Biography

• 2021.1-present  Boya Distinguished Professor, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, China.

• 2018.1-2020.12  Boya Distinguished Professor, Institute of Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, China.

• 2016.8-2017.12  Professor, Institute of Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, China.

• 2008.8-2008.9  Visiting Scientist,Organometallic Chemistry Laboratory, RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Wako, Japan.

• 2007.10-2016.7  Associate Professor, Institute of Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, China.

• 2004.11-2007.10  Postdoctoral Fellow, Organometallic Chemistry Laboratory, RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Wako, Japan. Supervisor: Prof. Zhaomin Hou.

• 2004.1-2004.3  JST Researcher, Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. Supervisor: Prof. Tamotsu Takahashi.

• 2002.10-2004.10 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, China. Supervisor: Prof. Zhenfeng Xi.

• 1999.9-2002.9  Ph.D., College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. Supervisor: Prof. Li-Cheng Song

• 1996.9-1999.6  M.Sc., School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangxi Normal University, Guangxi, China. Supervisor: Prof. Wenbang Huang

• 1992.9-1996.7  B.Sc., College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Hunan, China.

Research Interests

• Design, synthesis and application of new rare-earth metallacycles and photocatalysts

• Activation and transformation of white phosphorus by rare-earth metals and beyond

• Machine learning driven by synthetic chemistry of organometallic complexes andelemento-organic compounds

Teaching

• Organometallic Chemistry

• Synthetic Chemistry (II)

Awards

• 2024 The Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award (2/5)

• 2024 The Innovation Award of the first "WuChuangyuan" International Photochemistry and Green Manufacturing Technology Innovation Competition

• 2019 Baosteel Excellent Teacher Award

• 2019 Excellent Doctoral Thesis Instructor of Peking University

• 2017 The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China

• 2016 Academicians Yang Fuqing-Wang Yangyuan Named Excellent Teaching and Research Award

• 2015 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award

Academic Activities

• 2023-Present Member of Editorial Advisory Board,Organometallics

• 2019-Present Associate Editor,Green Synthesis & Catalysis, Elsevier B. V.

• 2019-Present Member of Editorial Board,Chinese Chemical Letters(CCL)

• 2019-Present Young Member of Editorial Board,Chemical Research inChinese Universities

• 2018-Present Member of Editorial Board,ChineseJournal of Organic Chemistry

• 2017-Present Editorial Board Member of Rising Stars,Chinese Journal of Chemistry

• 2024-Present Visiting Professor, Wuhan Institute of Technology

• 2024-Present Member of Academic Committee of Key Laboratory of Development and Application of ionized Rare Earth Resources of Ministry of Education, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology

• 2023-Present Vice Chairman of the Phosphorus Chemistry Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society

• 2023-Present Member of the Organic Chemistry Committee of the 31st Council of the Chinese Chemical Society

• 2023-Present Member of the Academic Committee of the Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Analysis of the Ministry of Education, Hunan Normal University

• 2020-Present Senior Member of Chinese Chemical Society

• 2020-Present Member of Rare Earth Molecular Materials and supramolecular Devices Professional Committee of Rare Earth Society of China

• 2019-Present Member of the 18th Council of Beijing Chemical Society

• 2018-Present Visiting Professor, Hengyang Normal University

• 2017-Present Member of Academic Committee of Key Laboratory of Organic Functional Molecule Synthesis and Application of Ministry of Education, Hubei University

• 2017-Present Visiting Professor of Guangxi Normal University

Selected Publications

1. Dajiang Huang, Wei Liu, Yu Zheng, Rui Feng, Zhengqi Chai, Junnian Wei, and Wen-Xiong Zhang*, Nonplanar Aromaticity of Dinuclear Rare-Earth Metallacycles, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 15609-15618.

2. Peifeng Mei, Zibin Ma, Yu Chen, Yue Wu, Wei Hao, Qinghua Fan, and Wen-Xiong Zhang*, Chiral Bisphosphine Ph-BPE Ligand: A Rising Star in Asymmetric Synthesis, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2024, 53, 6735-6778.

3. Xinlei Huangfu, Zhongzhen Wang, Yu Chen, Junnian Wei, Wei Liu*, and Wen-Xiong Zhang*, Recent Progress on the Functionalization of White Phosphorus in China, Natl. Sci. Rev. 2024,11, nwae162.

4. Miaomiao Zhu, Zhengqi Chai, Ze-Jie Lv, Tianyu Li, Wei Liu, Junnian Wei, and Wen-Xiong Zhang*, Selective Cleavage of the Strong or Weak C–C Bonds in Biphenylene Enabled by Rare-Earth Metals, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 6633-6638.

5. Ze-Jie Lv, Zhengqi Chai, Miaomiao Zhu, Junnian Wei, and Wen-Xiong Zhang*, Selective Coupling of Lanthanide Metallacyclopropenes and Nitriles via Azametallacyclopentadiene and η2-Pyrimidine Metallacycle, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 9151-9161.

6. Yu Zheng, Chang-Su Cao, Wangyang Ma,Tianyang Chen, Botao Wu, Chao Yu, Zhe Huang, Jianhao Yin, Han-Shi Hu*, Jun Li, Wen-Xiong Zhang*, and Zhenfeng Xi, 2-Butene Tetraanion Bridged Dinuclear Samarium(III) Complexes via Sm(II)-Mediated Reduction of Electron-Rich Olefins, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 10705-10714.

7. Nan Li, Botao Wu,Chao Yu, Tianyu Li, Wen-Xiong Zhang*, and Zhenfeng Xi*, Trishomoaromatic (B3N3Ph6) Dianion: Characterization and Two-Electron Reduction, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 8868-8872.

8. Ze-Jie Lv, Zhe Huang, Jinghang Shen, Wen-Xiong Zhang*, and Zhenfeng Xi, Well-Defined Scandacyclopropenes: Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 20547-20555.

9. Ze-Jie Lv, Zhe Huang, Wen-Xiong Zhang*, and Zhenfeng Xi*, Scandium-Promoted Direct Conversion of Dinitrogeninto Hydrazine Derivatives via N-C Bond Formation, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 8773-8777.

10. Shanshan Du, Jimin Yang, Jingyuan Hu, Zhengqi Chai, Gen Luo, Yi Luo*, Wen-Xiong Zhang*, and Zhenfeng Xi, Direct Functionalization of White Phosphorus to Cyclotetraphosphanes: Selective Formation of Four P−C Bonds, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 6843-6847.