Prof. Li Chaoqun     Tel: +86-029-81530840    E-mail:lichaoqun@snnu.edu.cn

Education and Work Experiences：

PhD., University of Liverpool, (UK), (2010)

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, (USA), (2010-2011)

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Universitof South Florida, Tampa, FL, (USA), (2011-2014)

Research Interests：

Catalytic Selective Oxidation;

Asymmetric Catalytic Oxidation

Awards and Honors：

Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Outstanding Achievement Award for Higher Education Institutions, First Prize, 2025

Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, 2008

Research Projects as Principal Investigator:

1.  Collaborative Project with SINOPEC Research Institute of Petroleum Processing Co., Ltd. Contract Number: 2024078 “One-Pot Oxidation of Cyclohexane to Cyclohexanone Oxime” 0.2 million， June 2024 to June 2026。

2. General program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Grant No. 21971156, "Bioinspired Manganese-Catalyzed Selective Oxidation of Aliphatic C-H Bonds ", 0.65 million，January 2019 -December 2023.

Representative Achievements (including papers, patents)：

1. Menghui Song, Hong Li, Li Xie, Xiaoxin Zhang, Xiaotian Weilian, Rucao Wang, Alexander Steiner, Huaming Sun, Chao Wang, Jianliang Xiao*, Chaoqun Li* Manganese catalyzed oximation of hydrocarbons to oximes. Nature communications, 2026, 17, 294.

2. Zhou, J. M.; Jia, M. X.; Song, M. H.; Huang, Z. L.; Steiner, A.; An, Q. D.; Ma, J. W.; Guo, Z. Y.; Zhang, Q. Q.; Sun, H. M.; Robertson, C.; Bacsa J.; Xiao, J. L.*; Li, C. Q.* Chemoselective Oxyfunctionalization of Functionalized Benzylic Compounds with a Manganese Catalyst, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61: e202205983

3. Wang, K.; Jiang, Y.; Zhou, J.; Zhang, M.; Wang, C.; Xue, D.; Tang, W. J.; Sun, H.; Xiao, J. L.*; Li, C. Q.* Manganese-Catalyzed Highly Selective Oxidation of Hydrosilanes to Silanols Under Neutral Conditions Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 6380-6384.

4. Chaoqun Li, Hong Li, Menghui Song, Jianliang Xiao “Diastereoselective green preparation of oxime derivatives by catalytic oxidation of carbon-hydrogen bonds with tetradentate nitrogen-containing coordinated manganese” Chinese Invention Patent, Patent No. ZL 2023 1 0609201.0

5. Chaoqun Li, Jimei Zhou, Minxian Jia, Jianwei Ma, Jianliang Xiao “Bipiperidine skeleton tetradentate nitrogen-containing manganese catalyst and method for catalyzing selective oxidation of benzyl position of hydrocarbon molecules” Chinese Invention Patent, Patent No. ZL202110197817.2