Dec 2025
Congratulations to Zhaoyang for receiving the 2025 Tsinghua University Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award! Zhaoyang is one of the 10 awardees across the university.
Shaoguang gave a lecture at Capital Normal University.
Siyu Wu, Yize Wu and Jinnan Zhou left the group.
Nov 2025
Shaoguang gave a poster presentation at The 18th International Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia (ICCEOCA-18) in Sanya. He was awarded an Asian Core Program (ACP) Lectureship Award to Korea. He will be invited for a week-long academic tour in Korea in 2026!
Shaoguang was awarded a General Program grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. This support enables the group to investigate small molecule activation leveraging dynamic metal-metal bond complexes.
Zhaoyang, Qiuran and Ren’s work on “One- and Two-Electron Carbon–Halide Bond Activation at a Phosphorus Center” has been accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.! Congratulations!
Xin Zhang joined the group as a visiting student.
Oct 2025
Li Bai joined the group as a visiting student. Xinda Song and Ningsu Wei joined the group as undergraduate students. Welcome!
Our fourth glovebox has arrived! Now we have Glovebox A, B, C and D (North, South, West and East)!
Sept 2025
Our collaborative research with Prof. Mingdong Zhong, Prof. Jiancheng Li and Prof. Herbert Roesky has been published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. on "Bifunctional Silylene–Aminoborane Enables Cooperative Activation of Unsaturated Bonds and Access to Heteroatom-Enriched Polycycle"!
The group attended Main-Group Element Reactivity Conference (MG-ERC) in Namur, Belgium. Jinyang, Liuyang, Qian, Zhaoyang and Shaoguang presented their research via posters. Zhaoyang won the Best Poster Award!
Shaoguang gave an oral presentation at 6th International Symposium on Synthesis and Catalysis (ISySyCat-6) in Coimbra, Portugal.
Xuanye Liu joined the group as an undergraduate student. Welcome!
Aug 2025
Lei Xiao joined the group as a PhD student. Welcome!
Jul 2025
Shaoguang gave an invited lecture at Tsinghua-Göttingen Joint Chemistry Symposium in Göttingen, Germany, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
We have a new student office! We moved in the newly renovated Room 214 in Renhuan Building.
Our education-research work, “Exploration Of "Organic-Biochemical" Integrated Teaching: Research on Interdisciplinary Knowledge Transfer and Application Based on Potential Energy Diagram”, has been published on Chemical Education (化学教育).
Haotian Tan joined the group as an undergraduate student. Welcome!
Jun 2025
Our collaborative research with Prof. Mingdong Zhong and Prof. Herbert Roesky has been published in Inorg. Chem. on "A Spatially Separated Germylene-Carbene Compound for Site-Selective Small Molecule Activation"!
Shaoguang’s teaching has been recognized! He received the Annual Teaching Excellence Award, Tsinghua University in 2024.
Bringing the beauty of chemistry to the high school! Check out Shaoguang’s visits to Xinxiang No.1 Middle School and Mianyang Middle School as part of the “100 Science Outreach Events in Schools” campaign to celebrate the 100th birthday of Tsinghua Chemistry.
Zhihan Bi left the group.
Apr 2025
Congratulations to Ren for receiving the Best Poster Award at the Beijing–Tianjin Graduate Organic Chemistry Academic Salon (2025)!
Congratulations to Jinyang Zhou for receiving the Best Poster Award at Tsinghua University-Xinjiang University Joint Chemistry Doctoral Forum (2025)!
Shaoguang gave a lecture at Lanzhou University.
Mar 2025
Shaoguang’s teaching has been recognized again! His Organic Chemistry A2 course was rated in the top 5% of undergraduate teaching evaluations at Tsinghua University.
Shaoguang gave an invited lecture at Asian Polyolefin Workshop (APC-2025) in Chengdu, China.
Shaoguang has moved into his new office! He can be found in Room 407 in Guoqiang Building (Office, sweet office).
Qingkai He joined the group as an undergraduate student. Welcome!
Shaoguang supervised a university-level “Challenge Cup” project, “GSPOC-based Methods for Nucleophilicity Analysis and Prediction of Organic Compounds”, led by Junliang He, Shangkun Shi, and Zikang Dong.
