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

(2) Fluorination chemistry.

Honors& Awards

2015            Award for National Excellent Young Scientist (National Natural Science Foundation of China)

2015              Chinese Chemical Society Award for Outstanding Young Chemist

2015              Asian Core Program Lectureship Award

2016              Thieme Chemistry Journal Award

2017              “China Youth Award for Homogeneous Catalysis”

2019              “The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars”

Selected Publications

1. Feng Wang, Yuecong Guo, Yutong Zhang, Pingping Tang*, Silver-Catalyzed Dibromotrifluoromethoxylation of Terminal Alkynes, ACS. Catal. 2021, 11, 3218-3223.

2. Zhijie Deng, Mingxin Zhao, Feng Wang, Pingping Tang*, Selective C-H Trifluoromethoxylation of (Hetero)Arenes as Limiting Reagent, Nat. Commun. 2020, 11, 2569.

3. Yan Li, Yang Yang, Jinrui Xin, Pingping Tang*, Nucleophilic Trifluoromethoxylation of Alkyl Halides with a Trifluoromethoxylation Reagent without Silver, Nat. Commun. 2020, 11, 755.

4. Shaoqiang Yang#, Miao Chen#, Pingping Tang*, Visible-Light Photoredox-Catalyzed and Copper-Promoted Trifluoromethoxylation of Arenediazonium Tetrafluoroborates, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 7840-7844.

5. Jie Liu#, Yongliang Wei#, Pingping Tang*, Cobalt-Catalyzed Trifluoromethoxylation of Epoxide, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 15194-15199.

6. Haodong Yang#, Feng Wang#, Xiaohuan Jiang, Yu Zhou, Xiufang Xu*, Pingping Tang*, Silver-Promoted Oxidative Benzylic C-H Trifluoromethoxylation, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 13266-13270.

7. Xiaohuan Jiang, Zhijie Deng, Pingping Tang*, Direct Dehydroxytrifluoromethoxylation of Alcohols, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 292-295.

8. Shuo Guo,Fei Chong, Rui Guo, Liang Wang,Pingping Tang*, Asymmetric silver-catalyzed intermolecular bromotrifluoromethoxylation of alkenes with a new trifluoromethoxylation reagent, Nat. Chem. 2017, 9, 546-551.

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

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