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Weixing Li
Physical Chemistry
Tenure-track Professor
weixingli@fudan.edu.cn
A3039 Department of Chemistry (Jiangwan Campus)
13788932022
Research Interests
Rotational spectroscopy
Nuclear quantum tunneling in molecular clusters
Cluster Chemistry
Astrochemistry and interstellar chemistry
atmospheric chemistry
Microwave spectroscopy R&D
Biography
2014.11-2017.10 PhD, Department of Chemistry “Giacomo Ciamician”, University of Bologna
2017.1-2017.4 Visiting scholar, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of the Basque Country
2017.11-2018.10 Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Chemistry “Giacomo Ciamician”, University of Bologna
2018.11-2021.2 Postdoctoral researcher, Photon Science FS-SMP, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY
2021.2- Tenure-track Professor, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University
Key Publications
W. Li*, C. Pérez, A. L. Steber, M. Schnell*, D. Lv, G. Wang, X. Zeng, M. Zhou*. Evolution of Solute–Water Interactions in the Benzaldehyde-(H2O)1–6 Clusters by Rotational Spectroscopy. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 145, 4119-4128 (2023).
D. Lv, W. Li*, L. Evangelisti*, I. Usabiaga, C. Calabrese, A. Maris, S. Melandri*, G. Wang, M. Zhou*. Rotational spectroscopy probes lone pair···π-hole interactions in hexafluorobenzene-tertiary alkylamines complexes. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 14, 5335-5342 (2023).
W. Li*, D. S. Tikhonov, M. Schnell*, Double proton transfer across a table: the formic acid dimer– fluorobenzene complex. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60, 25674-25679 (2021).
W. Li, M. M. Quesada-Moreno, P. Pinacho, M. Schnell*. Unlocking the water trimer loop: isotopic study of benzophenone-(H2O)1-3 clusters with rotational spectroscopy. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60, 5323-5330 (2021).
W. Li, L. Evangelisti, Q. Gou, W. Caminati*, R. Meyer. The barrier to proton transfer in the dimer of formic acid: a pure rotational study. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 58, 859-865 (2019).
C. Calabrese#, W. Li#, G. Prampolini, L. Evangelisti, I. Uriarte, I. Cacelli, S. Melandri, E. J. Cocinero*. A general treatment to study molecular complexes stabilized by hydrogen-, halogen-, and carbon-bond networks: experiment and theory of (CH2F2)n⋅⋅⋅(H2O)m. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 58, 8437-8442 (2019).
W. Li, L. Spada*, Ni. Tasinato*, S. Rampino, L. Evangelisti, A. Gualandi, P. G. Cozzi, S. Melandri, V. Barone, C. Puzzarini*. Theory meets experiment for noncovalent complexes: the puzzling case of pnicogen interactions. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 57, 13853-13857 (2018).
W. Li, S. Melandri, L. Evangelisti, C. Calabrese, A. Vigorito, A. Maris*. Characterizing hydrogen and tetrel bonds in clusters of CO2 with carboxylic acids. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 23, 16915-16922 (2021).
W. Li, A. Maris, C. Calabrese, I. Usabiaga, W. D. Geppert*, L. Evangelisti, S. Melandri*. Atmospherically relevant acrolein–water complexes: spectroscopic evidence of aldehyde hydration and oxygen atom exchange. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 21, 23559-23566 (2019).
L. Spada, I. Uriarte, W. Li*, L. Evangelisti, E. J. Cocinero, W. Caminatia*. Interactions between azines and alcohols: a rotational study of pyridine - tert-butyl alcohol. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 21, 3545-3549 (2019).
