Introduction:

Name: Yanwei Ren

Tel: 0086-15914305729

Email: renyw@scut.edu.cn

Address:Room 218, Building 15#, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,South China University   

                 of Technology, 381 Wushan Road, Guangzhou 510640, P. R. China.

Educational background:

     2001-2006: Ph. D. in Inorganic Chemistry, Northwest University, Xi’an, China.

     1996-2000: B. Sc. in Material Chemistry, Northwest University, Xi’an, China.

Professional Experience:

     2008: Faculty, Associate Professor of chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South

               China University of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou, China.

     2006-2008: Postdoctor, Department of Chemistry, The HongKong University of Science and Technology.

Research Areas:

     Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) materials for catalysis: Heterogeneous catalysis with inorganic porous materials such as zeolites is of importance for the production of many large-scale commodity products, but has rather limited success in fine chemical synthesis. MOFs are particularly suited to generating single-site heterogeneous catalysts with uniform catalytic sites and open channels for shape-, size-, chemo-, and stereo-selective reactions by taking advantage of the ability to assemble well-defined molecular building blocks into theirframeworks. The molecular origin of MOFs catalysts significantly broadens the scope of reactions and allows for the systematic tuning of catalytic activities. On the other hand, MOFs-based catalysts can simply be recovered and reused, yielding reductions in cost of catalyst regeneration and product purification in industrial processes.

Recent Publications:

1. Jiawei Li, Yanwei Ren,* Chaorong Qi, and Huanfeng Jiang.* Full meta-substituted   4,4’-biphenyldicarboxylate based MOFs: synthesis, structures and catalytic activities. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2017, 1478-1487.

2. Jiawei Li, Yamei Fan and Yanwei Ren.* Syntheses, structures and characterization of four metal-organic frameworks constructed by 2,2′,6,6′-tetramethoxy-4,4′-biphenyldicarboxylic acid. Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem., 2017, DOI: 10.1002/zaac.201700003.

3. Yanwei Ren,* Ou Jiang, Jiawei Li and Hang Zeng，A heterometal (Pd-Pb) organic framework: synthesis, structure and heterogeneous catalytic application. Appl. Organomet. Chem., 2016, 30, 699-704.

4. Yanwei Ren, Ou Jiang, Hang Zeng, Qiuping Mao and Huanfeng Jiang,* Lewis acid–base bifunctional aluminum-salen catalysts: synthesis of cyclic carbonates from carbon dioxide and epoxides. RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 3243-3249.

5. Yanwei Ren, Jungui Chen, Chaorong Qi, and Huanfeng Jiang,* A new type of Lewis acid–base bifunctional M(salphen)(M=Zn, Cu and Ni) catalysts for CO₂fixation. ChemCatChem, 2015, 7, 1535-1538.

6. Yanwei Ren,* Jiaxian Lu, Ou Jiang, Xiaofei Cheng, Jun Chen. Amine-grafted on lanthanide metal-organic frameworks: Three solid base catalysts for Knoevenagel condensation reaction. Chin. J. Catal., 2015, 36, 1949-1956.

7. Jieping Cao, Ting Fang, Zhuoqiang Wang, Yanwei Ren,* Shuzhong Zhan.* A dinuclear triazenido-copper complex: A new molecularelectro-catalyst for generating hydrogen from acetic acid or water. J. Mol. Catal. A-Chem., 2014, 391,191-197.

8. Yanwei Ren, Xiaofei Cheng, Shaorong Yang, Chaorong Qi, Huanfeng Jiang* and Qiuping Mao, A chiral mixed meta-organic framework based on a Ni(saldpen) metalloligand: synthesis, characterization and catalytic performances. Dalton Trans., 2013, 42, 9930-9937.

9. Yanwei Ren, Yanchao Shi, Junxian Chen, Shaorong Yang, Chaorong Qi and Huanfeng Jiang,* Ni(salphen)-based metal-organic framework for the synthesis of cyclic carbonates by cycloaddition of CO₂ to epoxides. RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 2167-2170.

10. Yanwei Ren,Jiaxian Lu,Bowei Cai,Dabin Shi,Huanfeng Jiang*,Jun Chen,De Zhengand Bin Liu. A novel asymmetric di-Ni(II) system as a highly efficient functional model for phosphodiesterase: synthesis, structures, physicochemical properties and catalytic kinetics. Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 1372-1381.

11. Yanwei Ren, Jiaxin Liang, Jiaxian Lu, Bowei Cai, Da-bin Shi, Chaorong Qi, Huanfeng Jiang,* Jun Chen, De Zheng. 1,4-Phenylenediacetate-based Ln MOFs: synthesis, structures, luminescence, and catalytic activity. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2011,4369-4376.

12. Yanwei Ren, Aizhi Wu, Haiyang Liu, Huanfeng Jiang. Synthesis and characterization of a new asymmetric dinucleating ligand and its dinuclear nickel(II) complex with (μ-η²)₂ phosphate ester bridge. Trans. Met. Chem., 2010, 35, 191-195.