POSITION AND EDUCATION

2012/01 – Present     Professor  

                                  Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2008/05 – 2011/12    Associate Professor  

                                  Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2003/08 – 2008/03    Postdoctoral Research Associate

                                  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Urbana, IL
                                  Research Advisor: Prof. Wilfred A. van der Donk (Chemical Biology)
1998/09 – 2003/07    Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry
                                  Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), Shanghai
                                  Research Advisor: Prof. Feng-Ling Qing (Organofluorine Chemistry)
1994/09 –1998/07     B.S. in Applied Chemistry
                                  Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (in recent five years)

1.   Xing Gao, Ran Cheng, Yu-Lan Xiao, Xiao-Long Wan, and Xingang Zhang,* "Copper-Catalyzed Highly Enantioselective Difluoroalkylation of Secondary Propargyl Sulfonates with Difluoroenoxysilanes", Chem. 2019, 5, 2987-2999.

2.   Xia-Ping Fu, Xiao-Song Xue, Xue-Ying Zhang, Yu-Lan Xiao, Shu Zhang, Yin-Long Guo, Xuebing Leng, Kendall N. Houk * and Xingang Zhang *, "Controllable catalytic difluorocarbene transfer enables access to  diversified fluoroalkylated arenes", Nat. Chem. 2019, 11, 948–956. (A story behind this paper)

3.   Zhang Feng, Yu-Lan Xiao and Xingang Zhang*, "Transition-Metal (Cu, Pd, Ni)-Catalyzed Difluoroalkylation via Cross-Coupling with Difluoroalkyl Halides", Acc. Chem. Res., 2018 ,51, 2264-2278

4.   Zhang Feng, Qiao-Qiao Min, Xia-Ping Fu, Lun An and Xingang Zhang,* "Chlorodifluoromethane-Triggered Formation of Difluoromethylated Arenes Catalysed by Palladium", Nat. Chem. 2017, 9, 918-923 (This paper was highlighted by Chemical & Engineering News 2017, 95, 7; ACS Molecule of the Week, 2017, June 19)

5.   Ji-Wei Gu, Qiao-Qiao Min, Ling-Chao Yu, and Xingang Zhang,* "Tandem Difluoroalkylation-Arylation of Enamides Catalyzed by Nickel" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55,  12270-12274.