After NJU
4.Bin Feng, Guorong Li, Yafei Gao, Nobuyuki Yamamoto, Maren Pink, Qian Peng, Jeremy M. Smith*. Hydrogen Isotope Exchange in Pyridine Catalyzed by an Iron(II) Imido Complex: Counterion-Directed Regioselectivity. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2026, e4646822.
3.Wanqing Zuo, Yiting Zhang, Yuzhe Li, Hao Tang, Yafei Gao*. Flash Communication:C=O Bond Cleavage of CO2 by a Geometrically Constrained Phosphorus-Coordinated Cobalt Complex. Organometallics 2026, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.6c00032.
2.Wanqing Zuo, Yuting Liu, Zhendong Cheng, Yuzhe Li, Qi Chen, Ziqiang Wei, Xiaodie Yang, Ziqiang Guo, Hao Tang*, Yafei Gao*. Metal-Ligand Cooperativity in a Masked Open-Shell Cobalt-Bound Phosphorus Radical. CCS Chem. 2026, https://doi.org/10.31635/ccschem.026.202507108.
1.Austin, D. Chivington; Sammie Squire; Nobuyuki Yamamoto; Maren Pink; Morgan, D. Griffith; Jess Fletcher; Yafei Gao; Joseph M. Zadrozny; Jeremy M. Smith*. Trimethylsilyldiazomethane Disassembly at a Three-Fold SymmetricIron Site. Inorg. Chem. 2024, 63, 10221-10229.
Before NJU
1.Yafei Gao*; Jeremy M. Smith*. Enabling Nucleophilic Reactivity in High Spin Fe(II) Imido Complexes: From Elementary Steps to Cooperative Catalysis. Acc. Chem. Res. 2023, 56, 3392-3403.
2.Yafei Gao; Xuelian Li; Jeremiah, E. Stevens; Hao Tang*; Jeremy M. Smith*. Catalytic 1,3-Proton Transfer in Alkenes Enabled by Fe=NR Bond Cooperativity: A Strategy for pKa-Dictated Regioselective Transposition of C=C Double Bonds. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 11978-11987.
3.Yafei Gao; Maren Pink; Veronica Carta; Jeremy M. Smith*. Ene Reactivity of an Fe=NR Bond Enables the Catalytic a-Deuteration of Nitriles and Alkynes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 17165-17172.
4.Yafei Gao; Maren Pink; Jeremy M. Smith*. Alkali Metal Ions Dictate the Structure and Reactivity of an Iron(II) Imido Complex. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 1786-1794.
5.Yafei Gao; Vernoica Carta; Maren Pink; Jeremy M. Smith*. Catalytic Carbodiimide Guanylation by a Nucleophilic, High Spin Iron(II) Imido Complex. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 5324-5329.
6.Yafei Gao; Guangyu Li; Liang Deng*. Bis(dinitrogen)cobalt(-I) Complexes with NHC Ligation: Synthesis. Characterization, and Their Dinitrogen Functionalization Reactions Affording Side-on Bound Diazene Complexes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 2239-2250.
7.Sean A. Lutz#; Anne K. Hickey#; Yafei Gao#; Chun-Hsing Chen; Jeremy M. Smith*. Two-State Reactivity in Iron-Catalytic Alkene Isomerization Confers Base Resistance. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 15527-15535. (# Contributed equally)
8.Yafei Gao; Lijun Wang; Liang Deng*. Distinct Catalytic Performance of Cobalt(I)-NHC Complexes in Promoting the Reaction of Alkene with Ph2SiH2: Selective 2,1-Hydrosilylation, 1,2-Hydrosilylation, and Hydrogenation of Alkene. ACS Catal. 2018, 8, 9637-9646.
9.Yafei Gao; Wei-Tsung Lee; Veronica Carta; Chun-Hsing Chen; Joshua Telser; Jeremy M. Smith*. Heteroleptic Square Planar Cobalt(I/II) Complexes. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2023, e202200675.
10.Yafei Gao; Maren Pink; Jeremy M. Smith*. Iron(II) Complexes of an Anionic Bis(ylide)diphenylborate Ligand. Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 17303-17309.
11.Yafei Gao; Qi Chen; Liang Deng*. Cyclometallation Reactions of a Three-Coordiante Cobalt(I) Complex Bearing a Nonsymmetric N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligand. Dalton Trans. 2019, 48, 9676-9683.
12.Yafei Gao; Liang Deng*. Converting Carbon Dioxide into Alkanes via Alkane Reverse Combustion Reaction. Sci. Bull. 2016, 61, 1160-1162.
13.Yafei Gao; Jeremy M. Smith*. Group 7 and 8 Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes. In Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry III; E. C. Constable, G. Parkin, L. Que Jr, Eds., Vol. 5, Elsevier, 2021; pp 440-526.
14.Aniffa Kouton; Yafei Gao; Veronica Carta*. Crystal Structure of Bis(1-mesityl-1H-imidazole-kN3)diphenylboron Trifluoromethanesulfonate. Acta. Cryst. 2020, E76, 673-676.
15.Yiming Fan; Jun Cheng; Yafei Gao; Min Shi*; Liang Deng*. Iron Dinitrogen Complex Supported by Tris(NHC)borate Ligand: Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity Study. Acta Chim. Sinica 2018, 76, 445-452. (In Chinese)
16.Jian Sun; Yafei Gao; Liang Deng*. Low-Coordinate NHC-Cobalt(0)-Olefin Complexes: Synthesis, Structure, and Their Reactions with Hydrosilanes. Inorg. Chem. 2017, 56, 10775-10784.
17.Theresa E. Iannuzzi; Yafei Gao; Tessa M. Baker; Liang Deng; Michael L. Neidig*. Magnetic Circular Dichroism and Density Functional Theory Studies of Electronic Structure and Bonding in Cobalt(II)-NHC Complexes. Dalton Trans. 2017, 46, 13290-13299.
18.Zhenbo Mo; Jie Xiao; Yafei Gao; Liang Deng*. Regio- and Stereoselective Hydrosilylation of Alkynes Catalyzed by Three-Coordinate Cobalt(I) Alkyl and Silyl Complexes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 17414-17417.