1) Organometallic Chemistry and Organometallic Catalysis

2) Small molecule Activation and Bioinorganic Chemistry

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

2021-  Professor(tenure-track),State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry,Nankai  University, Tianjin, CHINA.

2020-2021 Professor(tenure-track),Institute of Elemento-organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, CHINA.

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

2016-2018 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry, Technische Universitaet Berlin   Berlin, German (with Prof. Matthias Driess, Humboldt Fellow).

2014-2016 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford,UK (with Prof. Simon Aldridge).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Zhenbo Mo, ********, Liang Deng* Anchoring Silyl Donors on N-Heterocyclic Carbene via Cobalt-Mediated Silylation of Benzylic C-H Bond Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 10845-10849.

 2. Zhenbo Mo, Takanori Shima, Zhaomin Hou* Synthesis and Diverse Transformations of a Dinitrogen Dititanium Hydride Complex Bearing Rigid Acridane-Based PNP-Pincer Ligands, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 132, 8635– 8644.

3. Zhenbo Mo, Liang Deng* Open-Shell Iron Hydrocarbyl Complexes Coord. Chem. Rev. 2017, 350, 285-299.

4. Zhenbo Mo, Tibor Szilvási, Yu-Peng Zhou, Shenglai Yao, Matthias Driess* An Intramolecular Silylene Borane Capable of Facile Activation of Small Molecules, Including Metal-Free Dehydrogenation of Water Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 3699-3702.

5. Zhenbo Mo, Arnab Rit, Jesús Campos, Eugene L Kolychev, Simon Aldridge* Catalytic B-N Dehydrogenation Using Frustrated Lewis Pairs: Evidence for a Chain-Growth Coupling Mechanism J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 3306-3309.

6. Zhenbo Mo, Eugene L Kolychev, Arnab Rit, Jesús Campos, Haoyu Niu, Simon Aldridge* Facile Reversibility by Design: Tuning Small Molecule Capture and Activation by Single Component Frustrated Lewis Pairs J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 12227-12231.

7. Zhenbo Mo, Jie Xiao, Yafei Gao, Liang Deng* Regio- and Stereoselective Hydrosilylation of Alkynes Catalyzed by Three-Coordinate Cobalt(I) Alkyl and Silyl Complexes J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136 , 17414-17417.