New Professor at the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry

The research interests of Prof. Dr. Ye lie in the area of organometallic chemistry and boron chemistry, and his recent research programs have been focused on “SuperBoron Chemistry” – the development of boron-based super electron donors and the carborane-based Lewis superacids. Numerous applications of such molecular systems, including homogeneous catalysis, weakly coordinating anions and small molecule activation, are being developed in his research group. Prof. Dr. Ye is also pursuing the development of bis(alkynyl)boranes as a new class of acyclic boron-containing π-ligands.

Universität Würzburg (JMU) is the alma mater of Prof. Dr. Ye. After receiving his B.S. degree in chemistry from the Fudan University (Shanghai, China) in 2004, he was admitted to JMU where he obtained his diploma degree (2008) joint with Prof. Dr. Tanja Schirmeister/Prof. Dr. Carsten Schmuck, and Ph.D. (2012, borylene transfer and borylene catenation) with Prof. Dr. Holger Braunschweig. He continued the postdoctoral research (Lewis base-stabilized borylenes) with Prof. Dr. Braunschweig till 2014. In 2015, he moved to UC Berkeley in USA and started to work with Prof. Dr. T. Don Tilley on the synthesis of two-coordinate transition-metal complexes (supported by DFG Research Fellowship). In 2016, he returned to the University of Würzburg and joined the research group of Prof. Dr. Todd B. Marder (funded by DFG Return Fellowship). He was awarded for the “National Young Talents Program” and started his independent research career as an Associate Professor at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in 2017.

The Institute wishes Professor Ye a good start and successful work and teaching in Würzburg.