Biography

• Research Associate Professor, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University (2020-now)

• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco (2016–2020)

• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles (2015–2016)

• Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, Peking University (2015)

• B.S. in Organic Chemistry, Peking University (2010)

Research Interests

Direct synthesis of nitrogen-containing organic compounds from dinitrogen gas, bypassing ammonia intermediates

Selected Publications

1. Xiao Chen, Gao-Xiang Wang, Ze-Jie Lv, Junnian Wei*, Zhenfeng Xi, “Monomethylation and -protonation of Lutetium Dinitrogen Complex”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 17624–17628.

2. Gao-Xiang Wang*, Chunxiao Shan, Wang Chen, Botao Wu, Peng Zhang, Junnian Wei*, Zhenfeng Xi, Shengfa Ye*, “Unusual Electronic Structures of an Electron Transfer Series of [Cr(μ-η1:η1-N2)Cr]0/1+/2+”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202315386.

3. Gao-Xiang Wang, Zhu-Bao Yin, Junnian Wei*, Zhenfeng Xi*, “Dinitrogen Activation and Functionalization Affording Chromium Diazenido and Hydrazido Complexes”, Acc. Chem. Res. 2023, 56, 3211.

4. Li-Jun Wu, Qianru Wang, Jianping Guo, Junnian Wei*, Ping Chen*, Zhenfeng Xi*, “From Dinitrogen to N-Containing Organic Compounds: Using Li2CN2 as a Synthon”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202219298.

5. Rui Feng, Yang Jiang, Xianghui Shi, Xueli Wang, Wang Chen, Fei Xie, Jie Su, Junnian Wei*, Shengfa Ye*, Zhenfeng Xi*, “One-Electron Reduction of Constrained and Unsymmetric Diiron Dinitrogen Complexes”, CCS Chem. 2023, 5, 2473-2481.

6. Gao-Xiang Wang, Xueli Wang, Yang Jiang, Wang Chen, Chunxiao Shan, Peng Zhang, Junnian Wei*, Shengfa Ye*, Zhenfeng Xi*, “Snapshots of Early-Stage Quantitative N2 Electrophilic Functionalization”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 9746–9754.

7. Zhu-Bao Yin, Botao Wu, Gao-Xiang Wang, Junnian Wei*, Zhenfeng Xi*, “Dinitrogen Functionalization Affording Chromium Diazenido and Side-on η2-Hydrazido Complexes”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 7065–7070.

8. Xueli Wang, Yixi Wang, Yue Wu, Gao-Xiang Wang, Junnian Wei*, Zhenfeng Xi, “Syntheses and Characterizations of Hetero-Bimetallic Chromium-Dinitrogen Transition-Metal Complexes”, Inorg. Chem. 2023, 62, 18641–18648.

9. Xianghui Shi, Qianru Wang, Chao Qin, Li-Jun Wu, Yuanjin Chen, Gao-Xiang Wang, Yongli Cai, Wenbo Gao, Teng He, Junnian Wei*, Jianping Guo*, Ping Chen*, Zhenfeng Xi*, “Synthesis of Pyrimidines from Dinitrogen and Carbon”, Natl. Sci. Rev. 2022, 9, nwac168.

10. Mingdong Zhong, Xianlu Cui, Botao Wu, Gao-Xiang Wang, Wen-Xiong Zhang, Junnian Wei*, Lili Zhao*, Zhenfeng Xi*, “Dinitrogen Functionalization Affording Structurally Well-Defined Cobalt Diazenido Complexes”, CCS Chem. 2022, 4, 532–539.