Qian Qingli, a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He mainly engages in research related to green chemistry and has made systematic and original achievements in the field of CO2 transformation and utilization. He has developed new reaction routes, novel catalysts, and new catalytic mechanisms for efficient synthesis of alcohols, carboxylic acids, hydrocarbons, and other important chemicals and fuels from catalytic CO2 hydrogenation. He has published over 70 papers in internationally renowned journals such as Acc. Chem. Res., Nat. Commun., PNAS, Chem., Natl. Sci. Rev., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., JACS, Chem. Sci., and Green Chem., and he has obtained over 20 Chinese patents for invention. Many of his achievements have been highlighted or previewed by Nat. Catal., C&EN, Chem. World, and Chem., etc. and one of his achievements was listed as one of the top 8 high-impact papers by the editorial team of Chem magazine on its 5th anniversary. He has led and participated in a number of projects from National Key Research and Development Program of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and enterprise. He has won the National Technological Invention Award, the Outstanding Achievement Award in Science and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the China Patent Gold Award, and the Beijing Science and Technology Award.
Research Areas
CO2 hydrogenation; Green chemistry; Transition metal catalysis
Education
2007-09 - 2010-07 Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ph.D.
2000-09 - 2003-03 Tianjin University, Master
1996-09 - 2000-07 North China University of Science and Technology, Bachelor
Experience
Publications
Representative Papers
1. Qingli Qian* and Buxing Han*, Transformation of CO2 and H2 to C2+ chemicals and fuels, Natl. Sci. Rev., 2023, 10: nwad160.
2. Yanru Zhang, Jingjing Zhang, Ying Wang, Yang Li, Jun He, Yanyan Wang, Longbo Zhang, Zhenpeng Wang, Qingli Qian,* and Buxing Han*, Synthesis of Carboxylic Acids via Reaction of Ketones/Aldehydes with CO2 and H2, Organometallics 2023, 42, 2312−2318
3. Yang Li, Ying Wang, Yanru Zhang, Zhenpeng Wang, Junfeng Xiang, Juanjuan Han, Jun He, Longbo Zhang, Yanyan Wang, Qinglei Meng, Qingli Qian,* and Buxing Han*, Synthesis of Carboxylic Acids from Saccharides, CO2, and H2, ACS Catal. 2023, 13, 8025−8030.
4. Yanru Zhang,# Ying Wang,# Qingli Qian,* Yang Li, Bernard Baffour Asare Bediako, Jingjing Zhang, Junjuan Yang, Zhiyan Li, Buxing Han, Synthesis of Carboxylic Acids via Hydrocarboxylation of Alcohols with CO2 and H2, Green Chem., 2022, 24, 1973.
5. Bernard Baffour Asare Bediako, Qingli Qian,* Ying Wang, Jingjing Zhang, Zhenpeng Wang, Shumu Li, Huizhen Liu, Tianbin Wu, Maofa Ge, Buxing Han, Synthesis of Higher Carboxylic Acids via Reaction of Polyols with CO2 and H2, Chem Catal., 2022, 2, 114.
6. Bernard Baffour Asare Bediako, Qingli Qian*, and Buxing Han*, Synthesis of C2+ Chemicals from CO2 and H2 via C-C Bond Formation, Acc. Chem. Res., 2021, 54, 2467−2476.
7. Jinghui Tu, Haihong Wu,* Qingli Qian,* Shitao Han, Mengen Chu, Shuaiqiang Jia, Ruting Feng, Jianxin Zhai, Mingyuan He, Buxing Han*, Low temperature methanation of CO2 over an amorphous cobalt-based catalyst, Chem. Sci., 2021,12, 3937-3943.
8. Meng Cui, Qingli Qian*, Jingjing Zhang, Ying Wang, Bernard Baffour Asare Bediako, Buxing Han*, Liquid Fuel Synthesis via CO2 Hydrogenation by Coupling Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis, Chem, 2021, 7, 726-737.
9. Ying Wang, Qingli Qian*, Jingjing Zhang, Bernard Baffour Asare Bediako, Zhenpeng Wang, Huizhen Liu, Buxing Han*, Synthesis of higher carboxylic acids from ethers, CO2 and H2, Nat. Commun., 2019, 10, 5395.
10. Jingjing Zhang, Qingli Qian*, Ying Wang, Bernard Baffour Asare Bediako, Jiang Yan, Buxing Han*, Synthesis of ethanol from aryl methyl ether/lignin, CO2 and H2, Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 10640-10646.
11. Zhenhong He, Meng Cui, Qingli Qian*, Jingjing Zhang, Huizhen Liu, and Buxing Han*, Synthesis of liquid fuel via direct hydrogenation of CO2, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2019, 116 (26), 12654-12659.
12. Bernard Baffour Asare Bediako, Qingli Qian*, Jingjing Zhang, Ying Wang, Xiao-jun Shen, Jinbiao Shi, Meng Cui, Guanying Yang, Zhen Wang, Shengrui Tong, Buxing Han*, Ru Catalyzed Methanol Homologation with CO2 and H2 in Ionic Liquid, Green Chem., 2019, 21, 4152-4158.
13. Ying Wang, Jingjing Zhang, Qingli Qian*, Bernard Baffour Asare Bediako, Meng Cui, Guanying Yang, Jiang Yan, Buxing Han*, Efficient synthesis of ethanol by methanol homologation using CO2 at lower temperature, Green Chem., 2019, 21, 589-596.
14. Jingjing Zhang, Qingli Qian*, Ying Wang, Bernard Baffour Asare Bediako, Meng Cui, Guanying Yang, Buxing Han*, Synthesis of acetamides using CO2, methanol, H2 and amines, Green Chem., 2019, 21, 233-237.
15. Qingli Qian*, Meng Cui, Jingjing Zhang, Junfeng Xiang, Jinliang Song, Guanying Yang, Buxing Han,* Synthesis of Ethanol via Reaction of Dimethyl Ether with CO2 and H2, Green Chem., 2018, 20, 206-213.
16. Jingjing Zhang, Qingli Qian*, Meng Cui, Chunjun Chen, Shuaishuai Liu, Buxing Han*, Synthesis of ethanol from paraformaldehyde, CO2 and H2, Green Chem., 2017, 19, 4396-4401.
17. Meng Cui, Qingli Qian*, Jingjing Zhang, Chunjun Chen, Buxing Han*, Efficient synthesis of acetic acid via Rh catalyzed methanol hydrocarboxylation with CO2 and H2 under milder conditions, Green Chem., 2017, 19, 3558-3565.
18. Qingli Qian*, Jingjing Zhang, Meng Cui, Buxing Han*, Synthesis of acetic acid via methanol hydrocarboxylation with CO2 and H2, Nat. Commun., 2016, 7: 11481.
19. Meng Cui, Qingli Qian,* Zhenhong He, Zhaofu Zhang, Jun Ma, Tianbin Wu, Guanying Yang and Buxing Han*, Bromide promoted hydrogenation of CO2 to higher alcohols using Ru–Co homogeneous catalyst, Chem. Sci., 2016, 7, 5200-5205.
20. Zhenhong He, Qingli Qian, Jun Ma, Qinglei Meng, Huacong Zhou, Jinliang Song, Zhimin Liu, Buxing Han*, Water-Enhanced Synthesis of Higher Alcohols from CO2 Hydrogenation over a Pt/Co3O4 Catalyst under Milder Conditions, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 737-741.
21. Meng Cui, Qingli Qian*, Zhenhong He, Jun Ma, Xinchen Kang, Jiayin Hu, Zhimin Liu, Buxing Han*, Synthesis of Ag Nanoparticles on Hierarchical Porosity Support for Carboxylative Cyclization of Propargyl Alcohols with CO2 at Ambient Conditions, Chem. Eur. J., 2015, 21, 15924 -15928.
22. Qingli Qian*, Meng Cui, Zhenhong He, Congyi Wu, Qinggong Zhu, Zhaofu Zhang, Jun Ma, Guanying Yang, Jingjing Zhang, Buxing Han*, Highly Selective Hydrogenation of CO2 into C2+ Alcohols by Homogeneous Catalysis, Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 5685–5689.
Research Interests
Chemical utilization of CO2, especially hydrogenation of CO2 to important chemicals and fuels.
Honors & Distinctions
Member of Carbon Dioxide Chemistry Committee of Chinese Chemical Society
Academic secretary of Center for Carbon Neutralization Chemistry of Institute of Chemistry, CAS.
Honorary professor of University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Member of editorial board of Green Chemical Technology.
Review editor of Frontiers in Chemistry.