Education backgroud
Sep. 2010 – Jun. 2015 Ph. D. in Organic Chemistry, School of Science, Beijing University of Chemical Technology (Supervisor: Professor Jiaxi Xu,)
Sep. 2006 – Jun. 2010 B. Sc. in Applied Chemistry, School of Science, Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Apr. 2017-now, postdoc in college of engineer, Peking University (Supervisor: Professor Zhifei Dai)

Working experience
Jul. 2015-Feb. 2017 Product research manager, New Harmony United Chemical and Pharmaceutical company, Zhejiang

Publications:

1. Shanyan Mo, Jiaxi Xu*, Mechanistic Investigation of the Ring Opening in the Staudinger Cycloaddition Involving Ketenes with Electron-Withdrawing Substituents. Helv. Chim. Acta 2012, 95, 1079-1086.  (IF = 1.48)

2. Shanyan Mo, Zhanhui Yang, Jiaxi Xu*, Aqueous Copper Nitrate Catalyzed Synthesis of 3-Alkylideneoxindoles from α-Diazo-β-ketoanilides. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 3923–3929. (IF = 3.33)

3. Shanyan Mo, Jiaxi Xu*, Chemospecific Intramolecular Buchner Reaction Catalyzed by Copper(II) Acetylacetonate. ChemCatChem 2014, 6, 1679–1683. (IF = 5.18)

4. Shanyan Mo, Peipei Huang, Jiaxi Xu*, Cascade nitrosation and addition–elimination of nitroacetanilides for the highly efficient synthesis of 1,4,2,5-dioxadiazine derivatives. Org. Biomol. Chem. 2014, 12, 4192–4200. (IF = 3.57)

5. Shanyan Mo, N-Cyano-N-phenyl-p-toluenesulfonamide. Synlett 2014, 25, 1337–1338. (IF = 2.67)

6. Shanyan Mo, Xinhao Li, Jiaxi Xu*, In Situ Generated Iodonium Ylides as Safe Carbene Precursors for the Chemoslective Intramolecular Buchner Reaction. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 79, 9186–9195. (IF = 4.62)

7. Shanyan Mo, Chuangchuang Xu, Jiaxi Xu.* Expeditious and Convenient Synthesis of Polycyclic  Difluoroboron Complexes of 2-Oxoindoline-3-carboxamides by Tandem Reaction. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2016, 358, 1767–1777. (IF = 6.46)

8. Shanyan Mo, Jianzhuo Tu, Jiaxi Xu.* Chemospecific synthesis of 2-acetoxyindole-3-carbonitriles catalyzed by Cu(acac)2. Russ. Chem. Bull. 2016, 1773-1778. (IF = 0.66)