团簇化学；纳米有机催化；小分子/纳米药物；化学/生物传感。

1. Wang, Mengyue^$; Zhang, Shengye^$; Gong, Yue; Zhang, Wangyang; Wang, Yu; Chen, Yupeng; Zheng, Qiang; Liu, Zhipan*; Tang, Cen*. Highly Stable Carboranyl Ligated Gold Nano-Catalysts for Regioselective Aromatic Bromination. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. DOI:10.1002/anie.202409283.

2. Wang, Mengyue^$; Chen, Yu^$; Tang, Cen*. Recent Advances in Ligand Engineering for Gold Nanocluster Catalysis: Ligand Library, Ligand Effects and Strategies. Chem Asian J. 2023, 18, e202300463. (Invited Contribution to The 60th Anniversary of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.) 

Before Independence:

1. Tang, Cen; Ku, Kanghee; Luo, Shao-Xiong; Concellón, Alberto; Wu, You-Chi; Lu, Ru-Qiang; Swager, Timothy*. Chelating Phosphine Ligand Stabilized AuNPs in Methane Detection. ACS Nano. 2020, 14, 11605-11612.

2. Tang, Cen; Zhang, Jiji; Zhang, Jie; Xie, Zuowei*. Regioselective Nucleophilic Alkylation/Arylation of B–H Bonds in o-Carboranes: An Alternative Method for Selective Cage Boron Functionalization. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 16423-16427.

3. Tang, Cen; Zhang, Jiji; Xie, Zuowei*. Direct Nucleophilic Substitution Reaction of Cage B-H by Grignard Reagents: A New Route to Regioselective B(4)-Alkylation of o-Carboranes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 8642-8646. (Inside Cover)

4. Tang, Cen; Xie, Zuowei*. Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions of o-Carboranyl with Aryl Iodides: Facile Synthesis of 1-Aryl-o-Carboranes and 1,2-Diaryl-o-Carboranes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 7662-7665.

5. Zhang, Jie^$; Tang, Cen^$; Xie, Zuowei*. Cascade Cyclization of 1-Arylethynyl-2-alkyl-o-Carboranes via Magnesium-Mediated sp3 C-H Activation: Efficient Synthesis of Carborane-Fused Cyclopentanes. Chem. Sci. 2020. 11, 9925-9929.

^$contributes equally; *corresponding author.