Supramolecular Catalysis, Supramolecular Chemsitry, Organic Synthesis

1999 - 2003   B.S.  College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, China

2003 - 2008   Ph.D.  Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (Supervisor: Prof. Mei-Xiang Wang)

2008 - 2013   Postdoc,  Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, USA (Supervisor: Prof. Kristin Bowman-James)

2014 - 2015   Postdoc,  Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Supervisor: Prof. Joost N. H. Reek)

2015 - Present   Full Professor, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

2021   CCS Lectureship Award for Creative Young Supramolecular Chemists

2021   Rising Star Award of National Meeting on Macrocyclic Arene Supramolecular Chemistry, China

2020   The National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, China

2007   Outstanding Award of Young Scientists, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2006   Excellent Award of Young Scientists, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2005   Excellent Award of Young Scientists, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Shi-Xin Nie, Teng-Yu Huang, Hao Guo, Li-Xia Wang, Jie Cui, Jun-Feng Xiang, Yu-Fei Ao, De-Xian Wang, Qi-Qiang Wang* “Xenon induces its own preferred heterochiral host from exclusive homochiral assembly” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 22884-22889.

Hao Zhou, Yu-Fei Ao, De-Xian Wang, Qi-Qiang Wang* “Inherently chiral cages via hierarchical desymmetrization” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 16767-16772.

Qi-Ping Hu, Hao Zhou, Teng-Yu Huang, Yu-Fei Ao, De-Xian Wang, Qi-Qiang Wang* “Chirality gearing in an achiral cage through adaptive binding” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 6180-6184.

De-Hui Tuo, Yu-Fei Ao, Qi-Qiang Wang,* De-Xian Wang* “Naphthalene-pillared benzene triimide cage: An efficient receptor for polyhedral anions and a general tool for probing theoretically-existing anion–π binding motifs” CCS Chem. 2022, 4, 2806-2815.

Na Luo, Yu-Fei Ao, De-Xian Wang, Qi-Qiang Wang* “Exploiting anion–π interactions for efficient and selective catalysis with chiral molecular cages” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 20650-20655.

Shi-Xin Nie, Hao Guo, Teng-Yu Huang, Yu-Fei Ao, De-Xian Wang, Qi-Qiang Wang* “Xenon binding by a tight yet adaptive chiral soft capsule” Nature Commun. 2020, 11, 6257.

Rui Ning, Hao Zhou, Shi-Xin Nie, Yu-Fei Ao, De-Xian Wang, Qi-Qiang Wang* “Chiral macrocycle-enabled counteranion trapping for boosting highly efficient and enantioselective catalysis” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 10894-10898.

Hao Guo, Lie-Wei Zhang, Hao Zhou, Wei Meng, Yu-Fei Ao, De-Xian Wang, Qi-Qiang Wang* “Substrate induced dimerization assembly of chiral macrocycle catalysts toward cooperative asymmetric catalysis” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 2623-2627.

Wen-Long Huang, Xu-Dong Wang, Yu-Fei Ao, Qi-Qiang Wang,* De-Xian Wang* “Artificial chloride-selective channel: Shape and function mimic of the ClC channel selective pore” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 13273-13277.

Jian-Xin Ma, Jian Li, Yi-Fan Chen, Rui Ning, Yu-Fei Ao, Jun-Min Liu, Junliang Sun, De-Xian Wang, Qi-Qiang Wang* "Cage based crystalline covalent organic frameworks" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 3843-3848.

Jian Luo, Yu-Fei Ao, Qi-Qiang Wang,* De-Xian Wang* "Diversity-oriented construction and interconversion of multicavity supermacrocycles for cooperative anion–π binding" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 15827-15831.

Qi-Qiang Wang,* Na Luo, Xu-Dong Wang, Yu-Fei Ao, Yi-Fan Chen, Jun-Min Liu*, Cheng-Yong Su, De-Xian Wang, Mei-Xiang Wang* "Molecular barrel by a hooping strategy: Synthesis, structure, and selective CO₂ adsorption facilitated by lone pair–π interactions" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 135, 635-638.

Wang, Q.-Q.* Supramolecular Catalysis Using Organic Macrocycles. In Handbook of Macrocyclic Supramolecular Assembly; Liu, Y., Chen, Y., Zhang, H.-Y., Eds.; Springer, Singapore, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1744-6_36-1