Name: YANG Tao 

Gender: Male

Job title: Prof. Dr.

Email Address: chmyt@ncu.edu.cn

Education and Work Experience:

2021.06-- present: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanchang University, Professor

2018.11-2021.1, National University of Singapore，Postdoctoral，Supervisor: Prof. MingJoo Koh

2016.8-2018.11, South University of Science and Technology of China, Postdoctoral, Supervisor: Prof. Xumu Zhang

2011.9-2016.7, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PhD degree, Supervisor: Prof. Long Lv and Qilong Shen

2007.9-2011.6, Shanghai University, Bachelor's degree, Supervisor: Prof. Hegui Gong

Teaching：Organic Chemistry and College Chemistry

Research fields: Organic synthesis, asymmetric catalysis, fluorine chemistry, photochemistry, dual transition metal–visible light photoredox catalysis.

Research projects：

1. Start-up Fund of Nanchang University, 2021-2026.

2. National Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province, 2023-2024;

3. Talent Project of Jiangxi Province, 2023-2027;

4. National Natural Science Foundation of China 2023-2026

5. National Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province, 2026-2029

Awards and Honors：

Representative papers and patents：

(1) Xiao, H.; Cao, P.; Xiong, W.; Yang, T.* Overcoming Limitations in Chan-Lam Amination with Alkylboronic Esters via Aminyl Radical Substitution. Nat. Commun. 2025, 16, 9121.    

(2) Chen, Y.; Yang, H.; Yang, T.* Decarboxylative and Deformylative Alkyl-Alkyl Cross-Coupling Enabled by Nickel/Photoredox Catalysis. ACS Catal. 2025, 15,17271−17279.

(3) Yang, T.;* Xiong, W.; Sun, G.; Yang, W.; Lu, M.; Koh, M. J.* Multicomponent Construction of Tertiary Alkylamines by Photoredox/Nickel- Catalyzed Aminoalkylation of Organohalides. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 29177–29188.

(4) Xiong, W.; Xiao, H.; Sun, G.; Cao, P.; Chen, Y.; Yang, W.*; Koh, M. J.*; Yang, T.* Enantioselective Multicomponent 1,2-Arylaminoalkylation of Acrylates by Photoredox/Nickel Dual Catalysis. Cell. Rep. Phys. Sci. 2025, 10.1016/j.xcrp.2025.102435.

(5) Xiong, W.; Sun, G.; Zhou, M.; Lu, M.; Koh, M. J.* Yang, T.* Accessing Fluorinated Tertiary Homoallylamines via Photocatalytic Defluorinative Aminoalkylation of Fluoroalkyl-Substituted Alkenes. ACS Catal. 2024, 14, 8252–8260.

(6) Cao, P.; Xiong, W.; Yang, T.* Modular Access to Chiral Benzylamines via Ni/Photoredox-Catalyzed Multicomponent Cross-Electrophile Coupling. Org. Lett. 2025, 27, 1475-1480.

(7) Yang, H.; Zhang, Z.; Cao, P.; Yang, T.* Nickel-Catalyzed Reductive Alkene Cross-Dialkylation with Unactivated Alkyl Electrophiles. Org. Lett. 2024, 26, 1190–1195.

(8) Yang, T. #; Wei, Y. #; Koh, M. J.* Photoinduced Nickel-Catalyzed Deaminative Cross-Electrophile Coupling for C(sp2)–C(sp3) and C(sp3)–C(sp3) Bond Formation. ACS Catal. 2021, 11, 6519. (# co-first authors)

(9) Yang, T. #; Jiang, Y. #; Luo, Y.; Lan, Y.*; Koh, M. J.* Chemoselective Union of Olefins, Organohalides, and Redox-Active Esters Enables Regioselective Alkene Dialkylation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 21410. (# co-first authors)

(10) Yang, T.; Chen, X.; Rao, W.; Koh, M. J.* Broadly Applicable Directed Catalytic Reductive Difunctionalization of Alkenyl Carbonyl Compounds. Chem 2020, 6, 738.

(11) Chen, X.; Rao, W.; Yang, T.*; Koh, M. J.* Alkyl halides as both hydride and alkyl sources in catalytic regioselective reductive olefin hydroalkylation. Nat. Commun. 2020, 11, 5857.

(12) Wang, X. #; Yang, T. #; Cheng, X.; Shen, Q.* Enantioselective Electrophilic Trifluoromethylthiolation of β-Ketoesters: A Case of Reactivity and Selectivity Bias for Organocatalysis. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 12860–12864. (# co-first authors)

(13) Yin, C. #; Yang, T. #; Pan, Y.; Wen, J.*; Zhang, X.* Rh-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Unsaturated Medium-Ring NH Lactams: Highly Enantioselective Synthesis of N-Unprotected 2,3-Dihydro-1,5-benzothiazePinones. Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 920–923. (# co-first authors)

(14) Yang, T.; Guo, X.; Yin, Q.*; Zhang, X.* Intramolecular asymmetric reductive amination: synthesis of enantioenriched dibenz[c,e]azepines. Chem. Sci. 2019, 10, 2473–2477.

(15) Yang, T.; Yin Q.; Gu, G.; Zhang, X.* A one-pot process for the enantioselective synthesis of tetrahydroquinolines and tetrahydroisoquinolines via asymmetric reductive amination (ARA). Chem. Commun. 2018, 54, 7247–7250. 

(16) Yang, T.; Lu, L.*; Shen Q.* Iron-mediated Markovnikov-selective hydro-trifluoromethylthiolation of unactivated alkenes. Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 5479–5481. 

(17) Yang, T.; Shen, Q.*; Lu, L.* Chincona Alkaloid-Catalyzed Enantioselective Trifluoromethylthiolation of Oxindoles. Chinese Journal of Chemistry  2014, 32, 678–680.

(18) Jiang, Y.; Pan, J.; Yang, T.; Zhao, Y.; Koh, M. J. Nickel-catalyzed site- and stereoselective reductive alkylalkynylation of alkynes. Chem, 2021, DOI: 10.1016/j.chem pr.2020.12.024.

(19) Shao, X.; Wang, X.; Yang, T.; Lu, L.*; Shen, Q.* An Electrophilic Hypervalent Iodine Reagent for Trifluoromethylthiolation. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 3457– 3460.

(20) Yu, X.; Yang, T.; Wang S.; Xu H.; Gong, H. Nickel-Catalyzed Reductive Cross-Coupling of Unactivated Alkyl Halides. Org. Lett. 2011,13, 2138–2141.

Patent

Qilong Shen、Long Lv、Xinxin Shao、Xueqiang Wang、Tao Yang. Synthesis and application of an electrophilic SCF3 reagent China No. ZL201210460539.6.