Jie Xu is the professor and doctoral supervisor in Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics at present. He got Ph. D degree in1998. He went to Truman University as an advanced visiting scholar for one year. He is the committee member of China Catalysis Society, member of academic committee of Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics.
His research area is the new materials research and application, selective hydrogenation of unsaturated hydrocarbons, selective oxidation of hydrocarbons, and efficient application of biomass and its derivates. In the hydrocarbon selective oxidation, considering the difficult activation of C-H bands and molecular oxygen, three catalytic systems were developed. The developed systems were “Inorganic metal oxides system”, "Organic group modified bifunctionalized mesoporous silicas system", and "Organic metal-free catalytic system", respectively. With these efficient systems being used, hydrocarbon can be selectively oxidized under moderate conditions. Cooperated with domestic company, the pilot plant experiment of "Toluene oxidation to benzoic acid" and industrial experiment of “Cyclohexane oxidation to cyclohexanone” (70 kt/a) were accomplished. In addition, in the selective hydrogenation and biomass conversion directions, the study of new materials for catalysis in the water phase was carried on. A kind of new method and catalyst was invented for the hydrogenolysis of polyol. Cooperated with the company, industrial experiment “Hydrogenolysis of sorbitol to ethylene glycol and propylene glycol” (200 kt/a) was accomplished in 2008 and passed the technical expertise organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology.
By far, more than 170 papers have been published on Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, Journal of Catalysis, Applied Catalysis, Organic Letter, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, Nanotechnology, etc. And more than 90 invention patents were applied with 40 patents being authorized.
1. Hydrogen Binding Initiated Activation of O？H Bonds on a Nitrogen-Doped Surface for Catalytic Oxidation of Biomass Hydroxyl Compounds, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202103604
2. Binding Energy as Driving Force for Controllable Reconstruction of Hydrogen Bonds with Molecular Scissors，J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 6085-6092
3. Catalytic Activation of Carbon-Hydrogen Bonds in Lignin Linkages over Strong Base-Modified Covalent Triazine Frameworks for Lignin Oxidative Cleavage，ACS Catalysis. 2020, 10, 7526-7534
4. Switching acidity on manganese oxide catalyst with acetylacetones for selectivity-tunable amines oxidation, Nature Communications 2019, 10, Article number: 2338
5. Carboxylic acid-modified metal oxide catalyst for selectivity-tunable aerobic ammoxidation, Nature Communications 2018, 9, Article number: 933
6. Effective Utilization of in Situ Generated Hydroperoxide by a Co-SiO2@Ti-Si Core-Shell Catalyst in the Oxidation Reactions, ACS Catalysis 2018, 8, 683-691
7. Production of Diethyl Terephthalate from Biomass-Derived Muconic Acid, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 249-253
8. Enantioselective Copper-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Propargylic Alkylation of Propargyl ？-Ketoesters with a Chiral Ketimine P,N,N-Ligand, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 1410-1414
9. Lignin depolymerization (LDP) in alcohol over nickel-based catalysts via a fragmentation-hydrogenolysis process, Energy& Environ. Sci., 2013, 6, 994-1007
10.Biomimetic catalytic system driven by electron transfer for selective oxygenation of hydrocarbon, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 10542-10543