Zhang Jie, PhD, Professor, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology. He is committed to the functional supramolecular assembly of photoelectrochemically active conjugated organic molecules, and has made a series of achievements in photoinduced electron transfer reaction, charge transfer synergism, surface modification of porous materials, selective adsorption response of guest molecules and photocatalysis. Has undertaken a number of national Natural Science foundation projects, Fujian Province natural science key projects, the Ministry of Education overseas students fund and the State Key Laboratory of Structural chemistry research projects. He has won the Lu Jiaxi Outstanding Mentor Award, and his graduate students have won the Lu Jiaxi Outstanding Graduate Award, Baosteel Outstanding Student Award, Baosteel Outstanding Student Grand Prize, Beijing Outstanding Graduate, Beijing Institute of Technology Outstanding Graduate and Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, as well as national scholarships.

Design, synthesis and coordination assembly of new photoelectric chemically active organic molecules, study the synergistic effect and law of self-assembly process, and explore the influence of the structure of molecular assembly and the interaction mode between molecules on the optical, electrical, magnetic and catalytic properties of materials.

1993.09-1999.06 Jilin University, Physical Chemistry Major, Ph. D.
1990.09-1993.06 Master of Inorganic Chemistry, Jilin University
1986.09-1990.06 Jilin University, Chemistry major, Bachelor Degree

2016.09-present School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Professor
2014.09-2016.08 School of Chemistry, Beijing Institute of Technology, Professor
2001.08-2014.09 State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Material Structure, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Associate Researcher (2001)/ Researcher (2002)
1999.07-2001.07 JSPS Special Research Fellow, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
1996.08-1998.08 Postdoc, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1993.07-2001.07 Department of Chemistry, Jilin University, Assistant Professor (1993)/ Lecturer (1995)/ Associate Professor (1998)

So far in Coord. Chem. Rev., Angew. Chem. Int.Ed., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Appl.Cata.B. : Environ., Green Chem., ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., Chem. Commun., ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, J. Mater. Chem. A/C, Inorg. Chem. He has published more than 100 papers in domestic and foreign academic journals such as Chem-Eur.J., and obtained 3 national authorized invention patents. The main achievements include: (1) Using photochemically active pyridinium derivatives as the main building block, a new method for controlled synthesis, stabilization and property control of multifunctional porous materials was established by using metal-organic ligand coordination assembly strategy combined with intermolecular charge transfer, cation-π and hydrogen bonding. (2) The organic combination of halo addition and photoinduced electron transfer reaction has developed a novel multi-stimulus response material that can respond to the external environment through different mechanisms and layers and show polymorphism transformation, which provides theoretical guidance and experimental basis for designing and synthesizing new "smart materials" to meet the diversified application needs. (3) Using the excellent photoinduced electron transfer characteristics of pyridinium, an effective strategy of non-expensive/heavy metal photocatalyst activation of oxygen has been developed, and the photoinduced selective oxidation of alcohols and related series of tandem reactions can be completed under air conditions without the introduction of other auxiliary catalysts or oxidants. It provides a new idea for developing a new type of green catalytic technology which is clean, energy saving, environmental protection, low cost and mild conditions.
Representative Research Papers:
1. J. K. Sun, X. D. Yang, G. Y. Yang, J. Zhang*, Bipyridinium derivative-based coordination polymers: From synthesis to materials applications Coord. Chem. Rev. 2019, 378, 533.(ESI highly cited)
2. C. Chen#, J. K. Sun#, Y. J. Zhang, X. D. Yang, J. Zhang*, Flexible viologen-based porous framework showing X-ray induced photochromism with single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformation Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 14458.
3. J. K. Sun, W. Li, C. Chen, C, X. Ren, D. M. Pan, J. Zhang*, Photoinduced bending of a large single crystal of a 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethylene-based pyridinium salt powered by a [2+2] cycloaddition Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 6653.
4. X. H. Jin, J. Wang, J. K. Sun, H. X. Zhang, J. Zhang*, Protonation-triggered conversion between single and triple-stranded helices with the visual fluorescence change Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 1149.
5. J. W. Cui, S. Ma, C. H. Rao, M. Z. Jia, X. R. Yao, J. Zhang*, Reusable homogeneous metal- and additive-free photocatalyst for high-performance aerobic oxidation of alcohols to carboxylic acids, Appl. Catal. B: Environ. 2022, 305, 121028.