2016.09 – 2020.06: Inner Mongolia University, Chemistry (National Base Class), Bachelor of Science
2020.09 – 2026.06: Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Doctor of Science
Research Interests
Structural Determination and Spectroscopic Dynamics of Neutral Clusters
Microscopic Mechanisms and Simulations of Metal–Water and Metal–Small-Molecule Reactions
Experimental Trapping and Theoretical Characterization of Intermediates in Cluster-Catalyzed Reactions
Major Outcomes
[1]. Wenhui Yan, Shuai Jiang, Shangdong Li, Jianxing Zhuang, Ailin Wang, Hua Xie, Gang Li,* and Ling Jiang*, IR-VUV Photoionization Spectra of Hydrated BaOH Reveal Base Dissociation in Growing Water Clusters, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2026, 148, 3026-3033. (Q1, Top, IF: 15.7)
[2]. Wenhui Yan, Shuai Jiang, Shangdong Li, Jianxing Zhuang, Ailin Wang, Hua Xie, Gang Li,* and Ling Jiang*, Infrared spectroscopic characterization of two types of products HSiOH(H2O)n and SiOH(H2O)n (n = 1−3) in the silicon-water reactions, Journal of Chemical Physics, 2025, 163, 024311. (Q2, IF: 3.1)
[3]. Wenhui Yan, Huijun Zheng, Tiantong Wang, Shuai Jiang, Shangdong Li, Jianxing Zhuang, Hua Xie, Gang Li,* and Ling Jiang*, Characterization of neutral metal hydride-hydroxide hydrogen-bonded clusters HMOH(H2O)2 (M = Al and Ga), Nanoscale, 2024, 16, 21333-21339. (Q1, IF: 5.1)
[4]. Shangdong Li, Wenhui Yan, Shuai Jiang, Jianxing Zhuang, Ailin Wang, Yue Zhu, Shiying Jiang, Hua Xie, Chuanfan Ding, Gang Li*, Yinghua Yan*, and Ling Jiang*, Hydrogen-Bond Network Drives Water Splitting by Neutral Tantalum Center, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2026, 17, 9704-9711. (Q1, IF: 4.7)
[5]. Tiantong Wang#, Yangyang Zhang#, Shuai Jiang, Wenhui Yan, Shangdong Li, Huijun Zheng, Junbo Lu, Hanshi Hu, Jiayue Yang, Weiqing Zhang, Guorong Wu, Hua Xie, Gang Li*, Jun Li*, Ling Jiang*, and Xueming Yang, Experimental determination of structural motifs of interference-free water undecamer cluster (H2O)11, Nature Communications, 2025, 16, 11517. (Q1, Top, IF:15.7）
[6]. Shangdong Li#, Shuai Jiang#, Jianxing Zhuang, Ailin Wang, Wenhui Yan, Jiayue Yang, Weiqing Zhang, Hongwei Li, Hua Xie, Gang Li*, Lai-Sheng Wang*, Ling Jiang*, and Xueming Yang, Spectral Signatures of Neutral Boron Oxide Clusters Containing Key Structural Units of the Vitreous State, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2026, 148, 19267-19273. (Q1, Top, IF: 15.7)
[7]. Huijun Zheng, Shuai Jiang, Wenhui Yan, Tiantong Wang, Shangdong Li, Hua Xie, Gang Li*, Xueming Yang, and Ling Jiang*, Size-specific infrared spectroscopic study of the reactions
between water molecules and neutral vanadium dimer: Evidence for water splitting, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2023, 14, 3878-3883. (Q1, IF: 4.7)
[8]. Shuai Jiang, Huijun Zheng, Wenhui Yan, Tiantong Wang, Chong Wang, Shangdong Li, Hua Xie, Gang Li*, Xiucheng Zheng*, Hongjun Fan*, Xueming Yang, and Ling Jiang*, Capturing hydrogen radicals by neutral metal hydroxides, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2023, 14, 2481-2486. (Q1, IF: 4.7)
[9]. Chong Wang#, Chang-Yi Tian#, Ya Zhao, Shuai Jiang, Tiantong Wang, Huijun Zheng, Wenhui Yan, Gang Li, Hua Xie*, Jun Li, Han-Shi Hu*, Xueming Yang, and Ling Jiang*, Observation of confinement-free neutral group three transition metal carbonyls Sc(CO)7 and TM(CO)8 (TM = Y, La), Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 2023, 62, e202305490. (Q1, Top, IF:17.0)
[10]. Shuai Jiang, Huijun Zheng, Wenhui Yan, Tiantong Wang, Chong Wang, Ya Zhao, Hua Xie, Gang Li*, Xiucheng Zheng*, Hongjun Fan*, and Ling Jiang*, Spectroscopic identification of water splitting by neutral group 3 metals, Chin. Chem. Lett., 2023, 34, 108244. (Q1, IF: 8.9)
[11]. Yang-Yang Zhang#, Huijun Zheng#, Tiantong Wang, Shuai Jiang, Wenhui Yan, Chong Wang, Ya Zhao, Jun-Bo Lu, Han-Shi Hu, Jiayue Yang, Weiqing Zhang, Guorong Wu, Hua Xie, Gang Li*, Ling Jiang*, Xueming Yang, and Jun Li*, Spectroscopic and theoretical identifications of two structural motifs of (H2O)10 cluster, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2024, 15, 3055-3060. (Q1, IF: 4.7)
[12]. Huijun Zheng#, Yangyang Zhang#, Tiantong Wang, Shuai Jiang, Wenhui Yan, Chong Wang, Ya Zhao, Hanshi Hu, Jiayue Yang, Weiqing Zhang, Guorong Wu, Dongxu Dai, Gang Li,* Jun Li,* Xueming Yang, and Ling Jiang*, Spectroscopic snapshot for neutral water nonamer (H2O)9: Adding a H2O onto a hydrogen bond-unbroken edge of (H2O)8, Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023, 158, 014301. (Q2, IF: 3.1)
[13]. Tiantong Wang, Shangdong Li, Wenhui Yan, Shuai Jiang, Hua Xie, Gang Li,* and Ling Jiang*, Infrared spectroscopic study of solvation and size effects on the reactions between water molecules with neutral rare-earth metals, Nanoscale Advances, 2023, 5, 6626-6634. (Q2, IF: 4.7)
[14]. Tiantong Wang, Zhaoyan Zhang, Wenhui Yan, Shuai Jiang, Shangdong Li, Jianxing Zhuang, Hua Xie, Gang Li,* and Ling Jiang*, Spectroscopic characterization of highly excited neutral chromium tricarbonyl, Jounal of Physical Chemistry A, 2024, 128, 3321-3328. (Q2, IF: 2.8)
