Yanbo is now a tenure-track assistant professor at Great Bay University (from Aug 2023). Yanbo joined the group in Oct 2020 as a postdoc and has earned a promotion to research assistant professor in February 2023. Yanbo studied chemistry at Zhengzhou University and obtained both B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in organic chemistry. He completed his Ph.D. degree in June 2020 at ETH Zurich (with Prof. Hansjörg Grützmacher), where he studied organometallics and chemistry of main group elements with a focus on phosphorus. The title of his dissertation is “Complexes, heterocycles and depolymerizable polymers made from building blocks with low-coordinated phosphorus”. His research covers broadly in inorganic and organic phosphorus chemistry, spanning from small inorganic molecules to organic/inorganic heterocycles of different ring members, e. g. 2-phosphaethynolate anion (–O-C≡P) and its complexes, phosphinidenes, phosphiranes, phospholes, phosphinines, phosphanaphthalenes, 7-phosphanorbornadienes. His scientific achievements include the first successful polymerization of P=C double bonds, the discovery of the molecule 2,4,6-tris(hydroxy)-1,3,5-triphosphinine, and the invention of a simple synthetic method to prepare phosphanaphthalenes. He authored 8 publications before joining SUSTech.

Publications:

15. T. Chen; Y. Mei; L. L. Liu;* Y. Zhao; Y. Wu* and D. W. Stephan,* Alkoxyphosphorane/Borane Cooperative Alkylations: a Frustrated Lewis Pair Version of the Mitsunobu Reaction, Chem. Eur. J. 2023, in press.

14. X. Zhang; H. Wang; X. Lan; Y. Mei D. A. Ruiz and L. L. Liu,* Transfer of an Aluminum Atom: An Avenue to Aluminum Heterocycles, CCS Chem. 2023, in press. (Highlighted by CCS News)

13. X. Zhang;+ Y. Mei+ and L. L. Liu,* Free Aluminylenes: An Emerging Class of Compounds, Chem. Eur. J. 2022, 28, e202202102.  (+ = equal contribution) (Invited contribution)

12. J. Li; Y. Mei and L. L. Liu,* An Isolable Phosphaborene Stabilized by an Intramolecular Lewis Base, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2022, 2022, 202200368. (Invited contribution for Collections of EurJIC Talents and Board Member Highlights) (Selected by Editors' Choice: Spotlights)

11. Y. Mei; Z. Yan and L. L. Liu,* Facile Synthesis of the Dicyanophosphide Anion via Electrochemical Activation of White Phosphorus: An Avenue to Organophosphorus Compounds, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 1517–1522.

10. X. Chen;+ C. Hu;+ X. Zhang; S. Liu; Y. Mei; G. Hu; L. L. Liu; Z. Li* and C. Su,* Reversible Stereoisomerization of 1,3-Diphosphetane Frameworks Revealed by a Single-Electron Redox Approach, Inorg. Chem. 2021, 60, 5771–5778. (+ = equal contribution)

Funding:

4. 国家自然科学基金青年基金（项目负责人，2023-2025）

3. 中国博士后基金特别资助-站中（项目负责人，2022）

2. 中国博士后基金面上项目（项目负责人，2021）

1. 中国博士后管委会-博士后国（境）外交流引进项目（2021）

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9. Y. Mei, J. J. Gamboa-Carballo, Y. Bao, N. Wu, G. Le Corre, H. Grützmacher*, Sci. Adv. 2021, 7, eabf4272.

8. Y. Mei, D.-J. Wu, J. E. Borger*, H. Grützmacher*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 5512–5515.

7. R. Suter*, Y. Mei, M. Baker, Z. Benkő*, Z. Li, H. Grützmacher*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 1356–1360. (Highlighted at C&EN news).

6. Y. Mei, J. E. Borger*, D.-J. Wu, H. Grützmacher*, Dalton Trans. 2019, 48, 4370–4374.

5. Y. Mei, R. Tian*, Z. Duan*, F. Mathey*, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2014, 2014, 6254–6260.

4. R. Tian*, Y. Mei, Z. Duan*, F. Mathey*, Organometallics 2013, 32, 5615–5618.

3. J. E. Borger*, G. Le Corre, Y. Mei, R. Suter, E. Schrader, H. Grützmacher*, Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 3957–3962.

2. Y. Hao, C. Zhang, Y. Mei, R. Tian*, Z. Duan*, F. Mathey*, Dalton Trans. 2016, 45, 8284–8290.

1. H. Huang, J. Li, W. Zhao, Y. Mei, Z. Duan*, Org. Biomol. Chem. 2011, 9, 5036–5038.