Name: Yongli Cai
Date of Birth: 1995.03.03
Birthplace: Yantai, Shandong province
Tel: 0411-84379122
Email: cyl95@dicp.ac.cn
Educational Background and Work Experience:
2026.02 – now: Associate Professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2018.9 – 2026.01: Ph.D, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2018.9 - 2019.7: Basic training courses for PhD students in Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science & Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China
2014.9 -2018.7: Bachelor degree, Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), Hefei, China
Research Interest:
Metal Hydrides; Heterogeneous Catalysis; Aromatic Compounds Transformation; N2 fixation into N-containing organics
Scholarships and Awards:
2025 CAS President Award-Excellence Prize
Excellent young PhD researcher, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Selected Publication:
1. Yongli Cai#, Wei Liu#, Yang Yu, Ligao Liu, Qijun Pei, Han Wu, Teng He, Jianping Guo*, Anan Wu*, Ping Chen*. Transition metal-free hydrogenolysis of anilines to arenes mediated by lithium hydride, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022, 144(38): 17441-17448.
2. Yongli Cai#, Li Rao#, Yun Wang, Fei Chang*, Teng He, Yang Zhao, Jiafeng Yu, Hong Wen, Jingai Hao, Anan Wu, Bing-Tao Guan, Jianping Guo*, Ping Chen. Fabrication of atomically dispersed barium hydride catalysts for the synthesis of deuterated alkylarenes, Nature Communications, 2025, 16: 1868.
3. Yongli Cai, Shixiong Zhang, Yanbo Deng, Li Rao*, Jianping Guo*, Ping Chen. Catalytic non-oxidative C-C coupling of benzene to biphenyl over sub-nanostructured europium hydride, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2025, e202517421.
