Ph.D. Indiana University
Advisor: Thomas N. Snaddon

Chao was born in Dalian, China. He received his B.S. degree from Qingdao Agriculture University in 2012. He moved to Tianjin University and studied organic chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Kang Zhao and obtained a master’s degree for research in hypervalent iodine reagents in 2015. In November 2020, Chao was awarded a Ph.D. from Indiana University for research in the C1-ammonium enolate chemistry and natural product synthesis conducted under the mentorship of Prof. Thomas N. Snaddon. After that, he joined the Lin research group at Cornell University as a postdoctoral fellow to learn electrochemistry.

Publications:

1. L. Hutching-Goetz; C. Yang; J. W. B. Fyfe and T. N. Snaddon. Enantioselective syntheses of Strychnos and Chelidonium Alkaloids through Regio- and Stereocontrolled Cooperative Catalysis. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 2.

2.  L. Hutchings-Goetz.; C. Yang and T. N. Snaddon. Enantioselective α-Allylation of Aryl Acetic Acid Esters via C1-Ammonium Enolate Nucleophiles: Identification of a Broadly Effective Palladium Catalyst for Electron-Deficient Electrophiles. ACS Catal. 2018, 8, 10537.

3. K. J. Schwarz.; C. Yang.; J. W. B. Fyfe and T. N. Snaddon. Enantioselective α-Benzylation of Acyclic Esters Using π-Extended Electrophiles. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 12102.

4. C. Yang.; X. Zhang.; D. Zhang-Negerie.; Y. Du and K. Zhao. PhI(OCOCF3)2-Mediated Cyclization of o-(1-Alkynyl)benzamides: Metal-Free Synthesis of 3-Hydroxy-2,3-dihydroisoquinoline-1,4-dione. J. Org. Chem. 2015, 80, 5320.

5. X. Zhang.; C. Yang.; D. Zhang-Negrerie and Y. Du. Hypervalent-Iodine-Mediated Cascade Annulation of Diarylalkynes Forming Spiro Heterocycles under Metal-Free Conditions. Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 5193.

6. Y. Zheng.; C. Yang.; D. Zhang-Negrerie.; Y. Du.; Z. Kang. One-Pot Synthesis of Isoxazoles from Enaminones: An Application of Fe(II) as the Catalyst for Ring Expansion of 2H-Azirine Intermediates. Tet. Lett. 2013, 54, 6157.