Introduction

Yong Huang received a B.S. degree from Lanzhou University in 1996. He then joined Prof. RuDong Yang’s group at the Department of Chemistry, Lanzhou University as a graduate student and performed research in the field of macrocyclic chemistry of rare-earth complex. He got his M.S. degree in the year of 1999. He thereafter became an assistant of chemistry at Lanzhou University. In 2001, he joined Prof. RuDong Yang’s group at the Department of Chemistry to pursue a Ph.D. degree, developing the fluorescence properties of rare earth complexes and the design of new fluorescence materials. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2005. From 12/2006 to 07/2008 he joined Prof. Chu-Chieh Lin’s group at the Department of Chemistry, National Chung-Hsing University in Taiwan as a postdoctor and performed research in the field of ring-opening polymerization of lactides catalyzed by metal complexes. In 2011, he worked as a visiting-scholar in Prof. Philip Mountford’s group at the Department of Chemistry, the University of Oxford in UK and performed research in the field of ring-opening polymerization of lactide catalyzed by group 3 metal complexes. Since 2009 he became an associate professor of chemistry at Lanzhou University. His current research interests include coordination chemistry, rare-earth chemistry, and the synthesis of biodegradable polyester.

Representative Publications

1. Yong Huang,* Xin Kou, Yu-Lai Duan, Fei-Fei Ding, Yi-Fan Yin, Wei Wang and Ying Yang*. Magnesium and zinc complexes bearing NNO-tridentate ketiminate ligands: synthesis, structures and catalysis in the ring-opening polymerization of lactides. Dalton Trans., Vol. 47, 8121-8133, (2018).

2. Yu-Lai Duan, Zhi-Jian Hu, Bo-Qun Yang, Fei-Fei Ding, Wei Wang, Yong Huang* and Ying Yang*. Zirconium and hafnium complexes bearing pyrrolidine derived salalen-type {ONNO} ligands and their application for ring-opening polymerization of lactides. Dalton Trans., Vol. 46, 11259-11270, (2017).

3. Yu-Lai Duan, Jia-Xuan He, Wei Wang, Jing-Jing Zhou, Yong Huang* and Ying Yang*. Synthesis and characterization of dinuclear rare-earth complexes supported by amine-bridged bis(phenolate) ligands and their catalytic activity for the ring-opening polymerization of L-lactide. Dalton Trans., Vol. 45, 10807-10820, (2016).

4. Jia-Xuan He, Yu-Lai Duan, Xin Kou, Yi-Zhou Zhang, Wei Wang, Ying Yang, Yong Huang. Dinuclear group 4 alkoxides: Excellent initiators for ring-opening polymerization of cyclic esters. Inorganic Chemistry Communications, Vol. 61, 144-148, (2015).

5. Yong Huang, Wei Wang, Chu-Chieh Lin, Matthew P. Blake, Lawrence Clark, Andrew D. Schwarz and Philip Mountford. Potassium, zinc, and magnesium complexes of a bulky OOO-tridentate bis(phenolate) ligand: synthesis, structures, and studies of cyclic ester polymerization. Dalton Trans., Vol. 42, 9313-9324, (2013).

6. Wei Wang, Yong Huang, Tong Li, Guang-Nong Lu, Ying Yang, Ning Tang and Hai-Bin Song. Dinuclear rare-earth picrate complexes based on a multidentate amide ligand: syntheses, crystal structures, and luminescence properties. J. Coord. Chem., Vol. 65, No. 22, 4041-4053, (2012).

7. Yong Huang, Yueh-Hsuan Tsai, Wen-Chou Hung, Chieh-Shen Lin, Wei Wang, Jui-Hsien Huang, Saikat Dutta, and Chu-Chieh Lin. Synthesis and Structural Studies of Lithium and Sodium Complexes with OOO-Tridentate Bis(phenolate) Ligands: Effective Catalysts for the Ring-Opening Polymerization of L-Lactide. Inorg. Chem. Vol.49, 9416-9425, (2010).

8. Yong Huang, Wen-Chou Hung, Ming-Yuan Liao, Tsung-En Tsai, Ya-Liu Peng, Chu-Chieh Lin. Ring-Opening Polymerization of Lactides Initiated by Magnesium and Zinc Complexes Based on NNO-Tridentate Ketiminate Ligands: Activity and Stereoselectivity Studies. J. Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem., Vol.47, 2318-2329, (2009).

Representative Publications