The innovation team on ‘Heterocyclic Chemistry’

Publish Date:2016-09-06Scan Num:257

The innovation team ‘Heterocyclic Chemistry’ has been approved in 2012 and financially supported during 2013 to 2015 by the Chinese Ministry of Education. WithProfessor Pei-Qiang Huang as the team leader, and Prof.Yu-Fen Zhao, Prof. Eric Meggers andProf. Hai-Ping Xia as the key professors, the team consists of 19 talent researchers in organic chemistry at Xiamen University, including onemember of CAS, one professorin the ‘Thousand Talents Plan’, one Professor ‘National Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talent Project’, twowinnersof the ‘National Scientific Fund for Outstanding Young Investigators’, and two MinjiangScholarProfessors. The research areas of the team coversynthetic methodology of heterocycles, design and synthesis of heterocyclic pharmaceuticals, active natural product synthesis, metallocyclicchemistry, phosphorus-containing heterocyclic chemistry, theoretical studies on the heterocyclicsand their formation mechanism.


Over the past years, the members have achieved very fruitful performances through effective teamwork such as joint training of graduate students, cooperation between experimentalstudies and computational researchesor with practical applications.The entire team has published 224 high-impact papers in Angew. Chem.,J. Am. Chem. Soc.,Chem. Eur. J.,Chem.Commun.,J. Org. Chem., Org. Lett., and so on during the last five years, some of which werehighlighted by important international academic medias. In particular, severalsynthetic methodswere adopted by many domestic and foreign colleagues. To date, a creative and hard-working academic team focusing on ‘Heterocyclic Chemistry’ has beenformed with high strength in the direction of organic synthetic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, organophosphorus chemistry and chemical biology. One research feature of the team isthe research on cyclic compounds containing awide range of heteroatoms, not only traditional nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur,but also phosphorus, boron, ruthenium, osmium, and iridium atoms.


The team will focus on the development of green synthetic methods, synthesizing various types of heterocyclic compounds and investigating theirapplications in pharmaceutical chemistry, life science, materials science, etc. The team will strive to build a distinctive innovative team with strong international impactin the field of heterocyclic chemistry.