EDUCATION
1997-2001, Department of Chemistry, University of Goettingen, Germany.Received PhD degree in May, 2001 (with Prof. Herbert W. Roesky).
1990-1993, Department of Chemistry, Nankai University. Received MS degree in June, 1993 (with Prof. Ji-Tao Wang)
1986-1990, Department of Chemistry, Northwest University, Xi’an, CHINA.Received BSc Degree in June, 1990.
ACADEMIC CAREER
2004-, Professor (the director since 2014), State Key Laboratory of Elemento-organic Chemistry, NankaiUniversity, Tianjin, CHINA.
2001-2004, Postdoctoral associate, Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley and Davis, U.S.A. (with Prof. J. Arnold and P hilip P. Power).
1993-1997, Engineer, Research Institute of Petroleum Processing, SINOPEC, Beijing, China.
RESEARCH AREAS
(1) Element organic chemistry and Organometallic chemistry.
(2) Synthetic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2007 Award for National Outstanding Young Scientist (the National Natural Science Foundation of China)
2022 The Ministry of Education's First class Natural Science Award
EDITORAL BOARDS
2009- Member, Editorial Advisory Board of Applied Organometallic Chemistry
2011- Member, Editorial Advisory Board of HuaxueXuebao .
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Yazhou Ding, Wen Jin, Jianying Zhang, and Chunming Cui*, Reaction of a Disilyne with Internal Alkynes: Reversible [1 + 2] Cycloaddition and Formation of Strained Unsaturated Silacycles, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 18831–18835.
Xiaoming Xu, Ailin Gao, Xiufang Xu*, Jianfeng Li*, and Chunming Cui*, Selective Access to Silacyclopentanes and Homoallylsilanes by La-Catalyzed Hydrosilylations of 1-Aryl Methylenecyclopropanes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 4060–4067.
Chenxi Duan and Chunming Cui*, Boryl-substituted low-valent heavy group 14 compounds, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2024, 53, 361-379.
Chuanzhi Wei, Lulu Guo, Cheng Zhu, Chunming Cui*, Boryloxy Titanium Complex-Enabled High Polar Monomer Contents in Catalytic Copolymerization of Olefins, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, e202414464.
Yang Li, Shicheng Dong, Junjie Guo, Yazhou Ding, Jianying Zhang, Jun Zhu*, and Chunming Cui*, π-Aromaticity Dominating in a Saturated Ring: Neutral Aromatic Silicon Analogues of Cyclobutane-1,3-diyls, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 21159–21164.
Lulu Guo, Jianying Zhang, Chunming Cui*, Synthesis and Reactivity of Aluminum Disialcyclopropene. Cyclic AlSi2 Delocalized 2 System, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 27911–27915.
Yazhou Ding,Yang Li,Jianying Zhang, Chunming Cui*, Synthesis of an N-Heterocylic Boryl-Stabilized Disilyne and Its Application to the Activation of Dihydrogen and C−H Bonds, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202205785.
Yazhou Ding, Jianying Zhang, Yang Li, and Chunming Cui*, Disilicon Dicarbonyl Complex: Synthesis and Protonation of CO with O-H Bond, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 20566–20570.
Wufeng Chen，Chunhui Jiang, Jianying Zhang, Jiaqi Xu, Lin Xu, Xiufang Xu, Jianfeng Li*, and Chunming Cui*, Rare-Earth-Catalyzed Selective 1,4-Hydrosilylation of Branched 1,3-Enynes Giving Tetrasubstituted Silylallenes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 12913–12918.
Miao Tian, Jianying Zhang, Hao Yang, and Chunming Cui*, Isolation of a 1-Magnesium-2,3-disilacyclopropene and a Related Bis(disilenide), J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 4131−4135.
