Yuan Xu, PhD
Associate Professor
Education and Professional Experience
Associate Professor, Shandong Agricultural University, 2025-present
Senior Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University, 2019-2024
PhD, Nanyang Technological University, 2015-2019
Research Focus
Development of new glycosylation methodology with new catalytic system; Design, synthesis and evaluation of antimicrobial glycoconjugates with new mode of action; Solid phase synthesis of oligosaccharides and peptides
Yuan Xu, Shihao Song, Hongwei Duan, Yinyue Deng and Xue–Wei Liu, Combatting Pathogenic Bacteria with Synthetic Immunotherapeutics from Chitosan: Antibody Recruiting at Engineered Bacterial Surface with Peptidoglycan Analogs, CCS Chemistry 2024,6, 1448;
Yuan Xu, Hongbin Zhang and Xue-Wei Liu, Antimicrobial Carbohydrate-Based Macromolecules: Their Structures and Activities, J. Org. Chem. 2020, 85, 15827;
Yuan Xu, Xin Ge, Yuhan Zhang, Hongbin Zhang and Xue-Wei Liu, A mild one-pot synthesis to 2-iminothiazolines from thioureas and 1-bromo-1-nitroalkenes, RSC Adv. 2021, 11, 2221;
Yuan Xu and Xue-Wei Liu, The versatility of carbohydrates in antimicrobial applications, J. Chin. Chem. Soc., 2020, 67, 2204;
Yuan Xu, Kaixi Zhang, Sheethal Reghu, Yichao Lin, Mary B. Chan-Park and Xuewei Liu, Synthesis of antibacterial glycosylated polycaprolactones bearing imidazoliums with reduced hemolytic activity, Biomacromolecules, 2019, 20, 949;
Asadulla Mallick,† Yuan Xu,† Yichao Lin, Jingxi He, Mary B. Chan-Park and Xuewei Liu, Oxadiazabicyclooctenone as a versatile monomer for the construction of pH sensitive functional polymers via ROMP, Polym. Chem. 2018, 9, 372; (†co-first)
Qiao Sun, Shao-Peng Wang, Yuan Xu, Aihua Yin, Liu Yang, Jingheng Zhu, Chun-Ling Zheng, Guowei Wang, Zheng Fang, Shanhong Sui, Daixi Wang, Yan Dong, Dongshun Zhang, Chang-Sheng Wang and Kai Guo, Visible-Light-Induced Energy-Transfer-Mediated Hydrofunctionalization and Difunctionalization of Unsaturated Compounds via Sigma-Bond Homolysis of Energy-Transfer Acceptors. ACS Catalysis 2025, 15, 1854-1941.
Aoxin Guo, Yuan Xu, Zhen-Hua Jia, Teck-Peng Loh and Xue-Wei Liu, Unraveling chemical glycosylation: DFT insights into factors imparting stereoselectivity, Green Synth. Catal. 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.gresc.2024.03.004;
Qiao Sun, Yuan Xu, Liu Yang, Chun-Ling Zheng, Guowei Wang, Hai-Bo Wang, Zheng Fang, Chang-Sheng Wang, and Kai Guo, Direct C–H Sulfuration: Synthesis of Disulfides, Dithiocarbamates, Xanthates, Thiocarbamates and Thiocarbonates, Chem. Asian. J. 2024, 19, e202400124;
Chang-Sheng Wang, Yuan Xu, Shao-Peng Wang, Chun-Ling Zheng, Guowei Wang and Qiao Sun, Recent Advances in Selective C–H Mono-/Dichalcogenation and Exclusive C–H Dichalcogenation of C(sp2)- and C(sp3)–H bonds, Org. Biomol. Chem. 2024, 22, 645;
Chang-Sheng Wang, Yuan Xu, Yi-Liang Zhou, Chun-Ling Zheng, Guowei Wang and Qiao Sun, Recent Advances in the Dichalcogenation Reactions of Unsaturated Compounds Via Double Functionalization, Org. Chem. Front. 2023, 10, 4972;
Contact Information
Email: xuyuan@sdau.edu.cn
Office: Room 1104, Liberal Arts Building
Address: College of Chemistry and Material Science, Shandong Agricultural University, No.61 Daizong Street, Tai’an 271018, Shandong, P. R.China
