Postdoc Alumni

Longcheng Hong was born in China in 1984. He received his B.S. degree of chemistry from Fudan University in 2008 and then started his doctoral research on Organolanthanide Chemistry under the direction of Prof. Xigeng Zhou at Fudan University. In 2015 he received his Ph.D. degree with the dissertation entitled “Lanthanide-Catalyzed Tandem Addition/Cyclization Reactions of C-H/N-H with Alkyne and Polar Unsaturated Functionalities”. In February 2016, he joined the group of Prof. Dr. Hermann A. Wegner and worked on the expansion of Boron-based Lewis Acid Catalyzed Chemistry and did research on Molecular Structure-Properties Relationship in electronic chemistry.