Education

Academic Career

Research Areas

1)     Organometallic Chemistry and Organometallic Catalysis

2)     Small Molecule Activation and Polymerization

Honors & Awards

2018     JSPS Felloship, Japan.

2016     Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Germany. 

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

Selected Publications

1.  Shaozhi Du, Hongwei Jia, Hua Rong, Haibin Song, Chunming Cui, Zhenbo Mo* Synthesis and Reactivity of N-Heterocyclic Silylene Stabilized Disilicon(0) Complexes, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202115570 (hot paper).

2. Xi Chen, Hao Wang, Shaozhi Du, Matthias Driess, Zhenbo Mo* Deoxygenation of Nitrous Oxide and Nitro Compounds Using Bis(N-Heterocyclic Silylene)Amido Iron Complexes as Catalysts, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202114598 (hot paper).

3. Liang Deng*, Zhenbo Mo* Organometallic Chemistry of NHCs and Analogues, Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry IV, 2021, doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820206-7.00027-5.

4. 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 (VIP paper).

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.