1.Natural Products Total Synthesis.

2.Total Synthesis Oriented Methodology Development. 

3.Total Synthesis Based Medicinal Chemistry

2021- Professor (tenure-track), State Key Laboratory of Elemento-organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.

2017-2020 Professor, State key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences 

2014-2016 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, USA (with Prof. Andrew Myers). 

2009-2014 Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, (with Prof. Ang Li). Received Ph.D. degree in June, 2014

2005-2009  Department of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University. Received B.Sc. degree in July, 2009

1.Biosynthetically Inspired Divergent Syntheses of Merocytochalasans

Xianwen Long, Hai Wu, Yiming Ding, Chunlei Qu, and Jun Deng* Chem, 2020, accepted. 

2.Biomimetic Total Synthesis of (±)-Carbocyclinone-534 Reveals Its Biosynthetic Pathway Org. Lett. 2020, doi:10.1021/acs.orglett.0c02865.

3.Total Synthesis of (−)‐Perezoperezone through an Intermolecular [5+2] Homodimerization of Hydroxy p‐Quinone

Yang Long, Yiming Ding, Hai Wu, Chunlei Qu, Hong Liang, Min Zhang, Xiaoli Zhao, Xianwen Long, Shu Wang, Pema-Tenzin Puno, Jun Deng* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 17552-17557. (Hot paper & selected as Frontispiece).

4.Total Synthesis of Asperchalasines A, D, E, and H

Xianwen Long, Yiming Ding, Jun Deng* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 14221-14224. (Highlighted by Synfact & Organic Chemistry Portal).

5.Biomimetic total synthesis of homodimericin A

Xianwen Long, Yunhong Huang, Yang Long and Jun Deng* Org. Chem. Front., 2018, 5, 1152-1154.

6.Total Synthesis of Taiwaniadducts B, C, and D

Jun Deng, Shupeng Zhou, Wenhao Zhang, Jian Li, Ruofan Li, and Ang Li*, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 8185–8188.

7.Total Synthesis of (–)-Fusarisetin A and Reassignment of the Absolute Configuration of Its Natural Counterpart

Jun Deng, Bo Zhu, Zhaoyong Lu, Haixin Yu, Ang Li*, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 920–923.

(Top 20“Most Read Articles” in 12 months in J. Am. Chem. Soc. ; 

highlighted by Organic Chemistry Portal & Chemical & Engineering News.)

8.Divergent Total Synthesis of Taiwaniaquinones A and F and Taiwaniaquinols B and D

Jun Deng, Ruofan Li, Yijie Luo, Jian Li, Shupeng Zhou, Yongjian Li, Jingyu Hu, and Ang Li*, Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 2022-2025.