1． He is in charge of research on the open projects of the State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering and the open projects of the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Functional Materials.
2. Participated in the research of two National Natural Science Foundation projects (Screening, Performance and Application of Epoxy Hydrolase in Chiral Synthesis No. 20272013, Directed Screening of Enzymes for New Drug Synthesis and Its Application Catalytic Performance Research No. 20272013), and research on the National 863 Project (Integrated Technology for Microwave Coupled Non-aqueous Enzyme Catalytic Synthesis of Food Additives No. 2006AA10Z310).
3. Hosted a number of enterprise horizontal research projects.
4. Hosted two school-level teaching and research projects at Jiangnan University. Won one first-class and one second-class teaching achievement award from Jiangnan University. Editor-in-chief of two textbooks.
He has published more than 30 papers, and nearly ten papers have been included in SCI. Apply for three invention patents. Representative works in recent years:
Liu Xiang, Zhang Baoli, Xia Yongmei, Xu Jianhe. Catalytic enantioselective reduction of aromatic ketones using celery stems. Acta Chimica Sinica, 2009, 67: 1492-1496.
Liu Xiang, Zhang Baoli, Xia Yongmei, Fang Zhijie, Xu Jianhe. Application of plant cells in asymmetric transformation of carbonyl-containing compounds. Progress in Chemistry, 2008, 20: 1108-1104
Zhang Wenhu, Liu Xiang*, Fang Yun, Fang Zhijie, Xu Jianhe. Cyclodextrin intervenes in yeast cells to catalyze the asymmetric reduction reaction of aromatic ketones. Molecular Catalysis, 2008, 22: 346-350.
Liu Xiang, Fang Zhijie, Xu Jianhe. Yeast Cells Catalyzing the asymmetric reduction reaction of aromatic ketones. Journal of Catalysis, 2006, 27: 20-24.
Liu Xiang, Zhang Wenhu, Xia Yongmei, Zhang Baoli, Liu Shirong. A yeast cell catalytically reduces aromatic ketones to prepare optically active alcohols Method. Chinese patent application CN200810019975.3 2008.
Liu Xiang, Yuan Weiguo, Chen Haibo, Pan Zhengguang. A method for microwave synthesis of α-hydroxyacetophenone series compounds. Chinese patent application CN200910027057X, 2009.
Liu Xiang, Liu Shirong, editors, "Organic Chemistry Experiments", Beijing: Chemical Industry Press, July 2007.
Liu Xiang, Wang Qiu'an, editors , "Chemistry of Natural Products" (Second Edition, National Eleventh Five-Year Plan Textbook), Beijing: Chemical Industry Press, March 2010.
Liu Xiang, Liu Shirong, Sun Peidong, "Organic Chemistry Experiments" , Second Prize for Teaching Achievements of Jiangnan University, 2008.
Chen Mingqing, Liu Shirong, Liu Xiang, "Research and Practice of Comprehensive Chemistry Experiments with Engineering Characteristics", First Prize for Teaching Achievements of Jiangnan University, 2005 .