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  1. Molecular Insights into Active Sites of Manganese Oxide Based Water Oxidation Eletrocatalysts

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, August 2025, Wiley

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  2. Nitrogen-Centered Radical Cyclization Initiated by Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer: A Mechanistic Study of 5-Exo-trig and 6-Endo-trig Cyclization Pathways

    Article • The Journal of Organic Chemistry, July 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  3. Influence of sp2 Nitrogen Atom Replacement on the Structure and Redox Properties of Allylic Intermediates

    Article • The Journal of Organic Chemistry, June 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  4. Bimetallic Synergy in Oxygen Reduction: How Tailored Metal–Metal Interactions Amplify Cooperative Catalysis

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, April 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  5. In Situ Revelation of the Dynamic Evolution of Molecular Water Oxidation Catalysts

    Article • CCS Chemistry, March 2025, Chinese Chemical Society

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  6. Structure-Induced Reversing Basicity of α-Anionic Fischer Carbenes

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, February 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  7. Selective hydroxylation of benzene to phenol via CuII(μ-O˙)CuII intermediate using a nonsymmetric dicopper catalyst

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2025, Royal Society of Chemistry

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  8. Two‐Phase Perchlorate Activation Enabled by a Dinuclear Fe‐NHC (N‐Heterocyclic Carbene) Complex

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, November 2024, Wiley

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  9. Three Distinct Oxidation States (II/II, II/III, and III/III) of Diorganocopper Complexes

    Article • JACS Au, October 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  10. Heterobimetallic NiFe Complex for Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction: United Efforts of NiFe Dual Sites

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, October 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  11. Biphasic Perchlorate Activation Enabled by a Dinuclear Fe-NHC Complex

    Article • April 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  12. Bioinspired Binickel Catalyst for Carbon Dioxide Reduction: The Importance of Metal–ligand Cooperation

    Article • JACS Au, March 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  13. Pivotal Role of Geometry Regulation on O−O Bond Formation Mechanism of Bimetallic Water Oxidation Catalysts

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, January 2024, Wiley

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  14. Selective Four‐Electron Reduction of Oxygen by a Nonheme Heterobimetallic CuFe Complex

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, October 2023, Wiley

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  15. Electronic effects of redox-active ligands on ruthenium-catalyzed water oxidation

    Article • Chinese Journal of Catalysis, September 2023, Elsevier

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  16. Redox-Active Ligand Assisted Multielectron Catalysis: A Case of Electrocatalyzed CO2-to-CO Conversion

    Article • ACS Organic & Inorganic Au, August 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  17. Heterobimetallic NiFe Cooperative Molecular Water Oxidation Catalyst

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, March 2023, Wiley

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  18. Trinuclear Nickel Catalyst for Water Oxidation: Intramolecular Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Triggered Trimetallic Cooperative O–O Bond Formation

    Article • CCS Chemistry, January 2023, Chinese Chemical Society

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  19. Identifying Metal-Oxo/Peroxo Intermediates in Catalytic Water Oxidation by In Situ Electrochemical Mass Spectrometry

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, September 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  20. Proton-Coupled Electron-Transfer Reduction of Dioxygen: The Importance of Precursor Complex Formation between Electron Donor and Proton Donor

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, July 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  21. Bio-inspired lanthanum-ortho-quinone catalysis for aerobic alcohol oxidation: semi-quinone anionic radical as redox ligand

    Article • Nature Communications, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  22. Bimetallic water oxidation: One-site catalysis with two-sites oxidation

    Article • Journal of Energy Chemistry, December 2021, Elsevier

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  23. Bioinspired molecular clusters for water oxidation

    Article • Coordination Chemistry Reviews, December 2021, Elsevier

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  24. Bioinspired Trinuclear Copper Catalyst for Water Oxidation with a Turnover Frequency up to 20000 s–1

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, November 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  25. Buffer anion effects on water oxidation catalysis: The case of Cu(III) complex

    Article • Chinese Journal of Catalysis, August 2021, Elsevier

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  26. Iron‐Catalyzed Water Oxidation: O–O Bond Formation via Intramolecular Oxo–Oxo Interaction

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, April 2021, Wiley

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  27. Metal-Free Electrocatalyst for Water Oxidation Initiated by Hydrogen Atom Transfer

    Article • ACS Catalysis, December 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  28. Redox‐Active Ligand Assisted Catalytic Water Oxidation by a Ru IV =O Intermediate

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, January 2020, Wiley

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  29. Highly efficient and selective photocatalytic CO2 to CO conversion in aqueous solution

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  30. The Application of Pincer Ligand in Catalytic Water Splitting

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  31. A Supramolecular Radical Dimer: High‐Efficiency NIR‐II Photothermal Conversion and Therapy

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, September 2019, Wiley

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  32. Proton-coupled electron transfer oxidation of O–H bond by the N-radical cation of Wurster's blue salt (TMPDA˙+)

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  33. Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation by an Unsymmetrical Di-Copper Complex

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, August 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  34. Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production with Conjugated Polymers as Photosensitizers

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, March 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  35. Visible-light-mediated C(sp 3 )-H activation by photo-induced hydrogen-atom transfer

    Article • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry, March 2018, Elsevier

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  36. Redox-Active Ligand Assisted Multielectron Catalysis: A Case of CoIII Complex as Water Oxidation Catalyst

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, January 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  37. Bimetallic cooperative effect on O–O bond formation: copper polypyridyl complexes as water oxidation catalyst

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  38. A chiral ion-pair photoredox organocatalyst: enantioselective anti-Markovnikov hydroetherification of alkenols

    Article • Organic Chemistry Frontiers, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  39. Tuning Excited-State Reactivity by Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, October 2016, Wiley

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  40. Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in a Series of Ruthenium-Linked Tyrosines with Internal Bases: Evaluation of a Tunneling Model for Experimental Temperature-Dependent Kinetics

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, August 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  41. Cu(II) Aliphatic Diamine Complexes for Both Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Water Oxidation Catalysis in Basic and Neutral Solutions

    Article • ACS Catalysis, December 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  42. Organic Photocatalytic Cyclization of Polyenes: A Visible‐Light‐Mediated Radical Cascade Approach

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, September 2015, Wiley

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  43. Fast and Simple Preparation of Iron-Based Thin Films as Highly Efficient Water-Oxidation Catalysts in Neutral Aqueous Solution

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, February 2015, Wiley

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  44. Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation by a Dinuclear Copper Complex in a Neutral Aqueous Solution

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, February 2015, Wiley

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  45. Single-Site Copper(II) Water Oxidation Electrocatalysis: Rate Enhancements with HPO42−as a Proton Acceptor at pH 8

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, September 2014, Wiley

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  46. Homogeneous Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation at Neutral pH by a Robust Macrocyclic Nickel(II) Complex

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, September 2014, Wiley

    Chemistry Tong-Bu Lu, MINGTIAN ZHANG

  47. Multiple Pathways in the Oxidation of a NADH Analogue

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, April 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  48. Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation by a Monomeric Amidate-Ligated Fe(III)–Aqua Complex

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, April 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  49. Making syngas electrocatalytically using a polypyridyl ruthenium catalyst

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  50. Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation with a Copper(II) Polypeptide Complex

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, February 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  51. Cu(ii)/Cu(0) electrocatalyzed CO2 and H2O splitting

    Article • Energy & Environmental Science, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  52. Role of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in the Redox Interconversion between Benzoquinone and Hydroquinone

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, November 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  53. Spanning Four Mechanistic Regions of Intramolecular Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in a Ru(bpy)32+–Tyrosine Complex

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, September 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  54. Bimolecular proton-coupled electron transfer from tryptophan with water as the proton acceptor

    Article • Energy & Environmental Science, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  55. Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer from Tyrosine: A Strong Rate Dependence on Intramolecular Proton Transfer Distance

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, August 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  56. Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer from Tryptophan: A Concerted Mechanism with Water as Proton Acceptor

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, June 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG

  57. Hydride, Hydrogen Atom, Proton, and Electron Transfer Driving Forces of Various Five-Membered Heterocyclic Organic Hydrides and Their Reaction Intermediates in Acetonitrile

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, February 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    MINGTIAN ZHANG