Education   

1993-1996    Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University. Received Ph.D. degree in June, 1996 (with Prof. Ru-Yu Chen).

1988-1991   Institute of Organic Synthesis, Central China Normal University.Received M. S. degree in June, 1991 (with Prof. Jing-Ling Zhang).

1980-1983   Department of Chemistry, Hanjiang Normal University, 1983 (with Prof. Xi-Feng Tang).    

Academic Career 

2003-           Professor, Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, China 

1999-2003   Postdoctoral associate, NEDO fellow, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Sciencen and Technology, Japan (with Prof. Toshiyasu Sakakura)

(1)     Carbon dioxide chemistry

(2)     Green chemistry

(2)     Biomass conversion

Honors & Awards 
2011    Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)

2016    Bentham Ambassador

2018    Max-Plank-Institute lectureship

2019    Distinguished visiting professor in CSIRO (The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia)

Organized Conferences

2019, The 1st National Conference on Carbon Dioxide Utilization, Nov. 8th-10th, Tianjin, CHINA    

2011, CO₂ Chemistry Symposium (Virtual Meeting), March 27th, Tianjin, CHINA  

Professional Memberships 

2012-  Series Editor, Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology (Springer).

2013-  Member, Editorial Board of Journal of CO₂ Utilization.

2015-2021  Editor-in-chief of Current Organic Synthesis.

2015-  Member, Editorial Advisory Board of Mini-reviews in Organic Chemistry.

2016-  Member, Editorial Advisory Board of CRC Press “Green Syntheses”.

2016-  Member, Editorial Board of Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry.

2018-  Member, Editorial Board of Chinese Science Bulletin.

2020-  Member, Editorial Board of Green Chemical Engineering

2021-  Member, Editorial Advisory Board of ChemistryOpen.

2022-  Associate Editor of Frontier of Chemistry.

Selected Publications

1. Zhi-Wen Yang, Jin-Mei Chen, Li-Qi Qiu, Wen-Jun Xie, Liang-Nian He*, Molecular Engineering of Metal Complexes for Electrocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reducton: From Adjustment of Intrinsic Activity to Molecular Immobilization, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202205301
   

2. Fang-Yu Ren, Kaihong Chen, Li-Qi Qiu, Jin-Mei Chen, Donald J. Darensbourg*, Liang-Nian He*, Amphiphilic Polycarbonate Micellar Rhenium Catalysts for Efficient Photocatalytic CO₂ Reduction in Aqueous Media, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202200751. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202200751.

3. Mei-Yan Wang, Xin Jin, Xiao-Fei Wang, Shu-Mei Xia, Yue Wang, Shou-Ying Huang, Ying Li, Liang-Nian He*, Xinbin Ma*, Copper‐Catalyzed and Proton‐Directed Selective Hydroxymethylation of Alkynes with CO₂, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 3984-3988.

4. Chun-Shuai Cao, Shu-Mei Xia, Zhen-Jun Song, Hang Xu, Ying Shi, Liang-Nian He*, Peng Cheng, and Bin Zhao* Highly Efficient Conversion and Reaction Mechanism of Propargylic Amines and CO₂ Catalyzed by Eco-Friendly Noble-Metal-Free [Zn116] Nanocages, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 8586-8593.

5. Xiao-Fang Liu, Xiao-Ya Li, Chang Qiao, Hong-Chen Fu, Liang-Nian He*, Betaine Catalysis for Hierarchical Reduction of CO₂ with Amine and Hydrosilane to Formamide, Aminal and Methylamine, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 7425-7429.

6. Liu, A.-H.; Ma, R.; Yang, Z.-Z.; He, L.-N.^* Equimolar CO₂ Capture by N-Substituted Amino Acid Salts and Subsequent Conversion, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 11306-11310.

7. Hang Xu, Xiao-Fang Liu, Chun-Shuai Cao, Bin Zhao*, Peng Cheng and Liang-Nian He*, A Porous Metal–Organic Framework Assembled by [Cu₃₀] Nanocages: Serving as Recyclable Catalysts for CO₂ Fixation with Aziridines, Advanced Sci.2016,3(11), 1600048.

8. Yang, Z.-Z.; He, L.-N.^*; Zhao, Y.-N.; Yu, B. Highly Efficient SO₂ Absorption and Its Subsequent Utilization by Weak Base/Polyethylene Glycol Binary System, Environ Sci. Technol. 2013, 47, 1598-1605.
   

9. Yang, Z.-Z.; He, L.-N.^*; Liu, A.-H.; Yu, B. Carbon dioxide utilization with C-N bond formation: carbon dioxide capture and subsequent conversion,Energy Environ. Sci.2012, 5, 6602-6639.

10. Yang, Z.-Z.; He, L.-N.^*; Yu, B. CO₂ capture and activation by superbase/polyethylene glycol and its subsequent conversion, Energy Environ Sci. 2011, 4, 3971-3975.