男，1942年2月生，药物化学、有机化学和化学生物学教授（二级）。1964年毕业于华中师范大学化学系，毕业后留校任教，1980年赴美国State University of New York at Albany化学系学习，1981年转入Oklahoma State University生化系任Research associate，1983年回国。1998年调入中山大学化学系，1992年任教授，1993年任博士生导师（国务院学位委员会批准）。现为中山大学药学院药物化学研究所所长。1986，1989，1993，1995和1998年又先后应邀赴美进行合作研究。1997年以后，多次应邀到香港科技大学、香港中文大学和香港理工大学讲学和合作研究。从1983年开始，一直进行有关药物化学、有机化学和化学生物学和的研究和教学。主持多项国家自然科学基金重点和面上项目，部省基金重大、重点和面上项目。在国内外重要刊物发表论文200多篇，专利15项(包括国内外专利)，著作4部。主持的化学专业本科《有机化学》课程于2004年被评选为国家级精品课程。现为中国化学会Chinese Chemical Letters 编委。

1.《生物有机化学》（第一作者），高等教育出版社和施普林格出版社，1998。科技图书股份有限公司（台湾，繁体字版），2001。

2.《生物化学》（第一作者），高等教育出版社，2000。 21世纪教材系列, 获得2002年全国普通高等学校教材二等奖）。

3. 《有机化学》（第一作者），高等教育出版社，2008。

4. 《化学生物学》（第二作者），化工出版社，2006。

（2004－2009）

1. Isaindigotone Derivatives: A New Class of Highly Selective Ligands for Telomeric G-quadruplex DNA，200952，2825-2835.

2. 5-N-Methylated Quindoline Derivatives as Telomeric G-Quadruplex Stabilizing Ligands: Effects of 5-N Positive Charge on Quadruplex Binding Affinity and Cell Proliferation,. 2008, , 6381- 6392.

3. Stabilization of G-quadruplex DNA and down-regulation of oncogene c-myc by quindoline derivatives，2007, , 1465-1474.

4. Synthesis and evaluation of quindoline derivatives as G-quadruplex inducing and stabilizing ligands and potential inhibitors of telomerase，2005, , 7315.

5. Senesence and telomere shortening induced by novel potent G-quadruplex interactive agents, quindoline derivatives, in human cancer cell lines. , 2006, , 503.

6. Inhibition of myc promoter and telomerase activity and induction of delayed apoptosis by SYUIQ-5, a novel G-quadruplex interactive agent in leukemia cells, 2007, 1-3.

7. G-quadruplexes: a target for anti-cancer drug design, 2008, , 690-713

8. Synthesis and evaluation of curcumin analogues as potential thioredoxin reductase inhibitors, ., 2008, , 8035-8041.

9. Synthesis, cytotoxic activities and structure-activity relationships of topoisomerase I inhibitors: Indolizinoquinoline-5,12-dione derivatives, . 2008, , 4617-4325.

10. 9-N-Substituted berberine derivatives: Stabilization of G-quadruplex DNA and down-regulation of oncogene c-myc, ., 2008,, 7582-7591.

11. 9-Substituted berberine derivatives as G-quadruplex stabilizing ligands in telomeric DNA, . 2007, , 5493-5501.

12. Synthesis and evaluation of 9-O-substituted berberine derivatives containing aza-aromatic terminal group as highly selective telomeric G-quadruplex stabilizing ligands, ., 2009, , 3414-3417.

13. Synthesis and antimultidrug resistance evaluation of icariin and its derivatives, ., 2009, , 4237-4240.

14. Inhibition of thioredoxin reductase by curcumin analogs, ., 2008, , 2214-2218.

15. Design, synthesis and evaluation of isaindigotone derivatives as acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase inhibitors, ., 2008,, 3790-3793.

16. A Facile Synthesis of Novel Heteropolycyclic Pyrazines and Oxazoles Mechanistic Studies of 2,3-Dihydrobenzo[de]chromene-7,8-dione with Amines, , 2008, , 1773-1778.

17. Oxoisoaporphine Alkaloid Derivatives: Synthesis, DNA Binding Affinity and Cytotoxicity, ., 2008, , 973-980.

18. Synergetic inhibition of metal ions and genistein on a-glucosidase，2004, , 46-50.

19. Derivatives of oxoisoaporphine alkaloids: A novel class of selective acetycholinesterase inhibitors, .. 2007, 3765-3768.

20. Synergetic inhibition of genistein and a-glucose on a-glucosidase，.. 2004, , 2947-2950.

21. Synthesis of Zwitterionic 4-Hydroxycoumarin Derivatives through a Unique Reaction of 4-Hydroxycoumarins with - Benzoquinone and Pyridine，, 2004, , 4853.

22. Novel synthesis of -nephthothiophenequinone derivatives Regioselective via regioselective Diels-Alder reaction, , 2005, 9097-9101.

23. An intriguing reaction of 4-hydroxycoumarins with 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyanobenzoquinone，, 2005, , 3087-3090.

24. The unique regioselectivity in the formation of disubstituted-1,4-benzoquinones generated from the reaction of 4-hydroxycoumarins with 1,4-benzoquinone， 2006, , 6757u20136760.

25. Facile preparation of new unsymmetrical curcumin derivatives by solid-phase synthesis strategy，2006, 4085-4089.

26. One-pot synthesis of 5,6-dihydroxylated benzofuran derivatives，2006, 47, 2615-2618.

27. Synthesis of novel dihydrofuro pyridinone derivatives : oxidation coupling of 3-hydroxy-4(1H)-pyridinone with β-dicarbonyl compounds， 2005, , 5085-5088.

28. Oxoisoaporphine alkaloid derivatives:synthesis, DNA bimding affinity and cytotoxicity, 2007, .

29. Spectroscopic studies of DNA binding modes of cation-substituted anthrapyrazoles derived from emodin, 2007, 1169-1175.

30. Synthesis, DNA binding and cytotoxity of new pyrazole emodin derivatives，2006, 1041-1047.

31. a-Glucosidase inhibition of natural curcuminoids and curcumin analogs,2006, , 213-218.

32. Synthesis and biological evaluation of functionalized coumarins as acetycholinesterase inhibitors，2005, , 1307-1315.

33. The Molecular Mechanisms Involved in the Cytotoxicity of Alkannin Derivatives2005, , 1341-1345.

34. Synthesis and Cytotoxicity Study of Alkannin Derivatives， 2004, , 755-764.

35. Apoptosis-inducing activity of new pyrazole emodin derivatives in Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma HepG2 cells, . 2007,, 1113-1116.

36. Synthesis and Cytotoxicity of 9-Substitued benzo[de]chromene-7,8-dione and 5-benzyl-9-Substitued benzo[de]chromene-7,8-dione，2006, , 769-772.