Zhenfeng Xi

Zhenfeng Xi Professor of Chemistry, Peking University, China

Webpage: http://www.chem.pku.edu.cn/xizf/revised/ Zhenfeng Xi was born in Henan Province, China. He received his B.Sc. degree from Xiamen University in 1983, and his M.Sc. degree from Nanjing University, Zhengzhou University and the Henan Institute of Chemistry in 1989. He joined Professor Tamotsu Takahashi’s group at the Institute for Molecular Sciences, Japan, as a Ph.D. course student in 1993 and obtained a Ph.D. degree in 1996. He took an Assistant Professor position at Hokkaido University, Japan, in 1997, after he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow with Professor Takahashi at CRC. In 1998, he joined the College of Chemistry at Peking University, where he is now a Professor. Prof. Xi’s research interests include (1) Development of Organo-bi-metallic Reagents, (2) Reactive Organometallic Intermediate-based Organic Synthesis, and (3) Transition-metal Catalyzed Synthesis of Silacycles and Azacycles via Cleavage Si-C, silyl C-H, and C-N Bonds. He has published more than 200 papers in refereed journals, delivered more than 200 invited lectures to conferences, universities, research institutes, and industry around the world. Prof. Xi received several awards including Outstanding Young Investigator award from Hong Kong Qiu Shi Science & Technologies Foundation in 2000 and Yaozeng Huang Organometallic Chemistry Award in 2004. He serves for several international journals as editors or advisory board members, including Associate Editor of Applied Organometallic Chemistry (Wiley), Member of the advisory board of Synlett, Synthesis, Chem. Lett. and Asian J. Org. Chem., Member of the Consulting Board of Editors of Tetrahedron/Tetrahedron Letters. He also serves for several Chinese journals as editors or advisory board members, including Associate Editor of Chinese Science Bulletin, and Chemistry.

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