Introduction

Fuxing Pan received a B.S. degree from Ocean University of China in 2011. He then joined Prof. Zhongming Sun’s group (http://zhongmingsun.weebly.com) at the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a graduate student and performed research in the field of p-block nanoclusters. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in January, 2017 and became a lecturer and a member in Prof. Weisheng Liu’s team of chemistry at Lanzhou University.

Research fundings:

     1. Natural Science Foundation of China (2018.01-2020.12)

2. Young scientific talents promotion project of Gansu province (2017.07-2020.07)

3.  Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2017.09-2019.09)

Representative Publications

1. Fu-Xing Pan+, Lei-Jiao Li+ (co-first author), Ying-Jin Wang, Jin-Chang Guo, Hua-Jin Zhai*, Li Xu, and Zhong-Ming Sun* “An All-Metal Aromatic Sandwich Complex [Sb3Au3Sb3]3-” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 10954-10957. (Selected as spotlights on JACS and reported on C&EN, Chemistry World)

2. Ivan A. Popov+, Fu-Xing Pan+ (co-first author), Xue-Rui You, Lei-Jiao Li, E. Matito, C. Liu, Hua Jin Zhai, Zhong-Ming Sun,* and Alexander I. Boldyrev* “Peculiar All-Metal s-Aromaticity of the [Au2Sb16]4- Anion in the Solid” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 15344–15346.

3. Fu-Xing Pan+, Cong-Qiao Xu+ (co-first author), Lei-Jiao Li, Xue Min, Jian-Qiang Wang, Jun Li*, Hua-Jin Zhai, and Zhong-Ming Sun* “[As3Nb(As3Sn3)]3-: A Niobium-Necked Ternary Zintl Cluster” Dalton Trans. 2016, 45, 3874–3879.

4. Leijiao Li+, Fu-Xing Pan+ (co-first author), Feng-Yu Li, Zhong-Fang Chen* and Zhong-Ming Sun* “Synthesis, Characterization and Electronic Properties of an Endohedral Plumbaspherene [Au@Pb12]3-” Inorg. Chem. Front., 2017, 4, 1393-1396.

5. PAN Fu-Xing, LI Lei-Jiao and SUN Zhong-Ming* “[Au(η2-Sn2Sb2)2]3-: a mixed group 14/15 tetrahedral dimer bridged by Au” Chinese J. Struct. Chem. 2016, 7, 1099-1106.

6. Xue Min, Ivan A. Popov, Fu-Xing Pan, Lei-Jiao Li, Alexander I. Boldyrev*, Lai-Sheng Wang and Zhong-Ming Sun* “All-Metal Antiaromaticity in Sb4-Type Lanthanocene Anions” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 5531-5535.

7. Jun-Feng Liu, Fu-Xing Pan, Shuang Yao, Xue Min, Dongmei Cui and Zhong-Ming Sun* “Syntheses, Structure, and Properties of Mixed Cp−Amidinate Rare-Earth-Metal(III) Complexes” Organometallics 2014, 33, 1374−1381.

8. Jun-Feng Liu, Xue Min, Jin-Yu Lv, Fu-Xing Pan, Qing-Jiang Pan, and Zhong-Ming Sun* “Ligand-Controlled Syntheses of Cu(I) Complexes with Metal-Metal Interactions: Crystal Structure and Relativistic DFT Investigation” Inorg. Chem. 2014, 53, 11068−11074.

9. Cong Xu, Yan Liu, Li Wang, Jingxin Ma, Lizi Yang, Fu-Xing Pan, Alexander M. Kirillovc and Weisheng Liu* “New lanthanide(III) coordination polymers: synthesis, structural features, and catalytic activity in CO2 fixation” Dalton Trans. 2017, 46, 16426-16431.

10. Cong Xu, Haipeng Huang, Jingxin Ma, Wei Liu, Chunyang Chen, Xin Huang, Lizi Yang, Fu-Xing Pan and Weisheng Liu* “Lanthanide(III) coordination polymers for luminescence detection of Fe(III) and picric acid” New J. Chem. 2018, 42, 15306-15310.

Representative Publications