Name: Changguang Yao

Gender: Male

Job title: Professor

Email Address: cgyao@ncu.edu.cn

Education and Work Experience：

2020.01~present: Professor, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanchang University, Director of Master

2015.12~2019.12: Postdoctoral Fellow, KAUST Catalysis Center & Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Cooperate with Prof. Dr. Kuo-Wei Huang)

2009.09~2015.07: Doctoral degree, State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dongmei Cui)

2005.09~2009.07: Bachelor's degree, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Shaanxi Normal University

Teaching: Organic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry Experiment, Production Practice of Chemical Engineering, Document Retrieval and Scientific Paper Writing

Research fields: Recycling of waste plastics, Preparation of biobased/biodegradable/

recyclable polymers, Design of transition metal catalysts, Development of green polymerization methods

Research projects：

1. National Natural Science Foundation of China: Synthesis of Biobased Polyesters via Catalytic Dehydrogenative Polycondensation of Furanyl Monomers Based on "Non-Precious Metal-Ligand Cooperation" (22061027), 2021-2024, 400,000 CNY

2. National Natural Science Foundation of China: Preparation of chemically recyclable polythioesters via dehydrogenative polycondensation of diols/dithiols catalyzed by transition metal complexes (22261034), 2023-2026, 330,000 CNY

3. Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation: Studies on preparation and hydrogenative depolymerization of biobased chemically recyclable aromatic polyesters, 2024-2026, 200,000 CNY

4. Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation: Studies on construction of covalent organic framework-supported ruthenium catalytic materials and their catalytically hydrogenative depolymerization of waste polyesters (20224BAB203023), 2023-2025, 100,000 CNY

Awards and Honors：

2023, Outstanding Youth Science Fund Project of Jiangxi Province

Representative papers and patents：

1. Changguang Yao, Tonghuan Zhang, Théo P. Gonçalves and Kuo-Wei Huang*. Selective Benzylic Csp3–H Bond Activations Mediated by a Phosphorus–Nitrogen PN3P-Nickel Complex. Chem. Commun. 2022, 58, 1593-1596.

2. Changguang Yao, Xiufang Wang and Kuo-Wei Huang*. Nitrogen Atom Transfer Mediated by a New PN3P-Pincer Nickel Core via a Putative Nitrido Nickel Intermediate. Chem. Commun. 2018, 54, 3940–3943.

3. Changguang Yao, Fei Lin, Meiyan Wang, Dongtao Liu, Bo Liu, Na Liu, Zichuan Wang, Shiyu Long, Chunji Wu* and Dongmei Cui*. Highly Syndioselective 3,4-Trans Polymerization of (E)-1-(4-Methylphenyl)-1,3-butadiene by Fluorenyl N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligated Lutetium Bis(alkyl) Precursor. Macromolecules 2015, 48, 1999–2005.

4. Changguang Yao, Na Liu, Shiyu Long, Chunji Wu and Dongmei Cui*. Highly cis-1,4-Selective Coordination Polymerization of Polar 2-(4-Methoxyphenyl)-1,3-Butadiene and Copolymerization with Isoprene Using a β-Diketiminato Yttrium Bis(alkyl) Complex. Polym. Chem. 2016, 7, 1264–1270.

5. Wei-Ming Xu, Yuan-Dong Yu, Meng-Xiang Ma, Hui-Du Xu, Rui-Qin Wang, Yu-Peng Pan, Ke-Qin Wu, Wei-Ran Yang*, Chang-Guang Yao*. Green Synthesis of Chemically Recyclable Polyesters via Dehydrogenative Copolymerization of Diols. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2023, 41, 1206-1214.

6. Changguang Yao, Priyanka Chakraborty, Emanuele Aresu, Huaifeng Li, Chao Guan, Chunhui Zhou, Lan-Chang Liang* and Kuo-Wei Huang*. Monomeric Nickel Hydroxide Stabilized by a Sterically Demanding Phosphorus-Nitrogen PN3P-pincer Ligand: Synthesis, Reactivity and Catalysis. Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 16057–16065.
7. Changguang Yao, Tonghuan Zhang, Chunhui Zhou and Kuo-Wei Huang*. Interrogating the Steric Outcome During H2 Heterolysis: In-Plane Steric Effects in the Regioselective Protonation of the PN3P-Pincer Ligand. Dalton Trans., 2019, 48, 12817–12821.

8. Changguang Yao, Dongtao Liu, Ping Li, Chunji Wu, Shihui Li, Bo Liu and Dongmei Cui*. Highly 3,4-Selective Living Polymerization of Isoprene and Copolymerization with ε-Caprolactone by an Amidino N-heterocyclic Carbene Ligated Lutetium Bis(alkyl) Complex. Organometallics 2014, 33, 684–691.

9. Changguang Yao, Chunji Wu, Baoli Wang and Dongmei Cui*. Copolymerization of Ethylene with 1-Hexene and 1-Octene Catalyzed by Fluorenyl N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligated Rare-Earth Metal Precursors. Organometallics 2013, 32, 2204–2209.

10. Changguang Yao, Hongyan Xie, Dongmei Cui*. Highly 3,4-selective living polymerization of 2-phenyl-1,3-butadiene with amidino N-heterocyclic carbene ligated rare-earth metal bis(alkyl) complexes. RSC Adv. 2015, 5, 93507-93512.

11. Changguang Yao, Yuandong Yu, Huidu Xu, Weirang Yang. A Preparation Method of Vanillin-Based Polyesters (ZL 2022 1 0097450.1)

12. Dongmei Cui, Changguang Yao, Chunji Wu, Bo Liu, Alexander A. Trifonov. Rare-earth Metal Catalysts for Producing Highly 3,4-Polyisoprene and Its Derivatives (ZL 2013 1 0689037.5)
13. Dongmei Cui, Changguang Yao, Chunji Wu, Bo Liu. Highly cis-1,4-Selective Polymerization of 2-Aryl-1,3-Butadienes and Copolymerization with Isoprene or Butadiene (ZL 2015 1 0224201.4)
14. Dongmei Cui, Changguang Yao, Dongtao Liu, Chunji Wu. The Synthesis and Highly 3,4-Selective Polymerization of 2-Aryl-1,3-Butadienes (ZL 2015 1 0224184.4)
15. Dongmei Cui, Chunji Wu, Changguang Yao. Metallocene Complex, Preparation Method Therefor and Catalyst Composition (ZL 2013 1 0478190.3, US 9896519 B2, EP 3056505 B1, JP 6302565 B2)