1.Total synthesis of bioactive natural product and methodology development

2.Fluorination chemistry

1998 – 2002 B. S. Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 

2002 – 2007 Ph.D. Organic Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic chemistry, CAS, Shanghai (Supervisor: Prof. Biao Yu)

2007 – 2008 Assistant researcher, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2008 – 2012 Postdoctoral associate, Department of Chemistry and Chemical biology, Harvard University (with Prof. Tobias Ritter)

2012- Professor, State Key Laboratory of Elemento-organic Chemistry, Nankai University

More than 20 papers were published in JACS, ACIE,et al. 

1.Guo, S.; Cong, F.; Guo, R.; Wang, L.; Tang, P.* “Asymmetric silver-catalysed intermolecular bromotrifluoromethoxylation of alkenes with a new trifluoromethoxylation reagent” Nature Chem. 2017, 9, 546-551.

2.Jiang, X.; Deng, Z.; Tang, P.* Direct Dehydroxytrifluoromethoxylation of Alcohols Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, accepted(DOI: 10.1002/anie.201711050).

3.Xu, P.; Wang, F.; Fan, G.; Xu, X.*; Tang, P.* “Hypervalent Iodine(III)-Mediated Oxidative Fluorination of Alkylsilanes by Fluoride Ions” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 1101-1104.

4.Li, Y.; Jiang, X.; Zhao, C.; Fu, X.; Xu, X.*; Tang, P.* “Silver-Catalyzed Anti-Markovnikov Hydroxyfluorination of Styrenes” ACS Catal. 2017, 7, 1606-1609.

5.Wang, H.; Zhang, X.; Tang, P.* “Total syntheses of schilancidilactones A and B, schilancitrilactone A, and 20-epi-schilancitrilactone A via late-stage nickel-catalyzed cross coupling” Chem. Sci. 2017, 8, 7246-7250.

6.Wang, L.; Wang, H.; Li, Y.; Tang, P.* “Total synthesis of schilancitrilactones B and C” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 5732-5735.

7.Guo, S.; Zhang, X.; Tang, P.* “Silver-mediated oxidative aliphatic C-H trifluoromethylthiolation” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 4065-4069.

8.Xu, P.; Guo, S.; Wang, L.; Tang, P.* “Silver-catalyzed oxidatived benzylic C-H activation for the synthesis of difluoromethylated arenes” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 5955-5958.