Ming Yang Ph.D., Professor Tel: +86-931-2500 E-mail: yangming@lzu.edu.cn Mailing Address: 222 South Tianshui Road, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu Province, P. R. China

·Education and Experience

2019-Present       College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, 

                           State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry (SKLAOC), Professor

2015-2019           Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, (Advisor: Scott A. Snyder), 

                           Post-doctoral

2013-2015           State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Natural Product Chemistry, 

                           The Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), (Advisor: Ang Li), 

                           Post-doctoral

2008-2013           College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University，

                           State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry (SKLAOC), 

                           (Advisor: Yong-Qiang Tu), Ph.D.

2004-2008           College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hubei University, B.S. 

·Honors and Rewards

2023                    Asian Core Program Lectureship Award (Japan)

2023                    The National Excellent Youth Science Fund, sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

2023                    Thieme Chemistry Journals Award

·Research Topics

Total Synthesis of Natural Products and Discovery of Biosynthetic Pathway of Natural Products, Total Synthesis Oriented Synthetic Methods, Medicinal Chemistry

·Publications

1. Du, Q.; Fan, Z.; Yang, M.* Total Synthesis of Principinol B.Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202400956.

2. Zhao, W.; Zhang, D.; Wang, Y.; Yang, M.* Total Syntheses of Rhodomollins A and B.J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 27160. (Featured in ChemistryViews; Feattured in Synfacts 2024, 20, 225.)

3. Gong, X.^‡; Huang, J.^‡; Sun, X.^‡; Chen Z.; Yang, M.* Total Synthesis of Illisimonin A and Merrilactone A.Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202306367. (^‡ G.X., H.J. and S.X. contributed equally.)

4. Zhu, W.^‡; Yin, Q.^‡; Lou, Z.; Yang, M.* Modular Total Syntheses of trans-Clerodanes and Sesquiterpene (Hydro)quinones via Tail-to-Head Cyclization and Reductive Coupling Strategies. Nat. Commun. 2022, 13, 6633. (^‡ Z.W. and Y.Q. contributed equally; Featured in Org. Chem. Highlights. )

5. Wang, Y.^‡;Zhao, R.^‡; Yang, M.* Total Synthesis of Mollanol A. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 15033. (^‡ W.Y. and Z.R. contributed equally; featured in Synfacts 2022, 18, 1169; selected by editors as “Synfact of the Month”.)

6. Yang, M.; Yin, F.; Fujino, H.; Snyder, S. A.* The Total Synthesis of Chalcitrin. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 4515. (Featured in Synfacts 2019, 15, 0587; Featured in Org. Chem. Highlights; Featured in ChemistryViews)

7. Yang, M.; Yang, X.; Sun, H.; Li A.* Total Synthesis of Ileabethoxazole, Pseudopteroxazole, and seco-Pseudopteroxazole. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 2851. (Very Important Papers in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.; featured in Synfacts 2016, 12, 329; selected by editors as “Synfact of the Month”; Featured in Org. Chem. Highlights.)

8. Yang, M.; Li, J.; Li, A.* Total Synthesis of Clostrubin. Nat. Commun. 2015, 6, 6445.

9. Lu, Z.^‡; Yang, M.^‡; Chen, P.; Xiong, X.; Li, A.* Total Synthesis of Hapalindole-Type Natural Products.Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 13840. (^‡ L.Z. and Y.M. contributed equally; featured in Synfacts 2015, 11, 1; selected by editors as “Synfact of the Month”.)