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Name:	Jinzhu Chen	Education:
Positions:	Deputy Director of Environmental Energy and Materials Lab	Academic title:	Professor
Postal Code:	510640	Subject categories:	Energy and catalytic materials
Mailing Address:	No.2 Nengyuan Rd, Wushan, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, China	E-mail:	chenjz@ms.giec.ac.cn

Resume:

Education
Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Dalian, China, Jul 2005
Research Experience
1. Professor, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences; (Hundred Talents Program of CAS); Apr 2010-Present
2. Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Jan 2008-Apr 2010; “1) Fuel production from CO2 in water by hydride transfer reactions using earth-abundant metal catalysts. 2) New developments in “artificial photosynthesis”: catalyzing oxygen production from water. 3) Application of new carbon-11 labeling strategies towards the development of radiotracer probes of epigenetic enzyme function.” supported by the U. S. Department of Energy (DE-AC02-98CH10886) and the U. S. National Institutes of Health (1F32EB008320-01)
3. Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Apr 2007-Jan 2008; “Understanding how nature works with hydrogen: modeling the hydrogenases and related enzymes.” supported by the U. S. National Institutes of Health (RO1 GM61153-01)
4. Research Associate, University of Arizona, Dec 2005-Apr 2007; “Coupling redox processes to drive chemical reactivity: new catalysts for hydrogen production.” supported by the U. S. National Science Foundation (NSF CHE 0527003)
5. Research Associate, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mar 2005-Dec 2005

Direction:

Fuel production from carbon dioxide; Biomass conversion; Photochemical conversion of solar energy

Achievements:

1. Membership of 1) American Chemical Society 2) Sigma Xi (The Scientific Research Society), 2008-present
2. Reviewer for 1) Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2) Chemical Communications, 3) Chemistry - A European Journal, 4) Journal of Catalysis, 5) Dalton Transactions, 6) European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 7) Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspect, 8) Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2006-present
3. The President Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences for Excellent Graduate Students, China, 2004

Article:

1. Chen, J. Z.; Szalda, D. J.; Fujita, E.; Creutz C. “Iron(II) and Ruthenium(II) Complexes Containing P, N, and H Ligands: Structure, Spectroscopy, Electrochemistry and Reactivity.” Inorg. Chem., 2010, 49, 9380-9391.
2. Chen, J. Z.; Vannucci, A. K.; Mebi, C. A.; Okumura, N.; Borowski, S. C.; Swenson, M.; Lockett, L. T.; Lichtenberger, D. L.; Evans, D. H.; Glass, R. S. “Synthesis of Diiron Hydrogenase Mimics Bearing Hydroquinone and Related Ligands. Electrochemical and Computational Studies of the Mechanism of Hydrogen Production and the Role of O-H…S Hydrogen Bonding.” Organometallics 2010, 29, 5330-5340.
3. Volkers, P. I.; Boyke, C.; Chen, J. Z.; Rauchfuss, T. B.; Whaley, C. M.; Wilson, S. R.; Yao, H. J. “Precursors to [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Models: Syntheses of Fe2(SR)2(CO)6 from CO-Free Iron Sources.” Inorg. Chem. 2008, 47, 7002-7008.
4. Felton, G. A. N.; Vannucci, A. K.; Chen, J. Z.; Moser, T.; Okumura, N.; Petro, B.; Zakai, U. I.; Evans, D. H.; Glass, R. S.; Lichtenberger, D. L. “Hydrogen Generation from Weak Acids: Electrochemical and Computational Studies of a Diiron Hydrogenase Mimic.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 12521-12530.
5. Chen, J. Z.; Yu, Z. K.; Zheng, Z. Y.; Gu, K. C.; Wu, S. Z.; Zeng, F. L.; Tan, W. Q.; Wu, X. W.; Xiao, W. J. “Chemoselective Stepwise Demetalation of Unusually Stable Fischer Biscarbene Complexes by Domino [4+2]/[2+2] Cycloaddition of 2-Isopropenyl-2-oxazoline to 1-Alkynyl Fischer Carbene Complexes of Chromium and Tungsten.” Organometallics 2005, 24, 302-308.
6. Chen, J. Z.; Ling, G.; Yu, Z. K.; Wu, S. Z.; Zhao, X. D.; Wu, X. W.; Lu, S. W. “N-Aryl Amides from Selenium-catalyzed Reactions of Nitroaromatics and Amides in the Presence of Carbon Monoxide and Mixed Organic Bases.” Adv. Synth. Catal. 2004, 346, 1267-1270.

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