Yongming Deng, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Research
Our research has a fundamental interest in developing innovative synthetic methodologies in organic chemistry, with a particular interest in the development of mutually beneficial substrate-catalysis concepts and their application to complex targets, especially biologically relevant compounds. Researchers in the group gain great interdisciplinary knowledge from synthetic organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and medicinal chemistry, also learn valuable characterization and analytical skills, such as synthetic skills, NMR spectroscopy, and liquid chromatography.
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Research areas
- Organic Synthesis
- Asymmetric Catalysis
- Metal Carbene/Carbenoid Chemistry
- Nitrene/Nitrenoid Chemistry
- Transition Metal Catalysis
- Photochemistry
- Organic Electrosynthesis
- Alkyne Activation
- Heterocycles Synthesis
Education and Training
- Postdoc (2014-2017) University of Maryland, University of Texas at San Antonio
- Ph.D. (2014) Miami University
- B.S. (2009) Shandong University, China
Publications & Professional Activity
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Affiliations
- International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry Member, 2017—present
- American Chemical Society Member, 2011—present
Awards
- NIGMS Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (2023)
- ACS PRF ND (2023), UNI (2018)
- Research Award for Tenure-Track Faculty SOS (2024)