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Guochen Jia is a researcher affiliated with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in China, specializing primarily in materials science and chemistry. Their work spans several key subfields including materials chemistry, organic chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, inorganic chemistry, and research related to renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The researcher has a significant focus on crystallization and solubility studies as well as X-ray diffraction in crystallography, which together form a substantial part of their scholarly output. Other prominent topics in their research portfolio include organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis, synthetic organic chemistry methods, catalytic alkyne reactions, cyclopropane reaction mechanisms, and advanced battery technologies research.

Guochen Jia's frequent collaborators include Ian D. Williams, Herman H. Y. Sung, Zhenyang Lin, Mingxu Cui, and Lam Cheung Kong. These collaborations have contributed to a diverse range of research outputs across several high-impact venues. The most common publication venues for Jia's work include The Cambridge Structural Database, Organometallics, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and Angewandte Chemie.

Some of Jia's recent papers reflect an emphasis on redox flow batteries and organometallic chemistry, including the following:

  • Carboxyl-Functionalized TEMPO Catholyte Enabling High-Cycling-Stability and High-Energy-Density Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries, 2021, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • Cost-Effective, High-Energy-Density, Nonaqueous Nitrobenzene Organic Redox Flow Battery, 2021, Chemistry of Materials
  • Robust Alkyne Metathesis Catalyzed by Air Stable d2 Re(V) Alkylidyne Complexes, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Organometallic Chemistry of Transition Metal Alkylidyne Complexes Centered at Metathesis Reactions, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Designing Cr complexes for a neutral Fe-Cr redox flow battery, 2020, Chemical Communications

Jia's research contributions cover 131 publications in materials science, with strong overlaps in chemistry, especially organic chemistry. Their focus on crystallization techniques and the use of X-ray diffraction methods reflects in their extensive work in structural database contributions and organometallic synthesis.

Their work also encompasses catalytic processes involving alkynes and cyclopropane reaction mechanisms, indicating an interest in detailed synthetic organic methodologies. Moreover, Jia has contributed to studies in battery technologies, particularly organic redox flow batteries, showing a link between fundamental chemistry and applied energy storage solutions.

Best Publications

  • Ruthenium-catalyzed cycloaddition of alkynes and organic azides

    Valery Fokin;Guocheng Jia;K. Barry Sharpless

  • Ruthenium-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition: scope and mechanism.

    Brant C. Boren;Sridhar Narayan;Lars K. Rasmussen;Li Zhang

  • Iridium-Catalyzed Intermolecular Azide–Alkyne Cycloaddition of Internal Thioalkynes under Mild Conditions†

    Shengtao Ding;Guochen Jia;Jianwei Sun

  • Recent development in the chemistry of transition metal-containing metallabenzenes and metallabenzynes

    Jiangxi Chen;Guochen Jia

  • Recent progress in the chemistry of osmium carbyne and metallabenzyne complexes

    Guochen Jia

  • Hyperbranched Polytriazoles: Click Polymerization, Regioisomeric Structure, Light Emission, and Fluorescent Patterning

    Anjun Qin;Jacky W. Y. Lam;Cathy K. W. Jim;Li Zhang

  • Effect of the Ligand and Metal on the pKa Values of the Dihydrogen Ligand in the Series of Complexes [M(H2)H(L)2]+, M = Fe, Ru, Os, Containing Isosteric Ditertiaryphosphine Ligands, L

    E. Paul Cappellani;Samantha D. Drouin;Guocheng Jia;Patricia A. Maltby

  • Progress in the Chemistry of Metallabenzynes

    Guochen Jia

  • Synthesis and characterization of a metallabenzyne

    Ting Bin Wen;Zhong Yuan Zhou;Guochen Jia

  • .eta.2-Dihydrogen on the brink of homolytic cleavage: trans-[Os(H.cntdot..cntdot..cntdot.H)H(PEt2CH2CH2PEt2)2]+ has spectroscopic and chemical properties between those of the isoelectronic complexes trans-[OsH(PPh2CH2CH2PPh2)2(.eta.2-H2)]+ and ReH3(PPh2CH2CH2PPh2)2

    Kelly A. Earl;Guocheng Jia;Patricia A. Maltby;Robert H. Morris

  • Ruthenium-Catalyzed Intramolecular Amination Reactions of Aryl- and Vinylazides

    Wang Ge Shou;Juan Li;Tongxun Guo;Zhenyang Lin

  • Wide range of pKa values of coordinated dihydrogen. Synthesis and properties of some .eta.2-dihydrogen and dihydride complexes of ruthenium

    Guocheng Jia;Robert H. Morris

  • Rigid-Rod Polymers and Model Compounds with Gold(I) Centers Bridged by Diisocyanides and Diacetylides

    Michael J. Irwin;Guochen Jia;and Nicholas C. Payne;Richard J. Puddephatt

  • Organometallic polymers with gold(I) centers bridged by diphosphines and diacetylides

    Guochen Jia;Richard J. Puddephatt;John D. Scott;Jagadese J. Vittal

  • Syntheses and Characterization of Hydrotris(1-pyrazolyl)borate Dihydrogen Complexes of Ruthenium and Their Roles in Catalytic Hydrogenation Reactions

    WaiChung Chan;Chakpo Lau;YuZhong Chen;YiQun Fang

  • Synthesis and the kinetic and thermodynamic acidity of .eta.2-dihydrogen and dihydride complexes of the type [Ru(C5Me5)H2L2]+. X-ray crystal structure determination of the complex [Ru(C5Me5)(.eta.2-H2)(PPh2CH2PPh2)]BF4

    Guochen Jia;Alan J. Lough;Robert H. Morris

  • Insertion reactions of allenes with transition metal complexes

    Tao Bai;Shengming Ma;Guochen Jia

  • Osmabenzenes from the reactions of a dicationic osmabenzyne complex.

    Wai Yiu Hung;Jun Zhu;Ting Bin Wen;Ka Po Yu

  • Synthesis and characterization of rhenabenzenes.

    Ka Chun Poon;Liangxian Liu;Tongxun Guo;Juan Li

  • Single Crystal Neutron Diffraction Study of the Complex [Ru(H.cntdot..cntdot..cntdot.H)(C5Me5)(dppm)]BF4 which Contains an Elongated Dihydrogen Ligand

    Wim T. Klooster;Thomas F. Koetzle;Guochen Jia;Tina P. Fong

  • Osmabenzenes from the Reactions of HC≡CCH(OH)C≡CH with OsX2(PPh3)3 (X = Cl, Br)

    Haiping Xia;Guomei He;Hong Zhang;Tingbin Wen

  • Ruthenium-Catalyzed Cycloaddition of Alkynes and Organic Azides.

    Li Zhang;Xinguo Chen;Peng Xue;Herman H. Y. Sun

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhenyang Lin
Zhenyang Lin Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Ian D. Williams
Ian D. Williams Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Ting-Bin Wen
Ting-Bin Wen Xiamen University
Shengming Ma
Shengming Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Haiping Xia
Haiping Xia Xiamen University
Zhongyuan Zhou
Zhongyuan Zhou Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hon Man Lee
Hon Man Lee National Changhua University of Education
Valery V. Fokin
Valery V. Fokin University of Southern California
K. Barry Sharpless
K. Barry Sharpless Scripps Research Institute
Wing-Tak Wong
Wing-Tak Wong Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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