Total Synthesis of Cardenolides Acospectoside A and Acovenoside B

Peng Xu received his B.S. from Nanjing University and his Ph.D. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry. After graduation, he joined the State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry as an Assistant Researcher and is now an Associate Researcher. His research interests include glycochemistry, carbohydrate drugs, and the glycosylation modification of natural products.

Biao Yu is a Researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and a Director of the State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry. He graduated from the Department of Technical Physics, at Peking University, and received his B.S. Then, he went to SIOC and obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. After graduating, he went to New York University as a Postdoctoral Fellow. He is also a Joint Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, an Honorary Professor at the East China University of Science and Technology, a Joint Professor at the E-Institutes of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, and a Joint Professor at Shanghai Tech University. His research interests include chemical synthesis, synthetic methodology, and the chemical biology of polysaccharides and glycoconjugates.