Ø  Heterogenized homogeneous catalysis

Ø  Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalysts and processes

Ø  Carbonylation

Ø Noble-metal-like Co₂Ccatalysis

ØHigher alcohol synthesis

Professor Hejun Zhu received his MS degree in Chemical Engineering from Dalian University of Technology in 1999 and his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003.

He started the research in the 805 group in Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics. He has more than ten years of research experiences on a number of subjects in industrial catalysis. Among the various positions that he held in his career, he was a research assistant professor in 2003 and became associate professor in 2005 and professor in 2011 at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics.  

1.  Hejun Zhu, Yunjie Ding, Li Yan, Jianmin Xiong, Yuan Lu, Liwu Lin.The PPh₃ligand modified Rh/SiO₂catalyst for hydroformylation of olefins. Catalysis Today. 2004, 93-95, 389-393

2.    Hejun Zhu, Yunjie Ding, Li Yan, Yuan Lu, Can Li, Xinhe Bao, Liwu Lin. Recyclable heterogeneous Rh/SiO₂catalyst enhanced by organic PPh₃ligand.Chemistry Letters. 2004, 33(5), 630-631

3.    Li Yan, Yunjie Ding, Liwu Lin, Hejun Zhu, Hongmei Yin, Jianmin Xiong, Xianmin Li, Yuan Lu, In situ Formation of HRh(CO)₂(PPh₃)₂Active Species on the Surface of a SBA-15 Supported Heterogeneous Catalyst and the Effect of Support Pore Size on the Hydroformylation of Propene, J Mol Catal A: Chem, 2009, 300(1-2),116-120

4.    Guiping Jiao, Yunjie Ding, Hejun Zhu, Xianming Li, Wenda Dong, Jinwei Li, Yuan Lu, Effect of the Reduction Temperature of Co-La-Zr/AC on the Synthesis of Higher Alcohols from Syngas, Chin J Catal, 2009, 30, 92

5.    Yunjie Ding, Hejun Zhu, Tao Wang, Guiping Jiao, Yuan Lu, A Process for Directly Producing Mixed Linear alpha-Alcohols Having 1 to 18 carbon atoms fromSynthesis Gas,US7468396

6.    Yunjie Ding, Hejun Zhu, Tao Wang, Guiping Jiao, Yuan Lu, An activated carbon supported cobalt based catalyst for directly converting of synthesis gas to mixed linear alpha-alcohols and paraffins. US 7670985

7.    Xianming Li,Yunjie Ding, Guiping Jiao, Jinwei Li, Ronghe Lin, Leifeng Gong, Li Yan, Hejun Zhu, A New Conpet of Tethered Ligand Modified Rh/SiO₂Catalyst for Hydroformylation with High Stability, Appl Catal A, 2009, 353(2), 266-270

8.    Guiping Jiao,Yunjie Ding, Hejun Zhu, Xianming Li, Jinwei Li, Ronghe Lin, Wenda Dong, Leifeng Gong, Yanpeng Pei, Yuan Lu, Effect of La₂O₃doping on syntheses of C₁–C₁₈mixed linear α-alcohols from syngas over the Co/AC catalysts, Appl Catal A,2009,364,(1-2), 137-142

9.    Yangpeng Pei, Yunjie Ding, Hejun Zhu, Juan Zang, Xiangen Song, Wenda Dong, Tao Wang, and Yuan Lu. Effect of Al₂O₃promoter on a performance of C₁-C₁₄а-accohols direct synthesis over Co/AC catalysts via Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis. Catal. Lett., 2014,144(8) ,1433-1442

10.  Yangpeng Pei, Yunjie Ding, Juan Zang, Xiangen Song, Hejun Zhu, Wenda Dong, Tao Wang, and Weimiao Chen. Temperature-programmed desorption and surface reaction studies of CO on CO₂C. Chin. J. Catal., 2013, 34, 1570-1575

11.  Wenda Dong, Yunjie Ding, Hejun Zhu, Yanpeng Pei, Hong Du, Tao Wang. Effects of Trace Amounts of Li doping on Performance of Co/AC Catalysts for Syntheses of Mixed Linear α-Alcohols Acta Phys. -Chim. Sin. 2014,30(9), 1745-1751

12.  Wenda Dong, Jinxun Liu, Hejun Zhu, Yunjie Ding, Yanpeng Pei, Jia Liu, Hong Du, Miao Jiang, Tao Liu, Haiyan Su, and Weixue Li. Co–Co₂Cand Co–Co₂C/AC Catalysts for Hydroformylation of 1-Hexene under Low Pressure: Experimental and Theoretical Studies. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2014, 118 (33), 19114-19122

13.  Yangpeng Pei, Jinxun Liu, Yonghui Zhao, Yunjie Ding, Tao Liu, Wenda Dong, Hejun Zhu, Haiyun Su, Li Yan, Jinlin Li, Weixue Li. High alcohols synthesis via Fischer- Tropsch reaction at cobalt/carbide interface. ACS catal., 2015 ,5, 3620-3624

14. Hong Du, Hejun Zhu*, Xingkun Chen, Wenda Dong, Wei Lu, Wenting Luo, Miao Jiang, Tao Liu, Yunjie Ding*. Study on CaO-promoted Co/AC catalysts for synthesis of mixed alcohols from syngas. Fuel, 2016, 182: 42-49.

15.Hong Du, Hejun Zhu*, Tao Liu, Ziang Zhao, Xingkun Chen, Wenda Dong, Wei Lu, Wenting Luo, Yunjie Ding*.Mixed alcohols synthesis via CO hydrogenation on Fe-promoted Co/AC catalysts. Catalysis Today, DOI:10.1016/j.cattod.2016.05.023.

16. Hong Du, Hejun Zhu*, Ziang Zhao, Wenda Dong, Wenting Luo, Wei Lu, Miao Jiang, Tao Liu, Yunjie Ding*.Effects of impregnation strategy on structure and performance of bimetallic CoFe/AC catalysts for mixed alcohols synthesis from syngas. Applied Catalysis A: General, 2016, 523: 263-271.

17. Chen Xingkun, Zhu Hejun, Wang Tao, Li Cunyao, Yan Li, Jiang Miao, Jiangzeng, Wang xueping, Ding Yunjie.The 2V-P, N polymer supported palladium catalyst for methoxycarbonylation of acetylene[J]. Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical.2016,414:37-46.

US 11/891,263 An activated carbon supported cobalt based catalyst for directly converting of synthesis gas to mixed linear alpha-alcohols and paraffins

US 11/890,772 A process for directly producing mixed linear alpha-alcohols having 1 to 18 carbon atoms from synthesis gas

Hong Du, Hejun Zhu*, Ziang Zhao, Wenda Dong, Yunjie Ding*. Structural sensitivity of the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis over the Co/AC catalyst. The 16^th International Congress on Catalysis, Beijing, 2016, Poster.