Prof. Lifeng Chi "On-Surface Hydrocarbon Chemistry"

Abstract

On-surface chemistry is an emerging interdisciplinary discipline developed in recent years, which presents the great potential in breaking through limitations of traditional chemical synthesis and accurately preparing functional molecular nanostructures. We have made a series of explorations to address the challenging scientific problem of selective C-H bond activation and C-C coupling of saturated alkanes on Au(110) surface [1,2], and further  realizing the conversion of alkanes to conjugated polyenes on the surface of Cu(110) as well as  interpreting the underline mechanisms[3-8]. More recently, we demonstrated the high selective dehydrogenative aromatization of n-alkane on different metal surfaces[9]. Thereby new methods for the on-surface conversion from n-alkane to conjugated polyene and their aromatization have been established.

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[9] L.N.Wang et al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed, (2025) DOI:10.1002/anie.202417070

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