Ph.D. (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

M.Sc (Xiamen University)

B.Sc (Xiamen University)

Dr. Jun ZHU obtained the bachelor’s degree from Department of Chemistry, Xiamen University in 2000 and the doctor of philosophy from Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2007. Then he pursued postdoctoral studies at Dan Yang’s group (The University of Hong Kong) and Henrik Ottosson’s group (Uppsala University), respectively. He joined Xiamen University in 2010 to start the independent career and was promoted to a full professor in 2018. In 2023, he moved to the School of Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He has been funded by seven projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and earned an extensive experience in computational organometallic chemistry including analyses of novel structures, bonding (aromaticity) and reaction mechanisms including dinitrogen activation by theoretical calculation. He proposed the concept of adaptive aromaticity beyond the classical Hückel and Baird’s rule, moving the aromatic chemistry forward from one-state aromaticity to two-state aromaticity and developed the application of this concept to singlet fission materials. He has published 219 SCI-indexed papers including those published in high impact journals such as Accounts of Chemical Research, Nature Chemistry, Nature Communications, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition etc. He received various awards including the New Century Excellent Talents in University (2013), the Top-Notch Young Talent of China (2014), the Leading Talent in the Fujian Province (2015), the First Prize of the Natural Science in Fujian Province (the third authorship, 2019), the Second Prize of the National Natural Science (the third authorship, 2020) and the Leading Talent of China (2023).

1. Synthesis and characterization of Craig-type antiaromatic species with [4n + 2] π electrons. Lina Chen, Lu Lin, Amit Ranjan Nath, Qin Zhu, Zhixin Chen, Jingjing Wu, Hongjian Wang, Qian Li, Wen-Feng Lin, Jun Zhu*, Haiping Xia*, Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2023, 145, e2215900120.
2. Phosphine-Stabilized Germylidenylpnictinidenes as Synthetic Equivalents of Heavier Nitrile and Isocyanide in Cycloaddition Reactions with Alkynes. Yuhao He, Chenshu Dai, Dongmin Wang, Jun Zhu*, and Gengwen Tan*, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 5126–5135.
3. Computational predictions of adaptive aromaticity for the design of singlet fission materials. Lu Lin, Jun Zhu*, Inorg. Chem. Front. 2022, 9, 914-924.
4. Singlet Fission in a Pyrrole-Fused Cross-Conjugated Skeleton with Adaptive Aromaticity. Long Wang*, Lu Lin, Jingjing Yang, Yishi Wu, Hua Wang, Jun Zhu*, Jiannian Yao, and Hongbing Fu*, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 10235–10239.
5. Kinetic Control in the Synthesis of a Möbius Tris((ethynyl)[5]helicene) Macrocycle Using Alkyne Metathesis. Xing Jiang, Summer D. Laffoon, Dandan Chen, Salvador Pérez-Estrada, Andrew S. Danis, Joaquín Rodríguez-López, Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay*, Jun Zhu*, and Jeffrey S. Moore*, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 6493-6498.
6. Hyperconjugative aromaticity and protodeauration reactivity of polyaurated indoliums. Kui Xiao, Yu Zhao, Jun Zhu*, Liang Zhao*, Nat. Commun. 2019, 10, 5639.
7. Unconventional Aromaticity in Organometallics: The Power of Transition Metals. Dandan Chen, Qiong Xie, and Jun Zhu*, Acc. Chem. Res. 2019, 52, 1449-1460.
8. Dual Aromaticity in Both the T0 and S1 States: Osmapyridinium with Phosphonium Substituents. Ting Shen, Dandan Chen, Lu Lin, and Jun Zhu*, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 5720-5727.
9. Adaptive aromaticity in S0 and T1 states of pentalene incorporating 16 valence electron osmium. Dandan Chen, Ting Shen, Ke An, Jun Zhu*, Commun. Chem. 2018, 1, 18.
10. Rational Design of a Carbon–Boron Frustrated Lewis Pair for Metal‐free Dinitrogen Activation. Jun Zhu*, Chem. Asian J. 2019, 14, 1413-1417.