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Jan 19th, 2023: The invited personal Account is accepted for publication in Synlett. Jan 17th, 2023: Congratulation to Peilin Tian for excellent work on "In-water Oxidative Suzuki Coupling of Arenes and Arylboronic Acids Using H2O2 as Terminal Oxidant" accepted for publication in Green Chemistry. Jan 6th, 2023: Our renewal CRF grant entitled "Novel Antibiotics from Genome Mining and Diversity-oriented Synthesis" is supported by RGC with >5 million HKD. Oct 21st, 2022: Congratulation to Peilin Tian for excellent work on "Ten-step asymmetric total syntheses of potent antibiotic anthracimycin and anthracimycin B" accepted for publication in Chem.Sci. June 7th, 2022: Congratulation to Xiayan Zhang for excellent work on "1,5-Allyl Shift by a Sequential Achmatowicz/Oxonia-Cope/Retro-Achmatowicz Rearrangement" accepted for publication in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.. Nov 16th, 2021: Congratulation to Lian-Dong for excellent work on "Asymmetric total synthesis of indole diterpenes paspalicine, paspalinine, and paspalinine-13-ene" accepted by Angew. Chem. Nov 16, 2021: Congratulation to Miguel for nice work on "Synthetic studies toward the Berkeleyacetal core architechure" accepted by Org. Lett. Oct 2021: Welcome all new members (Wenjun, Haibin, Yi, Yiqin, and Andrea) to join us for research excellence in organic synthesis Sept 28, 2021: Congratulation to Lixin for excellent work on "Catalytic Asymmetric Alkynylation of 3,4-Dihydro-beta-carbolinium Ions Enables Collective Total Syntheses of Indoles Alkaloids" accepted by Angew. Chem. Aug 26th, 2021: Congratulation to Lixin for successful PhD oral defense. July 26th, 2021: Welcome Dr. ZHANG Xiayan to join our group as postdoc. July 7th, 2021: Great news, our GRF grant entitled "Collective Total Syntheses of Sarpagine and Macroline Indole Alkaloids" is funded. May 26th, 2021: Our group website is updated. We welcome new members (undergraduate, postgraduate and postdocs) to join us this summer to advance total synthesis, green chemistry and medicinal chemistry. August 4th, 2017: Welcome Dr. ZHAO Guodong to join our group as a postdoc fellow. June 30th, 2017: Good News: Our research Grant on total synthesis of penostatins is funded by GRF. June 12th, 2017: Congratulation to Dr. TONG being promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, effective from July 1st, 2017! May 30th, 2017: Congratulation to Dr. Hang Cheng for great work on "Unified Asymmetric Total Syntheses of Alotaketals A-D and Phorbaketal A" accepted for publication in Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. May 19th, 2017: Congratulation to Dr. Jun Xu for great work on "An Environment-Friendly Protocol for Oxidative Halocyclization of Tryptamine and Tryptophol Derivatives" accepted for publication in Green Chem. This is a big step forward to our recent efforts on Green Chemistry. May 15th, 2017: Congratulation to Liyan SONG (our former postdoc) for great work on "A Cascade Claisen Rearrangement/o-Quinone Methide Formation/Electrocyclization Approach to 2H-Chromenes" accepted for publication in Chem. Commun. March 23th, 2017: Congratulation to Shiqiang for great work on 3-Step Asymmetric Synthesis of 13-Methyltetrahydroprotoberberine Alkaloids accepted for publication in Org. Lett. March 9th, 2017: Congratulation to Wei and Hongliang for great work on Total Synthesis of Ansellones accepted for publication in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Our Invited review on "Recent Developements in Total Syntheses of Cephalosporolides, Penisporolides, and Ascospiroketals" is available online at the Chemical Record. Jan 16th, 2017: Congratulation to Zhilong for successful PhD defense and good luck. Dec 29th, 2016: Congratulation to Zhilong for great work on "Asymmetric Total Syntheses of Hedycoropyrans A and B " accepted for publication in J. Org. Chem.
Oct 25th, 2016:
Congratulation
to Jian for great work on "A NMR method for Relative Stereochemical Assignments of
the Tricyclic Core of
Cephalosporolides,
Penisporolides and Related
Synthetic Analogues " accepted for
publication in
Org. Chem. Front.
Sept 1st, 2016:
Congratulation
to Jingxun for great work on "Regioselective and Stereospecific
Copper-catalyzed Deoxygenation
of Epoxides to Alkenes" accepted for
publication in
Org. Lett.
Aug
25th, 2016:
Congratulation
to Liyan (our former member) for
beautiful summary work on "Recent Developments in Total Syntheses
of Aculeatins" accepted for
publication in
Tetrahedron Lett.
as a Digest (minireview).
July 14th, 2016:
Welcome
Dr. Jun XU joining our group
as a postdoctoral fellow.
June
30th, 2016: Good
News: Our grant on synthesis of
alotaketals was funded by RGC
(GRF).
May
14th, 2016:
Congratulation
to Zhilong for great work on "A Catalytic Environment-Friendly Protocol
For Achmatowicz Rearrangement" accepted for
publication in
J. Org. Chem.
May
5th, 2016:
Prof.
Tong interview with Prof.
Matteo Zanda of Synform as a
form of Young Career Focus is
now online.
May
4th, 2016:
Congratulation
to Jian Wang for great work on "Total Synthesis of Purported
Cephalosporolides H and H,
Penisporolide B and Their
Stereoisomers" accepted for
publication in
J. Org. Chem.
April 4th, 2016:
Congratulation
to Jian Wang for great work on "Asymmetric Total Syntheses of ent-Ascospiroketals
A and B" accepted for
publication in
Org. Lett.
April 4th, 2016:
Congratulation
to Jingxun and Haichen for
excellent work on "Diastereoconvergent and Regiodivergent
Oxa-[3+2] cycloaddition of
Achmatowicz Products and Cyclic
1,3-dicarbonyl Compounds"
accepted for publication in
Org. Chem. Front.
March 17th, 2016: Congratulation to Shiqiang for great work on "A General Concise Strategy Enables Collective Total Syntheses of >50 Protoberberine and 5Aporhoeadane Alkaloids within 4-8 steps" accepted for publication in Chem. Eur. J. as a communication
March 10th, 2016:
Congratulation to Wei for great work on "Synthetic Approaches To Construct
the 6,8-DOBCO Framework in
Natural Products" accepted for
publication in
J. Org. Chem. as a Synopsis.
March 2nd, 2016:
Congratulation to Zhilong for
great work on "Asymmetric Total
Syntheses of
trans-2-Aryl-6-alkyltetrahydropyrans
Diospongin B and Parvistones D
and E from a Common Precursor"
accepted for publication in
Synthesis.
Oct 16th, 2015:
Welcome Zhihong Zhang joining
our group.
Oct 7th, 2015:
Welcome
Hang Cheng joining our group.
Sept 16, 2015:
Congratulation to Liangyu for
great work on "Total Synthesis
of Cinanthrenol A" accepted for
publication in J. Antibiotics.
Aug 4th & 7th, 2015:
Congratulations to Liangyu and
Jingyun for successful PhD
defense. Good luck to your new
career!
June 12th, 2015:
Congratulation to Ruocheng for
successful oral defense. Best
wishes to his PhD studies with
Prof. Tobias Ritter at Harvard
University.
June 1st, 2015:
Congratulation to Liangyu for
receiving the George K
Lee award.
May 6th, 2015:
Congratulation to Zhilong for
great work on
"Highly
trans-Selective Arylation of Achmatowicz Products via Reductive
γ-Deoxygenation and Heck-Matsuda
Reaction: Asymmetric Total
Synthesis of (-)-Musellarins and
Analogues" accepted for
publication in Chem. Eur. J.
April 19th, 2015:
Congratulation to Zhilong for
the Best Poster Award in the
22nd Symposium on Chemistry
Postgraduate Research in Hong
Kong.
Mar 31st, 2015:
Congratulation to Liangyu for
great work on Structural
Revision of (+)-Uprolide F
Diacetate Confirmed by
Asymmetric Total Synthesis
accepted for publication in Org.
Lett.
Mar 30th, 2015:
Congratulation to Liangyu for
work on Structural Revision of
(+)-Uprolide G Acetate:
Effective Interplay between NMR
Data Analysis and Chemical
Synthesis accepted for
publication in Synlett as
Synpacts.
Jan 26th, 2015:
Congratulation to Jingyun for
great work on Asymmetric total
synthesis of Attenol B accepted
for publication in Org. Lett.
Dec 8th, 2014:
Congratulation to Jingyun for
receiving the
Impressive Poster Presentation
Award in the 4th
Junior International Conference
on Cutting-Edge Organic
Chemistry in Asia
(Thailand, 2014)
Oct 29th, 2014:
Congratulation to Ruocheng for
the Best TA award.
Oct 27th, 2014:
Congratulation to Liangyu for
nice work on Total Synthesis and
Structural revision of
(+)-Uprolide G Acetate accepted
for publication in Angewandte
Chemie.
Oct 17th, 2014: Welcome my
new baby boy Eric Tong born on
Oct 17th.
Sept 29th, 2014: Welcome Wei
Joining our group as a Postdoc
fellow.
Aug. 29th, 2014:
Congratulation to Hongliang for
nice work on Cascade MACK
reaction for Synthesis of
Analogues of Tenunipyrone and
Penicipyrone accepted for
publication in J. Org. Chem.
Aug 20th, 2014:
Congratulation to Liyan for new
academic career at Fujian
Agriculture and Forestry
University. Good luck!
Aug 20th, 2014: Welcome
Shiqiang and Jian joining our
research group as new Ph.D.
students.
July 24th, 2014:
Congratulation to Zhilong and
Max for great work on total
synthesis of Musellarins A-C
accepted for publication in
Chem. Comm.
July 15th, 2014:
Congratulation to Jingyun for
great work on total synthesis of
didemniserinolipid B accepted
for publication in J. Org. Chem.
June 27th, 2014:
Congratulation to Liyan on Total
Synthesis of Spirooliganones A
and B published in Org. Lett.
May 13th, 2014:
Congratulation to Jingyun REN
and Yuan LIU on total syntheses
of Psoracorylifols B and ent-C
published in Org. Lett.
Feb 14th, 2014:
Congratulation to Hongliang
whose paper in JOC was among the
top downloaded
Jan 18th, 2014: Welcome
Zhilong LI joining our group as
postgraduate student.
Jan 14th, 2014:
Congratulation to Liyan for
excellent work published in JOC:
Structural revisions of
Cephalosporolide J and
Bassianolone.
Jan 7th, 2014:
Congratulation to Hongliang for
excellent work published in JOC:
Total synthesis of Aculeatin A.
Jan 5th, 2014:
Congratulation to Liyan for
excellent work Highlighted in
Organic Chemistry Highlights:
Total Synthesis of Tenuipyrone.
Nov. 5th, 2013:
Congratulations to Liyan for
excellent paper published in OL:
Collective biomimetic Syntheses
of Cephaloporolides.
Aug 22nd, 2013: Welcome
Ruocheng joining our group as
postgraduate student.
May 31st, 2013:
Congratulations to Jingyun
for paper published in OBC:
Dichlorination of alkenes.
May 30th, 2013: Welcome
undergraduates for doing
research in our lab: LIU Yuan
and Authur.
Welcome Max (LEUNG Tsz Fai)
joining our group as
postgraduate student.
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