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Lang Jian-Ping
Name：Lang Jian-Ping
Title：Professor

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Tel: 86-512-65882865 (Lab)
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Email: jplang@suda.edu.cn

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Professor (Inorganic Chemistry)
B.Sc. Suzhou University (1984)
Ph.D. Nanjing University (1993)
Postdoc, Nagoya University (1995-1998)
Postdoc, Harvard University (1998-1999)
Postdoc, Nagoya University (1999-2001)

Research Interests:Design, synthesis and application of catalytic and photoelectronic coordination compounds; Design and application of MOFs with nano-scaled cages and channels; mimetic synthesis of metal active sites in some metalloenzymes and metalloproteins.
Representative Publications
1. Assembly of a supramolecular cube, [(Cp*WS3Cu3)8Cl8(CN)12Li4] from a preformed incomplete cubane-like compound [PPh4][Cp*WS3(CuCN)3],J. P. Lang*, Q. F. Xu, Z. N. Chen, B. F. Abrahams,J. Am. Chem. Soc.,2003,125, 12682.
2 . Structural aspects of copper(I) and silver(I) sulfide clusters of pentamethylcyclopentadienyl trisulfido tungsten(VI) and molybdenum(VI),J. P. Lang*, S. J. Ji, Q. F. Xu, Q. Shen, K. Tatsumi,Coord. Chem. Rev.,2003, 241, 47.
3 . {[WS4Cu4(4,4’-bpy)4][WS4Cu4I4(4,4’-bpy)2]---An unusual 3D porous coordination polymer formed from the preformed cluster [Et4N]4[WS4Cu4I6], J. P. Lang *, Q. F. Xu, R. X. Yuan, B. F. Abrahams,Angew. Chem., Int. Ed.,2004,43, 4741.
4. Construction of polymeric and oligomeric lanthanide(III) thiolates from preformed complexes [(TMS)2N]3Ln(µ-Cl)Li (THF)3( Ln = Pr, Nd, Sm; (TMS)2N = bis(trimethylsilyl)amide), H. X. Li, Z. G. Ren, Y. Zhang, W. H. Zhang,J. P. Lang*, Q. Shen,J. Am. Chem. Soc.,2005,127, 1122.
5. Lanthanide chalcogenolate complexes: syntheses, structures and applications in organic chemistry, H. X. Li, Y. J. Zhu, M. L. Cheng, Z. G. Ren,J. P. Lang*, Q. Shen,Coord. Chem. Rev.,2006,250, 2059.
6. Unique formation of two high-nuclearity metallamacrocycles from a mononuclear complex [Zn(dmpzdtc)2] (dmpzdtc = 3,5-dimethylpyrazole-1-dithio carboxylate)viaCS2elimination, X. H. Li, H. Z. Wu, W. H. Zhang, Z. G. Ren, Y. Zhang,J. P. Lang*, Chem. Commun .,2007, 5052.
7. Synthetic and structural chemistry of group 11 and 12 metal complexes of the zwitterionic ammonium thiolate ligands, X. Y. Tang, H. X. Li, J. X. Chen, Z. G. Ren,J. P. Lang*,Coord. Chem. Rev.,2008,252, 2026.
8. Cluster-based supramolecular compounds from Mo(W)/Cu/S cluster precursors: design and construction (Chapter 10),J. P. Lang ,* W. H. Zhang, H. X. Li, Z. G. Ren, In “Design and Construction of Coordination Polymers”, (Eds. M. C. Hong and L. Chen), John Wiley & Sons Inc.,2009, pp 267-306.
9. Single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformations of two 3D coordination polymers through regioselective [2+2] photo- dimerization reactions, D. Liu, Z. G. Ren, H. X. Li,J. P. Lang*, N. Y. Li, B. F. Abrahams,Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.,2010,49, 4767.
10. Single-crystal-to-single-crystal structural transformation of two sandwich-like Cu(II) pyrazolate complexes and their excellent catalytic performances for MMA polymerization,H. –X. Li, Z. G. Ren, D. Liu, Y. Chen, L. L. Liu,J. P. Lang*, Z. P. Cheng, X. L. Zhu*, B. F. Abrahams,Chem. Commun., 2010,46, 8430.
11. Highly efficient separation of naphthalene and anthracene in the solid state by a reusable porous coordination polymer through a single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformation, D. Liu,J. P. Lang*, B. F. Abrahams,J. Am. Chem. Soc.,2011, 133, 11042.
12. A Mn(III)-superoxo complex of a zwitterionic calix[4]arene with an unprecedented linear end-on Mn(III)-O2arrangement and good catalytic performance for alkene epoxidation, L. L. Liu, H. X. Li, L. M. Wan, Z. G. Ren, H. F. Wang,J. P. Lang*,Chem. Commun.,2011, 47, 11146 .
13. Binding of a coordinatively unsaturated mercury(II) thiolate complex by carboxylate anions, X. Y. Tang, A. X. Zheng, H. Shang, R. X. Yuan, H. X. Li, Z. G. Ren,J. P. Lang*,Inorg. Chem.,2011, 50, 503.
14. Reactions of cadmium (II) nitrate with 4-(trimethylammonio) benzenethiolate in the presence of N-donor ligands, A. X. Zheng, H. F. Wang, Z. G. Ren, H. X. Li,J. P. Lang*,Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 558 .