Xing, an organic chemist and educator. His research involves various fields of organic chemistry, especially in the synthesis of alkaloids, peptides and antibiotics, as well as the chemistry of effective components of traditional Chinese medicine and natural products such as flowers and fruits. He is one of the academic leaders of insulin synthesis project, and his new method of chloramphenicol synthesis was used in industrial production abroad in 1960s. He paid special attention to basic education, personally taught general organic chemistry courses for nearly 20 years, and made outstanding contributions to the construction of organic chemistry textbooks and courses in China. His book "Organic Chemistry" is the first organic chemistry textbook written by himself in China, and it is the main textbook used by many universities for many years.
Xing, a native of Guiyang, Guizhou Province, was born in Tianjin in 1968. His father, Xing Duantai, was an academician in the late Qing Dynasty. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), he was a librarian of the Central Museum of Literature and History. Xing studied in a private school since he was a child and always liked to study history books, which made him have a deep foundation in literature and history.
1933, Xing graduated from the Department of Chemistry of Fu Jen Catholic University and went to the United States to study at the Graduate School of the University of Illinois. Under the guidance of professor R. Adams, he was engaged in the stereochemistry of biphenyl, and 1936 received his doctorate. In order to broaden his horizons and learn more about others, he went to the University of Munich in the summer of the same year to study bufotoxin with H. Vilander, a famous organic chemist. In postdoctoral research, he completed the structure and synthesis of galangin, which later became an important method of indole methylation.
For young Xing who has just set foot in the paradise of organic chemistry, it should be ideal and ambitious to work in the famous Vilander laboratory. When the Japanese invaders set foot on the land of China, and the motherland was facing extinction, Xing resolutely gave up the superior working conditions for scientific research and returned to China immediately to do his part to save the nation from peril.
After returning to China, Xing worked as a researcher at the Institute of Chemistry of Shanghai Academia Sinica. Shortly after the fall of North China, Shanghai was in danger, and Academia Sinica was forced to move south to Kunming. Xing was responsible for transferring books and other valuables, bypassing Hong Kong and Vietnam, and it took half a year for all materials to arrive in Kunming. Under very difficult conditions, in order to support War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and look for antimalarial drugs, Xing went to Yunnan border area to collect cinchona bark and analyze its effective components. During his stay in the rear area, Xing witnessed the corruption of the National Government and the passivity of the Anti-Japanese War. He was very disappointed and decided to find another way to save the country. 1944, he risked his life and came to Tianchang county, the liberated area in northern Anhui, the anti-Japanese front led by * *, to join the work of the New Fourth Army. He was assigned to Huazhong Military Medical University in northern Jiangsu, where he trained basic pharmaceutical talents and made medicines for the army. During this period, he put his wife's money in a soft place, and all his children were taken over to the New Fourth Army to work together to resist Japan and save the country. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Xing was employed by Peking University and returned to Beijing on 1946. He is a professor at the Department of Agricultural Chemistry and the Department of Chemistry in Peking University, and a researcher at the Institute of Chemistry of Beijing Research Institute.
1949 is a year of earth-shaking changes in China! Thousands of Beijingers in Xinghe happily welcomed the birth of People's Republic of China (PRC). When he heard Chairman Mao's solemn declaration that "the people of China have stood up from now on", Xing shed tears with excitement. He felt that a prosperous China he had dreamed of for many years was coming! As a patriotic scientist, he thinks it's time for him to make great achievements.
From 1950 to 1952, Xing also served as the head of the Department of Chemistry of Fu Jen Catholic University, making important contributions to the post-war school construction. 1953, Xing joined the China Democratic League. He was a member of the Beijing Committee to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, a member of the Fifth Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Political Consultative Conference, a member of the Peking University School Affairs Committee, a consultant of the Second Professional Group of the Beijing Municipal People's Government, a member of the the State Council Science Planning Committee, a member of the Science and Technology Committee of the People's Republic of China, a member of the Academic Committee of the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Academic Committee of the Shanghai Institute of Pharmacy. Director of Chinese Chemical Society, Chairman of Chemical Education Committee, Judge He was a member of the 6th and 7th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Director of China International Cultural Exchange Center, Academician of China Academy of Sciences, and Deputy Director of NLD Central Scientific Committee.
Mr. Xing is an organic chemist with profound academic attainments and keen insight. In the early 1950s, he pointed out that protein and peptide chemistry would be a new frontier discipline in the future scientific development. 195 1 first proposed to study the polypeptide components in scorpion toxin, and at the same time carried out the research on amino acid terminal labeling and peptide grafting methods. During the period of 1958, several organic chemists and biochemists in China put forward the important task of synthesizing protein molecule-insulin with biological activity. Under the direct leadership of the State Science and Technology Commission, a research team was formed by Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University, and Mr. Xing was one of the academic leaders of this research. After several years' efforts, it was finally announced to the world at 1965 that the first synthetic protein-crystalline bovine insulin was successfully synthesized! Mr. Xing has always attached importance to the development and utilization of China's rich natural resources during his decades of scientific research career. The major fund projects he presided over played a great role in exploring the treasure house of natural drugs, developing leading drugs and screening new drugs, and promoting the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine. In the basic research fields such as organic reaction mechanism, molecular structure determination method and stereochemistry, Mr. Xing has also carried out various studies.
Mr. Xing is not only an accomplished organic chemist, but also a prestigious educator. He devoted himself to teaching and research for decades, and put forward many views and suggestions on the relationship between teaching and scientific research, theory and experiment, popularization and improvement of middle school education, and all-round quality education for citizens in China's higher chemistry education. At the same time, he worked hard in classrooms and laboratories for decades. Organic Chemistry and A Concise Course of Organic Chemistry compiled by him are the first national general textbooks designated by the Ministry of Education. Basic Organic Chemistry, written by him, is a textbook that comprehensively reflects modern organic chemistry and has a wide influence on the teaching of organic chemistry in colleges and universities. These works have nurtured the growth of generations of chemists.
Xing, a famous chemist, educator, academician of China Academy of Sciences and professor of School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Peking University, died in Beijing at 20: 25 on October 4th, 20021.
Mr. Xing was loyal and patriotic all his life, pursued the truth and was aboveboard. He is a master in the field of model science.