CV of Prof. Licheng Sun

Licheng Sun: Ph.D. 1990 in Dalian University of Technology (DUT); 1992-1993 Postdoc in Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie (since 2002 für Bioanorganische Chemie), Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany (with Dr. Helmut Görner); 1993-1995 as Alexander von Humboldt fellow in Freie Universität Berlin (Prof. Dr. Harry Kurreck); 1995-1997 Research Associate in Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) (Prof. Björn Åkermark), Stockholm, Sweden; 1997-1999 Assistant Professor in KTH; 1999-2004 Associate Professor in Stockholm University; 2004-now, Professor of Molecular Electronics in KTH. Since 2001, special professor in DUT; since 2006, Director of DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Center on Molecular Devices.
Research interests: artificial photosynthesis, photocatalytic water oxidation and hydrogen production, dye sensitized solar cells, supramolecular chemistry with CBs, photo-induced electron transfer and energy transfer.
Selected recent publications
1.
“Design of an Organic Chromophore for P-type Dye-sensitized Solar Cells”, P. Qin, et al, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 8570-8571.
2.
“Molecular Engineering of Organic Sensitizers for Dye-sensitized Solar Cell Applications”, D. Hagberg, et al, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 6259-6266.
3.
“CO-Migration in the Ligand Substitution Process of the Chelating Diphosphite Diiron Complex (m-pdt)[Fe(CO)3][Fe(CO){(EtO)2PN(Me)P(OEt)2}]”, N. Wang, et al, Inorg. Chem. 2008, 47, 6948-6955.
4.
“Visible Light Driven Electron Transfer and Hydrogen Generation Catalyzed by Bioinspired [2Fe2S] Complexes”, Y. Na, et al, Inorg. Chem. 2008, 47, 2805-2810.
5.
“A Host-Induced Intramolecular Charge-Transfer Complex and Light-Driven Radical Cation Formation of a Molecular Triad with Cucurbit[8]uril”, D. Zou, et al, J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 3775-3783.
6.
“Selective binding of Cucurbit[7]uril and β-Cyclodextrin with a Redox-active Molecular triad Ru(bpy)3-MV2+-Naphthol”, D. Zou, et al, Chem. Commun. 2007, 4734-4736.
7.
“Intermolecular Electron Transfer from Photogenerated Ru(bpy)3+ to [2Fe2S] Model Complexes of the Iron-Only Hydrogenase Active Site”, Y. Na, et al, Inorg. Chem. 2007, 46, 3813-3815.
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“Iron(III) Complexes with a Tripodal N3O Ligand Containing an Internal Base as a Model for Catechol Intradiol-Cleaving Dioxygenases”, F. Li, et al, Inorg. Chem. 2007, 46, 9364-9371.
9.
“An insight into the protonation property of a diiron azadithiolate complex pertinent to the active site of Fe-only hydrogenases”, W. Dong, et al, Chem. Commun. 2006, 305-307.
10.
“The photoinduced long-lived charge-separated state of Ru(bpy)3–methylviologen with cucurbit[8]uril in aqueous solution”, S. Sun, et al, Chem. Commun. 2006, 4195-4197.
11.
"Asymmetric epoxidation of styrene and chromenes catalysed by chiral (salen)Mn(III) complexes with a pyrrolidine backbone", D. Wang, et al, J. Catalysis 2006, 237, 248-254.
12.
“Switching the Redox Mechanism: Benchmarks for Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer from Amino Acids”, M. Sjödin, et al, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 3855-3863.
13.
“Novel Biomimetic Pathway for Hydrogen Evolution from a Model of the Iron Hydrogenase Active Site”, S. Ott, et al, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004, 43, 1006-1009.
14.
“An Unusual Cyclization in a Bis(cysteinylthiolate) Diiron Complex Related to the Active Site of Fe-Only Hydrogenases”, C. He, et al, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004, 43, 3571-3574.
15.
“Carotenoid and Pheophytin on Semiconductor Surface: Self-assembly and Photoinduced Electron Transfer”, J. Pan, et al, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 3066-3067.
16.
“Synthesis and Structure of a Biomimetic Model of the Iron Hydrogenase Active Site Covalently Linked to Ruthenium Photosensitizer”, S. Ott, et al, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2003, 42, 3285-3288.
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“Modified Phthalocyanines for Efficient Near-IR Sensitization of Nanostructured TiO2 Electrode”, J. He, et al, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 4922-4932.