Apr. 24th, Liao visited Dr. Wen-Jie Wei’s group at Wuhan Institute of Technology and presented a seminar.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
Apr. 23rd, Wen-Hao Deng successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations\uff01<\/p>\r\n
Apr. 10th-14th, the group participated in the 35th CCS congress (Chongqing).\u00a0 Liao gave an invited lecture, and Jia-Yi Chen gave an oral presentation.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
Jan. 23rd, the paper “Cooperation of Carboxylate and Sulfonate Ligands in a High-Efficiency Ru Catalyst for Electrocatalytic Ammonia Oxidation” (collaboration with Prof.\u00a0 Biaobiao Zhang at Westlake University) was published online in J. Am. Chem. Soc<\/em>. Congratulations to Jia-Yi Chen!<\/p>\r\n Jan. 7th-10th, Liao participated in the “Long Feng Science Forum: Symposium on Frontiers in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry” (Shenzhen), and Liao gave an invited talk.<\/p>\r\n Dec 24th, Liao visited\u00a0 Prof. Jin-Ping Qu’s group at Dalian University of Technology and presented a seminar.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n Dec 10th, Liao visited Assoc. Prof. Fan-Jun Zhang’s group at Qufu Normal University and presented a seminar.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n Dec 10th, Liao visited Prof. Tao Liu’s group at Jining University and presented a seminar.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n Nov 18th, the paper “Promoted O2 Activation at a CoIII Center for Significantly Improved Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction Reaction” (collaboration with Prof.\u00a0 Rui Cao at Shaanxi Normal University) was published online in J. Am. Chem. Soc<\/em>. Congratulations to Yu-Chen Cao!<\/p>\r\n Oct 24th-27th, Liao participated in the “International Conference of Computational Organic-synthesis Catalysis (ICCOC2025)” (Shenzhen), and Liao gave an invited talk.<\/p>\r\n Oct 21st-23rd, the group participated in the “International Symposium on Computational Catalysis Modeling” (Tianjin), and Liao gave an invited talk.<\/p>\r\n Oct 10th-13th, Liao participated in the “2025 International Conference on Photochemistry and Industry” (Wuhan), and Liao gave an invited talk.<\/p>\r\n Sep 18th-21st, the group participated in the “16th National Physical Organic Chemistry Congress” (Zhengzhou), and Liao gave an invited talk.<\/p>\r\n Sep 11th, the paper “A Dicobalt Diammine Complex as an Efficient Ammonia Oxidation Electrocatalyst” (collaboration with Prof.\u00a0 Da-Wei Yang at Dalian University of Technology) was published online in CCS Chem.<\/p>\r\n Aug. 15th-18th, Liao participated in the “13th National Organic Chemistry Congress” (Lanzhou), and gave an invited talk.<\/p>\r\n Jul. 1st-4th, Liao participated in the “9th International Conference of the Institut of Metal in Biologie of Grenoble on Fuel Synthesis: From Metalloproteins to Bio-inspired Models and Materials” (Grenoble, France) and gave an oral presentation.<\/p>\r\n Jul. 1st, the paper “Methylations with Methanol via Bioinspired Catalytic C\u2013O Bond Cleavage” (collaboration with Prof.\u00a0 You-Wei Xie at HUST) was published online in Nat. Commun.<\/em> Congratulations to Ya-Qi Wu!<\/p>\r\n Jun. 26th, the paper\u00a0 “Synergistic Iron\u2212Molybdenum Effects for Selective Electrocatalytic Reduction of Nitrite to Nitric Oxide” (collaboration with Prof. Wenguang Wang at Beijing Normal University and Prof. Shengfa Ye at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics) was published online in J. Am. Chem. Soc. <\/em>Congratulations to Xiao-Yi Yang!<\/p>\r\n Jun. 1st, the paper “Reaction Mechanism and Metal Selectivity of Human SAMHD1 Elucidated by QM\/MM Calculations” (collaboration with Prof. Edina Rosta at University College London, United Kingdom) was published online in ACS Catal. <\/em>Congratulations to Wen-Hao Deng!<\/p>\r\n May 8th, the paper\u00a0 “Electrochemical Ammonia Oxidation Catalyzed by a Ruthenium Complex with a Dangling Sulfonate Group” (collaboration with Prof. Biaobiao Zhang at Westlake University) was published online in ACS Catal. <\/em>Congratulations to Jia-Yi Chen!<\/p>\r\n Apr. 25th, Liao participated in the “Quantum Chemistry\u2014Now and Then” symposium, which celebrated Prof. Per E.M. Siegbahn’s 80th birthday (Stockholm,\u00a0 Sweden), and gave an invited lecture.<\/p>\r\n Apr. 19th-20th, Liao participated in the 3rd Youth Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Catalysis (Shanghai) and gave an invited lecture.<\/p>\r\n Apr. 18th, Liao visited Prof. Xiao-Song Xue’s group at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, CAS, and presented a seminar.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n Apr. 15th, the paper\u00a0 “Electrocatalytic Ammonia Oxidation by a Ruthenium Complex Bearing a Labile 2,6-pyridinedicarboxylate Ligand” (collaboration with Prof. Biaobiao Zhang at Westlake University) was published online in JACS Au. <\/em>Congratulations to Ya-Qiong Zhang!<\/p>\r\n Apr. 11th-13th, Liao participated in the 3rd National Academic Conference on Carbon Dioxide Resource Utilization (Xinxiang) and gave an invited lecture.<\/p>\r\n Mar. 6th, the paper\u00a0 “Palladium-Catalyzed Site-Selective Regiodivergent Carbocyclization of Di- and Trienallenes: A Switch between Substituted Cyclohexene and Cyclobutene” (collaboration with Prof. Fahmi Himo and Prof. Jan-E. Backvall at Stockholm University, Sweden) was published online in J. Am. Chem. Soc. <\/em>Congratulations to Jia-Yi Chen!<\/p>\r\n Feb. 11th, the paper\u00a0 “Design and Synthesis of Chiral Bidentate Phosphine-Free 2\u2011Hydroxypyridine-Oxazoline Ligands for Manganese-Catalyzed Hydrogenation” (collaboration with Asso. Prof. Mu-Wang Chen and Prof. Yong-Gui Zhou at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics) was published online in ACS Catal. <\/em>Congratulations to Ya-Qi Wu!<\/p>\r\n Nov. 6th-8th, Liao participated in the first Chinese Theoretical and Computational Organic Chemistry Conference (Nanjing) and gave an invited lecture.<\/p>\r\n Oct. 27th, the group organized the mini-symposium\u201cMethods and Applications in Computational Chemistry”.<\/p>\r\n Oct. 22nd-25th, the group participated in the International Symposium on the Future of Enzyme Modeling (Tianjin). Liao gave an invited lecture.<\/p>\r\n Oct. 11th-14th, Liao participated in the International Conference on Photochemistry and Industry (Wuhan) and gave an invited lecture.<\/p>\r\n Aug. 18th-22nd, the group participated in the 26th IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (Beijing). Liao gave an invited lecture.<\/p>\r\n Aug. 6th-9th, Liao participated in the 15th National Conference on Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (Changchun) and gave an invited lecture.<\/p>\r\n Jun. 15th-18th, the group participated in the 34th CCS congress (Guangzhou).\u00a0 Liao gave an invited lecture, Man Li gave an oral presentation, and Jia-Yi Chen won the best poster prize. Congratulations!<\/p>\r\n May 19th, Liao visited Prof. Qian Peng’s group at Nankai University and presented a seminar.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n May 17th, Die Bai and Cai-Yun Ding successfully defended their Master’s thesis. Congratulations\uff01<\/p>\r\n May 16th, Liao visited Prof. Rui-Bo Wu’s group at Sun Yat-sen University and presented a seminar.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n May 13th, the paper\u00a0 “Manipulating Iron(II) Carbonyl Intermediate for Efficient Carbon Dioxide Reduction” (collaboration with Prof. Li-Zhu Wu at Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, CAS) was published online in CCS Chem. <\/em>Congratulations to Han-Zhang Liu and Ya-Qiong Zhang!<\/p>\r\n May 9th, Jia-Yi Chen successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations\uff01<\/p>\r\n Apr. 22nd, the group organized the Chinese mini-symposium\u201cTheoretical Chemistry and Artificial Intelligence Chemistry”.<\/p>\r\n Apr. 19th-22nd, Liao participated in the International Conference on Theoretical and High-Performance Computational Chemistry 2024 (Wuhan) and gave an invited talk.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n Apr. 16th, the paper\u00a0 “Cobalt-Catalyzed Acceptorless Dehydrogenation of Primary Amines to Nitriles” (collaboration with Prof. Conghui Tang at HUST) was published online in J. Am. Chem. Soc. <\/em>Congratulations to Man Li and Cai-Yun Ding!<\/p>\r\n Mar. 29th-31th, Liao participated in the 2024 International Symposium on electrocatalysis and electrosynthesis (Tianjin) and gave an invited talk.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n Mar. 8th, the paper\u00a0 “Glycyl radical enzymes catalyzing dehydration of two isomers of N-methyl-4-hydroxyproline” (collaboration with Prof. Yan Zhang at Tianjin University) was published online in ACS Catal. <\/em>Congratulations to Yiqian Yang!<\/p>\r\n Feb. 16th, the paper\u00a0 “Accessing ladder-shape azetidine-fused indoline pentacycles through intermolecular regiodivergent aza-Patern\u00f2-B\u00fcchi reactions” (collaboration with Prof. Fang-Rui Zhong at HUST) was published online in Nat. Commun. <\/em>Congratulations to Tai-Ping Zhou!<\/p>\r\n Jan. 5th, the paper\u00a0 “Pivotal Role of Geometry Regulation on O\u2212O Bond Formation Mechanism of Bimetallic Water Oxidation Catalysts” (collaboration with Dr. Hong-Tao Zhang and Prof. Ming-Tian Zhang at Tsinghua University) was published online in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. <\/em>Congratulations to Ke-Lin Xian!<\/p>\r\n Dec. 15th, the paper\u00a0 “Asymmetric Auto-Tandem Palladium Catalysis for \u03b1,\u03b2-Unsaturated Lactones: Merging Olefin and Ester Hydrogenation” (collaboration with Prof. Yong-Gui Zhou at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics) was published online in CCS Chem. <\/em>Congratulations to Die Bai!<\/p>\r\n Dec. 6th, Wen-Hao Deng’s paper “Computational Exploration of Enzyme Promiscuity: Mechanisms of O2 and NO Reduction Activities of the Desulfovibrio gigas Flavodiiron Protein” was published online in ACS Catal<\/em>. Congratulations\uff01<\/p>\r\n Nov. 30th-Dec. 1st, Liao participated in the Trends in Enzyme Catalysis (Benicassim, Spain) and gave a 30-minute invited lecture.<\/p>\r\n Nov. 29th, Liao visited Prof. Gregori Ujaque’s group at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in Spain and presented a seminar.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n Nov. 16th, Liao visited Prof. Yong Wang’s group at Ningbo University and presented a seminar.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n Nov. 10th-12th, the group participated in the Youth Forum for multiscale modeling in biological systems (Tianjin). Prof. Liao gave a 20-minute invited lecture.<\/p>\r\n Nov. 10th, Liao visited Dr. Hong-Juan Wang’s group at Tianjin University of Technology and presented a seminar.<\/p>\r\n Oct. 20th-23rd, the group participated in the International Conference of Computational Organometallic Catalysis (Beijing). Liao gave a 25-minute invited lecture, and Man Li and Jiayi Chen won the best poster prizes. Congratulations!<\/p>\r\n Aug. 29th- Sep. 1st, the group participated in the 6th Quantum Bioinorganic Chemistry Conference (Warsaw, Poland). Prof. Liao gave a 20-minute oral presentation, and Wenhao Deng presented a poster.<\/p>\r\n Aug. 25th, Liao visited Prof. Chao Zhang’s group at Uppsala University in Sweden and presented a seminar.<\/p>\r\n Aug. 22nd-28th, Liao visited Prof. Fahmi Himo’s group at Stockholm University in Sweden and presented a seminar.<\/p>\r\n Jul. 21st-24th, the group participated in the 17th National Conference on Computer Chemistry of China (Xining).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n Jul. 11th, the paper\u00a0 “Design and Synthesis of Planar-Chiral Oxazole\u2013Pyridine N,N-Ligands: Application in Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Acetoxylative Cyclization” (collaboration with Prof. Yong-Gui Zhou at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics) was published online in ACS Catal. <\/em>Congratulations to Man Li!<\/p>\r\n Jun. 29th, Die Bai’s paper “Theoretical Study on the Rhodium-Catalyzed Electrochemical C\u2013H Phosphorylation: Insights into the Effect of Electro-oxidation on the Reaction Mechanism” was published online in ACS Catal<\/em>. Congratulations\uff01<\/p>\r\n Jun.\u00a0 25th, Liao visited Prof. Ming Lei’s group at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology and presented a seminar.<\/p>\r\n Jun. 16th-21st, the group participated in the 33rd CCS congress (Qingdao).\u00a0 Prof. Liao gave an invited lecture.<\/p>\r\n May 30th, Liao visited Prof. Sidian Li’s group at Shanxi University and presented a seminar.<\/p>\r\n May 27th, the group organized the Chinese symposium\u201cTheory and mechanism of sustainable catalysis\u201d\uff08\u534e\u4e2d\u79d1\u6280\u5927\u5b66\u5b66\u672f\u524d\u6cbf\u9752\u5e74\u56e2\u961f\u524d\u6cbf\u63a2\u7d22\u8bba\u575b\uff1a\u53ef\u6301\u7eed\u50ac\u5316\u7406\u8bba\u4e0e\u673a\u5236\u7814\u8ba8\u4f1a\uff09.<\/p>\r\n Apr. 22nd, Liao participated in the “Youth Forum on biomimetic catalytic synthesis” (Tianjin) and gave an invited talk.<\/p>\r\n Apr. 21st, Liao visited Prof. Xing Chen’s group at Tianjin University and presented a seminar.<\/p>\r\n Apr. 5th, the paper\u00a0 “Ring-closing C\u2013O\/C\u2013O metathesis of ethers with primary aliphatic alcohols” (collaboration with Prof. Youwei Xie at HUST) was published online in Nat. Commun. <\/em>Congratulations to Man Li!<\/p>\r\n Feb. 15th, the paper\u00a0 “Expanding Promiscuity of a Copper-Dependent Oxidase for the Enantioselective Cross-Coupling of Indoles” (collaboration with Prof. Fangrui Zhong at HUST) was published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.<\/em><\/p>\r\n Oct. 27th, the paper\u00a0 “Repurposing the Nitric Oxide Transport Hemoprotein\u2014Nitrophorin 2 for Olefin Cyclopropanation” (collaboration with Prof. Chunmao He at South China University of Technology) was published in ACS Catal.<\/em><\/p>\r\n Sep. 21st, the paper\u00a0 “Enantioselective [2+2]-cycloadditions with triplet photoenzymes” (collaboration with Prof. Yu-Zhou Wu and Prof. Fang-Rui Zhong at HUST, Prof. Xi Chen at Northwest University) was published in Nature<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\r\n Sep. 8th, the paper\u00a0 “Transition Metal-Free, Site-Selective C-F Arylation of Polyfluoroarenes via Electrophotocatalysis” (collaboration with Prof. Li-Zhu Wu at the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, CAS) was published in J. Am. Chem. Soc.<\/em><\/p>\r\n Aug. 19th-21st, Liao participated in the “3rd solar cell and solar fuel conference” (Dalian) and gave an invited talk.<\/p>\r\n May 26th, the paper\u00a0 “Catalytic Atroposelective C-H Amination of Indoles” (collaboration with Prof. Fang-Rui Zhong at HUST) was published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n May 25th, the paper\u00a0 “Anaerobic Hydroxyproline Degradation Involving C\u2013N Cleavage by a Glycyl Radical Enzyme” (collaboration with Prof. Yan Zhang at Tianjin University ) was published in J. Am. Chem. Soc.<\/em><\/p>\r\n May 16th, Le-Le Shi and Tai-Ping Zhou defended their Master’s thesis. Congratulations\uff01<\/p>\r\n May 13th, Wen-Jie Wei successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations\uff01<\/p>\r\n Apr. 13th, the paper\u00a0 “Cobalt-Catalyzed Selective Dearomatization of Pyridines to N\u2013H 1,4-Dihydropyridines” (collaboration with Prof. Wenguang Wang at Beijing Normal University) was published in ACS Catal.<\/em><\/p>\r\n Mar. 2nd, the paper\u00a0 “A Parent Iron Amido Complex in Catalysis of Ammonia Oxidation” (collaboration with Prof. Wenguang Wang at Beijing Normal University and Prof. Shengfa Ye at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics) was published in J. Am. Chem. Soc.<\/em><\/p>\r\n Feb. 14th, the paper\u00a0 “Trinuclear Nickel Catalyst (TNC-Ni) for Water Oxidation: Intramolecular Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Triggered Trimetallic Cooperative O-O Bond Formation” (collaboration with Asso. Prof. Ming-Tian Zhang at Tsinghua University) was published in CCS Chem.<\/em><\/p>\r\n Jan. 5th, the paper\u00a0 “Site-Selective N-1 and C-3 Heteroarylation of Indole with Het-eroarylnitriles by Organocatalysis under Visible Light” (collaboration with Prof. Li-Zhu Wu at the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, CAS) was published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n Nov. 18th, the paper\u00a0 “A Bioinspired Trinuclear Copper Catalyst for Water Oxidation with a Turnover Frequency up to 20,000 s\u22121<\/sup>” (collaboration with Asso. Prof. Ming-Tian Zhang at Tsinghua University) was published in J. Am. Chem. Soc.<\/em><\/p>\r\n Oct. 17th-20th, Liao participated in the conference “16th National Congress of Computer Chemistry” (Changchun) and gave an invited talk.<\/p>\r\n Oct. 15th, Liao visited Prof. Licheng Sun’s group at Westlake University and presented a seminar.<\/p>\r\n Sep. 28th, the paper\u00a0 “Mechanistic Insights Into Iron(II) Bis(pyridyl)amine-Bipyridine Skeleton for Selective CO2 Photoreduction” (collaboration with Prof. Li-Zhu Wu at Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, CAS) was published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.<\/em><\/p>\r\n September 5th-8th, Liao participated in the conference “11th International Mesostructured Materials Symposium” (Dalian) and gave an invited talk.<\/p>\r\n Jul. 23rd, Jia-Yi Chen received the visiting Ph.D. scholarship from the Chinese Scholarship Council, and she will join Prof. Fahmi Himo’s group at Stockholm University for two years. Congratulations\uff01<\/p>\r\n Jun. 3rd, Liao visited Prof. Rui Cao’s group at Shaanxi Normal University and presented a seminar.<\/p>\r\n May 25th, the paper\u00a0 “Iron Catalyzed Water Oxidation: O\u2010O Bond Formation via Intramolecular Two Oxo Interaction” (collaboration with Asso. Prof. Ming-Tian Zhang at Tsinghua University) was published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.<\/em> as a hot paper.<\/p>\r\n May 21st, Shuang Zhou and Xiang Wan successfully defended their Master’s thesis. Congratulations\uff01<\/p>\r\n May 20th, Yingying Li successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations\uff01<\/p>\r\n May 7th, Liao visited Prof. Wenguang Wang’s group at Beijing Normal University and presented a seminar.\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Apr. 18th-23rd, the group participated in the 32nd CCS congress in Zhuhai.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n May 14th, Yaqiong Zhang successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations\uff01<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n May 10th, Hui Pan successfully defended her Master’s thesis. Congratulations\uff01<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n May 8th, Yaqiong’s paper “Harnessing Noninnocent Porphyrin Ligand to Circumvent Fe-Hydride Formation in the Selective Fe-Catalyzed CO2 Reduction in Aqueous Solution” was published online in ACS Catal<\/em>. Congratulations\uff01<\/p>\r\n Mar. 6th, the paper\u00a0 “Controlled partial transfer hydrogenation of quinolines by cobalt-amido cooperative catalysis ” (collaboration with Prof. Wen-Guang Wang at Shandong University) was published in Nat. Commun.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Dec. 2nd, Liao visited Prof. Li-Zhu Wu’s group at Beijing Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry and gave a seminar.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Nov. 30th, Liao visited Prof. Yuanzhi Xia’s group at Wenzhou University and presented a seminar.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Sep. 24th, Liao visited Prof. Jeremy Harvey’s group at Leuven University (Leuven, Belgium) and presented a seminar.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Sep. 16th, Liao visited Prof. Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes’s group at the University of Porto (Porto, Portugal) and presented a seminar.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Sep. 4th-7th, Liao participated in the conference “Mechanistic Homogeneous Catalysis – A Meeting between Theory and Experiment” (Stockholm, Sweden)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Sep. 1st – 30th, Liao was a visiting professor at Prof. Evert-Jan Meijer’s group at the University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands), supported by the Chinese Scholarship Council.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Sep. 1st- Nov. 30th, Yaqiong Zhang was a visiting PhD student at Prof. Feliu Maseras’s group (Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, Spain), supported by Huazhong University of Science and Technology.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Jun. 11th, Liao visited Prof. Zeng-Hui Zhang’s group at NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry, NYU Shanghai, and presented a seminar.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n May 25th-26th, Liao participated in the conference “Youth Forum for Multi-scale Modeling of Biological Systems” (Xiamen) and gave a presentation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n May 17th, Liao participated in the conference “Computational Biology Symposium of Warshel Institute at CUHKSZ” (Shenzhen) and gave an invited talk.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n May 16th, Liao visited Prof. Lele Duan’s group at the Southern University of Science and Technology and presented a seminar.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Apr. 25th-28th, Liao participated in the “Symposium on Electronic Structure and Dynamics of Complex Systems” (Beijing) and gave an invited talk.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Mar. 1st, Liao visited Prof. Wenguang Wang’s group at Shandong University and presented a seminar.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n2025<\/h2>\r\n
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