Prof. Cheng Yang

Prof. Cheng Yang

Contact Information:

Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry & Technology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, 29 Wangjiang Road, Chengdu 610064, P. R. of China

E-mail：yangchengyc@scu.edu.cn

Research Interests:

Chiral Photochemical Reaction;

Macrocyclic Supramolecular Photochemistry;

Host–Guest Complexation;

Molecular Photochemistry and Photophysics;

Photon Energy Upconversion

Education and Academic Experience:

2012-Present Professor, College of Chemistry, Sichuan University

2008-2012 PRESTO Researcher (PRESTO), Osaka University

2007-2012 Assistant Professor, Osaka University

2004-2007 Research Assistant Professor, Japan Science and Technology Agency

2000-2004 PhD, College of Pharmacy, Nagasaki University

1998-2000 Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy, Zhejiang University

1991-1998 B.S. and M.S., Department of Chemistry, Sichuan University

Awards and Honors：

2008-2012 Japan Science and Technology Agency, PRESTO Researcher

2012 Youth Scientist Award, Asian and Oceanian Photochemical Association

2012 Youth Project of Sichuan Province "Hundred Talents Program"

2017 Tang Lixin Outstanding Scholar Award of Sichuan University

2019 Chairman, Asian Cyclodextrin Association

Research Projects:

Projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 21871194

Projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 21572142

Projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 21372165

Youth Project of Sichuan Province Hundred Talents Program, Supramolecular Photochemistry

Projects of Sichuan Provincial Department of Science and Technology, 2017KJT0105-2017SZ0021

Representative Publication：

1. Wei, X.; Liu, J.; Xia, G. J.; Deng, J.; Sun, P.; Chruma, J. J.; Wu, W.; Yang, C*; Wang, Y. G*; Huang, Z*, Enantioselective photoinduced cyclodimerization of a prochiral anthracene derivative adsorbed on helical metal nanostructures. Nat. Chem. 2020, 12 (6), 551-559.

2. Xiao, C.; Wu, W.; Liang, W.; Zhou, D.; Kanagaraj, K.; Cheng, G.; Su, D.; Zhong, Z.; Chruma, J. J.; Yang, C*, Redox-Triggered Chirality Switching and Guest-Capture/Release with a Pillar[6]arene-Based Molecular Universal Joint. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59 (21), 8094-8098.

3. Ji, J.; Wu, W.; Liang, W.; Cheng, G.; Matsushita, R.; Yan, Z.; Wei, X.; Rao, M.; Yuan, D. Q.; Fukuhara, G.; Mori, T.; Inoue, Y*; Yang, C*, An Ultimate Stereocontrol in Supramolecular Photochirogenesis: Photocyclodimerization of 2-Anthracenecarboxylate Mediated by Sulfur-Linked beta-Cyclodextrin Dimers. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141 (23), 9225-9238.

4. Fan, C.; Wei, L.; Niu, T.; Rao, M.; Cheng, G.; Chruma, J. J.; Wu, W*; Yang, C*, Efficient Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Upconversion with an Anti-Stokes Shift of 1.08 eV Achieved by Chemically Tuning Sensitizers. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141 (38), 15070-15077.

5. Wei, X.; Wu, W.; Matsushita, R.; Yan, Z.; Zhou, D.; Chruma, J. J.; Nishijima, M.; Fukuhara, G.; Mori, T.; Inoue, Y*; Yang, C*, Supramolecular Photochirogenesis Driven by Higher-Order Complexation: Enantiodifferentiating Photocyclodimerization of 2-Anthracenecarboxylate to Slipped Cyclodimers via a 2:2 Complex with beta-Cyclodextrin. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140 (11), 3959-3974.

6. Yao, J.; Wu, W.; Liang, W.; Feng, Y.; Zhou, D.; Chruma, J. J.; Fukuhara, G.; Mori, T.; Inoue, Y.; Yang, C*, Temperature-Driven Planar Chirality Switching of a Pillar[5]arene-Based Molecular Universal Joint. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56 (24), 6869-6873.

7. Fan, C.; Wu, W.; Chruma, J. J.; Zhao, J.; Yang, C*, Enhanced Triplet-Triplet Energy Transfer and Upconversion Fluorescence through Host-Guest Complexation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138 (47), 15405-15412.

8. Kawanami, Y.; Katsumata, S. Y.; Nishijima, M.; Fukuhara, G.; Asano, K.; Suzuki, T.; Yang, C.; Nakamura, A.; Mori, T.; Inoue, Y*, Supramolecular Photochirogenesis with a Higher-Order Complex: Highly Accelerated Exclusively Head-to-Head Photocyclodimerization of 2-Anthracenecarboxylic Acid via 2:2 Complexation with Prolinol. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138 (37), 12187-201.

9. Yao, J.; Yan, Z.; Ji, J.; Wu, W.; Yang, C*; Nishijima, M.; Fukuhara, G.; Mori, T.; Inoue, Y*, Ammonia-driven chirality inversion and enhancement in enantiodifferentiating photocyclodimerization of 2-anthracenecarboxylate mediated by diguanidino-gamma-cyclodextrin. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136 (19), 6916-9.

10. Yang, C*; Inoue, Y*, Supramolecular photochirogenesis. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2014, 43 (12), 4123-43.

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