Xuan Zhao
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
The University of Memphis
United States of America
Biography
He did B.S. Chemistry from Nankai University, M.S. Chemistry from Peking University and Ph.D. Inorganic from Texas A&M University. His research involves areas of inorganic, organometallic, bioinorganic chemistry and chemical biology, with particular interest in the design and engineering of models for the oxygen-evolving center in photosystem II, through either synthetic methods using organic ligands or biosynthetic approach using small, stable and well-characterized proteins.
Research Interest
Biochemistry
Publications
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Lewandowska-Andralojc, A.; Baine, T.; Zhao, X.; Muckerman, J. T.; Fujita, E.; Polyanskya, D. E. Mechanistic studies of hydrogen evolution in aqueous solution catalyzed by a tertpyridineamine cobalt complex. Inorg. Chem. 2015
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Vennampalli, M.; Liang, G.; Webster, C. E.; Zhao, X. Water Oxidation by Mononuclear Rhthenium Complex with a Pentadentate Isoquinoline-Bipyridyl Ligand. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2014, 715-721.
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Vennampalli, M.; Liang, G.; Katta, L.; Webster, C. E.; Zhao, X. Electronic Effects on Mononuclear Cobalt Complex with Pentadentate Ligand for Catalytic H2 Evolution, Inorg. Chem. 2014, 53, 10094-10100.
