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-now, Professor (tenure-track), Institute of Elemento-organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, 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).
RESEARCH AREAS
(1) Natural Products Total Synthesis.
(2) Total Synthesis Oriented Methodology Development.
(3) Total Synthesis Based Medicinal Chemistry.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2022 NSFC for Excellent Young Scholars
2021 Nankai University Hundred Young Academic Leaders Program
2020 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award (Germany)
2019 JSP Fellowship of the 54th Burgenstock Conference (Swiss)
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
Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Penicifuranone A through NHC-Catalyzed Umpolung, Yiming Ding, Xianwen Long, Jingwei Zhang, Chunlei Qu, Peng Wang, Xiaodong Yang, Pema-Tenzin Puno and Jun Deng* Chem. Sci., 2025, 16, 8302—8308.
Asymmetric Total synthesis of Asperones A and B through Organocatalyzed Quinone [5+2] Cycloaddition. Chunlei Qu, Lu Chen, Peng Wang, Jingwei Zhang, Yiming Ding, Xianwen Long, Tingrong Zhang, Yaqiu Zhao, and Jun Deng* J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, 147, 6739—6746.
Bioinspired Synthesis of Microstegiol and Biosynthetically Related Skeleton-Rearranged Abietanes, Ling Huang, Peng Wang, Fan Xia, Lu Chen, Wengui Wang,* Gang Xu,* and Jun Deng*, Org. Lett., 2025, 27, 2334–2339.
Bioinspired Synthesis of Spirochensilide A from Lanosterol. Xianwen Long, Jun Li, Feng Gao, Hai Wu and Jun Deng* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 16292—16297.
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)
Biosynthetically Inspired Divergent Syntheses of Merocytochalasans, Xianwen Long, Hai Wu, Yiming Ding, Chunlei Qu, and Jun Deng* Chem, 2021, 7, 212-223.
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)
