Bo Xu

Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Email: xubo1@mail.kib.ac.cn

Mailing Address: 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China

Research Areas

Natural products total synthesis


Development of synthetic methods

Education

2007 to 2011 Sichuan Agricultural University


2013 to 2018 Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health

Experience

2025 to present Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming Institute of Botan (PI)

2022 to 2025 Emory University (Postdoc)

2021 to 2022 Purdue University (Postdoc)

2018 to 2021  Peking University Shenzhen Graduate Schoo (Postdoc)

Students

现指导学生

陈勇  硕士研究生  105500-药学  

Publication

1. Total Synthesis of (−)-Illisimonin A Enabled by Pattern Recognition and Olefin Transposition.

Bo Xu, Ziyao Zhang, Mingji Dai*. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 17592–17597.

2. Total Syntheses of (–)‑Crinipellins A and B Enabled by a Controlled Cargill Rearrangement.

Bo Xu+, Ziyao Zhang+, Dean J. Tantillo, Mingji Dai*. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 21250–21256.

3. Catalysis-Enabled 13-Step Total Synthesis of (–)-Peyssonnoside A.

Bo Xu+, Chang Liu+, Mingji Dai*. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 19700-19703.

4. Total Syntheses of (–)-Conidiogenone B, (–)-Conidiogenone and (–)-Conidiogenol.

Bo Xu+, Wen Xun+, Shaobin Su, and Hongbin Zhai*. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 16475 –16479.

5. Total Synthesis of (–)-Daphenylline.

Bo Xu+, Bingyang Wang+, Wen Xun, Fayang G. Qiu*. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 5754 –5757.

6. General Strategy for the Construction of Calyciphyl-line A type Alkaloids: Divergent Total Syntheses of (–)-Daphenylline and (–)-Himalensine A.

Bingyang Wang+, Bo Xu+, Wen Xun, Yiming Guo, Jing Zhang, Fayang Qiu*. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 9439-9443.

7. Total Synthesis of (+)-Aplykurodinone‑1.

Bo Xu+, Wen Xun+, Tingzhong Wang, and Fayang G. Qiu*. Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 4861-4863.