Current Professional Societies
1. Member of Chinese Chemical Society
2. Member of The Chinese Society of Rare Earths
3. Chairman of the Committee on Molecular Materials and Supramolecular Devices of Rare Earths, The Chinese Society of Rare Earths
Research Areas
1. Supramolecular Chemistry
2. Self-Assembly Chemistry
3. Chemistry of Rare Earths (Lanthanides)
4. Supramolecular Devices
5. Supra-Metal-Metal Bonding Promotes Cleavage of Inert Multiple Bonds of Small Molecules
6. Coordination Chemistry
7. Organometallic Chemistry
Honors
1. Lu JIAXI Outstanding Mentor Award ( LU JIAXI SCIENCE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION), 2010.
2. First Prize in Natural Science Award (Ministry of Education, P. R. China), 2003.
3. The One Hundred Talents Program, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2001.
4. High-Caliber Talents Project of the Beijing Municipal Institution, 2013.
5. JSPS Fellow (The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science), 2009.
6. Honorary Professor of the State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2017.
Publications
1. Xuan-Feng Jiang, Hui Huang*, Yun-Feng Chai, Tracy Lynn Lohr, Shu-Yan Yu*, Wenzhen Lai*, Yuan-Jiang Pan*, Massimiliano Delferro*, Tobin J. Marks*. Hydrolytic cleavage of both CS2 carbon–sulfur bonds by multinuclear Pd(II) complexes at room temperature. Nature Chemistry. 9 (2017)188-193.
2. Xuan-Feng Jiang, Franky Ka-Wah Hau, Qing-Fu Sun, Shu-Yan Yu*, Vivian Wing-Wah Yam*. From {AuI···AuI} Coupled Cages to the Cage-Built 2 D {AuI···AuI} Arrays: AuI···AuIBonding Interaction Driven Self-Assembly and Their AgI Sensing and Photo-Switchable Behavior. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136 (2014) 10921-10929.
3. Shu-Yan Yu*, Qing-Fu Sun, Terence Kwok-Ming Lee, Eddie Chung-Chin Cheng, Yi-Zhi Li,* Vivian Wing-Wah Yam*. Au36 Crown: A Macrocyclization Directed by Metal-Metal Bonding Interaction. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 47 (2008) 4551-4554. (Cover and VIP paper, see: Chemical & Engineering News，April 28, 2008,Volume 86, Number 17, pp. 42-43.)
4. Shu-Yan Yu, *Zhong-Xing Zhang, Eddie Chung-Chin Cheng, Yi-Zhi Li,* Vivian Wing-Wah Yam,* Hai-Ping Huang, Rongben Zhang. A Chiral Luminescent Au16 Ring Self-Assembled from Achiral Components. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127 (2005) 17994-17995. (see: Editor's Choice: Science 310 (2005) 1745).
5. F. Albert Cotton,* Peng Lei, Chun Lin, Carlos A. Murillo,* Xiaoping Wang, Shu-Yan Yu, Zhong-Xing Zhang. A Calix[4]arene Carceplex with Four Rh24+ Fasteners. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126 (2004) 1518-1525.
6. Ting-Zheng Xie, Cheng Guo, Shu-Yan Yu,* Yuan-Jiang Pan*. Fine-Tuning Conformational Motion of a Self-Assembled Metal–Organic Macrocycle by Multiple C-H···Anion Hydrogen Bonds. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 51 (2012) 1177-1181.
7. Shu-Yan Yu,* H. Huang, H.-B. Liu, Z.-L. Chen, R. Zhang, M. Fujita. Modular Cavity-Tunable Self-assembly of Molecular Bowls and Crowns as Structural Analogues of Calix[3]arenes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 42 (2003) 686–690.
8. Shu-Yan Yu, T. Kusukawa, K. Biradha, M. Fujita.* Hydrophobic Assembling of a Coordination Nanobowl into a Dimeric Capsule which Can Accommodate up to Six Large Organic Molecules. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 122 (2000) 2665–2666.
9. M. Fujita,* Shu –Yan Yu, T. Kusukawa, H. Funaki, K. Ogura, K. Yamaguchi. Nanometer-sized macrotricyclic complexes self-assembled from ten small component molecules. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 37 (1998) 2082-2085.
10. Zi-Man Chen, Yu Cui, Xuan-Feng Jiang, Jin Tong*, Shu-Yan Yu. *Programmable self-assembly of water-soluble organo-heterometallic cages [M12M'4L12] using 3-(3,5-dimethyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)pentane-2,4-dione(H2L). Chem. Commum. 53 (2017) 4238-4241.
11. Jin Tong, Shu-Yan Yu, *Hui Li*. Programmable self-assembly of homo- or hetero-metallomacrocycles using 4-(1H-pyrazolyl-4-yl)pyridine.Chem. Commun. 48 (2012) 5343–5345.
12. Qing-Fu Sun, Terence Kwok-Ming Lee, Pei-Zhou Li, Liao-Yuan Yao, Jing-Jing Huang, Jing Huang, Shu-Yan Yu, *Yi-Zhi Li, Eddie Chung-Chin Cheng, Vivian Wing-Wah Yam*. Self-assembly of a neutral luminescent Au12 cluster with D2 symmetry, Chem. Commun. (2008) 5514–5516.
Personal Statement
Yu Shu-Yan, professor and Ph.D. supervisor, is the leader of the Self-Assembly Chemistry team of Chemistry of Beijing University of Technology and the responsible professor of the Center of Excellence for Environmental Safety and Biological Effects. He has been engaged in research and teaching for 38 years. He has presided over 8 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Also, he has published more than 80 papers on international major SCI-indexed journals. He co-edited thechapters ofkey textbook for the 13th Five-Year Plan for graduate students of the Ministry of Education: Coordination Chemistry (2019, second edition, Chemical Industry Press, pp. 394-411).
