EDUCATION
2009-2014 CAS Key Laboratory of Organofluorine Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, CAS.
Received Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, July 2014. Supervisor: Prof. Qilong Shen.
2004-2008 China Pharmaceutical University. Received B.S. in Medicinal Chemistry, July 2008.
Supervisor: Prof. Qizheng Yao.
ACADEMIC CAREER
2020-present Professor (tenure-track), State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, College of Chemsitry,
Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
2018-2020 Postdoctoral,Department of Chemistry, UNC at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Supervisor: Prof. Alex Miller.
2015-2018 Postdoc, Department of Chemistry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Supervisor: Prof. Leif Hammarström; collaborated with Prof. Sascha Ott.
2014-2015 Research Assistant, Center of Basic Molecular Science, Department of Chemistry,
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Supervisor: Prof. Lei Jiao.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
The Liu group is focusing on the mechanism study of the key bond transforming in the organometallic and elemento-organic systems, using the methods of physical organic chemistry, to explore and discover new photo/electronic catalytic reaction systems. Our interests include:
1. Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) and other electron-coupled group transfer process in the organometallic and elemento-organic chemistry;
2. Physical organic chemistry in the new elemento-organic solvent environments;
3. Artificial modeling system for mimicking the metal cofacts of metalloenzymes and the active side of the artificial catalysts;
4. To explore and discover new photo/electronic catalytic reaction systems.
HONORS AND AWARDS
1. Travel Award for The 3rd International Conference on Proton Coupled Electron Transfer, Blowing Rock,
North Carolina, USA. June 2018.
2. Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai. June, 2014.
3. Student Travel Award for The Roche and RSC Chemistry Symposium. Oct., 2013.
4. Best Presentation Award for The 8th Syngenta International Conference. Oct., 2013.
5. National Scholarship for graduate students. Dec., 2012
6. Merit Student of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. July, 2012.
7. SIOC Nien-chu Yang Scholarship. Jun., 2012.
8. Syngenta PhD Student Fellowship Award. 27th, Sept., 2011
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Robin Tyburski (contributed equally), Tianfei Liu (contributed equally), Starla D. Glover*, Leif Hammarström*, Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Guidelines Fair and Square, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 560.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jacs.0c09106
Highlighted by X-mol: https://www.x-mol.com/news/517093
Tianfei Liu, Robin Tyburski, Shihuai Wang, Ricardo Fernández-Terán, Sascha Ott, Leif Hammarström, Elucidating Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Mechanisms of Metal Hydrides with Free-Energy and Pressure Dependent Kinetics, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 17245.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.9b08189
Tianfei Liu, Meiyuan Guo, Andreas Orthaber, Reiner Lomoth, Marcus Lundberg, Sascha Ott and Leif Hammarström, Accelerating Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer of Metal Hydrides in Catalyst Model Reactions, Nat. Chem., 2018, 10, 881.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-018-0076-x
