https://www.x-mol.com/groups/Zhang_Xiaheng " />
CH
People
M-Z
homepage  People  Organic Chemistry  M-Z

Zhang XiahengOrganic Chemistry, Assistant Professor

E-mail:xiahengzhang@fudan.edu.cn
Office Location:Room A5018, Chemistry Building, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University
2005 Songhu Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai 200438, China Group website： https://www.x-mol.com/groups/Zhang_Xiaheng

  • Research Interests

  • Academic Appointments

  • Prizes and awards

  • Biography

  • Teaching activity

  • Key Publications

  • Photoredox catalysis

  • Transition metal catalysis

  • Total synthesis of structually and biologically interesting natural glycoconjugates


  • Postdoctoral Fellowship for Outstanding Research, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (2015)

  • Outstanding Graduates, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2015)

  • Outstanding Graduates, Sichuan University (2009)

  • National Scholarship for Outstanding Undergraduate, P.R. China (2007)

  • 2005.9 ‒ 2009.7     B. S. in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Sichuan University

  • 2009.9 ‒ 2015.1    Ph. D. in Organic Chemistry. (Advisor: Professor Biao Yu)Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry

  • 2015.1 ‒ 2015.11   Research Associate (Yu Lab)Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry

  • 2015.12 ‒ 2019.12   Postdoctoral Research Associate (Advisor: Professor David W. C. MacMillan)Department of Chemistry, Princeton University

  • 2019.12 ‒ 2020.12   Associate Research Scholar (MacMillan Lab)Department of Chemistry, Princeton University

  • 2021.1 ‒        Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University


  1. X. Zhang†, R. T. Smith†,C. Le, S. J. McCarver, B. T. Shireman, N. I. Carruthers, and D. W. C. MacMillan. Copper-mediated Synthesis of Drug-like Bicyclopentanes. Nature 580, 220-226 (2020). (†co-first author)

  2. Y. Liang†, X. Zhang†, and D. W. C. MacMillan. Decarboxylative sp3 C–N Coupling via Dual Copper and Photoredox Catalysis. Nature 559, 83-88 (2018). (†co-first author)

  3. R. T. Smith†, X. Zhang†, J. A. Rincón, J. Agejas, C. Mateos, M. Bar-beris, S. García-Cerrada, O. de Frutos, and D. W. C. MacMillan. Metallaphotoredox-Catalyzed Cross-Electrophile Csp3–Csp3 Coupling of Aliphatic Bromides. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140, 17433-17438 (2018). (†co-first author)

  4. X. Zhang, and D. W. C. MacMillan. Direct Aldehyde C−H Arylation and Alkylation via the Combination of Nickel, Hydrogen Atom Transfer, and Photoredox Catalysis. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139, 11353-11356 (2017).

  5. X. Zhang, and D. W. C. MacMillan. Alcohols as Latent Coupling Fragments for Metallaphotoredox Catalysis: sp3−sp2 Cross-Coupling of Oxalates with Aryl Halides. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 138, 13862-13865 (2016).

  6. X. Zhang, Y. Zhou, J. Zuo, B. Yu. Total Synthesis of Periploside A, a Unique Pregnane Hexasaccharide with Potent Immunosuppressive Effects. Nat. Commun. 6, 5879 (2015).

Address: Chemistry Building, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University
2005 Songhu Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai 200438, China  Tel: 86-21-31242791
   Copyright © Department of chemistry, Fudan University 2014     Support：WeiCheng