Oliver Xi CHEN (陈樨)
Date of Birth: 31 Oct. 2002
Hometown: Nanjing, Jiangsu, P. R. China
Tel.: +44 (0) 7962 647055
E-mail: xichenchem@njfu.edu.cn, xxc397@student.bham.ac.uk
Office: Room 118, Margery Fry Building.
Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT
Education
- 2017-2020: Nanjing Jiangning Senior High School
- 2018-2019: Study for 33rd Chinese Chemistry Olympiad (CChO)
- Advisor: Dr. Jiawei Xu and Dr. Yihan Tang
- 2020-2024: BEng. in Materials Chemistry
- College of Science, Nanjing Forestry University
- Advisor: Prof. Mengtao Ma
- Since 2024: MSc. in Chemistry by Research
- School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham
- Advisor: Dr. Dwaipayan Chakrabarti
Employment
- Since 2023: Research Assistant
- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University
- Advisor: Prof. Haiyan Wei
Research Interests
- Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
- Photochemistry
- Multiscale Models for Complex Chemical Systems (QM/MM)
Publications
14. Yang Huang*; Jiaqi Xu; Xi Chen; Yihong Liu; Hainan Wang; Weiya Wang; Yue Liu*; Ying Zhao; Haiyan Wei*, Highly interweaved carbonaceous interlayer synchronously decorated by foreign atoms and metals for adsorbing and catalyzing polysulfides in lithium-sulfur batteries. Carbon 2025, 231, 119739.
13. Yajie Meng; Xi Chen; Yingqi Li; Yunlong Shang; Yulin Guo; Yong Wu*; Haiyan Wei*; Jiawei Xu*, Marcus Inverted Region in Organic Long-Persistent Luminescence Host-Guest Systems Designed from Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Molecule: A Mechanism Study. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2024, ASAP.
12. Xi Chen; Xueyuan Yan*; Zihan Liu; Tao Yuan; Caijie Bu; Yunlong Shang; Yong Wu; Haiyan Wei*; Jiawei Xu*, Electronic Structure Determines Geometry: Bond Length Alternating in Cyclo[2n]carbons. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2024, 128 (41), 8825-8832.
11. Xiaotian Zhang; Xi Chen; Zhoujie Zhang; Tao Yuan; Xueyuan Yan; Min Fang*; Yong Wu*; Jiawei Xu*, Why is Acyl Fluoride Favored in NHC/Photoredox Catalysis? Journal of Catalysis 2024, 439, 115776.
10. Xuguang Zhang; Kai Lu; Xi Chen; Guanxin Su; Xiaofei Rong; Mengtao Ma*, Hydroboration and Hydrosilylation of Alkenes Catalyzed by the Unsymmetrical Magnesium Methyl Complex. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2024, 22, 5353-5360.
9. Kai Lu; Hui Qiu; Xi Chen; Taoyue Yuan; Fei Xue*; Mengtao Ma*, Synthesis of Asymmetrical β-Diketiminate Magnesium Methyl Complexes and their Catalytic Application in Cyanosilylation of Ketones. Journal of Molecular Structure 2024, 1295, 136796.
8. Ke Zhang; Xi Chen (co-first); Zhoujie Zhang; Caijie Bu; Yong Wu*; Jiawei Xu*, Exploring α Electron-Deficiency Induced [1,2]-Fluorine Migration. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2023, 21, 8675-8689.
7. Kai Lu; Haoqi Qu; Xi Chen; Hui Qiu; Jing Zheng*; Mengtao Ma*, Catalyst-free and Solvent-free Hydroboration of Alkynes and Alkenes with Catecholborane. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry 2023, 43 (6), 2197-2205.
6. Kang Lv, Zixi Xie, Xi Chen, Weiwei Yao*, and Mengtao Ma*, Catalyst-Free Green Synthesis of Phthalazinones at Room Temperature. Heterocycles 2023, 106 (1),135-149. (Note: This article cannot be found since Heterocycles was suspended as December 2023.)
5. Xingxuan Xia; Xi Chen; Binlin Zhao*; Yu Yuan*, Iron-catalyzed Intermolecular C-C Bond Vinylation of Cycloketoximes Promoted by Diboron. Tetrahedron 2023, 130, 133179.
4. Jialiang Chen; Chichao Li; Xi Chen; Xuming Zhang; Hongbing Jia; Zhenyang Luo; Yanlong Luo*, Insights into the Preparation and Performance of SiO2@graphene Oxide/epoxidized Solution-polymerized Styrene Butadiene Rubber Composites through Experiments and Molecular Simulations. Journal of Applied Polymer Science 2022, 139 (26), e52432.
3. Man Luo; Jinyi Shi; Xi Chen; Zhenghan Guo; Haoqi Qu; Weiwei Yao*; Junling Song*; Mengtao Ma*, Calcium-Catalyzed Hydroboration of Alkenes. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2022, 10 (15), 5015–5023.
2. Rongji Zhu; Xi Chen (co-first); Na Shu; Yunlong Shang; Yichen Wang; Pu Yang; Yihan Tang; Fei Wang*; Jiawei Xu*, Computational Study of Photochemical Relaxation Pathways of Platinum(II) Complexes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2021, 125 (47), 10144-10154.
1. Man Luo; Yi Qin; Xi Chen; Qian Xiao; Binlin Zhao; Weiwei Yao*; Mengtao Ma*, ZnBr2-Catalyzed Dehydrogenative Borylation of Terminal Alkynes. The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2021, 86 (23), 16666–16674.
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