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Email: wangxw@suda.edu.cn

Professor (Organic Chemistry)

B.Sc. Henan Institute of Education (1999.7)

M.Sc. Zhengzhou University (2002.7)

Ph.D. Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2005.7)

Postdoc. Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (2005.8-2008.8)

Research Interests:Organic synthesis, Catalytic and asymmetric synthetic methodologies; Developing new catalysts－brønsted acid and Lewis base organocatalysts, organic-metal complexes and chiral salts catalysts; Designing new asymmetric transformations; Developing green and environmental benign enantioselective reaction; Synthesis of industrially and pharmaceutically relevant compounds with remarkable structural complexity and interesting biological activity.

Representative Publications

1. Efficient synthesis of optically active 4-nitro-cyclohexanones via bifunctional thiourea-base catalyzed double-Michael addition of nitromethane to dienones, B. Wu, G.-G. Liu, M.-Q. Li, Y. Zhang, S.-Y. Zhang, J.-R. Qiu, X.-P. Xu, S.-J. Ji* and X.-W. Wang*Chem. Commun.,2011,47, 3992–3994. DOI: 10.1039/C0CC05418F.

2. Dinuclear Zinc Catalyzed Asymmetric Friedel-Crafts Amidoalkylation of Indoles with Aryl Aldimines, B.-L. Wang, N.-K. Li, J.-X. Zhang, G.-G. Liu, T. Liu, Q. Shen*, and X.-W. Wang*,Org. Biomol. Chem.2011,9, 2614–2617. DOI: 10.1039/c0ob01200a.

3. Chiral Counteranion Synergistic Organocatalysis under High Temperature: Efficient Construction of Optically Pure Spiro[cyclohexanone-oxindole] Backbone,Y.-B. Lan, H. Zhao, Z.-M. Liu, G.-G. Liu, J.-C. Tao* and X.-W. Wang*Org. Lett.2011,13, 4866–4869; DOI: 10.1021/ol201943g.

4. Asymmetric Nitroaldol Reactions of Nitroalkanes with Isatins Catalyzed byBifunctional Cinchona Alkaloid Derivatives, M.-Q. Li, J.-X. Zhang, X.-F. Huang, B. Wu, Z.-M. Liu, J. Chen, X.-D. Li, and X.-W. Wang*,Eur. J. Org. Chem.2011, 5237–5241; DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201100824.

5. Catalytic Asymmetric Epoxidation of Cyclic Enone ， X. W. Wang, C. M. Reisinger , B. List*, J. Am. Chem. Soc .2008 , 130 , 6070 – 6071 .

6. Asymmetric Counteranion Directed Catalysis for the Epoxidation of Enals, X. W. Wang, B. List*,Angew. Chem. Int. Ed .2008 ,47, 1119 – 1122 .

7. Catalytic Asymmetric Hydro peroxidation of a , b - Unsaturated Ketones: An Approach to Enantiopure Peroxyhemiketals, Epoxides, and Aldols , C. M. Reisinger , X. W. Wang, B. List*,Angew. Chem. Int. Ed .2008 ,47, 8112 – 8115 .

8. Engineering a Polymeric Chiral Catalyst by using hydrogen and Coordination Interactions, L. Shi, X. W. Wang, C. A. Sandoval, M.X. Li, Q. Y. Qi, Z. T. Li, K. L. Ding*,Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2006,45, 4108–4112.

9.Heterogenization of Shibasaki’s Binol/La Catalyst for Enantioselective Epoxidation of a , b -Unsaturated Ketones with Multitopic Binol Ligands: the Impact of Bridging Spacers, X. W. Wang, L. Shi, M. X. Li, and K. L. Ding*,Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2005,44, 6362–6366.

10. Self-Supported Heterogeneous Catalysts for Enantioselective Hydrogenation, X. W. Wang, K. L. Ding*,J. Am. Chem. Soc.2004,126,10524–10525.