Xiaogang Tong Ph. D.
Assistant Research Fellow
Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry for Natural Resource
YunnanUniversity
No.2 North Cuihu Road, Kunming, P. R. China
E-mail:tongxg@ynu.edu.cn
Education
2011.09 – 2014.12,Ph.D.,Kunming Institute of Botany,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2006.09 – 2010.01,M.S.,Kunming Institute of Botany, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2002.09 – 2006.07,B.S.,NorthwestA&F University
Professional Experience
2017.09 – present, Assistant Research Fellow, Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry for Natural Resource,Yunnan University
2015.01 – 2017.08, Assistant Research Fellow, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2010.03 – 2011.08,Research Assistant, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Research Interests
The total synthesis of complex indole alkaloids
The development of new methods and strategies for synthetic organic chemistry
Representative Publications
1. Liang, Kangjiang; Yang, Jing;Tong, Xiaogang; Shang, Wenbin; Pan, Zhiqiang; Xia, Chengfeng*.Biomimetic synthesis of moschamine-related indole alkaloids via iron-catalyzed selectively oxidative radical coupling.Organic Letters2016,18, 1474-1477.
2. Ding, Ming;Tong, Xiaogang; Li, Dashan; Liang, Kangjiang; Zhou, Ankun; Zuo, Zhili; Xia, Chengfeng*.Asymmetric synthesis of common aza-tricyclic core of various alkaloids.Tetrahedron Letters,2015,56, 5460-5464.
3. Tong, Xiaogang; Ni, Guanghui; Deng, Xu; Xia, Chengfeng*.Access to ynamides via CuO-mediated oxidative amidation of alkynes.Synlett2012,23, 2497-2500.
4. Tong, Xiao-Gang; Zhou, Li-Li; Wang, Yue-Hu; Xia, Chengfeng; Wang, Ye; Liang, Min; Hou, Fan-Fan; Cheng, Yong-Xian*. Acortatarins A and B, Two novel antioxidative spiroalkaloids with a naturally unusual morpholine motif from Acorus tatarinowii.Organic Letters2010,12, 1844-1847.
5. Tong, Xiao-Gang; Wu, Gui-Sheng; Huang, Cheng-Gang; Lu, Qing; Wang, Yue-Hu; Long, Chun-Lin; Luo, Huai-Rong; Zhu, Hua-Jie*; Cheng, Yong-Xian*.Compounds from Acorus tatarinowii: Determination of absolute configuration by quantum computations and cAMP regulation activity.Journal of Natural Products,2010,73, 1160-1163.
