Prof. Ma Jiani    Tel: +86-29-   E-mail: majiani@snnu.edu.cn

Education and Work Experiences：

PhD., Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, (2009-2013)

Faculty Member, College of Chemistry & Materials Science, Northwest University, (2014-2022)

Faculty Member, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, (2022-present)

Research Interests：

Design and Mechanism Study of Photocage Molecules

Development and Mechanism of Molecular Photoswitches

Design of Novel Molecular Photoreactions Based on Classical Migration Reactions and Research on Their Excited-State Mechanisms

Mechanism Research of Novel Multimodal and Multistate Luminescent System

Awards and Honors：

2021, Outstanding Youth Fund of Shaanxi Province

2019, First Prize, Excellent Natural Science Paper of Shaanxi Province

2019, Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Rising Star

2016, High-Level Talents of Shaanxi Province

Research Projects as Principal Investigator:

1. General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Grant No. 21973075, "Mechanism Study on Photorelease Reactions of Photocage Compounds via Time-Resolved Resonance Raman Spectroscopy and Transient Absorption Spectroscopy", January 2020-December 2023, RMB 0.66 million.

2. National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Grant No. 22322301, "Photochemical Reaction Mechanisms of Organic Molecules", January 2024-December 2026, RMB 2.00 million.

3. Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi Province-Key Youth Project, Grant No. 2021JC-38, "Research on Photochemical Reaction Mechanisms of Organic Molecules", January 2021-December 2023, RMB 0.30 million.

4. Innovation Capacity Support Program-Shaanxi Provincial Youth Science and Technology Star, Grant No. 2020KJXX-010, "Mechanism Study on Photorelease Reactions of a Series of Novel Photocage Compounds Using Time-Resolved Spectroscopy", January 2020-December 2022, RMB 0.10 million.

5. Youth Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Grant No. 21503167, "Study on Novel Photochemical Reactions of Benzophenone Derivatives in Acidic Aqueous Solutions", January 2015-December 2017, RMB 0.21 million.

Representative Achievements (including papers, patents, books, etc.):

1. Yifan Su, Došliċ Nađa*, Martinović Manuel, Glavaš Mladena, Draženović Josip, Jiani Ma*, Basaric Nikola*. Ultrafast formation of aza-quinone methides from suitably substituted o-hydroxymethylanilines involves higher excited states. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2026, 148, 17662-17674.

2. Huijie Li, Heyang Li, Yang Cheng, Hongya Miao, Chunping Ren, Jiani Ma*, Xiaoming He*. Bowl-shaped π-Extended Phosphangulenes: Synthesis and Structure-Dependent Modulation of Circularly Polarized Luminesce. J.Org.Chem., 2026, 91, 8840-8848.

3. Yinjiao Zhao , Yang Cheng, ShuLin Zhang , Le Yu , David Lee Phillips, Jiani Ma*, Yu Fang. Deciphering Carbene Reactivity: Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Computational Insights into Photochemical Heterocycle Formation. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2026, 17, 374-382.

4. Yang Cheng, ShuLin Zhang, Jessika Lammert, Le Yu, Yinjiao Zhao, Armido Studer*, Jiani Ma*, Yu Fang. Photoinduced Alcohol and Ketone Generation from Alkoxyaroylsilanes: Mechanistic Insights into Competing Radical Pathways. JACS Au., 2025, 5, 12, 6334-6342.

5. Xiaoyang Xu, Xueyuan Zhao, Shuang Xu, Xinning Zhang, Qihao Wang, Lin Wu,  Xin Li, Junqing Shi, Jiani Ma*, Lei Ji*, Wei Huang*. Achieving Charge-Transfer from the Boron-Vertices of o-Carborane:Dual-Emission with a Shift Over 505 Nm (2.1 eV). Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2025, 64, e21735.

6. Yifan Su, Xiang Li, Dexin Zheng, Joakim Andreásson, Hong Wang, Le Yu*, Jian Chen*, Jiani Ma* , Yu Fang. Tuning the Photocaged Spiropyran Photoswitch with a Sterically Hindered Adamantane Group: Releasing the Stable Merocyanine. Chem. Sci., 2025, 16, 23121-23128.

7. Deshuang Xu, Chenxi Zhang, Yun Liu, Qing Ye, Jinjun Lu, Yanxia Zhao*, Jiani Ma*, Yongliang Cheng*. Room-Temperature Synthesis of Amorphous Fe-Doped Nickel Phosphate for High-Efficiency Alkaline Seawater Oxidation. Small., 2025, 21, 2410739.

8. Qian Wang, Xiao Liu, Yifan Su, Yibo Shi, Kai Feng, Lin Liu, Wei Sun, Yongqiang Dong*, Jiani Ma*, Xuebo Chen*. Separate Control Model for Tailoring Ultra-Long Organic Room-Temperature Phosphorescence with Highly Efficient Energy Transfer to Rhodamine B. Adv. Optical Mater., 2025, 13, 2500428.

9. Shuang Xu, Tianhe Yang, ShuLin Zhang,Yifan Su,Yang Cheng,David Lee Phillips, Le Yu*, Jiani Ma*, Yu Fang. Rational Design and Reaction Mechanism Study of the Photochemical Rearrangement of Fulvene Derivatives. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2025, 16, 5043-5050.

10. Lingfeng Ge, Yan Guo, Shulin Zhang, David Lee Phillips, Nikola Basarić* , Jiani Ma*. Mechanistic investigations of photochemical generation of quinone methides. (Review) Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2025, 27, 15272.

11. Yan Guo, Hongtao Bian, Le Yu, Jiani Ma* and Yu Fang. Photochemical reaction mechanism of benzophenone protected guanosine at N7 position. Chinese Chemical Letters., 2025, 36, 109971.

12. Qiyuan Shi, Nannan Ding, Zhaolong Wang, Xinyu Gou, Lingya Peng, Jiani Ma* and Yu Fang*. Room-Temperature Phosphorescence Materials Featuring Triplet Hybrid Local Charge Transfer Emission. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2024, 15, 2995-3001.

13. Chenxi Zhang, Honghua Song, Zhichong Wang, Qing Ye, Dan Zhang, Yanxia Zhao,* Jiani Ma*, and Yongliang Cheng*. Titanium Dioxide and N-Doped Carbon Hybrid Nanofiber Modulated Ru Nanoclusters for High-Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalyst. Small., 2024, 2311667.

14. Yifan Su, Dexin Zheng, Linfeng Ge, Le Yu, * David Lee Phillips, Jiani Ma*, Yu Fang. Exploring the molecular design principles for efficient diarylethene photoacid and photohydride generators based on the photochemical reaction mechanism. Chem. Sci., 2024, 15, 20556.

15. Yan Guo, Lingfeng Ge, David Lee Phillips, Jiani Ma*, Yu Fang. Different Reaction Mechanisms Triggered by the Meta Effect: Photoinduced Generation of Quinone Methides from Hydroxybiphenyl Derivatives. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2024, 15, 8569-8576.

16. Dandan Yin, Yan Guo, Tongyu Xu,* and Jiani Ma*. Investigation of thia-Diels-Alder Reactions by Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy and DFT Calculations. ACS Omega., 2024, 9, 14436.

17. Vilma Lovrinčević, Yan Guo, Dragana Vuk, Irena Škorić, Jiani Ma,* Nikola Basarić*. 3-Substituted 2‑Aminonaphthalene Photocages for Carboxylic Acids and Alcohols; Decaging Mechanismand Potential Applications in Synthesis. J.Org.Chem., 2023, 88, 15176-15188

18. Nannan Ding, Yu-Chan Liao, Gang Wang, Kai-Hsin Chang, Zhaolong Wang, Ke Liu, Jiani Ma*, Pi-Tai Chou* , Yu Fang*. Bi-ortho-Carborane Unit-Riveted Perylene Monoimides:Structure-Tuned Optical Switchesfor Electron Transfer and Robust Thin Film-Based Fluorescence Sensors. CCS Chem., 2023, 5, 2922-2932.

19. Qianqian Tan, Yan Guo, David Lee Phillips, Tongyu Xu, Jiani Ma*. Photorelease Reaction Mechanism Study of a Diarylethene Caged Dual Functions Compound. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2023, 14, 2119-2124.

20. Hao Chen, Nan An, Yanqing Wang, Gang Wang, Somnath Mukherjee, Hongtao Bian, Jiani Ma*, Jing Liu* and Yu Fang. Tracking the Intramolecular Charge Transfer Process of 2,6-Substituted D‑A BODIPY Derivatives. J. Phys. Chem. B., 2023, 127, 2044-2051.

21. Mingdong Dai, Mei Duan, Xuyang Li, Yan Guo* and Jiani Ma*. Intramolecular Photoredox Reaction Mechanism of Naphthoquinone Compounds: Combined Time-Resolved Spectroscopiesand DFT Calculations. J. Phys. Chem. B., 2023, 127, 710-716.