Recently, our group cooperated with the group of Prof. Wenjing Hong, revealed that the delocalization of metalla-aromatics could be used to switch the charge transport pathway of single-molecule junctions.

Polycyclic complexes containing a bridgehead transition metal are interesting species because the transition metal is shared by all the rings simultaneously. In this study, we present a novel osmium–bridgehead system with three fused five‐membered rings.

η2-Iminoketenyl species have often been postulated as the intermediates in nucleophile-induced carbyne–isocyanide C–C coupling processes. However, such species are elusive.

Congratulations to two excellent PhD graduates of our group, Congqing Zhu and Hui Xu! Congqing Zhu was appointed as a Professor of School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, while Hui Xu was appointed as a Professor of Institute of Advanced Synthesis, Nanjing Tech University.

Our group synthesized the first CCCCC Pentadentate Chelates, which have wide application prospects in biomedicine and other aspect.

Recently, the WeChat Official Account of Boston HST published a character introduction of Dr. Congqing Zhu.

Recently, the Chinese version of the biggest chemical portal site, Chem-Station(URL link:http://www.chem-station.com/cn/), interviewed Prof. Haiping Xia.

The halogenation of metallapentalyne led to the formation of metallapentalenes, which were fully characterized and studied by DFT calculations. The experimental and computational studies indicate that four resonance forms contribute to the overall structure of the metallapentalenes, and one resonance form could be viewed as the first examples of metallaiodirenium and metallabromirenium ions.

In the past few years, a series of progresses (Nat. Chem., 2013, 5, 698; Nat. Commun., 2014, 5, 3265; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2014, 53, 6232; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 3102; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 6181) on the project of metallapentalyne have been published. Recently, we found that the metallapentalynes can be easily synthesized.

In the past few years, a series of progresses (Nat. Chem., 2013, 5, 698; Nat. Commun., 2014, 5, 3265; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2014, 53, 6232; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 3102) on the project of metallapentalyne have been published our group. Recently, we found that two anti-aromatic systems could be stabilized by one metal fragment simultaneously.