2011年本科毕业于兰州大学化学专业，2015年博士毕业于香港中文大学化学系，师从英国皇家化学学会院士周克勋（Chow Hak-Fun）教授。目前已在国际知名学术期刊Chemistry–A European Journal, The Journal of Organic Chemistry上发表论文3篇，其中一篇被选为Chemistry–A European Journal期刊的封面论文。2016年1月起就职于海南大学材料与化工学院，并加入张玉苍教授课题组。
1.W.-R. Xu, G.-J. Xia, H.-F. Chow*, X.-P. Cao*, D. Kuck*,Facial Assembly of Chiral Metallosquares Using Enantiopure Tribenzotriquinacene Corner Motifs,Chem. Eur. J.2015, 21, 12011–12017.（封面文章，IF: 5.7）2.W.-R. Xu, H.-F. Chow*, X.-P. Cao*, D. Kuck*,Regiocontrolled Synthesis and Optical Resolution of Mono-, Di-, and Trisubstituted Tribenzotriquinacene Derivatives: Key Building Blocks for Further Assembly into Molecular Squares and Cubes, J. Org. Chem.2014,79，9335–9346.（IF: 4.7）3.T. Wang, Y.-F. Zhang, Q.-Q. Hou, W.-R. Xu, X.-P. Cao*, H.-F. Chow*, D. Kuck*, C3-Symmetrical Tribenzotriquinacene Derivatives: Optical Resolution through Cryptophane Synthesis and Supramolecular Self-Assembly into Nanotubes, J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 1062–1069.(IF: 4.7)
