(Lecture, Jan. 6) Notice of Academic Report by Prof Wang Shuangyin of Hunan University
Title：Electrocatalytic conversion of organic molecules
Time: 6 January 2024, 14.30-15.30 p.m.
Venue: Conference Room 105, Shaw Engineering Building
[Abstract]
Organic electrocatalytic reforming (OECR) is a process that uses electrocatalysis to accelerate the conversion of organic substances by lowering the activation energy of the reaction through electronic interactions between the catalyst and the organic molecules. Because of the advantages of high efficiency and greenness compared with traditional organic reactions, organic electrocatalytic conversion has been developed in energy, environment, medicine and chemical industry in recent years. Our group has recently carried out some work in the direction of organic electrocatalytic conversion, mainly focusing on the "organic electrocatalytic synthesis of gaseous small molecules coupled with organic electrocatalysts", "electrocatalytic oxidation of nucleophilic organic small molecules", and "conversion and upgrading of biomass platforms and derivatives". The research work has been carried out in the areas of "gas-coupled organic electrocatalytic synthesis of small molecules", "electrocatalytic oxidation of nucleophilic organic small molecules" and "biomass platform conversion and upgrading". The research work is the first to use electrocatalytic technology to convert inert molecules (CO2 and N2) into organic molecules under normal temperature and pressure; reveals the mechanism of "hydrogen-defective cycling" of nucleophilic organic molecules on nickel catalysts, reveals the non-electrochemical process of organic molecule electrocatalytic conversion, and analyses the reaction pathways in the electrocatalytic conversion of organic molecules and uses them to design the high quality biomass platform derivatives. We have revealed the non-electrochemical processes in the electrocatalytic conversion of organic molecules, analysed the reaction pathways in the electrocatalytic conversion of organic molecules and used them to design high value-added target molecules, and designed a series of high-performance electrocatalysts for the efficient and green conversion of biomass. These works are of great significance for further expanding the organic electrocatalytic substrates, clarifying the catalytic mechanism, and realising the targeted conversion and synthesis of organic substances.
[Biography]
Wang Shuangyin is a professor at Hunan University, and in 2018, he is the chair of the National Natural Science Outstanding Youth Fund, a highly cited scientist (Chemistry and Materials) at Corelli Research, the chief scientist of the Key Research and Development Programme of the Ministry of Science and Technology (2021), and the leader of the Original Exploration Project of the China Foundation for the Development of Science and Technology (2022). He graduated from the Department of Chemical Engineering of Zhejiang University in 2006, and received his PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University in 2010, and then carried out research at Case Western Reserve University, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Manchester (as a Marie Curie Scholar) in the United Kingdom. His main research interests are electrocatalysis and electrosynthesis, and his major research achievements include: opening up the direction of defective chemistry of electrocatalysts, the first electrocatalytic coupling of CO2 and N2, the first electrochemical bipolar hydrogen production, and the first integrated thermocatalytic-electrocatalytic medium-temperature coupling system. Representative papers have been published in National Science Review, Science China, Science Bulletin, Nature Chem., Nature Catalysis, JACS, Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater., Chem and other journals, with total citations of more than 40,000 and H-index of 110, and have been awarded the China Youth Science and Technology Prize, the Ministry of Education's Youth Science Prize, the Hunan Province First Prize of Natural Science Award of Hunan Province, First Prize of China Overseas Chinese Contribution, and Qingshan Science and Technology Award.
Announced by School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
