简历：
学习经历
2015.05–2019.07 美国明尼苏达大学，化学系，博士，导师：Thomas R. Hoye
2013.09–2015.05 美国明尼苏达大学，化学系，硕士，导师：Thomas R. Hoye
2009.09–2013.07 中国科学技术大学，化学系，学士
工作经历
2022.12–至今 四川大学，化学学院
2019.08–2022.02 美国哥伦比亚大学，化学系，博士后，导师：Colin Nuckolls
学术兼职
主要研究方向
课题组以有机合成化学为基础，结合计算化学方法深入研究反应机理与材料特性。主要研究方向包括手性有机光电材料（如螺旋手性共轭聚合物）的精准设计与高效合成，以及开发常见聚合物的光、电催化升级转化新策略，致力于拓展功能材料在能源与环境领域的应用前景，实现材料的高性能化与可持续发展。
课题组长期招收博士研究生、硕士研究生及联合培养学生，同时欢迎对科研有浓厚兴趣、积极主动的本科生在课余时间参与科研项目及毕业设计工作。
主要工作业绩
肖啸博士围绕芳炔体系的独特反应特性与作用机制展开深入研究，发展了包括多米诺六脱氢狄尔斯–阿尔德（domino HDDA）反应在内的一系列新型合成方法，实现了复杂并苯类结构的高效构建，为功能分子的设计与合成开辟了新路径。此外，他设计并合成了具有当时已报道最大手性可见光吸收能力的螺烯纳米带，以及在报道时具备最长刚性螺烯骨架的手性聚合物，拓展了手性材料的性能边界。在高分子升级转化研究方面，其课题组开发了低负载量的还原型有机光催化剂，并通过连续光致电子转移（conPET）策略，成功实现多种常规聚合物的高效氧化升级转化，推动了聚合物可持续利用的发展。
相关研究成果已累计发表学术论文17篇、获得美国授权专利1项。其中，以通讯或第一作者身份在Nature Chemistry, Nature Communications, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 发表论文7篇，并受邀参编由Wiley出版社出版的专著《Helicenes: Synthesis, Properties and Applications》第十章节。
主要奖励和荣誉
2024 四川省天府峨眉计划青年项目
2022 国家海外高层次人才引进计划青年项目
2019 明尼苏达大学化学系最佳博士论文
2018 国家优秀自费留学生奖学金
2013 中国科学技术大学优秀毕业生
主要学术成果
(†equal contribution; *correspondence; ‡undergraduate student)
At SCU
1) Zhang, S.; Wang, J.‡; Su, D.‡; Xiao, X.* Facile Visible-Light Upcycling of Diverse Waste Plastics Using a Single Organocatalyst with Minimal Loadings. Nat. Commun. 2025, 16, 4188. (link)
2) Bræstrup, C.†; Xiao, X.†; García-González, F.†; Brock-Nannestad, T.; Aranda, D.; Bao, S. T.; Cavlovic, D.; Jiang, H.; Ng, F.; Nuckolls, C.; Santoro, F.; Pittelkow, M. Helical Ladder Oligomers Exhibit Amplified Circularly Polarized Emission. Adv. Optical Mater. 2025, 2403061. (link)
3) Xiao, X.*; Cheng, Q.; Bao, S. T.; Jin, Z.; Sun, S.; Jiang, H.; Steigerwald, M. L.; Nuckolls, C.* Single-Handed Helicene Nanoribbons via Transfer of Chiral Information. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 20214–20220. (link)
Before SCU
4) Xiao, X.; Nuckolls, C. Helicene-Based Electron Acceptors. In Helicenes; Crassous, J., Stará, I. G., Starý, I., Eds.; Wiley-Vch: Weinheim, Germany, 2022; pp 329–371. (link)
5) Xiao, X.; Pederson, S. K.; Aranda, D.; Yang, J.; Wiscons, R. A.; Pittelkow, M.; Steigerwald, M. L.; Santoro, F.*; Schuster, N. J.*; Nuckolls, C.* Chirality Amplified: Long, Discrete Helicene Nanoribbons. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 983–991. (link)
ESI Highly Cited Paper 2022
6) Lee, D.; Ross, S. P.; Xiao, X.; Hoye, T. R.* Radial Hexadehydro-Diels-Alder Reactions. Chem, 2021, 7, 2527–2537. (link)
7) Aranda, D.; Schuster, N. J.; Xiao, X.; Ávila Ferrer, F. J.; Santoro, F.*; Nuckolls, C.* Origin of Chiroptic Amplification in Perylene-Diimide Helicenes. J. Phys. Chem. C 2021, 125, 2554–2564. (link)
8) Xiao, X.; Hoye, T. R.* One-pot, Three-Aryne Cascade Strategy for Naphthalene Formation from 1,3-Diynes and 1,2-Benzdiyne Equivalents. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 9813–9818. (link)
9) Shen, H.; Xiao, X.; Hoye, T. R.* Benzyne Cascade Reactions via Benzoxetenonium Ions and Their Rearrangements to o-Quinone Methides. Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 1672–1675. (link)
10) Xiao, X.; Hoye, T. R.* The Domino Hexadehydro-Diels–Alder Reaction Transforms Polyynes to Benzynes to Naphthynes to Anthracynes to Tetracynes (and Beyond?). Nat. Chem. 2018, 10, 838–844. (link)
Highlighted in UMN Chemistry News. (link)
Synfacts 2018, 14, 1035. (link)
and Chem 2018, 4, 2272–2274. (link)
11) Xiao, X.; Wang, T.; Xu, F.; Hoye, T. R.* CuI-Mediated Bromoalkynylation and Hydroalkynylation Reactions of Unsymmetrical Benzynes: Complementary Modes of Addition. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 16564–16568. (link)
Selected as 'Hot Paper' in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
12) Xiao, X.; Woods, B. P.; Xiu, W.; Hoye, T. R.* Benzocyclobutadienes: An Unusual Mode of Access Reveals Unusual Modes of Reactivity. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 9901–9905. (link)
13) Shen, H.; Xiao, X.; Haj, M. K.; Willoughby, P. H.; Hoye, T. R.* BF3-Promoted, Carbene-like, C–H Insertion Reactions of Benzynes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 15616–15620. (link)
14) Xu, F.; Xiao, X.; Hoye, T. R.* Photochemical Hexadehydro-Diels–Alder Reaction. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 8400–8403. (link)
Selected as 'SYNFACT of the month', Synfacts 2017, 13, 809. (link)
15) Xu, F.; Xiao, X.; Hoye, T. R.* Reactions of HDDA-Derived Benzynes with Perylenes: Rapid Construction of Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds. Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 5636–5639. (link)
16) Huang, Z.; Shang, R.; Zhang, Z.; Tan, X.; Xiao, X.; Fu, Y.* Copper-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Coupling of Alkynyl Carboxylates with 1,1-Dibromo-1-alkenes. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 4551–4557. (link)
17) Shang, R.; Huang, Z.; Xiao, X.; Lu, X.; Fu, Y.*; Liu, L. β-Aryl Nitrile Construction via Palladium-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Benzylation of α-Cyano Aliphatic Carboxylate Salts. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2012, 354, 2465–2472. (link)
