On 28th April, the 2017 “International Youth Chemists Forum” of “International Talent Forum “at Nankai University was held at the report hall on the second floor of Shixian Building, Balitai campus. Xu Jingjun, vice president of the campus attended the opening ceremony and extended his hope of gathering wide talents to construct first-class university. Chen Jun, dean of the College of Chemistry, and Zhou Qilin, associate director of the Academic Committee of Nankai University, members of the A

Recently, Xi Zhen and Zhou Chuangzheng reported a new type of thiol-specific and tracelessly removable bioconjugation tools on JACS. They solved a long-term problem concerning site-specific chemical modification. Site-specific chemical modification is an invaluable approach for producing conjugated peptides and proteins, which are widely used as therapeutics and as tools for biochemical and biophysical studies. Among the 20 natural amino acids, cysteine is especially attractive for site-specif

On the evening of 31st, March, Prof. Chi Lifeng, a well-known physical chemist from Suzhou University, presented a Boling lecture entitled “From on-surface molecular assembly to on-surface chemistry” for students from the Boling classes at the academic report hall of the Shixian Building. Chen Jun, dean of the college of Chemistry, hosted the lecture. Prof. Chi first shared her life experience, introduced the transfer of her research from physics to chemistry. She then gave systematic and det

Recently, Prof. Wang Guichang’s group has published the research entitled “Energy Transfer Dynamics of Formate Decomposition on Cu (110)” on Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (DOI:10.1002/ange.201611342), which is a jointly-completed work with Prof. Junji Nakamura from University of Tsukuba. Energy transfer and bond recombination are fundamental processes in a chemical reaction. Currently, crossed molecular beam techniques has been successfully applied to energy transfer processes in gas-phase bimolecula

Fluorinated organic compounds are becoming increasingly important in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and materials science. The introduction of trifluoromethoxy groups into new drugs and agrochemicals has attracted much attention due to their strongly electron-withdrawing nature and high lipophilicity. However, synthesis of trifluoromethoxylated organic molecules is challenging because of the decomposition of trifluoromethoxide anion and β-fluoride elimination from transitionmetal–trifluorometh

Recently, the bond-energy databank (iBonD 2.0) established by Academician Cheng Jinpei’s group has received high value from Prof. Herbert Mayr from University of Munich, a well-known physical organic chemist and member of the German Academy of Sciences. He specifically published a paper entitled “The Most Efficient Way to Find pKa Values” on ChemistryViews. Mayr points out in the work that iBonD 2.0 is organic chemist’s best friends given the fact that it currently covers more than 32,000 pKa

It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the 2017 International Youth Chemists Forum at Nankai University, which will be held on April 27-29th of 2017 in Tianjin, China. The topics of the forum cover all conventional areas of chemistry, as well as material science, energy chemistry, environmental chemistry, and chemical biology. Application for speaking at this forum is now open with the due date of March 1st, 2017. Applicants shall possess a PhD degree in chemistry or related

On December 11, the micro-seminar on the synthesis of natural products - one of “Celebrations for the 120th Anniversary of Yang Shixian’s Birth” series activities -was successfully held in the Academic hall at the Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry. It was co-sponsored by the Collaborative Innovation Center of 2011 and the State Key Laboratory of Elemento-organic Chemistry. Seven well-known professors from the field of total synthesis were invited to do reports. Professor Liang Guangxin ch

Recently, Yongsheng Chen and his group have made an unprecedented progress in the research of organic solar cells. They construct a tandem organic solar cell characteristic of absorbing a broader part of the solar spectrum using complementary absorptive subcells to minimize the thermalization loss of photon energy. The optimized devices achieve a power conversion efficiency of 12.50% (verified 12.70%), which represents a new level of capability for solution-processed, organic solar cells. The

Yang Shixian, one of the greatest chemists and educators in China, is the vanguard of Chinese pesticide chemistry, who was also the president of Nankai University and the founder of the Nankai Chemistry. January 8, 2017 is exactly the 120th anniversary of Yang’s birthday. The College of Chemistry held a seminar to commemorate Yang. The seminar was held at the Institute of Elemento-organic Chemistry on December 5. The seminar was held by the Collaborative Innovation Center of 2011 and the Stat

January 8th, 2017 is the 120th anniversary of the birth of Yang Shixian, who is an outstanding representative of the scientists as well as educators of the older generation in China, a forefather of Pesticide Chemistry. He was the principal of Nankai University, and one of the major creators of the chemistry discipline. He played an important role in the nourishment of talents, improvement of scientific research and social service in the part of Nankai. He proposed that, “Chemistry should make

Last Friday, Professor Yu Jihong from Jilin University, the renowned Inorganic chemists and a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences gave a report entitled “Enter the Fantastic World of Nanoporous Materials: Construction and Application of Zeolitic nanoporous Materials” to undergraduates of Boling Class at the Academic hall of the Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry. Chen Jun, the Associate Dean of College of Chemistry hosted the lecture. Yu first introduced the main categories of porous m

Recently, Dr. Zhang Ning reported the application of nonstoichiometric ZnMn2O4/carbon composite as a new Zn-insertion cathode material in aqueous Zn(CF3SO3)2 electrolyte. This innovation improved the efficiency, safety and stability of the Zn-ion battery greatly. Related research has been published in Journal of the American Chemical Society. Zhang Ning is the first author and the instructor Cheng Fangyi is the corresponding author. The results are now patented. While lithium-ion batteries (L

The initiation and demonstration meeting of the National Key RD Program, the controllable mass preparation of macroscopic graphene material and its applications in optoelectronics, was held on October 29th and 30th. Professor Chen Yongsheng from Nankai University is in charge of the project. Gong Ke, the President of Nankai University, Yan Jinding, the director of High-tech Research and Development Center under the Ministry of Science and Technology, and Jia Di, Deputy Director of Tianjin Scie

Professor Chen Yongsheng, a devoted chemist of the college of Chemistry of Nankai University, presented a Boling lecture entitled “Nano and Polymer Functional Materials and Their Applications in Green Energy” for students from the Boling classes at the academic hall of the Institution of Elemento-organic Chemistry. Li Wei, associate dean of the college of Chemistry, hosted the lecture. At the beginning of the lecture, Chen briefly introduced himself and from his own experience, he exhorted th