1.Natural Products Total Synthesis.

2.Total Synthesis Oriented Methodology Development. 

3.Total Synthesis Based Medicinal Chemistry

2021- Professor (tenure-track), State Key Laboratory of Elemento-organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.

2017-2020 Professor, State key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences 

2014-2016 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, USA (with Prof. Andrew Myers). 

2009-2014 Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, (with Prof. Ang Li). Received Ph.D. degree in June, 2014

2005-2009  Department of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University. Received B.Sc. degree in July, 2009

1.Asymmetric Total synthesis of Asperones A and B through Organocatalyzed Quinone [5 + 2] Cycloaddition. Qu, C.; Chen, L.; Wang, P.; Zhang, J.; Zhang, T.; Ding, Y. Long, X. Zhao, Y.; Deng, J.* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 6739.

2.Bioinspired Synthesis of Spirochensilide A from Lanosterol. Long, X.; Li, J.; Gao, F.; Wu, H.; Deng, J.* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 16292.

3.Biosynthetically Inspired Divergent Syntheses of Merocytochalasans. Long, X.-W.; Wu, H.; Ding, Y.; Qu, C.; Deng, J.* Chem, 2021, 7, 212.

4.Total Synthesis of Perezoperezone through an Intermolecular [5+2] Homodimerization of Hydroxy P-Quinone. Wu, H.; Ding, Y.; Hu, K.; Long, X.-W.; Qu, C.; Puno, P.-T.*; Deng, J.* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 15963.

5.Bioinspired Network Analysis Enabled Divergent Syntheses and Structure Revision of Pentacyclic Cytochalasans. Long, Y.; Ding, Y.;Wu, H.; Qu, C.; Liang, H.; Zhang, M.; Zhao, X.; Long, X.; Deng, J.* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 17552.

6.Total Synthesis of Asperchalasines A, D, E, and H. Xianwen Long, Yiming Ding and Jun Deng*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 14221.