Professional Experience
Professor (2015-present); School of Pharmacy, HUST, Wuhan,China.
Postdoctoral fellow (2012-2015); Purdue University, USA.
Assistant Researcher (2011-2012); Shang hai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences，China.
Selected Publications
1 Yang, Y.; Fu, X.; Chen,J.;Zhai, H.* “Total Synthesis of (-)-Jiadifenin”
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed,2012, 51, 9825-9828.
2 Yang, Y.; Haskins, C. W.; Zhang, W.; Low, P. L.; Dai, M. J.* “Divergent total
syntheses of lyconadins A and C”Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2014,53, 3922-3925。
3 Yang, Y.^; Bai, Y.^; Sun, S.; Dai, M. J.* “Biosynthetically Inspired Divergent Approach to Monoterpene Indole Alkaloids: Total Synthesis of Mersicarpine, Leuconodines B and D, Leuconoxine, Melodinine E, Leuconolam, and Rhazinilam”.Org. Lett.2014,16, 6216-6219.（Won the 2015 Organic Letter Outstanding Author of the Year Lectureship Award.）
4 Yang, Y.; Dai, M. J.* “Total Synthesis of Lyconadins: Finding Efficiency and Diversity”Synlett.2014,25, 2093-2098.
5 Lin, Z.; Tan, L.;Yang Y.;Tureček, F.*; Ouyang, Z.*;Xia, Y.*; "Gas-Phase Reactions of Cyclopropenylidene with Protonated Alkyl Amines"Analyst.2016, 2412-2417
6 Lee, H. J.^; Zhang, W. ^; Zhang, D.;Yang, Y.; Liu, B.; Barker, E. L; Buhman, K. K.; Slipchenko, L.V.; Dai, M. J.*; Cheng, J.-X.* “Assessing Cholesterol Storage in Live Cells and C. elegans by SRS Imaging of Phenyl-Diyne Cholesterol”
Sci. Rep.2015,5, 7930
7 Chen, J.; Gao, P.; Yu, F.;Yang, Y.; Zhai, H.* “Total Synthesis of Merrilactone A” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed, 2012, 51, 5897.
8 Zhang, W. ^; Haskins, C. W.^;Yang, Y.; Dai, M. J.* “Synthesis of Nitriles via Palladium-Catalyzed Water Shuffling From Amides to Acetonitrile” Org. Biomol. Chem. 2014, 12, 9109-9112. (^These authors contributed equally.)
