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2. Lingjuan Chen, Deng-Tao Yang*. ” Diazaborepin Radicals and Blue/Green Emissions”, to be submitted
1. Lingjuan Chen,# Jiaqi Dong,# Deng-Tao Yang*. “”Solution- and Oxygen-Stable Radicals via Photo-Induced Charge Separation from anti-Kasha Emissive BN-Azepines”, under revision.

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	39. Jiaqi Dong,# Lingjuan Chen,# Deng-Tao Yang*. “Rethinking Boron’s Role in Intramolecular Charge Transfer: From Acceptor to Donor–Acceptor Regulator.“ Chemical Science, 2025, DOI: 10.1039/D5SC01916H.
	38. Jingkai Wang, Jie Sun,* Jie Chen, Biao Kang, Ai Lu, Ruolei Zhong, Hongtu He, Guocheng Li, Chengji Wen, Dengtao Yang, and Ying Yin*. “Self-Assembled Entanglements in Elastomers for Superior Toughness and Fatigue Resistance.” Macromolecules 2025, 58, 4438–4446.
	37. Jiaqi Dong, Lingjuan Chen, Qingliang Feng,* and Deng-Tao Yang*. “Near-Infrared Emitting Helically Twisted Conjugated Frameworks Consisting of Alternant Donor-π-Acceptor Units and Multiple Boron Atoms.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202417200. Highlighted by: 工业和信息化部， 西北工业大学，Synfacts, 西北工业大学化学与化工学院，化学加公众号， 化学深耕堂公众号，Gaussian公众号，WileyChem，X-Mol，CBG资讯
	36. Lingjuan Chen, Jiaqi Dong, Dehui Tan, Jianfeng Wu,* and Deng-Tao Yang*. “A Double Helicene with Quadruple Indole-Fused Skeleton and Double NBN-Type Cove-Edged Structure.” Chinese Journal of Chemistry, 2024, 42, 3069—3074. Highlighted by: 中国化学公众号
	35. Yun Song, Peng Guo, Tinghao Ma, Jianjun Su, Libei Huang, Weihua Guo, Yong Liu, Geng Li, Yinger Xin, Qiang Zhang, Siwei Zhang, Hanchen Shen, Xing Feng, Dengtao Yang, Jia Tian, Sai Kishore Ravi, Ben Zhong Tang, Ruquan Ye*. “Ultrathin, Cationic Covalent Organic Nanosheets for Enhanced CO2  Electroreduction to Methanol“. Advanced Materials, 2024, 36, 2310037.
	34. Tinghao Ma,# Jiaqi Dong,# Deng-Tao Yang*. “Heteroatom-Boron-Heteroatom-Doped π-Conjugated Systems: Structures, Synthesis and Photofunctional Properties“. Chem. Commun. 2023, 59, 13679-13689. (Invited Feature article for the themed collection: Chemical Communications Emerging Investigators)
	33. Dehui Tan, Jiaqi Dong, Tinghao Ma, Qingliang Feng, Suning Wang, and Deng-Tao Yang*. “Multiple Helicenes Defected by Heteroatoms and Heptagons with Narrow Emissions and Superior Photoluminescence Quantum Yields“. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202304711. (previously on ChemRxiv: https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-nkhr1. on February 15, 2023) Highlighted by 化学加, CBG资讯, and WileyChem
	32. Libei Huang, Le Cheng,Tinghao Ma,Jun-Jie Zhang,Haikun Wu, Jianjun Su, Yun Song, He Zhu, Qi Liu, Minghui Zhu, Zhiyuan Zeng, Qiyuan He, Man-Kit Tse, Deng-Tao Yang, Boris I. Yakobson,Ben Zhong Tang, Yang Ren, Ruquan Ye*. “Direct Synthessis of Ammonia From Nitrate On Amorphous Graphene With Near 100% Efficiency“. Advanced Materials, 2023, 35, 2211856.
	31. Haochen Lv, Kai Xiang, and Deng-Tao Yang*. “Doping Heptagon-Containing π-Conjugated Systems with Boron.” European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2022, e202201208. Invited Review for the Themed Collection on Boron Chemistry. Highlighted by Redian新闻
	30. Xiaobin Chen,# Dehui Tan,# Jiaqi Dong, Tinghao Ma, Yi Duan and Deng-Tao Yang*. “[4]Triangulenes Modified by Three Oxygen-Boron-Oxygen (OBO) Units: Synthesis, Characterizations, and Anti-Kasha Emissions.“ The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2022, 13, 10085−10091. (previously on ChemRxiv: https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-f0mfq on July 27, 2022)
	29. Le Cheng, Tinghao Ma, Binghao Zhang, Libei Huang, Weihua Guo, Feijun Hu, He Zhu, Zhaoyu Wang, Tingting Zheng, Deng-Tao Yang, Chi-Kit Siu, Qi Liu, Yang Ren, Chuan Xia, Ben Zhong Tang, and Ruquan Ye*. “Steering the Topological Defects in Amorphous Laser-Induced Graphene for Direct Nitrate-to-Ammonia Electroreduction.” ACS Catalysis, 2022, 12, 11639–11650.
	28. Yun Song, Jun-jie Zhang,Yubing Dou, Zhaohua Zhu, Jianjun Su, LibeiHuang, Weihua Guo, Xiaohu Cao, Le Cheng, Zonglong Zhu,Zhenhua Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhong, Dengtao Yang,* Zhaoyu Wang, Ben Zhong Tang, Boris I. Yakobson,* Ruquan Ye*. “Atomically Thin, Ionic Covalent Organic Nanosheets for Stable, High-Performance Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction.” Advanced Materials, 2022, 34, 2110496. Highlighted by 化学与材料科学
	27. Yunfei Zhang, Yulong Li, Mengmeng Wei, Dengtao Yang,* Qiuyu Zhang, Baoliang Zhang*. “Core-shell structured Co@NC@MoS2 magnetic hierarchical nanotubes: Preparation and microwave absorbing properties.” Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 2022, 128, 148-159.
	26. Xiaobin Chen,# Dehui Tan,# Deng-Tao Yang*. “Multiple-boron-nitrogen (multi-BN) doped π-conjugated systems for optoelectronics.” J. Mater. Chem. C 2022, 10, 13499-13532. (Invited review for the themed collection: Journal of Materials Chemistry C Emerging Investigators) 2022 Journal of Materials Chemistry C Most Popular Articles 2023 Journal of Materials Chemistry C Lunar New Year collection (# contributed equally to this work. First authorship was determined by coin toss.)
	25. Long Jiang, Yu Wang, Dehui Tan, Xiaobin Chen, Tinghao Ma, Baoliang Zhang* and Deng-Tao Yang*.”Access to tetracoordinate boron-doped polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with delayed fluorescence and aggregation induced emission under mild conditions.” Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 5597-5605. This article is part of the themed collection: Most popular 2022 main group, inorganic and organometallic chemistry articles (previously on ChemRxiv 10.26434/chemrxiv-2021-bg20x. Dec 23rd, 2021) Highlighted by CBG资讯 and 科匠文化
	24. Yang Li, Jiamin Bao, Yu Zhang, Xue Peng, Weijie Yu, Tao Wang, Dengtao Yang, Qun Liu, Qian Zhang, and Junkai Fu*. “Three-component aminofluorination of alkenes with electronically rich amino sources.” Chem, 2022, 8, 1147-1163.
	23. Jiaqi Dong, Lutao Zhang, Dehui Tan, Jianfeng Wu, Nan Wang,* Soren K Mellerup, Suning Wang and Deng-Tao Yang*.“Formation of an Air-Stable Diborane via a Stepwise BH3 Addition of Pyrido[1,2-a]isoindole with H2 Evolution.” Chem. Commun. 2021, 57, 9882–9885.
	22. Nathan Corbin, Deng-Tao Yang, Nikifar Lazouski, Katherine Steinberg, and Karthish Manthiram*. “Suppressing Carboxylate Nucleophilicity with Inorganic Salts Enables Selective Electrocarboxylation without Sacrificial Anodes.” Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 12365-12376.
	21. Deng-Tao Yang,* Jie Zheng, Jin-Bao Peng, Xiang Wang and Suning Wang. “Sequential and Diverse Synthesis of BN-Heterocycles and Investigation of Their Photoreactivity.” J. Org. Chem. 2021, 86, 829−836.
	20. Guoyun Meng, Tai Peng,* Yonggang Shi, Haijun Li, Xiang Wang, Xiaodong Yin, Deng-Tao Yang,* Suning Wang and Nan Wang*. “Triazole Functionalized 5,9-dioxa-13bboranaphtho[3,2,1-de]anthracene: a New Family of Multi-stimuli Responsive Materials.” J. Mater. Chem. C 2020, 8, 7749 – 7754.
	19. Joseph Maalouf, Kyoungsuk Jin, Dengtao Yang, Aditya Limaye, Karthish Manthiram*. “Kinetic Analysis of Electrochemical Lactonization of Ketones Using Water as the Oxygen Atom Source.” ACS Catal. 2020, 10, 5750-5756.
	18. Deng-Tao Yang, Minghui Zhu, Zachary J. Schiffer, Kindle Williams, Xiaojie Song, Xiaohui Liu, Karthish Manthiram*. “Direct Electrochemical Carboxylation of Benzylic C-N Bonds with Carbon Dioxide.” ACS Catal. 2019, 9, 4699-4705.
	17. Kyoungsuk Jin, Joseph H. Maalouf, Nikifar Lazouski, Nathan Corbin, Deng-Tao Yang, Karthish Manthiram*. “Epoxidation of Cyclooctene Using Water as the Oxygen Atom Source at Manganese Oxide Electrocatalysts.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 6413-6418.
	16. Minghui Zhu#, Deng-Tao Yang#, Ruquan Ye, Joy Zeng, Karthish Manthiram*. “Inductive and Electrostatic Effects on Immobilized Cobalt Porphyrins for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction.” Catal. Sci. Technol. 2019, 9, 974-980. (#Equal contribution)
	15. Kindle Williams, Nathan Corbin, Joy Zeng, Nikifar Lazouski, Deng-Tao Yang, Karthish Manthiram*. “Protecting Effect of Mass Transport during Electrochemical Reduction of Oxygenated Carbon Dioxide Feedstocks.” Sustainable Energy Fuels, 2019, 3, 1225-1232.
	14. Deng-Tao Yang, Tomoya Nakamura, Zecheng He, Xiang Wang, Atsushi Wakamiya,* Suning Wang*. “Doping Polycyclic Arenes with Nitrogen-Boron-Nitrogen (NBN) Units.” Org. Lett. 2018, 20, 6741-6745.
	13. Tao Zeng,*# Soren K. Mellerup,# Dengtao Yang, Xiang Wang, Suning Wang, Kevin Stamplecoskie*. “Identifying (BN)2-Pyrenes as a New Class of Singlet Fission Chromophores: Significance of Azaborine Substitution.” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2018, 9, 2919-2927. (#Equal contribution)
	12. Deng-Tao Yang, Yonggang Shi, Tai Peng, Suning Wang*. “BN-Heterocycles Bearing Two BN Units: Influence of the Linker and the Location of BN Units on Electronic Properties and Photoreactivity.” Organometallics 2017, 36, 2654-2660.
	11. Deng-Tao Yang, Soren K. Mellerup, Jin-Bao Peng, Xiang Wang, Quan-Song Li,* Suning Wang*. “Substituent Directed Photo-Transformations of BN-Heterocycles: Elimination vs Isomerization via Selective B-C Bond Cleavage.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 11513-11516.
	10. Yong-gang Shi,# Deng-Tao Yang,# Soren K. Mellerup, Nan Wang, Tai Peng, Suning Wang*. “1,1-Hydroboration of Fused Azole–Isoindole Analogues as an Approach for Construction of B,N-Heterocycles and Azole-Fused B,N-Naphthalenes.” Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 1626–1629. (#Equal contribution, and this work was highlighted by Synfacts)
	9. Suning Wang,* Deng-Tao Yang, Jiasheng Lu, Hiroyuki Shimogawa, Shaolong Gong,* Xiang Wang, Soren K. Mellerup, Atsushi Wakamiya, Yi-Lu Chang, Chuluo Yang, Zheng-Hong Lu*. “In Situ Solid-State Generation of (BN)2-Pyrenes and Electroluminescent Devices.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 15074-15078.
	8. Deng-Tao Yang, Julian Radtke, Soren K Mellerup, Kang Yuan, Xiang Wang, Matthias Wagner,* Suning Wang*. “One-Pot Synthesis of Brightly Fluorescent Mes2B-Functionalized Indolizine Derivatives via Cycloaddition Reactions.” Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 2486–2489.
	7. Deng‐Tao Yang, Soren K. Mellerup, Xiang Wang, Jia‐Sheng Lu, Suning Wang*. “Reversible 1,1-Hydroboration: Boryl Insertion into a C-N Bond and Competitive Elimination of HBR2 or R-H.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 5498 –5501. (Selected as cover page article)
	6. Sean M. McDonald, Soren K. Mellerup, Jinbao Peng, Dengtao Yang, Quan‐Song Li, Suning Wang*. “Thermal and Photolytic Transformation of NHC-B,N-Heterocycles: Controlled Generation of Blue Fluorescent 1,3-Azaborinine Derivatives and 1H -Imidazo[1,2-a]indoles by External Stimuli.” Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 13961 –13970. (Selected as cover page article and hot paper)
	5. Bin-Miao Yang, Kai Xiang, Yong-Qiang Tu*, Shi-Heng Zhang, Deng-Tao Yang, Shao-Hua Wang, Fu-Ming Zhang. “Spiro-Fused Six-Membered N-Heterocyclic Carbene: A New Scaffold toward Unique Properties and Activities.” Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 7163-7165.
	4. Lin Wang, Zhi-Gang Ma, Xiao-Jing Wei, Qing-Yuan Meng, Deng-Tao Yang, Shao-Fu Du, Zi-Fei Chen, Li-Zhu Wu, Qiang Liu*. “Synthesis of 2-Substituted Pyrimidines and Benzoxazoles via a Visible-Light-Driven Organocatalytic Aerobic Oxidation: Enhancement of the Reaction Rate and Selectivity by a Base.” Green Chem. 2014, 16, 3752–3757.
	3. Xiao-Jing Wei, Deng-Tao Yang, Lin Wang, Tao Song, Li-Zhu Wu, Qiang Liu*. “A Novel Intermolecular Synthesis of γ-Lactones via Visible-Light Photoredox Catalysis.” Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 6054–6057.
	2. Deng-Tao Yang, Qing-Yuan Meng, Jian-Ji Zhong, Ming Xiang, Qiang Liu, Li-Zhu Wu. “Metal-Free Desulfonylation Reaction through Visible-Light Photoredox Catalysis.” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 7528–7532.
	1. Fu-Min Zhang, Lei Peng, Hui Li, Ai-Jun Ma, Jin-Bao Peng, Jing-Jing Guo, Dengtao Yang, Si-Hua Hou, Yong-Qiang Tu*, William Kitching. “Total Synthesis of the Nominal Didemnaketal A.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 10846 –10850.

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