On 2014 December 29th, invited by Prof. Tian He (Academician of CAS, Dean of School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering), Prof. Feng Xiaoming (Academician of CAS) from Sichuan University visited our school
Prof. Feng first visited the Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials. Prof. Tian made a detailed introduction of the construction, development of the Key Laboratory.
After the visit, Prof. Feng attended the 141th "Famous Teacher Forum" and gave a lecture titled “Application of double nitrogen oxygen compounds of chiral catalysts in asymmetric reactions”. Prof. Tian He hosted the lecture and Prof. Zhu Weihong, Zhu Linyong, Zhang Jinlong, Xie Yongshu, Zhong Xinhua, Hua Jianli, Tong Xiaofeng also attended the lecture.
In the lecture, Prof. Feng started from his subject selection after he returned from abroad and worked as an independent PI, and detailed his experience from the subject selection, preliminary results obtain, to further intensive research and great scientific achievements. Prof. Feng also shared his scientific research ideas and innovative thinking, without superstition to the authorities. What’s more, Prof. Feng explained in detail the design, synthesis and catalytic asymmetric reactions of double nitrogen oxygen compound, the attempt of industrial application was also included. In particular, compounds of this type had a unique structure which can be widely used for the dozens of reaction.
After the lecture, the young teacher of our school, including Zhu Weihong, Xie Yongshu, Qu Dahui, Guo Zhiqian, Wu Junchen, respectively made summary reports to Prof. Feng together with one-on-one guidances from him. The participant stated that they benefited a lot from the guidance from Prof. Feng, who pointed out the direction for their future sustainable development.
CV of Prof. Feng Xiaoming
Xiaoming Feng was born in Sichuan, China in 1964. Between 1981 and 1988, he studied chemistry at Lanzhou University. He received his BS in 1985 and MS in 1988 from the same university. Then he became an associate professor at Southwest Normal University in 1991 until 1993. In 1996, he received his PhD from Chinese Academy of Sciences under supervision of Professors Zhitang Huang and Yaozhong Jiang. After his postdoctoral research at Colorado State University (1998-1999) with Professor Yian Shi, he went back to Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a professor (1999-2000). In 2000, he moved to Sichuan University as a professor on the development of catalysts for asymmetric cyanation reactions, Diels-Alder reactions and method of total synthesis for natural product.
Interested Research Areas:
asymmetric synthesis; synthesis of heterocyclic compounds
Education:
1981–1985 Chemistry studies, Lanzhou University (China)
1985–1988 M.S. in Chemistry, Lanzhou University (China)
1993–1996 PhD in Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China)
1998–1999 Postdoc with Professor Yian Shi, Colorado State University, Fort Collins (USA)
Awards:
2002 Sichuan Science & Technology Progress Award (First Class);
2009 Award for Research Achievements in Natural Science of the Ministry of Education (First Class);
2009 National Excellent Teachers
Current research interests:
Design and synthesis of new chiral ligands and organocatalysts, particularly the ones derived from amino acids; Metal- and nonmetal-catalyzed asymmetric synthesis and methodologies and their application in the synthesis of bioactive molecules
