Introduction

Xiaobo Pan received a B.S. degree from Jiangsu Normal University in 2005. He then went to Lanzhou University to pursue a Ph.D. degree in Prof. Ning Tang’s and Jincai Wu’s group, developing a series of new sodium/potassium catalysts and application in the ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of lactide. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in June, 2010. Subsequently, He worked at Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and focused on the the synthesis and properties of MOFs. In 2012, he was a postdoc at Nanjing University and worked on the syntheses and stabilization of phosphine radical species in Prof. Xinping Wang's group. In 2014, he became an professor of chemistry at Lanzhou University in October. His current research interests include the syntheses and properties of organoborane polymers and containing-boron radical species .

Representative Publications

1. J. Zhao, C. Ru, Y. Bai, X. Wang*, W. Chen, X. Wang, X. Pan*, J. Wu, Synthesis of bis-cycloborate olefin and butatriene derivatives through the reduction of alkynyl-bridged diboryl compounds, Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 12552-12561.

2. Y. Zheng, X. Wang, Y. Bai, X. Wang,* C. Ru, W. Chen, X. Lv,* X. Pan*, J. Wu, Diradical anion of potassium aggregate: reduction of dimer boroxide complex, Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 13544-13551.

3. X. Wang, L. Yu, V. S. Sandeep, X. Pan*, J. Ma*, H. Yu*, Molecular quantum dot cellular automata based on diboryl monoradical anions, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2018, 122, 2454-2460.

4. C. Chen, J. Jiang, X. Mao, Y. Cong, Y. Cui, X. Pan, J. Wu*, Isoselective polymerization of rac-lactide catalyzed by ion-paired potassium amidinate complexes, Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 3158-3168.

5. L. Yu, Y. Li, X. Wang, X. Wang*, P. Zhou, S. Jiang, X. Pan*, Consecutive reduction, radical-cyclization, and oxidative-dehydrogenation reaction of ortho-substituted diboryl compounds, Chem. Commun. 2017, 53, 9737-9740.

6. C. Chen, Y. Cui, X. Mao, X. Pan, J. Wu*, Suppressing cyclic polymerization for isoselective synthesis of high-molecular-weight linear polylactide catalyzed by sodium/potassium sulfonamidate complexes, Macromolecules, 2017, 50, 83-96.

7. Y. Sun, J. Xiong, Z. Dai, X. Pan, N. Tang, J. Wu*, Stereoselective alkali-metal catalysts for highly isotactic poly(rac-lactide) synthesis, Inorg. Chem. 2016, 55, 136-143.

8. Y. Li, H. Zhao, X. Mao, X. Pan, J. Wu*, Structures of potassium calix[4]arene crown ether inclusion complexes and application in polymerization of rac-lactide, Dalton Trans. 2016, 45, 9636-9645.

9. Y. Zheng, J. Xiong, Y. Sun, X. Pan*, J. Wu*, Stepwise reduction of 9,10-bis(dimesitylboryl)anthracene, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 12933-12936.

10. X. Pan^#, X. Y. Wang^#, Z. Zhang, X. P. Wang*, Two phosphaalkene radical cations with inverse spin density distributions, Dalton Trans. 2015, 44, 15099-15102.

11. X. Pan, X. Wang, Y. Zhao, Y. Sui, X. P. Wang*, A crystalline phosphaalkene radical anion, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 9834-9837.

12. X. Pan, Y. Su, X. Chen, Y. Zhao, Y. Li, J. Zuo, X. P. Wang*, Stable tetraaryldiphosphine radical cation and dication, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 5561-5564.

13. X. Pan, X. Chen, T. Li, Y. Li, X. P. Wang*, Isolation and X-ray crystal structures of triarylphosphine radical cations, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 3414-3417.

Representative Publications