2025

52. Beibei Xiao, Hongbo Li, Mengjie An, Chunxia Yao, Yali Qiao,* and Xiaodong Yin,*  Electron Density-Dependent Mallory Photocyclization Constructs Rigid Saddle-Shaped Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons with Enhanced Aromaticity, Chem. Eur. J. 2025, 31(57), e02407. DOI:10.1002/chem.202502407.

51. Tongtong Zhang, Zhechang He*, Zeming Chi, Shuni Ma, Chang Wei, Zhiyu Jia*, Xiaodong Yin, and Nan Wang*, TPE-Containing Stimuli-Responsive Amino-Boranes: The Key Role of the Linker, Alkyl vs Aromatic, J. Org. Chem., 2025, asap.  DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.5c00739 (Invited article for special issue "Celebrating Nankai University's Legacy of Excellence in Organic Chemistry")

50. Chunxia Yao, Zewei Wang, Meiyan Liu, Hongbo Li, Nan Wang, Jialiang Xu and Xiaodong Yin*，Orthogonal Boron-Nitrogen Spiro Compounds: Donor-Acceptor Strength Modulation for Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters with Aggregation induced Emission Enhancement，J. Mater. Chem. C, 2025, 13, 10042–10052. DOI:10.1039/D5TC00793C. (J Mat Chem C HOT article )

49. Meiyan Liu, Hongbo Li,  Hongwei Ma, Chunxia Yao, Fenggui Zhao, Shuai Han, Ziqian Zhang, Nan Wang, and Xiaodong Yin*,  Triarylboron based Dual Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitter for Single Molecule White Light-Emitting Diodes, ACS Appl. Mater. Inter. 2025, 17, 14, 21509–21520. 10.1021/acsami.4c20583.

48. Fenggui Zhao, Mengjie An, Nan Wang,  Xiaodong Yin*Boron-Containing Organic Two Dimensional Materials：Synthesis and Application，Chem. Eur. J. 2025. 31,e202403810 ， https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202403810（invited review）.

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2024

47. Meiyan Liu, Chenglong Li, Guanming Liao, Fenggui Zhao, Chunxia Yao, Nan Wang, Xiaodong Yin*，Narrowband Blue Circularly Polarized Luminescence Emitter based on BN-Doped Benzo[6]helicene with Stimuli-Responsive Properties，Chem. Eur. J. 2024. e202402257， https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202402257.

 

46. Tongtong Zhang, Zhenhui Zhao, Xiaodong Yin, Nan Wang*, Organoboron based photochromic gelator, Chem. Commun., 2024, 60, 6500. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/cc/d4cc02098g (invited paper in themed collection)

45. Fenggui Zhao, Guanming Liao, Meiyan Liu, Tao Wang, Yingjie Zhao, Jialiang Xu, Xiaodong Yin*, Precise Preparation of Triarylboron-Based Graphdiyne Analogues for Gas Separation，Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202317294. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202317294 (hot paper)

44. Guanming Liao†, Jinyu Lei†, Shuxin Li, Meiyan Liu, Yali Qiao, Kanglei Liu, Nan Wang, Quan Niu* , and Xiaodong Yin*, Spiro Boron-Nitrogen Molecules Based Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitter for Highly Efficient Solution-Processed Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, Adv. Optical Mater. 2024, 12, 2301242, https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202301242. 

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2023

43.Beibei Xiao, Yongrui Yang, Shengnan Chen, Yali Qiao*, Xing Chen, Kanglei Liu, Nan Wang, and Xiaodong Yin*. Fluoreneylidene-cyclopentadithiophene Based Hole Transport Materials: Substituents Effect to Performance of Perovskite Solar Cells. Chem. Eur. J. 2023. 29，e202301055. DOI: 10.1002/chem.202301055.

42. Nan Wang*, Qingdong Zhou, and Zhiyu Jia*, Bimetallic Re(I)/Pt(II)/Pd(II) Complexes: Syntheses and Property Study, New J. Chem. 2023, 47, 11210-11215. DOI: 10.1039/D3NJ00965C

41. Qing-Dong Zhou, Guo-Fei Hu, Sehrish Sarfaraz, Khurshid Ayub*, Beibei Xiao, Kanglei Liu, Xiaodong Yin*, and Nan Wang*, Internal B←O Bond Facilitated Photo/Thermal Isomerization of Tetra-Coordinated Boranes, Inorg. Chem. 2023, 62, 7061-7068.

40. Meiyan Liu, Hongmin Hao, Guanming Liao, Chenglong Li, Kanglei Liu, Nan Wang, Quan Niu,* and Xiaodong Yin*, Boron-Containing Molecules with Fluorescence-Phosphorescence Dual-Emission for Mechanochromism and Single Molecular White Light-Emitting Diode, Adv. Optical Mater. 2023, 2202918, 10.1002/adom.202202918

39. Kaia R. Parenti, Rafi Chesler, Guiying He, Pritam Bhattacharyya, Beibei Xiao, Huaxi Huang, Daniel Malinowski, Jocelyn Zhang, Xiaodong Yin, Alok Shukla, Sumit Mazumdar*, Matthew Y. Sfeir* & Luis M. Campos*, Quantum interference effects elucidate triplet-pair formation dynamics in intramolecular singlet-fission molecules, Nat. Chem. 2023,15, 339–346 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-022-01107-8

38. Abdullah F. Alahmadi, Xiaodong Yin,* Roger A. Lalancette, and Frieder Jäkle*, Synthesis and Structure-Property Relationships in Regioisomeric Alternating Borane-Terthiophene Polymers, Chem. Eur. J. 2023, e202203619, 29(18):e202203619

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2022

37. Kanglei Liu, Zhenqi Jiang*, Fenggui Zhao, Weizhi Wang, Frieder Jäkle*, Nan Wang, Xiaoying Tang, Xiaodong Yin*, and Pangkuan Chen, Triarylboron-doped Acenethiophenes as Organic Sonosensitizers for Highly Efficient Sonodynamic Therapy with Low Phototoxicity, Adv. Mater. 2022, 34, 2206594. DOI: 10.1002/adma.202206  (ESI highly cited paper/ hot cited paper）

 

36. Yu Wang, Kanglei Liu, Pangkuan Chen, Xiaodong Yin, Tai Peng,* Javed Iqbal and Nan Wang *, A multi-responsive system based on intramolecular BßO=P Lewis acid–base pairs, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2022, 10, 10981, 10.1039/D2TC01999J

35. Liang Li, Jonathan Z. Low, Jan Wilhelm, Guanming Liao, Suman Gunasekaran, Claudia R. Prindle, Rachel L. Starr, Dorothea Golze, Colin Nuckolls, Michael L. Steigerwald, Ferdinand Evers*, Luis M. Campos*, Xiaodong Yin* & Latha Venkataraman*, Highly conducting single-molecule topological insulators based on mono- and di-radical cations, Nat. Chem., 2022, 14, 1061–1067.

34. Chao-Jing Sun, Li Cong, Kanglei Liu*, Beibei Xiao, Nan Wang, Xiaodong Yin*, and Pangkuan Chen, Dipole Effect of BN-Doped Tetrathienonaphthalene on Photo-Physical Properties and Lewis Acidity of the D-π-A Derivatives, Inorg. Chem. 2022, 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c00854

33. Yu Wang, Bowen Wang, Kanglei Liu, Xiaodong Yin, Pangkuan Chen and Nan Wang*，Tuning the Through-Space Charge Transfer Emission in Triarylborane and Triarylamine Functionalized Dipeptide Organogels，Soft Matter, 2022,18, 1404-1411.

32. Guoyun Meng, Lijie Liu, Zhechang He, David Hall, Xiang Wang, Tai Peng,* Xiaodong Yin, Pangkuan Chen, David Beljonne, Yoann Olivier, Eli Zysman-Colman, Nan Wang* and Suning Wang，Multi-resonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters based on tetracoordinate boron-containing PAHs: colour tuning based on the nature of chelates，Chem. Sci., 2022,13, 1665-1674

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2021

31. Ya Li, Xing Chen, Wenying Zhang, Junzheng Zhang, Liang Xu*, Yali Qiao, Kanglei Liu, Nan Wang, Pangkuan Chen*, and Xiaodong Yin* ，Substituent Modulation for Highly Bright 9-Borafluorene Derivatives with Carbazole Pendant, Org. Lett. 2021, 10.1021/acs.orglett.1c02619

30. Guanming Liao, Xing Chen, Yali Qiao, Kanglei Liu, Nan Wang, Pangkuan Chen,* and Xiaodong Yin*, Highly Electron-Deficient Dicyanomethylene-Functionalized Triarylboranes with Low-Lying LUMO and Strong Lewis Acidity, Org. Lett. 2021, 10.1021/acs.orglett.1c01983

29. Guanming Liao, Jia Zhang, Xiaoyan Zheng*, Xiaodi Jia, Jialiang Xu, Fenggui Zhao, Nan Wang, Kanglei Liu, Pangkuan Chen*, and Xiaodong Yin*，Crystallization-Induced Emission Enhancement of Highly Electron-Deficient Dicyanomethylene-Bridged Triarylboranes, Chem. Commun., 2021, 10.1039/D1CC03311E

28. Xing Chen ,Guoyun Meng, Guanming Liao, Florian Rauch, Jiang He, Alexandra Friedrich, Todd Marder,* Nan Wang, Pangkuan Chen, Suning Wang, Xiaodong Yin*, Highly Emissive 9-Borafluorene Derivatives: Synthesis, Photophysical Properties, and Device Fabrication, Chem. Eur. J. 2021, 10.1002/chem.202005185

27. Sun, Chao-Jing; Meng, Guoyun; Li, Ya; Wang, Nan; Chen, Pangkuan; Wang, Suning ; Yin, Xiaodong*, Millisecond Time-Scale Photoluminescence of B-N doped Tetrathienonaphthalene with Borane/Amine Substituents, Inorg. Chem. 2021. 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c03196

26. Jiaqi Dong; Lutao, Zhang; Dehui Tan;Jianfeng Wu; Nan Wang*; Soren K. Mellerup; Suning Wang; Deng-Tao Yang*, Formation of an air-stable diborane via a stepwise BH₃ addition of pyrido[1,2-a]isoindole with H₂ evolution, Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 9882-9885

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2020

25. Xiaodong Yin*, Jun Liu*, Frieder Jaekle*. Electron-Deficient Conjugated Materials via p–p* Conjugation with Boron: Extending Monomers to Oligomers, Macrocycles, and Polymers, Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 1 – 15, 10.1002/chem.202003481 (invited review)

24. Zhenhui Zhao, Xiaodong Yin, Tai Peng, Nan Wang*, and Suning Wang. Triarylboron/Triarylamine-Functionalized 2,2′-Bipyridine Ligands and Their Copper(I) Complexes. Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 11, 7426–7434. DOI :10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00102

23. Guoyun Meng, Tai Peng,* Yonggang Shi, Haijun Li, Xiang Wang, Xiaodong Yin, Deng-Tao Yang, * Suning Wang and Nan Wang *, Triazole functionalized 5,9-dioxa-13b-boranaphtho[3,2,1-de]anthracene: a new family of multi-stimuli responsive materials, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020,8, 7749-7754. DOI :10.1039/d0tc00865f

22. Zhechang He, Lijie Liu, Zhenhui Zhao, Soren.K. Mellerup, Yuxin Ge, Xiang Wang, Nan Wang*, Suning Wang*, Divergent and Multi-Stage Photoisomerization of Four-Coordinated Boron Compounds with a Naphthyl-Pyridyl/Thiazolyl Backbone, Chem. Eur. J. 2020,26,12403-12410 doi.org/10.1002/chem.202000775 (Hot Paper)

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2019

21. Guo-Fei Hu，Hai-Jun Li，Chao Zeng，Xiang Wang，Nan Wang，Tai Peng，Suning Wang* ，Internal B–O Bond-Facilitated Photoisomerization of Boranes: Ring Expansion Versus Oxyborane Elimination/Intramolecular Diels–Alder Addition, Org. Lett. 2019，21，13, 5285-5289. DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b01892

20. Chao-Jing Sun, Nan Wang, Tai Peng, Xiaodong Yin, Suning Wang, and Pangkuan Chen*，BN-Functionalized Benzotrithiophene-Based Azaborines: Synthesis, Structures, and Anion Binding Properties, Inorg. Chem. 2019 58 (6), 3591-3595 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b03579

19. Meng, G., Chen, X., Wang, X., Wang, N., Peng, T., Wang, S., Isomeric Bright Sky‐Blue TADF Emitters Based on Bisacridine Decorated DBNA: Impact of Donor Locations on Luminescent and Electroluminescent Properties. Adv. Opt. Mater. 2019, 1900130. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201900130

18. Xiaodong Yin, Jonathan Z. Low, Kealan J. Fallon, Daniel W. Paley and Luis M. Campos*The butterfly effect in bisfluorenylidene-based dihydroacenes: aggregation induced emission and spin switching；Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 10733-10739.

17. L. J. Liu, X. Wang, F. Hussain, C. Zeng, B. Wang, Z. Li, I. Kozin, and Suning Wang*,. “Multi-responsive Tetradentate Phosphorescent Metal Complexes as Highly Sensitive and Robust Luminescent Oxygen Sensors: Pd(II) versus Pt(II) and 1,2,3-Triazolyl versus 1,2,4-Triazolyl”, ACS Appl. Mater. Inter., 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b02023.

16. X. Li, Y. G. Shi, N. Wang*, T. Peng*, and S. Wang, “Photoisomerization of Pt(II) Complexes Containing Two Different Photochromic Chromophores: Boron Chromophore vs. Dithienylethene Chromophore”. Chem. Eur. J., 2019, DOI 10.1002/chem.201900279.

15. C. Zeng, K. Yuan, N. Wang, T. Peng*, G. Wu, S. Wang*, “The Opposite and Amplifying Effect of B¬N Coordination on Photophysical Properties of Regioisomers with an Unsymmetrical Backbone”, Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 1724-1734. DOI: 10.1039/C8SC04210A.

14. J. Wang, N. Wang, G. Wu, S. Wang*, X.Y. Li*, “Multicolor emission from non-conjugated polymers based on a single switchable boron chromophore”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 3082–3086. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201812210.

13. Y.-G. Shi, S. K. Mellerup, K. Yuan, G.-F. Hu, F. Sauriol, T. Peng, N. Wang*, P. K. Chen* and S. Wang*, “Stabilising fleeting intermediates of stilbene photocyclization with amino-borane functionalisation: the rare isolation of persistent dihydrophenanthrenes and their [1,5] H-shift isomers”, Chem. Sci., 2019, 9, 3844-3855. DOI: 10.1039/C8SC00560E.

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2018 & Earlier

12. N. Wang,* J. Wang, D. Zhao, S. K. Mellerup, T. Peng, H. Wang, S. Wang, “Lanthanide Complexes with Photochromic Organoboron Ligand: Synthesis and Luminescence Study”, Inorg. Chem., 2018, 57, 10040–10049. DOI:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b01209.

11. Q. Hou, L. Liu, S. K. Mellerup, N. Wang, T. Peng, P. K. Chen* and Suning Wang*, “Stimuli-Responsive B/N Lewis Pairs Based on the Modulation of B−N Bond Strength”, Org. Lett., 2018, 20, 6467-6470. DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.8b02774.

10. Y. G. Shi, J.-W. Wang, H. J. Li, G.-F. Hu, X. Li, S. K. Mellerup, N. Wang, T. Peng*, S. Wang*, “A Simple Multi-Responsive System Based on Aldehyde Functionalized Amino-Boranes”, Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 1902-1911. DOI: 10.1039/C7SC03617E.

9. S. Wang*, K. Yuan, M.F. Hu, X. Wang, T. Peng, N. Wang*, Q. Li*, “Cleavage of Unstrained C-C Bonds in Acenes by Boron and Light: Transformation of Naphthalene to Benzoborepin”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 1073-1077. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201711658.

8. N. Wang*, M. Hu, S. K. Mellerup, X. Wang, F. Sauriol, T. Peng* and S. Wang*, “Triaryl-Boron Functionalized Dinuclear Platinum Complexes Linked by Photoisomerizable Bpe Ligand: Luminescence and Isomerism” Inorg. Chem., 2017, 56, 12783-12794. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01535.

7. L. Liu, X. Wang, N. Wang, T. Peng, S. Wang*, “Bright, Multi-Responsive, Sky-Blue Platinum(II) Phosphors Based on a Tetradentate Chelating Framework” Angew. Chem. Int .Ed., 2017, 129, 9288-9292. DOI: 10.1002/ange.201705785. (Hot Paper)

6. J. Wang, B. Jin, N. Wang*, T. Peng, X. Li,* Y. Luo and S. Wang*, “Organoboron-Based Photochromic Copolymers for

 Erasable Writing and Patterning” Macromolecules, 2017, 50, 4629-4638. DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b00632.

5. Y.-G. Shi, X. Wang, N. Wang, T. Peng* and S. Wang*, “Influence of Extended Conjugation on Photophysical/Electronic Properties and Photoelimination of BN-Heterocycles”, Organometallics, 2017, 36, 14, 2677-2684. DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00290.

4. C. Zeng, N. Wang, T. Peng,* and S. Wang * “Copper(I) Complexes Bearing 1,2-Phenyl-Bridged P^N, P^N^P, and N^P^N Chelate Ligands: Structures and Phosphorescence” Inorg. Chem., 2017, 56, 1616-1625. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b02721.

3. S. Wang*, T.-Z. Wu, H.-J. Park, L.-X. Chao, S. K. Mellerup, G.-Q. Yang, T. Peng, N.Wang, J.-B. Peng*, “Highly Stable Eu(III) and Tb(III) Complexes Based on Triarylborane-Functionalized Cyclen Derivatives as Visual Temperature Probes and White-Light Emitters” Adv. Optical Mater. 2016, 4, 1882-189. DOI: 10.1002/adom.201600408.

2. Y.-G Shi, D.-T. Yang, S. K. Mellerup, N. Wang, T. Peng and S. Wang*, “1,1-Hydroboration of Fused Azole-Isoindole Analogues as an Approach for Construction of BN-Heterocycles andAzoleFused BN-Naphthalenes” Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 1626-1629. DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.6b00485. (Highlighted by Synfacts).

1. S. Wang*, D.-T. Yang, J. Lu, H. Shimogawa, S. Gong*, X. Wang, S. K. Mellerup, A. Wakamiya, Y.-L. Chang, C. Yang, Z.-H. Lu*, “In Situ Solid-State Generation of (BN)2-Pyrenes and Electroluminescent Devices” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54,15074-15078. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201507770.