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Overview

Shengfa Ye is affiliated with Sun Yat-sen University in China, focusing on materials science and chemistry. Their research spans a broad range of topics within these fields, emphasizing materials chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability, environment, and catalysis.

The scientist has contributed extensively to areas such as crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis, metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms, magnetism in coordination complexes, ammonia synthesis and nitrogen reduction, and metal complexes synthesis and properties.

Shengfa Ye has published in numerous scientific venues, frequently contributing to:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Inorganic Chemistry

Frequent co-authors include Martin Lutz, Jingping Qü, Wang Chen, Eckhard Bill, and Gengwen Tan.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Metalla-aromatics: Planar, Nonplanar, and Spiro (2021, Accounts of Chemical Research)
  • A Parent Iron Amido Complex in Catalysis of Ammonia Oxidation (2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • A triplet stibinidene (2023, Chem)
  • A thiolate-bridged FeIVFeIV μ-nitrido complex and its hydrogenation reactivity toward ammonia formation (2021, Nature Chemistry)
  • Cobalt-Catalyzed Hydrosilylation of Carbon Dioxide to the Formic Acid, Formaldehyde, and Methanol LevelHow to Control the Catalytic Network? (2021, JACS Au)

Best Publications

  • Nonheme oxo-iron(IV) intermediates form an oxyl radical upon approaching the C–H bond activation transition state

    Shengfa Ye;Frank Neese

  • Spectroscopic and Computational Evaluation of the Structure of the High-Spin Fe(IV)-Oxo Intermediates in Taurine: α-Ketoglutarate Dioxygenase from Escherichia coli and Its His99Ala Ligand Variant

    Sebastian Sinnecker;Nina Svensen;Eric W. Barr;Shengfa Ye

  • Accurate modeling of spin-state energetics in spin-crossover systems with modern density functional theory.

    Shengfa Ye;Frank Neese

  • Calibration of modern density functional theory methods for the prediction of 57Fe Mössbauer isomer shifts: meta-GGA and double-hybrid functionals.

    Michael Römelt;Shengfa Ye;Frank Neese

  • Analysis of reaction channels for alkane hydroxylation by nonheme iron(IV)-oxo complexes.

    Caiyun Geng;Caiyun Geng;Shengfa Ye;Frank Neese

  • Electronic structure analysis of multistate reactivity in transition metal catalyzed reactions: the case of C–H bond activation by non-heme iron(IV)–oxo cores

    Shengfa Ye;Cai-Yun Geng;Sason Shaik;Frank Neese

  • The Mechanism of Homogeneous CO2 Reduction by Ni(cyclam): Product Selectivity, Concerted Proton–Electron Transfer and C–O Bond Cleavage

    Jinshuai Song;Eric L. Klein;Frank Neese;Shengfa Ye

  • Theoretical bioinorganic chemistry : the electronic structure makes a difference

    Barbara Kirchner;Frank Wennmohs;Shengfa Ye;Frank Neese

  • Quantum chemical studies of C-H activation reactions by high-valent nonheme iron centers.

    Shengfa Ye;Frank Neese

  • The Electronic Structure of Iron Corroles: A Combined Experimental and Quantum Chemical Study

    Shengfa Ye;Tell Tuttle;Eckhard Bill;Liliya Simkhovich

  • Three-Spin System with a Twist: A Bis(semiquinonato)copper Complex with a Nonplanar Configuration at the Copper(II) Center†

    Shengfa Ye;Biprajit Sarkar;Falk Lissner;Thomas Schleid

  • Electronic Structure of a Formal Iron(0) Porphyrin Complex Relevant to CO2 Reduction.

    Christina Römelt;Jinshuai Song;Jinshuai Song;Maxime Tarrago;Julian A. Rees;Julian A. Rees

  • Chemistry and Quantum Mechanics in 2019: Give Us Insight and Numbers

    Frank Neese;Mihail Atanasov;Mihail Atanasov;Giovanni Bistoni;Dimitrios Maganas

  • Control in the Rate-Determining Step Provides a Promising Strategy To Develop New Catalysts for CO2 Hydrogenation: A Local Pair Natural Orbital Coupled Cluster Theory Study.

    Bhaskar Mondal;Frank Neese;Shengfa Ye

  • The unusual electronic structure of dinitrosyl iron complexes.

    Shengfa Ye;Frank Neese

  • Nonclassical Single-State Reactivity of an Oxo-Iron(IV) Complex Confined to Triplet Pathways.

    Claudia Kupper;Bhaskar Mondal;Joan Serrano-Plana;Iris Klawitter

  • Electronic Structure Analysis of the Oxygen‐Activation Mechanism by FeII‐ and α‐Ketoglutarate (αKG)‐Dependent Dioxygenases

    Shengfa Ye;Christoph Riplinger;Andreas Hansen;Carsten Krebs

  • Spectroscopic Evidence for the Two C–H-Cleaving Intermediates of Aspergillus nidulans Isopenicillin N Synthase

    Esta Y. Tamanaha;Bo Zhang;Yisong Guo;Wei-chen Chang

  • Bio-inspired mechanistic insights into CO2 reduction

    Bhaskar Mondal;Jinshuai Song;Frank Neese;Shengfa Ye

  • Reversible C-C bond formation between redox-active pyridine ligands in iron complexes.

    Thomas R. Dugan;Eckhard Bill;K. Cory MacLeod;Gemma J. Christian

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Neese
Frank Neese Max Planck Society
Eckhard Bill
Eckhard Bill Max Planck Society
Wolfgang Kaim
Wolfgang Kaim University of Stuttgart
Franc Meyer
Franc Meyer University of Göttingen
Zhenfeng Xi
Zhenfeng Xi Peking University
Biprajit Sarkar
Biprajit Sarkar University of Stuttgart
Wen-Xiong Zhang
Wen-Xiong Zhang Peking University
J. Martin Bollinger
J. Martin Bollinger Pennsylvania State University
Sebastian Dechert
Sebastian Dechert University of Göttingen
Jan Fiedler
Jan Fiedler Czech Academy of Sciences

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