Name: Xinxin Tang
Title：Associate Professor
Email：tangxx@maxbocai.com
Education：
2010.09—2014.06 BSc, Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University
2014.09—2019.06 PhD Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry(SIOC)
Advisor：Prof. Zheng Huang
Work experience：
2019.06—2019.10 Research assistant, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry
Advisor：Prof. Zheng Huang
2019.10—2020.12 Postdoctoral, National University of Singapore
Advisor：Prof. Jie Wu
2021.01—2023.12 Postdoctoral, Institute of Microbial Chemistry , Tokyo
Advisor：Prof. Masakatsu Shibasaki
2024.01—now Associate Professor, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University
Research area
Organic synthesis
Photoredox chemistry
Flow chemistry
Publications:
1. Tang, X.; Jia, X.; Huang, Z.*, Thermal, catalytic conversion of alkanes to linear aldehydes and linear amines. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 4157-4163.
2. Tang, X.; Gan, L.; Zhang, X.; Huang, Z.*, n-Alkanes to n-alcohols: Formal primary C─H bond hydroxymethylation via quadruple relay catalysis. Sci. Adv. 2020, 6, eabc6688.
3. Tang, X.; Tak, R. K.; Noda, H.*; Shibasaki, M*. A Missing Link in multisubstituted pyrrolidines: remote stereocontrol forged by rhodium-alkyl nitrene. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, e202212421.
4. Tang, X.; Noda, H.*; Shibasaki, M*. Locking the conformation of a paddlewheel rhodium complex: Design, synthesis, and application in catalytic nitrene transfers. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, e202311027.
5. Tang, X.; Jia, X.; Huang, Z.*, Challenges and opportunities for alkane functionalization using molecular catalysts. Chem. Sci. 2018, 9, 288-299.
6. Tang, X.; Huang, Z.*, Transition-metal complex-catalyzed alkane functionalization. Chin. Sci. Bull. 2018, 63, 1348-1360.
7. Tang, X.; Noda, H.; Shibasaki, M., anti-Selective synthesis of substituted β-homoprolines by rhodium alkyl nitrene C–H insertion. Synlett 2023. doi: 10.1055/a-2201-7267
8 Li, H.; Tang, X.; Pang, J. H.; Wu, X.; Yeow, E. K. L.; Wu, J.; Chiba, S.*, Polysulfide anions as visible light photoredox catalysts for aryl cross-couplings. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 481-487.
9. Liu, H.; Xue, F.; Wang, M.; Tang, X.*; Wu, J.*, Neutral-eosin Y-catalyzed regioselective hydroacylation of aryl alkenes under visible-light irradiation. Synlett 2021, 32, 406-410.
10. Cao, H.; Tang, X.; Tang, H.; Yuan, Y.; Wu, J.*, Photoinduced intermolecular hydrogen atom transfer reactions in organic synthesis. Chem Catalysis 2021, 1, 523-598.
11. Noda, H.; Tang, X.; Shibasaki, M. Catalyst-Controlled Chemoselective Nitrene Transfers. Helv. Chim. Acta 2021, 104, e2100140.
12. Xu, J.; Cao, J.; Wu, X.; Wang, H.; Yang, X.; Tang, X.; Toh, R. W.; Zhou, R.; Yeow, E. K. L.; Wu, J. Unveiling Extreme Photoreduction Potentials of Donor–Acceptor Cyanoarenes to Access Aryl Radicals from Aryl Chlorides. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 13266-13273.
13. Ye, C.; Peng, M.; Cui, T.; Tang, X.; Wang, D.; Jiao, M. *; Miller, J. T. *; Li, Y. * Revealing the surface atomic arrangement of noble metal alkane dehydrogenation catalysts by a stepwise reduction-oxidation approach. Nano Research 2021.1-7.