Publications
2024
Xiaoming Xu, Ailin Gao, Xiufang Xu*, Jianfeng Li*, and Chunming Cui*. Selective Access to Silacyclopentanes and Homoallylsilanes by La-Catalyzed Hydrosilylations of 1-Aryl Methylenecyclopropanes.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 6, 4060–4067
Chenxi Duan and Chunming Cui*. Boryl-substituted low-valent heavy group 14 compounds.
2023
Lulu Guo, Jianying Zhang and Chunming Cui*. Synthesis and Reactivity of Aluminum Disilacyclopropenes. Cyclic AlSi2 Delocalized 2π Systems.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 51, 27911–27915.
Yang Li, Shicheng Dong, Junjie Guo, Yazhou Ding, Jianying Zhang, Jun Zhu*, and Chunming Cui*. π-Aromaticity Dominating in a Saturated Ring: Neutral Aromatic Silicon Analogues of Cyclobutane-1,3-diyls.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 39, 21159–21164
Xiaoming Xu , Ailin Gao, Wufeng Chen, Xiufang Xu*, Jianfeng Li*, and Chunming Cui*. Lanthanum Ate Amide-Catalyzed Regio- and Stereoselective Hydrosilylation of Internal Alkynes.
ACS Catal. 2023, 13, 6, 3743–3748
Yang Li and Chunming Cui*. Synthesis of Phosphine-Functionalized Silicon Cubane and Its Oxidative Addition, Giving a Bis(silyl)copper Complex.
Inorg. Chem. 2023, 62, 6, 2503–2507
Chuanzhi Wei, Yuli Gao, Fenghua Zu, Chunming Cui*. Synthesis of Si-O-Si bridged diamido Group 4 complexes and the applications to polymerization of olefins.
Appl Organomet Chem 2023, e7048.
Chenxi Duan, Yuli Gao, Shangtao Chen, Fenghua Zu, Jianying Zhang, and Chunming Cui*. Titanium-Mediated C–C Coupling of Imidoylstannanes for the Synthesis of Tetraaryl Diimines. Isolation of Titanium Iminoacyl and Ene-diamido Intermediates.
Organometallics 2023, 42, 1, 6–10
2022
Chaopeng Hu, Yazhou Ding, Yunping Bai, Lulu Guo and Chunming Cui*. Synthesis and reactivity of a μ-1,2-dinitrogen dinickel(ii) complex with a C–H activated silaamidinate pincer ligand.
Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 13795–13798
Yazhou Ding, Jianying Zhang, Yang Li, and Chunming Cui*.Disilicon Dicarbonyl Complex: Synthesis and Protonation of CO with O-H Bond.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 45, 20566–20570
Yazhou Ding,Yang Li,Jianying Zhang, Chunming Cui. Synthesis of an N-Heterocylic Boryl-Stabilized Disilyne and Its Application to the Activation of Dihydrogen and C−H Bonds.
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202205785
2021
Wufeng Chen , Jianfeng Li∗ , Chunming Cui∗, Rare-Earth-Catalyzed Hydrosilylation and Dehydrogenative Coupling of Hydrosilanes.
Ke Lou, Fenghua Zu, Jianjun Yi*, and Chunming Cui*, Synthesis and Structure of a Dimeric Yttrium Complex [LSi(BH3)(C5Me4)Y(CH2SiMe3)2]2 (L = PhC(NtBu)2) and Its Catalytic Application for Hydroboration of Ketones and Aldehydes.
Organometallics 2021, 40, 24, 4092–4097
Miao Tian, Jianying Zhang, Lulu Guoa and Chunming Cui *a, Isolation of a planar 1,2-dilithio-disilene and its conversion to a Si–B hybrid 2π-electron system and a planar tetraboryldisilene.
Chem. Sci., 2021,12, 14635-14640
Zexiong Pan, Jianying Zhang, Lulu Guo, Hao Yang, Jianfeng Li*, and Chunming Cui*. Cyclic (Alkyl)(amino)carbene Lanthanide Amides: Synthesis, Structure, and Catalytic Selective Hydrosilylation of Alkenes.
Inorg. Chem. 2021, 60, 17, 12696–12702
Chaopeng Hu, Jianying Zhang, Hao Yang, Lulu Guo, and Chunming Cui*. Synthesis of Cationic Silaamidinate Germylenes and Stannylenes and the Catalytic Application for Hydroboration of Pyridines.
Inorg. Chem. 2021, 60, 18, 14038–14046
Wufeng Chen，Chunhui Jiang, Jianying Zhang, Jiaqi Xu, Lin Xu, Xiufang Xu, Jianfeng Li*, and Chunming Cui*.Rare-Earth-Catalyzed Selective 1,4-Hydrosilylation of Branched 1,3-Enynes Giving Tetrasubstituted Silylallenes.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 33, 12913–12918
Dezhao Zhu，Mengmeng Wang, Lulu Guo, Wei Shi*, Jianfeng Li, and Chunming Cui*.Synthesis, Structure, and Magnetic Properties of Rare-Earth Benzoborole Complexes.
Organometallics 2021, 40, 15, 2394–239
Ke Lou, Qingyang Zhou, Qi Wang, Xingchao Fan, Xiufang Xu and Chunming Cui.CpFe(CO)2 anion-catalyzed highly efficient hydrosilylation of ketones and aldehydes.
Dalton Trans., 2021,50, 11016-11020
Dezhao Zhu, Lulu Guo, Dr. Jianfeng Li, Dr. Chunming Cui.From BN-Naphthalenes to Benzoborole Dianions.
Chem.Eur.J. 2021，27，37，9514-9518
Zexiong Pan, Dongjing Gao, Chunqi Zhang, Lulu Guo, Jianfeng Li, and Chunming Cui.Synthesis and Reactivity of N-heterocyclic Carbene Stabilized Lanthanide(II) Bis(amido) Complexes.
Organometallics 2021, 40, 11, 1728–1734
Chaopeng Hu,Lulu Guo,Jianying Zhang and Chunming Cui.C-C Activation to BNB-Embedded Indenophenanthrence.Electronic Structure and Reactivity.
Wufeng Chen, Xiaojuan Liu,Jiajun Kong,Jianfeng Li, Yaofeng Chen and Chunming Cui.Rare-Earth-Catalyzed Selective Synthesis of Linear Hydridopolycarbosilances and Their Functionalization.
Macromolecules 2021,54,2,673-678.
2020
Wufeng Chen,Jianfeng Li,Chunming Cui.Rare-Earth-Catalyzed Hydrosilylation and Dehydrogenative Coupling of Hydrosilanes.
Zhaocai Liu,Jianying Zhang,Hao Yang, and Chunming Cui.Synthesis of Boryl-Substituted Disilane, Disilene, and Silyl Cation.
Miao Tian, Jianying Zhang, Hao Yang, and Chunming Cui.Isolation of a 1‑Magnesium-2,3-disilacyclopropene and a Related Bis(disilenide).
J.Am.Chem.Soc.2020,142,4131−4135.
Wufeng Chen, Haibin Song,Jianfeng Li, and Chunming Cui.Catalytic Selective Dihydrosilylation of Internal Alkynes Enabled by Rare-Earth Ate Complex.
Angew.Chem.Int.Ed.2020,59,2365–2369.
2019
Lizhao Zhu,Jianying Zhang, Hao Yang, and Chunming Cui.Synthesis of Silaketenimine Anion and Its Coupling with Isocyanide.
J.Am.Chem.Soc.2019,141,19600−19604.
Lizhao Zhu, Jianying Zhang, Chunming Cui*.Intramolecular Cyclopropanation of Alkal i-Metal-Substituted Silylene with the Aryl Substituent of an N-Heterocyclic Frame work
Inorg.Chem.2019,58,18,12007-12010
Deshuai Liu, Dahai Zhou, Hao Yang, Jianfeng Li, Chunming Cui*.Yttrium dialkyl supported by a silaamidinate ligand: synthesis, structure and catalysis on cyclotrimerization of isocyanates.
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Tianhao Li, Jianying Zhang, and Chunming Cui*.Heterocyclic Carbene-Catalyzed Hydride Transfer in the Hydroboration of Carbonyl Compounds.
Huanan Huang, Ying Zhou, Meng Wang, Jianying Zhang, Xiaohua Cao, Shitao Wang, Dapeng Cao, Chunming Cui. Regioselective Functionalization of Stable BN‐embedded Luminescent Tetraphenes for High‐Resolution Fingerprint Imaging.
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 10.1002.
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Deshuai Liu, Boyu Liu, Zexiong Pan, Jianfeng Li and Chunming Cui*. Rare-earth metal catalysts for alkene hydrosilylation.
Yunping Bai , Wufeng Chen , Jianfeng Li , Chunming Cui*. Review: Chemistry of s-, p- and f-block metal complexes with ene-diamido ligands.
2018
Yuefeng Li and Chunming Cui*，Cesium Carbonate-Catalyzed Oxidation of Substituted Phenylsilanes for the Efficient Synthesis of Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes.
Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 21, 13477-13485
Yunping Bai, Jianying Zhang and Chunming Cui* .An arene-tethered silylene ligand enabling reversible dinitrogen binding to iron and catalytic silylation
- Jinxi Liu, Wufeng Chen, Jianfeng Li*, and Chunming Cui*. Rare-Earth-Catalyzed Regioselective Hydrosilylation of Aryl-Substituted Internal Alkenes
ACS Catal.,2018,8,2230–2235
Yang Li, Jianfeng Li , Jianying Zhang, Haibin Song, and Chunming Cui*. Isolation of R6Si6 Dianion: A Bridged Tricyclic Isomer of Dianionic Hexasilabenzene
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140 , 1219–1222
2017
Yinghua Shi, Jianfeng Li and Chunming *.Synthesis of divalent ytterbium terphenylamide and catalytic application for regioselective hydrosilylation of alkenes.
Dalton Trans.2017, 46, 10957-10962
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Jianfeng Li, Carlos Alvarez Lamsfus, Changhong Song, Jinxi Liu, Guilan Fan, Laurent Maron*, and Chunming Cui*.Samarium-Catalyzed Diastereoselective Double Addition of Phenylphosphine to Imines and Mechanistic Studies by DFT Calculations.
ChemCatChem. 2017,9, 1368-1372.
Guoping Qing, and Chunming Cui*, Controlled synthesis of cyclosiloxanes by NHC catalyzed hydrolytic oxidation of dihydrosilanes.
Dalton Trans. 2017, 46, 8746-8750
Jianfeng Li, Hongfan Hu, and Chunming Cui*,Zwitterionic Hydroboranes Stabilized by b-Diimine Framework
Chin. J. Chem. 2017, 35,886-888
- Tianhao Li, Jianying Zhang, Chunming Cui, Silole Silylene Route to NHC-Stabilized Fused 1-Silabicycles and 1,1'-Spirobisiloles
- Hailong Ren, Hailong Ren,Yu-Peng Zhou,Yunping Bai,Chunming Cui*, Matthias Driess,Cobal -Catalyzed Regioselective Borylation of Arenes : N-Heterocyclic Silylene as Electron Donors in Metal-Mediated Activation of C-H Bonds.
- Jia Yuan, Lizhao Zhu, Jianying Zhang, Jianfeng Li, and Chunming Cui*, Sequential Addition of Phosphine to Alkynes for the Selective Synthesis of 1,2-Diphosphinoethanes under Catalysis. Well-Defined NHC-Copper Phosphides vs in Situ CuCl 2/NHC Catalyst.
2016
Dawei Tian , Xiaofei Li , YuanYuan Liu , Yue Cao , Tianhao Li , Hongfan Hu and Chunming Cui *.Synthesis and study of an unprecedented 1-hydro-1-lithio-1-silafluorene anion.
Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 18447-18449
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Jianfeng Li, Chaoyue Zhao, Jinxi Liu, Hanmin Huang, Fengxin Wang, Xiufang Xu*, and Chunming Cui*, Activation of Ene-Diamido Samarium Methoxide with Hydrosilane for Selectively Catalytic Hydrosilylation of Alkenes and Polymerization of Styrene: an Experimental and Theoretical Mechanistic Study.
Inorg. Chem., 2016, 55 , 9105–9111
Zhendong Wang, Jianying Zhang, Jianfeng Li, and Chunming Cui*, NHC-Stabilized Silicon–Carbon Mixed Cumulene.
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138 , 10421–10424
Jianfeng Li, Bing Ma, and Chunming Cui*, Selective Silylation of Nitriles with an NHC-Stabilized Silylene to 1,2-Disilylimines and Subsequent Synthesis of Silaaziridines.
Organometallics,2016, 35 , 1358–1360
Huanan Huang, Zexiong Pan and Chunming Cui*, The synthesis of BN-embedded tetraphenes and their photophysical properties.
Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 4227--4230
- Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 778-5785
Jia Yuan, Hongfan Hu and Chunming Cui*, N-Heterocyclic Carbene–Ytterbium Amide as a Recyclable Homogeneous Precatalyst for Hydrophosphination of Alkenes and Alkynes.
- Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 2902-2905
Peixing Chen and Chunming Cui*, Isolable Boron Persulfide: Activation of Elemental Sulfur with a 2-Chloro-Azaborolyl Anion.
2015
- Yao Li, Bing Ma and Chunming Cui*, Reactivity of an NHC-stabilized silylene towards ketones. Formation of silicon bis-enolates vs. bis-silylation of the C=O bond
Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 14085–14091
- J ianfeng Li, Dongjing Gao, Hongfan Hu and Chunming Cui* Reaction of a bulky amine borane with lanthanide trialkyls. Formation of alkyl lanthanide imide complexes.
New J. Chem., 2015, 39, 7567-7570
- Xinwang Liu, Pengbo Wu, Jianfeng Li, and Chunming Cui*, Synthesis of 1,2-Borazaronaphthalenes from Imines by Base-Promoted Borylation of C−H bond
J. Org. Chem., 2015, 80 , 3737–3744
- Jianfeng Li, Jingjun Hao and Chunming Cui*, Reactivity of ytterbium(II) silylamide supported by a pyrrolyl–cyclopentadienyl ligand
Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 767–772.
- Cong Ma , Jianying Zhang , Jianfeng Li and Chunming Cui *, Multiple C–H borylation of phenylhydrazones to boron–nitrogen analogues of benzopentalene
Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 5732-5734.
- Jianfeng Li, Hanmin Huang, Fengxin Wang, and Chunming Cui*, Cyclopentadienyl Yttrium Ene-Diamido Complexes: Coupling of the Ene-Diamido Ligand with Isocyanate.
Organometallics , 2015, 34, 683−685.
2014
- Mengdi Zhao, Weilong Xie, and Chunming Cui*, Cesium Carbonate-Catalyzed Chemoselective Hydrosilylation of Aldehydes and Ketones under Solvent-Free Conditions
- Zhengang Han , Jianfeng Li , Hongfan Hu , Jianying Zhang , and Chunming Cui * , Isolable 1,1-Disubstituted Silole Dianion: a Homogeneous Two-Electron-Transfer Reducing Reagent
Inorg. Chem., 2014, 53 , 5890–5892
- Liang Xie, Jianying Zhang, and Chunming Cui*, 2-Chloro-Azaborolyl Anion: A Source of 1,2-Azaborole Isosteric to Cyclopentadienylidene
Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 9500-9503
2013
- Haiyan Cui, Jianying Zhang, and Chunming Cui*, 2-Hydro-2-aminophosphasilene with N-Si-P π Conjugation,
- Jianfeng Li , Kun Zhang , Hanmin Huang , Ao Yu , Hongfan Hu , Haiyan Cui , and Chunming Cui *, Synthesis and Reactions of a Redox-Active α-Diimine Aluminum Complex,
- Dongjing Gao, and Chunming Cui*, N-Heterocyclic Carbene Organocatalysts for Dehydrogenative Coupling of Silanes and Hydroxyl Compounds,
Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 11143-11147.
- Liang Xie, Jianying Zhang, Hongfan Hu, and Chunming Cui*, Synthesis and Reactions of π-Conjugated Iminoboranes Stabilized by Intramolecular Imine Groups
Weilong Xie, Mengdi Zhao, and Chunming Cui*, Cesium Carbonate-Catalyzed Reduction of Amides with Hydrosilanes
Organometallics, 2013, 32, 7740-7444.
2012
- Haiyan Cui, Bing Ma, and Chunming Cui*, Metal-Free, Stereospecific Bis-Silylation of Functionalized Alkynes with NHC-Supported Silylaminosilylene,
- Weilong Xie, Hongfan Hu, and Chunming Cui*, [(NHC)Yb{N(SiMe3)2}2]- Catalyzed Cross-Dehydrogenative Coupling of Silanes with Amines
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 11141-11144.
- Dawei Tian, Jiang Jiang, Hongfan Hu, Jianying Zhang, and Chunming Cui*, One-Step Access to Luminescent Pentaaryldiazaboroles via C-C Double Bond Formation from Imidoylstannanes,
- Liang Xie, Hongfan Hu, and Chunming Cui*, Cyclopropanation and Isomerization Reactions of β-Diketiminato Boron Complexes
- Hongfan Hu and Chunming Cui*, Synthesis of Calcium and Ytterbium Complexes Supported by a Tridentate Imino-Amidinate Ligand and Their Application in the Intermolecular Hydrophosphination of Alkenes and Alkynes,
- Haiyan Cui and Chunming Cui*, Silylation of N-heterocyclic carbene with aminochlorosilane and -disilane: dehydrohalogenation vs. Si-Si bond cleavage,
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