction of 2-phenyl-2-oxazolines, Tetrahedron Lett. 2017, 58, 1788-1791.

6. Yun-Fu Xie, Da-Wei Zhao, Liang-Fu Tang*, Formation of propanedithioamide and 1,2-dithiole derivatives from reaction of the lithio derivative of 1-phenylthiomethyl-3,5-dimethylpyrazole with PhNCS and coordination behavior of propanedithioamide on tungsten carbonyl, J. Organomet. Chem. 2016, 819, 53-60.

7. Hai-Jun Li, Yu-Qing Zhang, Liang-Fu Tang*, A simple and efficient synthesis of isoindolinone derivatives based on reaction of ortho-lithiated aromatic imines with CO, Tetrahedron 2015, 71, 7681-7686.

8. Jian-Peng Sun, Da-Wei Zhao, Hai-Bin Song, Liang-Fu Tang*, (Pyrazol-1-yl) carbonyl and ester-functionalized bis(pyrazol-1-yl)methide carbonyl tungsten complexes, Organometallics 2014, 33, 4425-4432.

9. Cai-Hong Cheng, Dan-Feng Chen, Hai-Bin Song, Liang-Fu Tang*, Synthesis and catalytic activity of N-heterocyclic carbene silver complexes derived from 1-[2-(pyrazol-1-yl)phenyl]imidazole, J. Organomet. Chem. 2013, 726, 1-8.

10. Xia-Li Liu, Xiao-Yan Zhang, Hai-Bin Song, Liang-Fu Tang*, Reactivity of bis(3,5-dimethylpyrazol-1-yl)methyllithium with S or CS₂, followed by reaction with Fe₃(CO)₁₂ and Ar₃SnCl or RX: unexpected formation of (3,5-dimethyl pyrazol-1-yl)dithioformate derivatives, Organometallics 2012, 31, 5108-5113.