Yong Xia

 

 

 

Yong Xia, Assistant Professor, Hongshen Young Scholar.

Email: xiayong@cqu.edu.cn

 

Yong obtained his B.S. in 2012 and Ph.D. in 2017 from College of Chemistry, Sichuan University under the supervision of Prof. Xiaoming Feng. His Ph.D. studies focused on enantioselective ring-openings of cyclopropyl ketones. He conducted postdoctoral research with Prof. Armido Studer at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität from 2017 to 2021, where his research focused on radical chemistry. In September 2021, he joined Chongqing University as PI to start his independent research. Prof. Xia’s research interests focus on the development of chiral low-valent metal complexes and their applications in asymmetric catalysis.

 

Selected Paper:

(1) Asymmetric Catalytic Reactions of Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes.
Y. Xia, X. H. Liu*, X. M. Feng*. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 9192.

(2) Remote Site-Selective Radical C(sp3)−H Monodeuteration of Amides using D2O.
L. Wang#, Y. Xia#, V. Derdau, A. Studer*. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 18645 (#: contributed equally to this work).

(3) Remote Radical Desaturation of Unactivated C−H Bonds in Amides.
Y. Xia, K. Jana, A. Studer*. Chem. Eur. J. 2021, Just accepted, DOI: 10.1002/chem.202103509.

(4) Diversity-Oriented Desulfonylative Functionalization of Alkyl Allyl Sulfones.
Y. Xia, A. Studer*. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 9836.

(5) Site-Selective Remote Radical C-H Functionalization of Unactivated C-H Bonds in Amides Using Sulfone Reagents.
Y. Xia#, L. Wang#, A. Studer*. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 12940 (#: contributed equally to this work).

(6) Asymmetric Ring Opening/Cyclization/Retro-Mannich Reaction of Cyclopropyl Ketones with Aryl 1,2-Diamines for the Synthesis of Benzimidazole Derivatives.
Y. Xia, L. L. Lin, F. Z. Chang, Y. T. Liao, X. H. Liu*, X. M. Feng*. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 12228.

(7) Asymmetric Ring-Opening of Cyclopropyl Ketones with Thiol, Alcohol and Carboxylic Acid Nucleophiles Catalyzed by a Chiral N,N′-Dioxide–Scandium(III) Complex.
Y. Xia, L. L. Lin, F. Z. Chang, X. Fu, X. H. Liu*, X. M. Feng*. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 13748.

(8) Asymmetric Synthesis of 2,3-Dihydropyrroles by Ring-Opening/Cyclization of Cyclopropyl Ketones Using Primary Amines.
Y. Xia, X. H. Liu*, H. F. Zheng, L. L. Lin, X. M. Feng*. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 227.

(9) Asymmetric Ring-Opening of Cyclopropyl Ketones with β-Naphthols Catalyzed by a Chiral N,N′-Dioxide-Scandium(III) Complex.
Y. Xia, F. Z. Chang, L. L. Lin, Y. L. Xu, X. H. Liu*, X. M. Feng*, Org. Chem. Front. 2018, 5, 1293.

(10) Asymmetric Synthesis of Furo[3,4-b]indoles by Catalytic [3+2] Cycloaddition of Indoles with Epoxides.
W. L. Chen#, Y. Xia#, L. L. Lin, X. Yuan, S. S. Guo, X. H. Liu, X. M. Feng*. Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 15104 (#: contributed equally to this work).