On the morning of May 26, 2026, at the invitation of School of Chemistry and Materials Science (SCMS), Prof. Peiqiang Huang from Xiamen University delivered an offline academic report entitled Organic Nitrogen Chemistry: Challenges and Breakthroughs via an offline meeting (Room 226, huaxing Building), which was attended by some faculty members and graduate students of SCMS.

Professor Huang Peiqiang is a doctoral supervisor. He was awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society. He enjoys the Special Government Allowance from the State Council and was selected for the National Hundred, Thousand and Ten-Thousand Talents Program for the New Century.
He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Xiamen University in 1982, pursued further studies in France in 1983, and obtained his doctoral degree from Paris-Sud University, France in 1987. From 1988, he conducted postdoctoral research at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and was qualified as an associate researcher upon completion of his postdoctoral work. He returned to Xiamen University in 1990 and was promoted to full professor in 1993. He once served as Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Dean of the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering for two terms at Xiamen University.
His research mainly focuses on organic synthetic chemistry and total synthesis of natural products. He has received numerous honors, including the Synthetic Creativity Award from the Organic Chemistry Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society, the Second Prize of Natural Science in the Research Achievement Awards for Institutions of Higher Education, and the Lu Jiaxi Outstanding Supervisor Award.
Currently, he serves as Associate Editor of Organic Chemistry Frontiers, and acts as advisory board member or editorial board member for five domestic and international academic journals. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the International Symposium on Chinese Organic Chemists. He was a candidate for the election of Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2023.To date, he has published more than 280 SCI papers, obtained 21 authorized national invention patents and 1 international cooperative patent. He has compiled four textbooks and academic monographs in both Chinese and English, and presided over ten national research projects including key programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and projects of the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program).
Organic synthetic chemistry has achieved rapid development over the past few decades. Nevertheless, a great number of reactions recorded in organic chemistry and synthetic chemistry textbooks lack practical synthetic application value, remaining long-standing challenges in this field. Focusing on the efficient synthesis of nitrogen-containing compounds, especially the direct reductive transformation of amides and the formation of C-N bonds, Professor Huang’s research group has developed a series of novel reactions and methodologies featuring high efficiency, excellent selectivity and broad applicability. Many of these approaches have been adopted by researchers worldwide as the sole or optimal methods to tackle synthetic problems, and have been included in authoritative monographs and textbooks such as March’s Advanced Organic Chemistry. With these advanced synthetic methodologies, the group has realized the asymmetric total synthesis of a variety of biologically active natural products in the most efficient and concise manner reported so far.