EDUCATION

2009-2014, State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), Shanghai, China (with Prof. Liang Deng).

2005-2009, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, China.

ACADEMIC CAREER

2020- , Professor (tenure-track), State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.

2018-2019, Postdoctoral associate, RIKEN, Wako, Japan (With Prof. Zhaomin Hou, JSPS Fellow).

RESEARCH AREAS

1)     Organometallic Chemistry and Organometallic Catalysis

2)     Small Molecule Activation and Polymerization

HONORS AND AWARDS

2018     JSPS Felloship, Japan.

2016     Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Germany. 

2013     M. Braun Award, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Chuangchuang Xu, Fanshu Cao, Xingge Chen, Ming Chen, Zhenbo Mo*. Crystalline Silylene-Stabilized Diboryne and Siladiborirene. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 1207−1213.

2. Xi Chen, Dezhi Yang, Fanshu Cao, Zhenbo Mo*. Multielectron Reduction of Nitrosoarene via Aluminylene-Silylene Cooperation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 29278−29284.

3. Binglin Lei, Fanshu Cao, Ming Chen, Xuyang Wang, Zhenbo Mo*. Bisgermylene-Stabilized Stannylone: Catalytic Reduction of Nitrous Oxide and Nitro Compounds via Element-Ligand Cooperativity. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 17817−17826.

4. Zihao Qiao, Xueyan Li, Ming Chen, Fanshu Cao, Zhenbo Mo*. Double 1,2-Carbon Migration at Mixed Heavier Sn=Ge Vinylidenes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202401570.

5. Xi Chen, Yin Yang, Hao Wang, Zhenbo Mo*. Cooperative Bond Activation and Catalytic CO2 Functionalization with a Geometrically Constrained Bis(silylene)-Stabilized Borylene. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 7011−7020.

6. Ming Chen, Zhaoyin Zhang, Jun Liu, Gongyu Li, Lili Zhao, Zhenbo Mo*. Isolation and Reactivity of Homoleptic Diphosphene Lead Complexes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202312837.

7. Ming Chen, Zhaoyin Zhang, Zihao Qiao, Lili Zhao, Zhenbo Mo*. An Isolable Bis(Germylene)-Stabilized Plumbylone. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202215146.

8. Shaozhi Du, Fanshu Cao, Xi Chen, Hua Rong, Haibin Song, Zhenbo Mo*. A Silylene-Stabilized Ditin(0) Complex and Its Conversion to Methylditin Cation and Distannavinylidene. Nat. Commun. 2023, 14, 7474−7483.