Te-Fang YANGDistinguished Professor

B.E.  in  Chemical Engineering,Feng Chia University,    1980
M.S.  in Chemistry, University of Texas,USA, 1986
Ph.D.  in Chemistry, State University of New York, USA, 1991
Postdoc Fellow, University of Massachusetts,USA, 1991-1992
Postdoc Fellow, University of Georgia,USA, 1992-1994
Research Scientist, Enzo Biochem. Inc., New York,USA, 1994-1996
Associate Professor, Chaoyang University of Technology, 1996-2008
Associate Professor, National Chi Nan University,2008-2012
Professor, National Chi Nan University, 2012

1. Synthesis of camphor-derived compounds and their rearrangements
2. Chiral organocatalysts
3. Asymmetric reactions
4. Synthesis of new heterocyclic compounds
5. Synthesis of natural product
6. Design and synthesis of organic materials

(1)   Sheng-Han Huang, Yu-Wei Shih, Wen-Tse Huang, Deng-Hong Li, Te-Fang Yang*, “Tendem additions of  3,4-dihydroisoquinolines to g-hydroxy-a,b-unsaturated ketones: a green and new access to oxazolo[2,3-a]tetrahydroisoquinolines”, RSC Advances, 2016, 6, 91870-91874. (SCI). 
(2)   Te-Fang Yang, Sheng-Han Huang, Yi-Pang Chiu, Bo-Hsiang Chen, Yu-Wei Shih, Yu-Chang Chang, Jie-Yi Yao, Yao-Jen Lee, Ming-Yu Kuo, “ Pyromellitic dithioimides: thionation improves air-stability and electron mobility of N-type organic field-effect transistors”, Chem Commun, 2015, 51, 13772-13775. 
(3)   Somnath Mondal, Wei-Hsiang Lin, Yu-Chi Chen, Sheng-Han Huang, Rong Yang, Bo-Hsiang Chen, Te-Fang Yang*, Shih-Wei Mao*, Ming-Yu Kuo* , “Solution-processed single-crystal perylene diimide transistors with high electron mobility”, Organic Electronics, 2015, 23, 64-69. (SCI). 
(4)   Hsu-Chun Cheng, Kuo Yuan Chiu, Shih Hua Lu, Ching-Chin Chen, Yen Wei Lee, Te-Fang Yang*, Ming Yu  Kuo*, Peter Ping-Yu Chen*, Yuhlong Oliver Su*, “ Linear Oligoarylamines: Electrochemical, EPR, and Computational Studies of Their Oxidative States”, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2015, 119, 1933-1942. (SCI).  
(5)  Te-Fang Yang*, Chi-Yi Chang, Wei-Fan Lin, “Rearrangement of acyclic-alkyl [3.2.1]bicyclic alcohols to free
methylene dimethyl alkyl [2.2.2]bicyclic octanes: application to preparation of stereospecific novel sesquiterpene and terpenoids”. Tetrahedron Letters, 2015, 56, 801-804. (SCI).
(6)  Hsu-Chun Cheng; Kuo Yuan Chiu; Yi-Jung Tu; Te-Fang Yang*; Yulong Oliver Su*, “Electrochemically Controlled Multiple Hydrogen Bonding between Triarylamines and Imidazoles”.
Organic Letters, 2013, 15 3868-3871. (SCI). 
(7) Te-Fang Yang*; Kuan-Yu Wang; Hsuan-Wei Li; Yang-Chan Tseng; Tai-Chen Lien, “Synthesis of substituted alpha-tetralones and substituted 1naphthols via regioselective ring expansion of 1-acyl-1-indanol skeleton”. Tetrahedron Letters, 2012, 53, 585-588. (SCI).
(8) Te-Fang Yang*; Kuo Yuan Chiu; Hsu-Chun Cheng; Yan Wei Lee; Ming-Yu Kuo*;Yuhlong Oliver Su*, “Studies on the Structure of N-Phenyl-Substituted Hexaaza[16]paracyclophane: Synthesis, Electrochemical Properties, And Theoretical Calculation”. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2012, 77, 8627-8633. (SCI).      
(9) C. -Y. Huang; C. -Y. Hsu; L. -Y. Yang; C. -J. Lee; Te-Fang Yang; C. -C. Hsu; C. -H. Ke; Y. O. Su*, “A systematic Study of Electrochemical and Spectral Properties for the Electronic Interactions in Porphyrin-Triphenylamine Conjugates”, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2012, 1308-1047. 
(10) Te-Fang Yang*; L.-H. Chen; L. –T. Kao; C. –H. Chuang; Y. –Y. Chen, “Condensation-ring expansion reaction of formyl [2.2.1]bicyclic carbinols with para-substituted phenyl amines: application to the preparation of [3.2.1]bicyclic N-aryl-1,2,3-oxathiazolidine- 2-oxide agents”, J. Chin. Chem. Soc. 2012, 59, 378-388. 
(11) K. Y. Chiu, Y. -J. Tu; C. -J. Lee; Te-Fang Yang*; L. -L. Lai; I. Cho*; Y. O. Su*, “Unusual Spectral and Electrochemical Properties of Azobenzene-Substituted Porphyrins”, Electrochimica Acta 2012, 62, 51-62.  
(12) Te-Fang Yang*; C. -H. Shen; C. -T. Hsu; L. -H. Chen; C. -H. Chuang, “Selective reaction of camphor-derived exo-formyl [2.2.1]bicyclic carbinol with alkyl primary amines: application to the preparation of new chiral catalysts for asymmetric reduction of aryl ketones”, Tetrahedron 2010, 66, 8734-8738. 
(13) Te-Fang Yang*; C. -H. Tseng; C. -H. Shen; L. -H. Chen; L. -T. Kao, “Regio- and stereoselective rearrangements of formyl [2.2.1]bicyclic carbinols in methanol”, Tetrahedron 2009, 65, 9854-9861. 
(14) Te-Fang Yang*; C. -H. Tseng; K. -I Wu; C. -N. Chang, “Selective Ring Expansion Alkylation of Formyl[2.2.1]bicyclic Carbinols with C-Nucleophiles: A Unique Route to Cyclopentane Derivatives”, J. Org. Chem. 2007, 72, 7034-7037.