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香港科技大学理学院老师教师导师介绍简介-Rongbiao TONG

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Rongbiao TONG
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PhD in Chemistry
Emory University, 2008

Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry



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Research Interest
Total synthesis of natural products
Enantioselective reactions
Complex molecule synthesis
Synthetic organic chemistry
Cascade reaction



Publications
All Years 81 2022 0 2021 7 2020 5 2019 9 2018 1 2017 11 2016 48





2021 7

Catalytic Asymmetric Alkynylation of 3,4-Dihydro-β-carbolinium Ions Enables Collective Total Syntheses of Indole Alkaloids
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, v. 60, (47), 28 September 2021, p. 25135-25142
Liang, Lixin; Zhou, Shiqiang; Zhang, Wei; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Chemical Synthesis of Multifunctional Air Pollutants: Terpene-Derived Nitrooxy Organosulfates
Environmental Science and Technology, v. 55, (13), July 2021, p. 8573-8582
Wang, Yuchen; Tong, Rongbiao; Yu, Jianzhen Article
Collective Asymmetric Total Syntheses of Marine Decahydroquinoline Alkaloid Lepadins A-E, H, and ent-I
Organic Letters, v. 23, (16), August 2021, p. 6583-6588
Ma, Foqing; He, Chenxi; Wang, Eryu; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Fenton chemistry enables the catalytic oxidative rearrangement of indoles using hydrogen peroxide
Green Chemistry, v. 23, (6), March 2021, p. 2300-2307
Zhao, Guodong; Liang, Lixin; Wang, Eryu; Lou, Shaoyan; Qi, Rui; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Fenton Chemistry for Achmatowicz Rearrangement
ACS Catalysis, v. 11, (6), March 2021, p. 3740-3748
Zhao, Guodong; Liang, Lixin; Wang, Eryu; Tong, Rongbiao Article
From Reactive Oxygen Species to Reactive Brominating Species: Fenton Chemistry for Oxidative Bromination
ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, v. 9, (17), May 2021, p. 6118-6125
Zhao, Guodong; Wang, Eryu; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Synthetic Studies toward the Berkeleyacetal Core Architecture
Organic letters, v. 23, (23), December 2021, p. 9227-9231
Marquez Cadena, Miguel Adrian; Zhang, Wei; Tong, Rongbiao Article

2020 5

Asymmetric Total Syntheses of (+)-Penostatins A and C
Organic Letters, v. 22, (13), July 2020, p. 5074-5078
Wang, Jian; Márquez-cadena, Miguel Adria?n; Tong, Rongbiao Article
C?Aryl Glycosylation: Palladium-Catalyzed Aryl?Allyl Coupling of Achmatowicz Rearrangement Products with Arylboronic Acids
The Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 85, (10), April 2020, p. 6663-6674
Liaw, Ming Wai; Cheng, Wai Fung; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Cascade Claisen and Meinwald Rearrangement for One-Pot Divergent Synthesis of Benzofurans and 2 H-Chromenes
Organic Letters, v. 22, (8), April 2020, p. 3004-3009
Song, Liyan; Su, Qian; Lin, Xi; Du, Zhihui; Xu, Huiyou; Ouyang, Ming-An; Yao, Hongliang; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Sodium Alginate/collagen Composite Multiscale Porous Scaffolds Containing Poly(Epsilon-caprolactone) Microspheres Fabricated Based on Additive Manufacturing Technology
RSC Advances, v. 10, (64), October 2020, p. 39241-39250
Liu, Shuifeng; Huang, Da; Hu, Yang; Zhang, Jiancheng; Chen, Bairui; Zhang, Hongwu; Dong, Xianming; Tong, Rongbiao; Li, Yiheng; Zhou, Wuyi Article
Synthesis of 2-Arylpiperidines via Pd-Catalyzed Arylation of Aza-Achmatowicz Rearrangement Products with Arylboronic Acids
Organic Letters, v. 22, (2), January 2020, p. 458-463
Zhao, Guodong; Canterbury, Daniel P.; Taylor, Alexandria P.; Cheng, Xiayun; Mikochik, Peter; Bagley, Scott W.; Tong, Rongbiao Article

2019 9

A solvent-free catalytic protocol for the Achmatowicz rearrangement
Green Chemistry, v. 21, (1), January 2019, p. 64-68
Zhao, Guodong; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Asymmetric Total Syntheses of Rhynchophylline and Isorhynchophylline
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 84, (17), August, 2019, p. 11359-11365
Zhang, Zhihong; Zhang, Wei; Kang, Fangyuan; Ip, Chui Fun Fanny; Ip, Nancy Yuk-yu; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Asymmetric Total Synthesis Enables Discovery of Antibacterial Activity of Siladenoserinols A and H
Organic Letters, v. 21, (23), December 2019, p. 9704-9708
Marquez Cadena, Miguel Adrian; Ren, Jingyun; Ye, Wenkang; Qian, Peiyuan; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (+)-astellatol and (-)-astellatene
Organic Chemistry Frontiers, v. 6, (12), June 2019, p. 2014-2022
Zhao, Nan; Xie, Shengling; Tian, Peilin; Tong, Rongbiao; Ning, Chengqing; Xu, Jing Article
Green Oxidation of Indoles Using Halide Catalysis
Nature Communications, v. 10, (1), December 2019, article number 4754
Xu, Jun; Liang, Lixin; Zheng, Haohao; Chi, Yongguirobin; Tong, Rongbiao Article
In Situ Generation of Nitrile Oxides from NaCl-Oxone Oxidation of Various Aldoximes and Their 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition
Organic Letters, v.21, (1), January 2019, p. 315-319
Zhao, Guodong; Liang, Lixin; Wen, Chi Ho Ethan; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Monoterpene and Sesquiterpene α-Hydroxy Organosulfates: Synthesis, MS/MS Characteristics, and Ambient Presence
Environmental Science and Technology, v. 53, (21), November 2019, p. 12278-12290
Wang, Yuchen; Ma, Yingge; Li, Xiaojing; Kuang, Binyu; Huang, Cheng; Tong, Rongbiao; Yu, Jianzhen Article
Silica gel enables Achmatowicz rearrangement with KBr/oxone under “anhydrous” condition for one-pot functionalization
Tetrahedron, v. 75, (12), March 2019, p. 1669-1675
Zhao, Guodong; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Synthesis of Five-Membered and Larger-Ring Oxacycloalk-3-enes by Ring-Closure Reactions, Except Ring-Closing Metathesis
Science of Synthesis: Knowledge Updates 2019/2 / Editors: Carreira, E. M.; Clarke, P. A.; Drabowicz, J.; Murai, T.; Reissig, H.-U.; Terent’ev, A. O.. Stuttgart, Germany : Georg Thieme Verlag KG, 2019, p. 351, Ch. 37.4.1.7
Zhang, Zhihong; Tong, Rongbiao Book chapter

2018 1

Evolution of Two Routes For Asymmetric Total Synthesis Of Tetrahydroprotoberberine Alkaloids
Organic Chemistry Frontiers, v. 5, (2), January 2018, p. 242-246
Yu, Jingxun; Zhang, Zhihong; Zhou, Shiqiang; Zhang, Wei; Tong, Rongbiao Article

2017 11

A cascade Claisen rearrangement/o-quinone methide formation/electrocyclization approach to 2H-chromenes
Chemical communications, v. 53, (44), June 2017, p. 6021-6024
Song, Liyan; Huang, Fang; Guo, Liwen; Ouyang, Ming-An; Tong, Rongbiao Article
A NMR Method for Relative Stereochemical Assignments of the Tricyclic Core of Cephalosporolides, Penisporolides and Related Synthetic Analogues
Organic Chemistry Frontiers, v. 4, (1), January 2017, p. 140-146
Wang, Jian; Tong, Rongbiao Article
An Environmentally Friendly Protocol for Oxidative Halocyclization of Tryptamine and Tryptophol Derivatives
Green Chemistry, v. 19, (13), July 2017, p. 2952-2956
Xu, Jun; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Asymmetric Total Syntheses of (-)-Hedycoropyrans A and B
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 82, (2), January 2017, p. 1127-1135
Li, Zhilong; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Recent Developments in Total Syntheses of Cephalosporolides, Penisporolides, and Ascospiroketals
The Chemical Record, v.17, (11), November 2017, p. 1109-1123
Yao, Hongliang; Wang, Jian; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Synthesis of Four Monoterpene-Derived Organosulfates and Their Quantification in Atmospheric Aerosol Samples
Environmental Science and Technology, v. 51, (12), June 2017, p. 6791-6801
Wang, Yuchen; Ren, Jingyun; Huang, Xiaohui; Tong, Rongbiao; Yu, Jianzhen Article
Synthetic Approaches to 2,6-trans-Tetrahydropyrans
Synthesis, v. 49, (22), 16 November 2017, article number ss-2017-e0400-r, p. 4899-4916
Zhang, Zhihong; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Three-Step Catalytic Asymmetric Total Syntheses of 13-Methyltetrahydroprotoberberine Alkaloids
Organic Letters, v. 19, (7), April 2017, p. 1594-1597
Zhou, Shiqiang; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Total Syntheses of Sesterterpenoid Ansellones A and B, and Phorbadione
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, v. 56, (17), April 2017, p. 4787-4791
Zhang, Wei; Yao, Hongliang; Yu, Jingxun; Zhang, Zhihong; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Unified Asymmetric Total Syntheses of (?)-Alotaketals A–D and (?)-Phorbaketal A
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, v. 56, (31), July 2017, p. 9096-9100
Cheng, Hang; Zhang, Zhihong; Yao, Hongliang; Zhang, Wei; Yu, Jingxun; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Oxone-Halides: Green Oxidation Protocols for Organic Synthesis
ACS Publications Symposium-Innovation in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Shanghai, China, 22-24 October 2017
Tong, Rongbiao Conference paper

2016 13

A General, Concise Strategy that Enables Collective Total Syntheses of over 50 Protoberberine and Five Aporhoeadane Alkaloids within Four to Eight Steps
Chemistry - A European Journal, v. 22, (21), May 2016, p. 7084-7089
Zhou, Shiqiang; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Asymmetric Total Syntheses of ent-Ascospiroketals A and B
Organic Letters, v. 18, (8), April 2016, p. 1936-1939
Wang, Jian; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Asymmetric Total Syntheses of the trans-2-Aryl-6-alkyltetrahydropyrans Diospongin B and Parvistones D and E from a Common Precursor
Synthesis (Germany), v. 48, (11), June 2016, article number ss-2016-c0023-st, p. 1630-1636
Li, Zhilong; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Catalytic Enantioselective Aza-Piancatelli Rearrangement
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, v. 55, (48), November 2016, p. 15125-15128
Li, Huilin; Tong, Rongbiao; Sun, Jianwei Article
Catalytic Environmentally Friendly Protocol for Achmatowicz Rearrangement
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 81, (11), June 2016, p. 4847-4855
Li, Zhilong; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Diastereoselective and regiodivergent oxa-[3+2] cycloaddition of Achmatowicz products and cyclic 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds
Organic Chemistry Frontiers, v. 3, (6), March 2016, p. 714-719
Yu, Jingxun; Ma, Haichen; Yao, Hongliang; Cheng, Hang; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Divergent Biosynthesis Yields a Cytotoxic Aminomalonate-Containing Precolibactin
Nature Chemical Biology, v. 12, (10), October 2016, p. 773-775
Li, Zhongrui; Li, Jie; Gu, Jin-Ping; Lai, Jennifer Yuet Ha; Duggan, Brendan M.; Zhang, Weipeng; Li, Zhilong; Li, Yongxin; Tong, Rongbiao; Xu, Ying; Lin, Dong-Hai; Moore, Bradley S.; Qian, Peiyuan Article
Recent Developments in Total Syntheses of Aculeatins
Tetrahedron Letters, v. 57, (38), September 2016, p. 4257-4263
Song, Liyan; Yao, Hongliang; Dai, Yangjie; Wu, Mengwei; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Regioselective and Stereospecific Copper-Catalyzed Deoxygenation of Epoxides to Alkenes
Organic Letters, v. 18, (18), September 2016, p. 4734-4737
Yu, Jingxun; Zhou, Yu; Lin, Zhenyang; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Synthetic Approaches To Construct the 6,8-DOBCO Framework in Natural Products
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 81, (6), March 2016, p. 2203-2212
Zhang, Wei; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Total synthesis of ent-(+)-cinanthrenol A
Journal of Antibiotics, v. 69, (4), April 2016, p. 280-286
Zhu, Liangyu; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Total Synthesis of Purported Cephalosporolides H and I, Penisporolide B, and Their Stereoisomers
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 81, (10), May 2016, p. 4325-4339
Wang, Jian; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Asymmetric Total Syntheses of ent-Ascospiroketals A and B
Total Synthesis of natural products-Young Investigator Forum, Kunming, China, July 2016
Wang, Jian; Tong, Rongbiao Conference paper

2015 7

Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (+)-Attenol B
Organic Letters, v. 17, (3), February 2015, p. 744-747
Ren, Jingyun; Wang, Jian; Tong, Rongbiao Article
ChemInform Abstract: Highly trans-Selective Arylation of Achmatowicz Products via Reductive γ-Deoxygenation and Heck-Matsuda Reaction: Asymmetric Total Syntheses of (–)-Musellarins A-C and Analogues
ChemInform, v. 46, (49), December 2015
Li, Zhilong; Ip, Fanny C.F.; Ip, Nancy Y.Y.; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Highly trans-Selective Arylation of Achmatowicz Rearrangement Products by Reductive γ-Deoxygenation and Heck-Matsuda Reaction: Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (-)-Musellarins A-C and Their Analogues
Chemistry - A European Journal, v. 21, (31), 2015, p. 11152-11157
Li, Zhilong; Ip, Fanny Chui Fun; Ip, Nancy Yuk-Yu; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Structural Revision of (+)-Uprolide F Diacetate Confirmed by Asymmetric Total Synthesis
Organic Letters, v. 17, (8), April 2015, p. 1966-1969
Zhu, Liangyu; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Structural Revision of Uprolide G Acetate: Effective Interplay between NMR Data Analysis and Chemical Synthesis
Synlett, v. 26, (12), July 2015, article number st-2015-p0179-sp, p. 1643-1648
Zhu, Liangyu; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Total Synthesis and Structural Revision of (+)-Uprolide G Acetate
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, v. 54, (2), January 2015, p. 627-632
Zhu, Liangyu; Liu, Yuan; Ma, Renze; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Total Synthesis of (-) and (+/-)-Musellarins A-C
4th Natural Product Synthesis-Young Investigator Forum, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 17-20 July 2015
Li, Zhilong; Tong, Rongbiao Conference paper

2014 8

Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (+)-Didemniserinolipid B via Achmatowicz Rearrangement/Bicycloketalization
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 79, (15), 2014, p. 6987-6995
Ren, Jingyun; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Biomimetic Asymmetric Total Syntheses of Spirooliganones A and B
Organic Letters, v. 16, (14), July 2014, p. 3740-3743
Song, Liyan; Yao, Hongliang; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Cascade Michael addition/cycloketalization of cyclic 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds: Important role of the tethered alcohol of α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds on reaction rate and regioselectivity
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 79, (18), September 2014, p. 8774-8785
Yao, Hongliang; Song, Liyan; Liu, Yuan; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Scalable Asymmetric Total Syntheses of (+)-Psoracorylifol B and (+)-ent-Psoracorylifol C
Organic Letters, v. 16, (11), June 2014, p. 2986-2989
Ren, Jingyun; Liu, Yuan; Song, Liyan; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Structural Revision of Cephalosporolide J and Bassianolone
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 79, (3), February 2014, p. 1493-1497
Song, Liyan; Lee, Ka Ho; Lin, Zhenyang; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Total syntheses of (+/-)-musellarins A-C
Chemical Communications, v. 50, (75), September 2014, p. 10990-10993
Li, Zhilong; Leung, Tszfai; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Total Synthesis of Aculeatin A via Double Intramolecular Oxa-Michael Addition of Secondary/Tertiary Alcohols
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 79, (3), February 2014, p. 1498-1504
Yao, Hongliang; Song, Liyan; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Achmatowicz Rearrangement in Total Synthesis of Complex Natural Products
9th International Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia (University of Malaya), Eastin Hotel, Petaling Jaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 2014
Tong, Rongbiao Conference paper

2013 4

A short and flexible route to tetrahydropyran-4-ones via conjugated nitrile oxides cycloaddition and oxa-Michael cyclization: a concise diastereoselective total synthesis of (+/-)-diospongin A
Chemical Communications, v. 49, (2), January 2013, p. 193-195
Yao, Hongliang; Ren, Jingyun; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Asymmetric Total Syntheses of (-)-Penicipyrone and (-)-Tenuipyrone via Biomimetic Cascade Intermolecular Michael Addition/Cycloketalization
Organic Letters, v. 15, (1), January 2013, p. 6-9
Song, Liyan; Yao, Hongliang; Zhu, Liangyu; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Cephalosporolide B Serving as a Versatile Synthetic Precursor: Asymmetric Biomimetic Total Syntheses of Cephalosporolides C, E, F, G, and (4-OMe-)G
Organic Letters, v. 15, (22), November 2013, p. 5850-5853
Song, Liyan; Liu, Yuan; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Convenient in situ generation of various dichlorinating agents from oxone and chloride: diastereoselective dichlorination of allylic and homoallylic alcohol derivatives
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, v. 11, (26), July 2013, p. 4312-4315
Ren, Jingyun; Tong, Rongbiao Article

2012 4

Chapter 9 – The Adventure of Abudinol and the Misadventure of Muzitone
Strategies and Tactics in Organic Synthesis, Vol.8/ Edited by M. Harmata. Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, 2012, p.225-260
McDonald, Frank E.; Tong, Rongbiao; Boone, Matthew A.; Valentine, Jason C. Article
Diastereoselective reductive ring expansion of spiroketal dihydropyranones to cis -fused bicyclic ethers
Organic letters, v. 14, (23), December 2012, p. 5892-5895
Zhu, Liangyu; Song, Liyan; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Unification of Anion Relay Chemistry with the Takeda and Hiyama Cross-Coupling Reactions: Identification of an Effective Silicon-Based Transfer Agent
Journal of the American Chemical Society, v. 134, (10), 2012, p. 4533-4536
Smith III, A.B.; Hoye, A.T.; Martinez-Solorio, D.; Kim, W.S.; Tong, R. Article
Biomimetic Asymmetric Total Syntheses of Penicipyrone and Tenuipyrone
The 7th international Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia (ACP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, December 11- 14 2012, p. 83
Tong, Rongbiao; Song, Liyan; Yao, Hongliang Conference paper

2011 1

Anion Relay Chemistry: Access to the Type II ARC Reaction Manifold through a Fundamentally Different Reaction Pathway Exploiting 1-Oxa-2-silacyclopentanes and Related Congeners
Angewandte Chemie (International ed.), v. 50, (38), 2011, p. 8904-8907
Smith III, A.B.; Tong, R.; Kim, W.S.; Maio, W.A. Article

2010 3

Benzyl and Phenylthiomethyl Silanes: A New Class of bifunctional Linchpins for Type II Anion Relay Chemistry (ARC)
Organic letters, v. 12, (6), 2010, p. 1260-1263
Smith III, A.B.; Tong, R. Article
Biomimetic Syntheses from Squalene-Like Precursors: Synthesis of Ent- Abudinol B, and Reassessment of the Structure of Muzitone
Journal of the American Chemical Society, v. 132, (14), 2010, p. 5300-5308
Boone, M.A.; Tong, R.; McDonald, F.E.; Lense, S.; Cao, R.; Hardcastle, K.I. Article
Uniting Anion Relay Chemistry with Pd-Mediated Cross Coupling: Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of Bifunctional Aryl and Vinyl Silane Linchpins
Organic letters, v. 12, (3), 2010, p. 588-591
Smith III, A.B.; Kim, W.S.; Tong, R. Article

2009 1

Stereo- and regioselective synthesis of squalene tetraepoxide
Journal of organic chemistry, v. 74, (21), 2009, p. 8407-8409
Tong, R.; Boone, M.A.; McDonald, F.E. Article

2008 1

Mimicking Biosynthesis: Total Synthesis of the Triterpene Natural Product Abudinol B from a Squalene-like Precursor
Angewandte Chemie (International ed.), v. 47, (23), 2008, p. 4377-4379
Tong, R.; McDonald, F.E. Article

2007 3

Biomimetic Synthesis of Fused Bispyran: Lewis Acid Effects on Oxacyclizations of Polyepoxides
Synthesis, (15), 2007, Aug, p. 2337-2342
Tong, R.; McDonald, F.E.; Fang, X.; Hardcastle, K.I. Article
Biomimetic Synthesis via Polyepoxide Cyclizations
Pure and applied chemistry, v. 79, (2), 2007, p. 281-291
McDonald, F.E.; Tong, R.; Valentine, J.C.; Bravo, F. Article
Total Syntheses of Durgamone, Nakorone and Abudinol B via Biomimetic Oxa- and Carbacyclizations
Journal of the American Chemical Society, v. 129, (5), 2007, p. 1050-1051
Tong, R.; Valentine, J.C.; McDonald, F.E.; Cao, R.; Fang, X.; Hardcastle, K.I. Article

2004 2

An Anthracene/Porphyrin Dimer Fluorescence Energy Transfer Sensing System for Picric Acid
Talanta, v.63, (2), 2004, May, p.251-257
Ni, Rong; Tong, Rong-Biao; Guo, Can-Cheng; Shen, Guo-Li; Yu, Ru-Qin Article
Chloroalkyl Piperazine and Nitrogen Mustard Porphyrins: Synthesis and Anticancer Activity
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, v.12, (9), 2004, May, p. 2469-2475
Guo, Can-Cheng; Tong, Rong-Biao; Li, Ke-Lai Article

2003 1

An Economical Synthesis of 4-Trimethylsilyl-2-butyl-1-ol
Organic Syntheses, 2003, p.296-308
Wein, Alexander N.; Tong, Rongbiao; McDonald, Frank E. Article





Article 7

Catalytic Asymmetric Alkynylation of 3,4-Dihydro-β-carbolinium Ions Enables Collective Total Syntheses of Indole Alkaloids
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, v. 60, (47), 28 September 2021, p. 25135-25142
Liang, Lixin; Zhou, Shiqiang; Zhang, Wei; Tong, Rongbiao
Chemical Synthesis of Multifunctional Air Pollutants: Terpene-Derived Nitrooxy Organosulfates
Environmental Science and Technology, v. 55, (13), July 2021, p. 8573-8582
Wang, Yuchen; Tong, Rongbiao; Yu, Jianzhen
Collective Asymmetric Total Syntheses of Marine Decahydroquinoline Alkaloid Lepadins A-E, H, and ent-I
Organic Letters, v. 23, (16), August 2021, p. 6583-6588
Ma, Foqing; He, Chenxi; Wang, Eryu; Tong, Rongbiao
Fenton chemistry enables the catalytic oxidative rearrangement of indoles using hydrogen peroxide
Green Chemistry, v. 23, (6), March 2021, p. 2300-2307
Zhao, Guodong; Liang, Lixin; Wang, Eryu; Lou, Shaoyan; Qi, Rui; Tong, Rongbiao
Fenton Chemistry for Achmatowicz Rearrangement
ACS Catalysis, v. 11, (6), March 2021, p. 3740-3748
Zhao, Guodong; Liang, Lixin; Wang, Eryu; Tong, Rongbiao
From Reactive Oxygen Species to Reactive Brominating Species: Fenton Chemistry for Oxidative Bromination
ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, v. 9, (17), May 2021, p. 6118-6125
Zhao, Guodong; Wang, Eryu; Tong, Rongbiao
Synthetic Studies toward the Berkeleyacetal Core Architecture
Organic letters, v. 23, (23), December 2021, p. 9227-9231
Marquez Cadena, Miguel Adrian; Zhang, Wei; Tong, Rongbiao





Article 5

Asymmetric Total Syntheses of (+)-Penostatins A and C
Organic Letters, v. 22, (13), July 2020, p. 5074-5078
Wang, Jian; Márquez-cadena, Miguel Adria?n; Tong, Rongbiao
C?Aryl Glycosylation: Palladium-Catalyzed Aryl?Allyl Coupling of Achmatowicz Rearrangement Products with Arylboronic Acids
The Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 85, (10), April 2020, p. 6663-6674
Liaw, Ming Wai; Cheng, Wai Fung; Tong, Rongbiao
Cascade Claisen and Meinwald Rearrangement for One-Pot Divergent Synthesis of Benzofurans and 2 H-Chromenes
Organic Letters, v. 22, (8), April 2020, p. 3004-3009
Song, Liyan; Su, Qian; Lin, Xi; Du, Zhihui; Xu, Huiyou; Ouyang, Ming-An; Yao, Hongliang; Tong, Rongbiao
Sodium Alginate/collagen Composite Multiscale Porous Scaffolds Containing Poly(Epsilon-caprolactone) Microspheres Fabricated Based on Additive Manufacturing Technology
RSC Advances, v. 10, (64), October 2020, p. 39241-39250
Liu, Shuifeng; Huang, Da; Hu, Yang; Zhang, Jiancheng; Chen, Bairui; Zhang, Hongwu; Dong, Xianming; Tong, Rongbiao; Li, Yiheng; Zhou, Wuyi
Synthesis of 2-Arylpiperidines via Pd-Catalyzed Arylation of Aza-Achmatowicz Rearrangement Products with Arylboronic Acids
Organic Letters, v. 22, (2), January 2020, p. 458-463
Zhao, Guodong; Canterbury, Daniel P.; Taylor, Alexandria P.; Cheng, Xiayun; Mikochik, Peter; Bagley, Scott W.; Tong, Rongbiao





Article 8

A solvent-free catalytic protocol for the Achmatowicz rearrangement
Green Chemistry, v. 21, (1), January 2019, p. 64-68
Zhao, Guodong; Tong, Rongbiao
Asymmetric Total Syntheses of Rhynchophylline and Isorhynchophylline
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 84, (17), August, 2019, p. 11359-11365
Zhang, Zhihong; Zhang, Wei; Kang, Fangyuan; Ip, Chui Fun Fanny; Ip, Nancy Yuk-yu; Tong, Rongbiao
Asymmetric Total Synthesis Enables Discovery of Antibacterial Activity of Siladenoserinols A and H
Organic Letters, v. 21, (23), December 2019, p. 9704-9708
Marquez Cadena, Miguel Adrian; Ren, Jingyun; Ye, Wenkang; Qian, Peiyuan; Tong, Rongbiao
Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (+)-astellatol and (-)-astellatene
Organic Chemistry Frontiers, v. 6, (12), June 2019, p. 2014-2022
Zhao, Nan; Xie, Shengling; Tian, Peilin; Tong, Rongbiao; Ning, Chengqing; Xu, Jing
Green Oxidation of Indoles Using Halide Catalysis
Nature Communications, v. 10, (1), December 2019, article number 4754
Xu, Jun; Liang, Lixin; Zheng, Haohao; Chi, Yongguirobin; Tong, Rongbiao
In Situ Generation of Nitrile Oxides from NaCl-Oxone Oxidation of Various Aldoximes and Their 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition
Organic Letters, v.21, (1), January 2019, p. 315-319
Zhao, Guodong; Liang, Lixin; Wen, Chi Ho Ethan; Tong, Rongbiao
Monoterpene and Sesquiterpene α-Hydroxy Organosulfates: Synthesis, MS/MS Characteristics, and Ambient Presence
Environmental Science and Technology, v. 53, (21), November 2019, p. 12278-12290
Wang, Yuchen; Ma, Yingge; Li, Xiaojing; Kuang, Binyu; Huang, Cheng; Tong, Rongbiao; Yu, Jianzhen
Silica gel enables Achmatowicz rearrangement with KBr/oxone under “anhydrous” condition for one-pot functionalization
Tetrahedron, v. 75, (12), March 2019, p. 1669-1675
Zhao, Guodong; Tong, Rongbiao

Book chapter 1

Synthesis of Five-Membered and Larger-Ring Oxacycloalk-3-enes by Ring-Closure Reactions, Except Ring-Closing Metathesis
Science of Synthesis: Knowledge Updates 2019/2 / Editors: Carreira, E. M.; Clarke, P. A.; Drabowicz, J.; Murai, T.; Reissig, H.-U.; Terent’ev, A. O.. Stuttgart, Germany : Georg Thieme Verlag KG, 2019, p. 351, Ch. 37.4.1.7
Zhang, Zhihong; Tong, Rongbiao





Article 1

Evolution of Two Routes For Asymmetric Total Synthesis Of Tetrahydroprotoberberine Alkaloids
Organic Chemistry Frontiers, v. 5, (2), January 2018, p. 242-246
Yu, Jingxun; Zhang, Zhihong; Zhou, Shiqiang; Zhang, Wei; Tong, Rongbiao





Article 10

A cascade Claisen rearrangement/o-quinone methide formation/electrocyclization approach to 2H-chromenes
Chemical communications, v. 53, (44), June 2017, p. 6021-6024
Song, Liyan; Huang, Fang; Guo, Liwen; Ouyang, Ming-An; Tong, Rongbiao
A NMR Method for Relative Stereochemical Assignments of the Tricyclic Core of Cephalosporolides, Penisporolides and Related Synthetic Analogues
Organic Chemistry Frontiers, v. 4, (1), January 2017, p. 140-146
Wang, Jian; Tong, Rongbiao
An Environmentally Friendly Protocol for Oxidative Halocyclization of Tryptamine and Tryptophol Derivatives
Green Chemistry, v. 19, (13), July 2017, p. 2952-2956
Xu, Jun; Tong, Rongbiao
Asymmetric Total Syntheses of (-)-Hedycoropyrans A and B
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 82, (2), January 2017, p. 1127-1135
Li, Zhilong; Tong, Rongbiao
Recent Developments in Total Syntheses of Cephalosporolides, Penisporolides, and Ascospiroketals
The Chemical Record, v.17, (11), November 2017, p. 1109-1123
Yao, Hongliang; Wang, Jian; Tong, Rongbiao
Synthesis of Four Monoterpene-Derived Organosulfates and Their Quantification in Atmospheric Aerosol Samples
Environmental Science and Technology, v. 51, (12), June 2017, p. 6791-6801
Wang, Yuchen; Ren, Jingyun; Huang, Xiaohui; Tong, Rongbiao; Yu, Jianzhen
Synthetic Approaches to 2,6-trans-Tetrahydropyrans
Synthesis, v. 49, (22), 16 November 2017, article number ss-2017-e0400-r, p. 4899-4916
Zhang, Zhihong; Tong, Rongbiao
Three-Step Catalytic Asymmetric Total Syntheses of 13-Methyltetrahydroprotoberberine Alkaloids
Organic Letters, v. 19, (7), April 2017, p. 1594-1597
Zhou, Shiqiang; Tong, Rongbiao
Total Syntheses of Sesterterpenoid Ansellones A and B, and Phorbadione
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, v. 56, (17), April 2017, p. 4787-4791
Zhang, Wei; Yao, Hongliang; Yu, Jingxun; Zhang, Zhihong; Tong, Rongbiao
Unified Asymmetric Total Syntheses of (?)-Alotaketals A–D and (?)-Phorbaketal A
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, v. 56, (31), July 2017, p. 9096-9100
Cheng, Hang; Zhang, Zhihong; Yao, Hongliang; Zhang, Wei; Yu, Jingxun; Tong, Rongbiao

Conference paper 1

Oxone-Halides: Green Oxidation Protocols for Organic Synthesis
ACS Publications Symposium-Innovation in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Shanghai, China, 22-24 October 2017
Tong, Rongbiao





Article 12

A General, Concise Strategy that Enables Collective Total Syntheses of over 50 Protoberberine and Five Aporhoeadane Alkaloids within Four to Eight Steps
Chemistry - A European Journal, v. 22, (21), May 2016, p. 7084-7089
Zhou, Shiqiang; Tong, Rongbiao
Asymmetric Total Syntheses of ent-Ascospiroketals A and B
Organic Letters, v. 18, (8), April 2016, p. 1936-1939
Wang, Jian; Tong, Rongbiao
Asymmetric Total Syntheses of the trans-2-Aryl-6-alkyltetrahydropyrans Diospongin B and Parvistones D and E from a Common Precursor
Synthesis (Germany), v. 48, (11), June 2016, article number ss-2016-c0023-st, p. 1630-1636
Li, Zhilong; Tong, Rongbiao
Catalytic Enantioselective Aza-Piancatelli Rearrangement
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, v. 55, (48), November 2016, p. 15125-15128
Li, Huilin; Tong, Rongbiao; Sun, Jianwei
Catalytic Environmentally Friendly Protocol for Achmatowicz Rearrangement
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 81, (11), June 2016, p. 4847-4855
Li, Zhilong; Tong, Rongbiao
Diastereoselective and regiodivergent oxa-[3+2] cycloaddition of Achmatowicz products and cyclic 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds
Organic Chemistry Frontiers, v. 3, (6), March 2016, p. 714-719
Yu, Jingxun; Ma, Haichen; Yao, Hongliang; Cheng, Hang; Tong, Rongbiao
Divergent Biosynthesis Yields a Cytotoxic Aminomalonate-Containing Precolibactin
Nature Chemical Biology, v. 12, (10), October 2016, p. 773-775
Li, Zhongrui; Li, Jie; Gu, Jin-Ping; Lai, Jennifer Yuet Ha; Duggan, Brendan M.; Zhang, Weipeng; Li, Zhilong; Li, Yongxin; Tong, Rongbiao; Xu, Ying; Lin, Dong-Hai; Moore, Bradley S.; Qian, Peiyuan
Recent Developments in Total Syntheses of Aculeatins
Tetrahedron Letters, v. 57, (38), September 2016, p. 4257-4263
Song, Liyan; Yao, Hongliang; Dai, Yangjie; Wu, Mengwei; Tong, Rongbiao
Regioselective and Stereospecific Copper-Catalyzed Deoxygenation of Epoxides to Alkenes
Organic Letters, v. 18, (18), September 2016, p. 4734-4737
Yu, Jingxun; Zhou, Yu; Lin, Zhenyang; Tong, Rongbiao
Synthetic Approaches To Construct the 6,8-DOBCO Framework in Natural Products
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 81, (6), March 2016, p. 2203-2212
Zhang, Wei; Tong, Rongbiao
Total synthesis of ent-(+)-cinanthrenol A
Journal of Antibiotics, v. 69, (4), April 2016, p. 280-286
Zhu, Liangyu; Tong, Rongbiao
Total Synthesis of Purported Cephalosporolides H and I, Penisporolide B, and Their Stereoisomers
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 81, (10), May 2016, p. 4325-4339
Wang, Jian; Tong, Rongbiao

Conference paper 1

Asymmetric Total Syntheses of ent-Ascospiroketals A and B
Total Synthesis of natural products-Young Investigator Forum, Kunming, China, July 2016
Wang, Jian; Tong, Rongbiao





Article 6

Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (+)-Attenol B
Organic Letters, v. 17, (3), February 2015, p. 744-747
Ren, Jingyun; Wang, Jian; Tong, Rongbiao
ChemInform Abstract: Highly trans-Selective Arylation of Achmatowicz Products via Reductive γ-Deoxygenation and Heck-Matsuda Reaction: Asymmetric Total Syntheses of (–)-Musellarins A-C and Analogues
ChemInform, v. 46, (49), December 2015
Li, Zhilong; Ip, Fanny C.F.; Ip, Nancy Y.Y.; Tong, Rongbiao
Highly trans-Selective Arylation of Achmatowicz Rearrangement Products by Reductive γ-Deoxygenation and Heck-Matsuda Reaction: Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (-)-Musellarins A-C and Their Analogues
Chemistry - A European Journal, v. 21, (31), 2015, p. 11152-11157
Li, Zhilong; Ip, Fanny Chui Fun; Ip, Nancy Yuk-Yu; Tong, Rongbiao
Structural Revision of (+)-Uprolide F Diacetate Confirmed by Asymmetric Total Synthesis
Organic Letters, v. 17, (8), April 2015, p. 1966-1969
Zhu, Liangyu; Tong, Rongbiao
Structural Revision of Uprolide G Acetate: Effective Interplay between NMR Data Analysis and Chemical Synthesis
Synlett, v. 26, (12), July 2015, article number st-2015-p0179-sp, p. 1643-1648
Zhu, Liangyu; Tong, Rongbiao
Total Synthesis and Structural Revision of (+)-Uprolide G Acetate
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, v. 54, (2), January 2015, p. 627-632
Zhu, Liangyu; Liu, Yuan; Ma, Renze; Tong, Rongbiao

Conference paper 1

Total Synthesis of (-) and (+/-)-Musellarins A-C
4th Natural Product Synthesis-Young Investigator Forum, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 17-20 July 2015
Li, Zhilong; Tong, Rongbiao





Article 7

Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (+)-Didemniserinolipid B via Achmatowicz Rearrangement/Bicycloketalization
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 79, (15), 2014, p. 6987-6995
Ren, Jingyun; Tong, Rongbiao
Biomimetic Asymmetric Total Syntheses of Spirooliganones A and B
Organic Letters, v. 16, (14), July 2014, p. 3740-3743
Song, Liyan; Yao, Hongliang; Tong, Rongbiao
Cascade Michael addition/cycloketalization of cyclic 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds: Important role of the tethered alcohol of α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds on reaction rate and regioselectivity
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 79, (18), September 2014, p. 8774-8785
Yao, Hongliang; Song, Liyan; Liu, Yuan; Tong, Rongbiao
Scalable Asymmetric Total Syntheses of (+)-Psoracorylifol B and (+)-ent-Psoracorylifol C
Organic Letters, v. 16, (11), June 2014, p. 2986-2989
Ren, Jingyun; Liu, Yuan; Song, Liyan; Tong, Rongbiao
Structural Revision of Cephalosporolide J and Bassianolone
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 79, (3), February 2014, p. 1493-1497
Song, Liyan; Lee, Ka Ho; Lin, Zhenyang; Tong, Rongbiao
Total syntheses of (+/-)-musellarins A-C
Chemical Communications, v. 50, (75), September 2014, p. 10990-10993
Li, Zhilong; Leung, Tszfai; Tong, Rongbiao
Total Synthesis of Aculeatin A via Double Intramolecular Oxa-Michael Addition of Secondary/Tertiary Alcohols
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 79, (3), February 2014, p. 1498-1504
Yao, Hongliang; Song, Liyan; Tong, Rongbiao

Conference paper 1

Achmatowicz Rearrangement in Total Synthesis of Complex Natural Products
9th International Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia (University of Malaya), Eastin Hotel, Petaling Jaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 2014
Tong, Rongbiao





Article 4

A short and flexible route to tetrahydropyran-4-ones via conjugated nitrile oxides cycloaddition and oxa-Michael cyclization: a concise diastereoselective total synthesis of (+/-)-diospongin A
Chemical Communications, v. 49, (2), January 2013, p. 193-195
Yao, Hongliang; Ren, Jingyun; Tong, Rongbiao
Asymmetric Total Syntheses of (-)-Penicipyrone and (-)-Tenuipyrone via Biomimetic Cascade Intermolecular Michael Addition/Cycloketalization
Organic Letters, v. 15, (1), January 2013, p. 6-9
Song, Liyan; Yao, Hongliang; Zhu, Liangyu; Tong, Rongbiao
Cephalosporolide B Serving as a Versatile Synthetic Precursor: Asymmetric Biomimetic Total Syntheses of Cephalosporolides C, E, F, G, and (4-OMe-)G
Organic Letters, v. 15, (22), November 2013, p. 5850-5853
Song, Liyan; Liu, Yuan; Tong, Rongbiao
Convenient in situ generation of various dichlorinating agents from oxone and chloride: diastereoselective dichlorination of allylic and homoallylic alcohol derivatives
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, v. 11, (26), July 2013, p. 4312-4315
Ren, Jingyun; Tong, Rongbiao





Article 3

Chapter 9 – The Adventure of Abudinol and the Misadventure of Muzitone
Strategies and Tactics in Organic Synthesis, Vol.8/ Edited by M. Harmata. Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, 2012, p.225-260
McDonald, Frank E.; Tong, Rongbiao; Boone, Matthew A.; Valentine, Jason C.
Diastereoselective reductive ring expansion of spiroketal dihydropyranones to cis -fused bicyclic ethers
Organic letters, v. 14, (23), December 2012, p. 5892-5895
Zhu, Liangyu; Song, Liyan; Tong, Rongbiao
Unification of Anion Relay Chemistry with the Takeda and Hiyama Cross-Coupling Reactions: Identification of an Effective Silicon-Based Transfer Agent
Journal of the American Chemical Society, v. 134, (10), 2012, p. 4533-4536
Smith III, A.B.; Hoye, A.T.; Martinez-Solorio, D.; Kim, W.S.; Tong, R.

Conference paper 1

Biomimetic Asymmetric Total Syntheses of Penicipyrone and Tenuipyrone
The 7th international Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia (ACP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, December 11- 14 2012, p. 83
Tong, Rongbiao; Song, Liyan; Yao, Hongliang





Article 1

Anion Relay Chemistry: Access to the Type II ARC Reaction Manifold through a Fundamentally Different Reaction Pathway Exploiting 1-Oxa-2-silacyclopentanes and Related Congeners
Angewandte Chemie (International ed.), v. 50, (38), 2011, p. 8904-8907
Smith III, A.B.; Tong, R.; Kim, W.S.; Maio, W.A.





Article 3

Benzyl and Phenylthiomethyl Silanes: A New Class of bifunctional Linchpins for Type II Anion Relay Chemistry (ARC)
Organic letters, v. 12, (6), 2010, p. 1260-1263
Smith III, A.B.; Tong, R.
Biomimetic Syntheses from Squalene-Like Precursors: Synthesis of Ent- Abudinol B, and Reassessment of the Structure of Muzitone
Journal of the American Chemical Society, v. 132, (14), 2010, p. 5300-5308
Boone, M.A.; Tong, R.; McDonald, F.E.; Lense, S.; Cao, R.; Hardcastle, K.I.
Uniting Anion Relay Chemistry with Pd-Mediated Cross Coupling: Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of Bifunctional Aryl and Vinyl Silane Linchpins
Organic letters, v. 12, (3), 2010, p. 588-591
Smith III, A.B.; Kim, W.S.; Tong, R.





Article 1

Stereo- and regioselective synthesis of squalene tetraepoxide
Journal of organic chemistry, v. 74, (21), 2009, p. 8407-8409
Tong, R.; Boone, M.A.; McDonald, F.E.





Article 1

Mimicking Biosynthesis: Total Synthesis of the Triterpene Natural Product Abudinol B from a Squalene-like Precursor
Angewandte Chemie (International ed.), v. 47, (23), 2008, p. 4377-4379
Tong, R.; McDonald, F.E.





Article 3

Biomimetic Synthesis of Fused Bispyran: Lewis Acid Effects on Oxacyclizations of Polyepoxides
Synthesis, (15), 2007, Aug, p. 2337-2342
Tong, R.; McDonald, F.E.; Fang, X.; Hardcastle, K.I.
Biomimetic Synthesis via Polyepoxide Cyclizations
Pure and applied chemistry, v. 79, (2), 2007, p. 281-291
McDonald, F.E.; Tong, R.; Valentine, J.C.; Bravo, F.
Total Syntheses of Durgamone, Nakorone and Abudinol B via Biomimetic Oxa- and Carbacyclizations
Journal of the American Chemical Society, v. 129, (5), 2007, p. 1050-1051
Tong, R.; Valentine, J.C.; McDonald, F.E.; Cao, R.; Fang, X.; Hardcastle, K.I.





Article 2

An Anthracene/Porphyrin Dimer Fluorescence Energy Transfer Sensing System for Picric Acid
Talanta, v.63, (2), 2004, May, p.251-257
Ni, Rong; Tong, Rong-Biao; Guo, Can-Cheng; Shen, Guo-Li; Yu, Ru-Qin
Chloroalkyl Piperazine and Nitrogen Mustard Porphyrins: Synthesis and Anticancer Activity
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, v.12, (9), 2004, May, p. 2469-2475
Guo, Can-Cheng; Tong, Rong-Biao; Li, Ke-Lai





Article 1

An Economical Synthesis of 4-Trimethylsilyl-2-butyl-1-ol
Organic Syntheses, 2003, p.296-308
Wein, Alexander N.; Tong, Rongbiao; McDonald, Frank E.





2016 13

A General, Concise Strategy that Enables Collective Total Syntheses of over 50 Protoberberine and Five Aporhoeadane Alkaloids within Four to Eight Steps
Chemistry - A European Journal, v. 22, (21), May 2016, p. 7084-7089
Zhou, Shiqiang; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Asymmetric Total Syntheses of ent-Ascospiroketals A and B
Organic Letters, v. 18, (8), April 2016, p. 1936-1939
Wang, Jian; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Asymmetric Total Syntheses of the trans-2-Aryl-6-alkyltetrahydropyrans Diospongin B and Parvistones D and E from a Common Precursor
Synthesis (Germany), v. 48, (11), June 2016, article number ss-2016-c0023-st, p. 1630-1636
Li, Zhilong; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Catalytic Enantioselective Aza-Piancatelli Rearrangement
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, v. 55, (48), November 2016, p. 15125-15128
Li, Huilin; Tong, Rongbiao; Sun, Jianwei Article
Catalytic Environmentally Friendly Protocol for Achmatowicz Rearrangement
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 81, (11), June 2016, p. 4847-4855
Li, Zhilong; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Diastereoselective and regiodivergent oxa-[3+2] cycloaddition of Achmatowicz products and cyclic 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds
Organic Chemistry Frontiers, v. 3, (6), March 2016, p. 714-719
Yu, Jingxun; Ma, Haichen; Yao, Hongliang; Cheng, Hang; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Divergent Biosynthesis Yields a Cytotoxic Aminomalonate-Containing Precolibactin
Nature Chemical Biology, v. 12, (10), October 2016, p. 773-775
Li, Zhongrui; Li, Jie; Gu, Jin-Ping; Lai, Jennifer Yuet Ha; Duggan, Brendan M.; Zhang, Weipeng; Li, Zhilong; Li, Yongxin; Tong, Rongbiao; Xu, Ying; Lin, Dong-Hai; Moore, Bradley S.; Qian, Peiyuan Article
Recent Developments in Total Syntheses of Aculeatins
Tetrahedron Letters, v. 57, (38), September 2016, p. 4257-4263
Song, Liyan; Yao, Hongliang; Dai, Yangjie; Wu, Mengwei; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Regioselective and Stereospecific Copper-Catalyzed Deoxygenation of Epoxides to Alkenes
Organic Letters, v. 18, (18), September 2016, p. 4734-4737
Yu, Jingxun; Zhou, Yu; Lin, Zhenyang; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Synthetic Approaches To Construct the 6,8-DOBCO Framework in Natural Products
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 81, (6), March 2016, p. 2203-2212
Zhang, Wei; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Total synthesis of ent-(+)-cinanthrenol A
Journal of Antibiotics, v. 69, (4), April 2016, p. 280-286
Zhu, Liangyu; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Total Synthesis of Purported Cephalosporolides H and I, Penisporolide B, and Their Stereoisomers
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 81, (10), May 2016, p. 4325-4339
Wang, Jian; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Asymmetric Total Syntheses of ent-Ascospiroketals A and B
Total Synthesis of natural products-Young Investigator Forum, Kunming, China, July 2016
Wang, Jian; Tong, Rongbiao Conference paper

2015 7

Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (+)-Attenol B
Organic Letters, v. 17, (3), February 2015, p. 744-747
Ren, Jingyun; Wang, Jian; Tong, Rongbiao Article
ChemInform Abstract: Highly trans-Selective Arylation of Achmatowicz Products via Reductive γ-Deoxygenation and Heck-Matsuda Reaction: Asymmetric Total Syntheses of (–)-Musellarins A-C and Analogues
ChemInform, v. 46, (49), December 2015
Li, Zhilong; Ip, Fanny C.F.; Ip, Nancy Y.Y.; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Highly trans-Selective Arylation of Achmatowicz Rearrangement Products by Reductive γ-Deoxygenation and Heck-Matsuda Reaction: Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (-)-Musellarins A-C and Their Analogues
Chemistry - A European Journal, v. 21, (31), 2015, p. 11152-11157
Li, Zhilong; Ip, Fanny Chui Fun; Ip, Nancy Yuk-Yu; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Structural Revision of (+)-Uprolide F Diacetate Confirmed by Asymmetric Total Synthesis
Organic Letters, v. 17, (8), April 2015, p. 1966-1969
Zhu, Liangyu; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Structural Revision of Uprolide G Acetate: Effective Interplay between NMR Data Analysis and Chemical Synthesis
Synlett, v. 26, (12), July 2015, article number st-2015-p0179-sp, p. 1643-1648
Zhu, Liangyu; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Total Synthesis and Structural Revision of (+)-Uprolide G Acetate
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, v. 54, (2), January 2015, p. 627-632
Zhu, Liangyu; Liu, Yuan; Ma, Renze; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Total Synthesis of (-) and (+/-)-Musellarins A-C
4th Natural Product Synthesis-Young Investigator Forum, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 17-20 July 2015
Li, Zhilong; Tong, Rongbiao Conference paper

2014 8

Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (+)-Didemniserinolipid B via Achmatowicz Rearrangement/Bicycloketalization
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 79, (15), 2014, p. 6987-6995
Ren, Jingyun; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Biomimetic Asymmetric Total Syntheses of Spirooliganones A and B
Organic Letters, v. 16, (14), July 2014, p. 3740-3743
Song, Liyan; Yao, Hongliang; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Cascade Michael addition/cycloketalization of cyclic 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds: Important role of the tethered alcohol of α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds on reaction rate and regioselectivity
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 79, (18), September 2014, p. 8774-8785
Yao, Hongliang; Song, Liyan; Liu, Yuan; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Scalable Asymmetric Total Syntheses of (+)-Psoracorylifol B and (+)-ent-Psoracorylifol C
Organic Letters, v. 16, (11), June 2014, p. 2986-2989
Ren, Jingyun; Liu, Yuan; Song, Liyan; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Structural Revision of Cephalosporolide J and Bassianolone
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 79, (3), February 2014, p. 1493-1497
Song, Liyan; Lee, Ka Ho; Lin, Zhenyang; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Total syntheses of (+/-)-musellarins A-C
Chemical Communications, v. 50, (75), September 2014, p. 10990-10993
Li, Zhilong; Leung, Tszfai; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Total Synthesis of Aculeatin A via Double Intramolecular Oxa-Michael Addition of Secondary/Tertiary Alcohols
Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 79, (3), February 2014, p. 1498-1504
Yao, Hongliang; Song, Liyan; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Achmatowicz Rearrangement in Total Synthesis of Complex Natural Products
9th International Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia (University of Malaya), Eastin Hotel, Petaling Jaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 2014
Tong, Rongbiao Conference paper

2013 4

A short and flexible route to tetrahydropyran-4-ones via conjugated nitrile oxides cycloaddition and oxa-Michael cyclization: a concise diastereoselective total synthesis of (+/-)-diospongin A
Chemical Communications, v. 49, (2), January 2013, p. 193-195
Yao, Hongliang; Ren, Jingyun; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Asymmetric Total Syntheses of (-)-Penicipyrone and (-)-Tenuipyrone via Biomimetic Cascade Intermolecular Michael Addition/Cycloketalization
Organic Letters, v. 15, (1), January 2013, p. 6-9
Song, Liyan; Yao, Hongliang; Zhu, Liangyu; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Cephalosporolide B Serving as a Versatile Synthetic Precursor: Asymmetric Biomimetic Total Syntheses of Cephalosporolides C, E, F, G, and (4-OMe-)G
Organic Letters, v. 15, (22), November 2013, p. 5850-5853
Song, Liyan; Liu, Yuan; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Convenient in situ generation of various dichlorinating agents from oxone and chloride: diastereoselective dichlorination of allylic and homoallylic alcohol derivatives
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, v. 11, (26), July 2013, p. 4312-4315
Ren, Jingyun; Tong, Rongbiao Article

2012 4

Chapter 9 – The Adventure of Abudinol and the Misadventure of Muzitone
Strategies and Tactics in Organic Synthesis, Vol.8/ Edited by M. Harmata. Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, 2012, p.225-260
McDonald, Frank E.; Tong, Rongbiao; Boone, Matthew A.; Valentine, Jason C. Article
Diastereoselective reductive ring expansion of spiroketal dihydropyranones to cis -fused bicyclic ethers
Organic letters, v. 14, (23), December 2012, p. 5892-5895
Zhu, Liangyu; Song, Liyan; Tong, Rongbiao Article
Unification of Anion Relay Chemistry with the Takeda and Hiyama Cross-Coupling Reactions: Identification of an Effective Silicon-Based Transfer Agent
Journal of the American Chemical Society, v. 134, (10), 2012, p. 4533-4536
Smith III, A.B.; Hoye, A.T.; Martinez-Solorio, D.; Kim, W.S.; Tong, R. Article
Biomimetic Asymmetric Total Syntheses of Penicipyrone and Tenuipyrone
The 7th international Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia (ACP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, December 11- 14 2012, p. 83
Tong, Rongbiao; Song, Liyan; Yao, Hongliang Conference paper

2011 1

Anion Relay Chemistry: Access to the Type II ARC Reaction Manifold through a Fundamentally Different Reaction Pathway Exploiting 1-Oxa-2-silacyclopentanes and Related Congeners
Angewandte Chemie (International ed.), v. 50, (38), 2011, p. 8904-8907
Smith III, A.B.; Tong, R.; Kim, W.S.; Maio, W.A. Article

2010 3

Benzyl and Phenylthiomethyl Silanes: A New Class of bifunctional Linchpins for Type II Anion Relay Chemistry (ARC)
Organic letters, v. 12, (6), 2010, p. 1260-1263
Smith III, A.B.; Tong, R. Article
Biomimetic Syntheses from Squalene-Like Precursors: Synthesis of Ent- Abudinol B, and Reassessment of the Structure of Muzitone
Journal of the American Chemical Society, v. 132, (14), 2010, p. 5300-5308
Boone, M.A.; Tong, R.; McDonald, F.E.; Lense, S.; Cao, R.; Hardcastle, K.I. Article
Uniting Anion Relay Chemistry with Pd-Mediated Cross Coupling: Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of Bifunctional Aryl and Vinyl Silane Linchpins
Organic letters, v. 12, (3), 2010, p. 588-591
Smith III, A.B.; Kim, W.S.; Tong, R. Article

2009 1

Stereo- and regioselective synthesis of squalene tetraepoxide
Journal of organic chemistry, v. 74, (21), 2009, p. 8407-8409
Tong, R.; Boone, M.A.; McDonald, F.E. Article

2008 1

Mimicking Biosynthesis: Total Synthesis of the Triterpene Natural Product Abudinol B from a Squalene-like Precursor
Angewandte Chemie (International ed.), v. 47, (23), 2008, p. 4377-4379
Tong, R.; McDonald, F.E. Article

2007 3

Biomimetic Synthesis of Fused Bispyran: Lewis Acid Effects on Oxacyclizations of Polyepoxides
Synthesis, (15), 2007, Aug, p. 2337-2342
Tong, R.; McDonald, F.E.; Fang, X.; Hardcastle, K.I. Article
Biomimetic Synthesis via Polyepoxide Cyclizations
Pure and applied chemistry, v. 79, (2), 2007, p. 281-291
McDonald, F.E.; Tong, R.; Valentine, J.C.; Bravo, F. Article
Total Syntheses of Durgamone, Nakorone and Abudinol B via Biomimetic Oxa- and Carbacyclizations
Journal of the American Chemical Society, v. 129, (5), 2007, p. 1050-1051
Tong, R.; Valentine, J.C.; McDonald, F.E.; Cao, R.; Fang, X.; Hardcastle, K.I. Article

2004 2

An Anthracene/Porphyrin Dimer Fluorescence Energy Transfer Sensing System for Picric Acid
Talanta, v.63, (2), 2004, May, p.251-257
Ni, Rong; Tong, Rong-Biao; Guo, Can-Cheng; Shen, Guo-Li; Yu, Ru-Qin Article
Chloroalkyl Piperazine and Nitrogen Mustard Porphyrins: Synthesis and Anticancer Activity
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, v.12, (9), 2004, May, p. 2469-2475
Guo, Can-Cheng; Tong, Rong-Biao; Li, Ke-Lai Article

2003 1

An Economical Synthesis of 4-Trimethylsilyl-2-butyl-1-ol
Organic Syntheses, 2003, p.296-308
Wein, Alexander N.; Tong, Rongbiao; McDonald, Frank E. Article


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Teaching Assignment
2021-22 Winter 0 2021-22 Fall 6 2020-21 Summer 0 2020-21 Spring 3 2020-21 Winter 0 2020-21 Fall 2


CHEM2110 Organic Chemistry I
CHEM4680 Undergraduate Research
CHEM4691 Capstone Research I
CHMS5030 Molecular Analysis
SCIE3500 IRE Research Project I
UROP1100E Undergraduate Research Opportunities Series 1


CHEM4110 Structural Elucidation in Organic Chemistry
CHEM4680 Undergraduate Research
SCIE2500 Guided Study on Research II


CHEM2110 Organic Chemistry I
CHMS5030 Molecular Analysis


No Teaching Assignments


No Teaching Assignments


No Teaching Assignments






Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision From January 2019 to December 2022 (As of 30 January 2022)


All Supervisions Current RPGs Graduated RPGs




Current RPGs


Doctor of Philosophy TONG, Yi
Chemistry( 2021 - )

WANG, Wenjun
Chemistry( 2021 - )

KIM, Kyuwon
Chemistry( 2020 - )

CHENG, Wai Fung
Chemistry( 2019 - )

CHEUNG, Yuen Tsz
Chemistry( 2019 - )

KIM, Ryungwoo
Chemistry( 2019 - )

MA, Foqing
Chemistry( 2019 - )

TIAN, Peilin
Chemistry( 2019 - )

MARQUEZ CADENA, Miguel Adrian
Chemistry( 2017 - )




Master of Philosophy LAI, Yin Tung (co-supervision)
Chemistry( 2021 - )

LIANG, Hanbin (co-supervision)
Chemistry( 2021 - )

WANG, Eryu
Chemistry( 2021 - )

ZHOU, Yiqin (co-supervision)
Chemistry( 2021 - )





Graduated RPGs


Doctor of Philosophy LIANG, Lixin
Chemistry( Completed in 2021 )

ZHANG, Zhihong
Chemistry( Completed in 2020 )




Master of Philosophy LIAW, Ming Wai
Chemistry( Completed in 2020 )









ProjectsFrom January 2020 to December 2022

All Projects 10 Leading Projects 8 Participating Projects 2


Collective Total Syntheses of Sarpagine and Macroline Indole Alkaloids


Sarpagine 和Macroline吲哚生物硷的聚合式全合成 Leading


RGC - General Research Fund


Project Team (HKUST)
TONG Rongbiao (Lead)


2022 -




Studies on Aza-Friedel-Crafts Reaction of Aza-Achmatowicz Rearrangement Products with Indoles


氮杂-Achmatowicz重排产品与吲哚之间的氮杂-Friedel-Crafts反应研究 Leading


RGC - General Research Fund


Project Team (HKUST)
TONG Rongbiao (Lead)


2021 -




Novel Antibiotics from Genome Mining and Diversity-oriented Synthesis


发现新型抗生素:基因组挖掘与多样性导向有机合成相结合的策略 Leading


RGC - Collaborative Research Fund


Project Team (HKUST)
TONG Rongbiao (Lead)
GUO Zhihong
QIAN Peiyuan


2020 -




Development of Enantioselective Redox-A3 Reaction of Tryptolines for Collective Total Synthesis of Indole Alkaloids


发展Tryptolines不对称氧化还原-3A反应及其用於集体合成吲哚生物硷的研究 Leading


RGC - General Research Fund


Project Team (HKUST)
TONG Rongbiao (Lead)


2020 -




Development of [2+1+2+1] Cycloaddition for De Novo Synthesis of Densely Functionalized Phenols


高度官能团化苯酚的合成 Participating


RGC - General Research Fund


Project Team (HKUST)
JIA Guocheng (Lead)
TONG Rongbiao


2019 -




Synthetic Studies of anti-Inflammatory Berkeleyacetal C


抗炎活性Berkeleyacetal C的化学合成研究 Leading


RGC - General Research Fund


Project Team (HKUST)
TONG Rongbiao (Lead)


2019 - 2021




Total synthesis of indole diterpenoids


吲哚二萜生物碱的全合成研究 Leading


National Natural Science Foundation of China


Project Team (HKUST)
TONG Rongbiao (Lead)


2018 - 2021




Collective Syntheses of Cytotoxic Penostatins


集合式合成具有细胞毒性的penostatins天然产物 Leading


RGC - General Research Fund


Project Team (HKUST)
TONG Rongbiao (Lead)


2018 - 2020




Permutations of Suzuki / Petasis / Achmatowicz Reactions to Synthesize Substituted, Chiral Mono-N-Protected Diamines Leading


Pfizer Inc.


Project Team (HKUST)
TONG Rongbiao (Lead)


2018 - 2020




Quantifying Total Organic Sulfur and Characterizing Organosulfates in Atmospheric Aerosols in the Pearl River Delta Region, China


珠三角大气颗粒物中总有机硫和特定有机硫酸酯类化合物的定量研究 Participating


RGC - General Research Fund


Project Team (HKUST)
YU Jianzhen (Lead)
TONG Rongbiao


2017 - 2020






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