Research Interests

• Biomimetic and supramolecular chemistry: design of synthetic secondary structures and their functions.

• Supramolecular organic frameworks (SOF) in 2D and 3D space: development of porous supramolecular frameworks in solution for new design of sensing, adsorption, and delivery materials.

• Conjugated molecules and their materials functions.

• Weak non-covalent forces.

Biography

• 1981-1985: Zhengzhou University (B.Sc.)

• 1987-1992: Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Ph.D.)

• 1994-1995: Department of Chemistry, University of South Denmark (Postdoc.)

• 2000-2001: Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigh (visiting scientist)

• 1996-2002: Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (associate professor)

• 2003-2010: Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (professor)

• 2010-2014: Department of Chemistry, Fudan University (professor)

Teaching

• Organic chemistry (undergraduate students)

Key Publications

1. Dan-Wei Zhang, Xin Zhao, Zhan-Ting Li,* Aromatic Amide and Hydrazide Foldamer-Based Responsive Host-Guest Systems. Acc. Chem. Res. 2014,47 (7), 1961-1970.-+

2. Pengyang Xin, Pingping Zhu, Pei Su, Jun-Li Hou,* Zhan-Ting Li,* Hydrogen Bonded Helical Hydrazide Oligomers and Polymer That Mimic the Ion Transport of Gramicidin A. J. Am. Chem. Soc.2014, 136 (38), 13078-13081.

3. Jia Tian, Yu-Di Ding, Tian-You Zhou, Kang-Da Zhang, Xin Zhao, Hui Wang,* Dan-Wei Zhang, Yi Liu,* Zhan-Ting Li,* Self-Assembly of Three-Dimensional Supramolecular Polymers through Cooperative Tetrathiafulvalene Radical Cation Dimerization. Chem. Eur. J.2014, 20 (2), 575–584.

4. Kang-Da Zhang, Jia Tian, David Hanifi, Yuebiao Zhang, Andrew Chi-Hau Sue, Tian-You Zhou, Lei Zhang, Xin Zhao,* Yi Liu,* Zhan-Ting Li,* Toward a Single-Layer Two-Dimensional Honeycomb Supramolecular Organic Framework in Water. J. Am. Chem. Soc.2013, 135 (47), 17913-17918.

5. Dan-Wei Zhang, Xin Zhao, Jun-Li Hou, Zhan-Ting Li,* Aromatic Amide Foldamers: Structures, Properties, and Functions. Chem. Rev. 2012, 112 (10), 5271-5316.

6. Li-Yan You, Shi-Gui Chen, Xin Zhao,* Yi Liu, Wen-Xian Lan, Ying Zhang, Hao-Jie Lu, Chun-Yang Cao, Zhan-Ting Li,*CHO Hydrogen Bonding-Induced Triazole Foldamers: Efficient Halogen Bonding Receptors for Organohalogens. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012,51 (7), 1657-1661.

7. Kang-Da Zhang, Xin Zhao,* Gui-Tao Wang, Yi Liu,* Ying Zhang, Hao-Jie Lu,* Xi-Kui Jiang, and Zhan-Ting Li,*Foldamer-Tuned Switching Kinetics and Metastability of [2]Rotaxanes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50 (42), 9866-9870.

8. Shi-Gui Chen, Yue Yu, Xin Zhao,* Yuguo Ma,* Xi-Kui Jiang, Zhan-Ting Li,* Highly Stable Chiral (A)6-B Supramolecular Copolymers: A Multivalency-Based Self-Assembling Process. J. Am. Chem. Soc.2011, 133 (29), 11124-11127.

9. Xin Zhao, Zhan-Ting Li,* Hydrogen bonded aryl amide and hydrazide oligomers: new generation of preorganized soft frameworks. Chem. Commun.2010, 46 (10), 1601-1616 (Feature Article).