Address: RM 109, Chemistry Building, Department of Chemistry
Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
E-mail: tongshuo@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Phone: +86-15811370353
Homepage: https://mascl.group/shuotong/
Shuo Tong was born in Jilin, China in March 1984. She obtained her BSc in chemistry in 2007 at Jilin University (China) and her PhD in 2013 from the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS), Beijing, under the supervision of Professor Mei-Xiang Wang. She then joined Professor Jieping Zhu’s group at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) as a postdoctoral associate. After a 5-year research stay in Switzerland, she started her independent career as a Tenure-track principle investigator at Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University in 2018.
She is interested in catalytic enantioselective transformations, multicomponent reactions, macrocyclic and supramolecular chemistry. The research group is devoted to develop chiral supramolecular system of inherently chiral macrocyclic compounds. To achieve this goal, they are exploring methods to synthesize and assemble enantiopure inherently chiral macrocyclic compounds.
Awards and Honors
Thieme Chemistry Journals Award (2023)
“Best PhD Graduate”, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2013)
Selected publications
1. Shen-Yi Guo, Zhuo-Ang Zhang, Shuo Tong,* Qing-Hui Guo, Ruimao Hua, Mei-Xiang Wang,* “Tetrahomo corona[4]arene-based spirophanes: synthesis, structure, and properties”, Chem. Sci. 2023, 14, 8393-8400.
2. Yu-Qi Mao, Yang Zhang, Shuo Tong,* Jieping Zhu, Mei-Xiang Wang,* “Asymmetric Synthesis of Enantioenriched Zigzag-type Molecular Belts by Kinetic Resolution and Subsequent Transformations”, Org. Lett. 2023, 25, 3936-3940.
3. Yi Peng, Shuo Tong,* Yang Zhang, Mei-Xiang Wang,* “Functionalized Hydrocarbon Belts: Synthesis, Structure and Properties”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, e202302646.
4. Jia-Hui Chen, Zhi-Yu Jiang, Hai, Xiao,* Shuo Tong,* Tan-Hao Shi, Jieping Zhu, Mei-Xiang Wang, “Highly Strained Oxygen-doped Chiral Molecular Belts of Zigzag-type with Strong Circularly Polarized Luminescence”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, e202301782.
5. Xin Zhang, Shuo Tong,* Jieping Zhu, Mei-Xiang Wang, “Inherently Chiral Calixarenes by a Catalytic Enantioselective Desymmetrizing Cross-Dehydrogenative Coupling”, Chem. Sci. 2023, 14, 827-832.
6. Qi-Yun Feng, Yu-Qi Mao, Mei-Xiang Wang, Shuo Tong,* “Chiral Crown Ethers Accessed from Catalytic Enantioselective Desymmetrization Reactions” Org. Lett. 2022, 24, 7107-7112.
7. Shuo Tong,* Jiang-Tao Li, Dong-Dong Liang, Yan-E Zhang, Qi-Yun Feng, Xin Zhang, Jieping Zhu, Mei-Xiang Wang* “Catalytic enantioselective synthesis and switchable chiroptical property of inherently chiral macrocycles” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 14432-14436.
8. Qi-Yun Feng, Jieping Zhu, Mei-Xiang Wang, Shuo Tong,* “Organocatalytic double Ugi reaction with statistical amplification of product enantiopurity: a linker cleavage approach to access highly enantiopure Ugi products” Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 483-487.
9. Shuo Tong, Aurore Limouni, Qian Wang, Mei-Xiang Wang, Jieping Zhu,* “Catalytic enantioselective double carbopalladation/C-H functionalization with statistical amplification of product enantiopurity: A convertible linker approach”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 14192-14196.
10. Shuo Tong, Cyril Piemontesi, Qian Wang, Mei-Xiang Wang, Jieping Zhu,* “Silver-catalyzed three-component 1,1-aminoacylation of homopropargylamines: α-additions for both terminal alkynes and isocyanide”, Angew Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 7958-7962.
11. Shuo Tong, Shun Zhao, Qing He, Qian Wang, Mei-Xiang Wang, Jieping Zhu,* “Fluorophores for excited-state intramolecular proton transfer by an yttrium triflate catalyzed reaction of isocyanides with thiocarboxylic acids”, Angew Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 6599-6603.
12. Shuo Tong, Zhengren Xu, Mathias Mamboury, Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu,* “Aqueous titanium trichloride-promoted reductive cyclization of o-nitrostyrenes to indoles: development and application to the synthesis of rizatriptan and aspidospermidine” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 11809-11812.
13. Shuo Tong, Qian Wang, Mei-Xiang Wang, Jieping Zhu,* “Tuning the reactivity of isocyano group: synthesis of imidazoles and imidazoliums from propargylamines and isonitriles in the presence of multiple catalysts”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 1293-1297.
14. Shuo Tong, De-Xian Wang, Liang Zhao, Jieping Zhu, Mei-Xiang Wang,* “Enantioselective synthesis of 4-hydroxytetrahydropyridine derivatives by intramolecular addition of tertiary enamides to aldehydes”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 4417-4420.
