Introduction

Educational background:

2003.09---2008.06      Nankai University，Doctoral degree，Advisor：Shansheng Xu

1999.09---2003.07      Nankai University，Bachelor degree

Work experience:

01/2024-                   Professor. Shenzhen Grubbs Institute, Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology,

03/2020-12/2023      Associate Professor. Shenzhen Grubbs Institute, Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology,

10/2011-01/2020      Professor. Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, P.R.China

08/2008-09/2011      Postdoc. Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland Advisor: Prof. Xile Hu

Research Interest

Organometallic Chemistry

Publications

(1) Xu, Binbin; Chen, Dafa; Ruan, Kaidong; Luo, Ming; Cai, Yuanting; Qiu, Jia; Zhou, Wenhao; Cao, Bula; Lin, Zhenyang, Sessler, L. Jonathan; Xia, Haiping*; Metal-centred planar [15]annulenes, Nature, 2025, 641, 106.

(2) Xu, Binbin; Chen, Dafa*; Xia, Haiping*; A journey from carbolong complexes to in-plane metallo-annulenes, Chem, 2025, 11, 102786.

(3) Xu, Binbin; Mao, Wei; Lu, Zhengyu; Cai Yuanting; Chen, Dafa*; Xia, Haiping*; Synthesis, Structures and Reactivities of Strained Fused-Metallaaromatics Containing Planar Eleven-Carbon Chains with a Shiftable Metal Carbyne Bond, Nat. Commun., 2024, 15, 4378.

(4) Ruan, Kaidong; Lu, Zhengyu; Rao, Ren; Liu, Jiao-Jiao; Chen, Dafa*; Xia, Haiping; Craig-Hückel Hybrid Aromatic Metalla-dehydro[11]annulenes Constructed by a Formal [10+1] Cycloaddition Reaction, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202316885.

(5) Cai, Yuanting; Hua, Yuhui; Lu, Zhengyu; Chen, Jiangxi; Chen, Dafa*; Xia, Haiping; Metallacyclobutadienes: Intramolecular Rearrangement from Kinetic to Thermodynamic Isomers, Adv. Sci. 2024, 11, 2403940.