
1. Wei Liu#, Yaqi Zhao#, Wangyang Ma, Zhengqi Chai, Yibo Liang, Ze-Jie Lv, Ling Xu, Junnian Wei, and Wen-Xiong Zhang*, Cross-Carbanion Coupling at a Rare-Earth Center, Cell Rep. Phys. Sci. 2023, 4, 101479. (#Authors contributed equally)
2. Wei Liu, and Wen-Xiong Zhang*, Colorless Zinc Colored by Metal-Metal Orbital Interaction, Chem 2023, 9, 3027–3029.
3. Wei Liu, Ping Wu, Yibo Liang, Junnian Wei, Gen Luo*, and Wen-Xiong Zhang*, Rare-Earth Metal-Enabled Ring-Opening Metathesis of Benzene, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 1300–1306.
4. Zhiqiang Hao, Zhongzhen Wang, Dajiang Huang, Xinlei Huangfu, Xuejing Yang, Junnian Wei, Wei Liu*, and Wen-Xiong Zhang*, Harnessing Redox-Inactive Rare-Earth Metals for Photocatalytic Reductive Coupling of Benzyl Bromides, Green Synth. Catal. 2024, 5, XXXXX–XXXXX.
5. Xinlei Huangfu#, Zhongzhen Wang#, Yu Chen#, Junnian Wei, Wei Liu*, and Wen-Xiong Zhang*, Recent Progress on the Functionalization of White Phosphorus in China, Natl. Sci. Rev. 2024, 11, nwae162. (#Authors contributed equally)
6. Ze-Jie Lv, Wei Liu, Miaomiao Zhu, Zhengqi Chai, Junnian Wei, and Wen-Xiong Zhang*, Insertion Chemistry of Lutetacyclopropene toward Unsaturated C−O/C−N Bonds, Chem. Eur. J. 2021, 27, 16498–16504.
7. Ze-Jie Lv, Miaomiao Zhu, Wei Liu, Zhengqi Chai, Junnian Wei, and Wen-Xiong Zhang*, Reactivity of Lutetacyclopropene toward Benzyl, Benzoyl, and Trimethylsilyl Nitriles Affording Diversified Lutetium Complexes, Organometallics 2021, 40, 3992–3998.
8. Jingyuan Hu, Zhengqi Chai, Wei Liu, Zhe Huang, Junnian Wei, and Wen-Xiong Zhang*, Phosphafluorenyl Lithiums: Direct Synthesis from White Phosphorus, Structure and Diversified Synthons, Sci. China Chem. 2022, 65, 322–327.
9. Jingyuan Hu, Wei Liu, and Wen-Xiong Zhang*, Direct Functionalization of White Phosphorus by Organolithium Reagents to Organophosphorus Compounds, Phosphorus Sulfur Silicon Relat. Elem. 2022, 197, 398–407.
10. Zhiqiang Huang, Wei Liu, and Wen-Xiong Zhang*, Overview of 6π 1,5-Electrocyclization over the Past 40 Years, Chin. J. Chem. 2023, 40, 725–740.
11. Jingyuan Hu, Zhengqi Chai, Wei Liu, Junnian Wei, Ze-Jie Lv and Wen-Xiong Zhang*, Direct and Chlorine-Free Synthesis of Phosphafluorenes or Their Oxides from White Phosphorus, Green Synth. Catal. 2023, 4, 330–333.
12. Ze-Jie Lv, Wei Liu, and Wen-Xiong Zhang*, Progress of Azametallacyclopentadienes in the New Century, Chem. Eur. J. 2023, 29, e202204079.
13. Miaomiao Zhu#, Zhengqi Chai#, Ze-Jie Lv#, Tianyu Li, Wei Liu, Junnian Wei, and Wen-Xiong Zhang*, Selective Cleavage of the Strong or Weak C–C Bonds in Biphenylene Enabled by Rare-Earth Metals, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 6633–6638. (#Authors contributed equally)
14. Xinlei Huangfu, Wei Liu, Hanhua Xu, Zhongzhen Wang, Junnian Wei, and Wen-Xiong Zhang*, Photochemical Benzylation of White phosphorus, Inorg. Chem. 2023, 62, 12009–12017.
15. Yu Chen, Wei Liu, Xinlei Huangfu, Junnian Wei, Jiangxi Yu*, and Wen-Xiong Zhang*, Direct Synthesis of Phosphoryltriacetates from White Phosphorus via Visible Light Catalysis, Chem. Eur. J. 2023, 29, e202302289.
16. Zhengqi Chai, Ze-Jie Lv, Wei Liu, Jinxiao Yang, Junnian Wei, and Wen-Xiong Zhang*, sp2-sp Cross-Carbanion Coupling at a Rare-Earth Center Leading to the Formation of Carbon-Carbon Double Bonds, Inorg. Chem. Front. 2024, 11, 2312–2318.
17. Dajiang Huang#, Wei Liu#, Yu Zheng, Rui Feng, Zhengqi Chai, Junnian Wei, and Wen-Xiong Zhang*, Nonplanar Aromaticity of Dinuclear Rare-Earth Metallacycles, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 15609–15618. (#Authors contributed equally)
18. Zhengqi Chai, Ze-Jie Lv, Wei Liu, Jinxiao Yang, Junnian Wei, and Wen-Xiong Zhang*, Cascade C−H Activation and Two C−C Bond Forming in Reaction of Azalutetacyclopentadiene with 2-Methylbenzonitriles, Chem. Eur. J. 2024, 30, e20240231.