Kotohiro Nomura, Mari Oshima, Takato Mitsudome, Hitoshi Harakawa, Peng Hao, Ken Tsutsumi, Go Nagai, Toshiaki Ina, Hikaru Takaya, Wen-Hua Sun, and Seiji Yamazoe, Synthesis, Structural Analysis of (Imido)vanadium Dichloride Complexes Containing 2-(2'-Benz-imidazolyl)pyridine Ligands: Effect of Al Cocatalyst for Efficient Ethylene (Co)polymerization, ACS Omega, 2017, 2 (12), 8660–8673

Jun Yi, Wenhong Yang, Wen-Hua Sun, Kotohiro Nomura, Masahiko Hada, Vanadium NMR Chemical Shifts of (Imido)Vanadium(V) Dichloride Complexes with Imidazolin-2-Iminato and Imidazolidin-2-Iminato Ligands: A Cooperation With Quantum-Chemical Calculations and Multiple Linear Regression Analyses, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2017, 121(47), 9099–9105. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b08328

Hongyi Suo, Irina V. Oleynik, Chuanbing Huang, Ivan I. Oleynik, Gregory A. Solan, Yanping Ma, Tongling Liang, and Wen-Hua Sun, ortho-Cycloalkyl substituted N,N'-diaryliminoacenaphthene-Ni(II) catalysts for polyethylene elastomers; exploring ring size and temperature effects, Dalton Trans., 2017, 2017, 46, 15684-15697. DOI: 10.1039/c7dt03362a  （Cover paper  http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=C7DT03362A）

Shi-Fang Yuan, Lijing Wang, Qiuyue Zhang, Wen-Hua Sun, Progresses of Tridentate Titanium Precatalysts toward Olefin Polymerization, Progress in Chemistry, 2017, 29(12), 1462~1470. DOI: 10.7536/PC170742

Qaiser Mahmood, Yanning Zeng, Erlin Yue, Gregory A. Solan, Tongling Liang and Wen-Hua Sun, Ultra-high molecular weight elastomeric polyethylene using an electronically and sterically enhanced nickel catalyst, Polymer Chemistry,  2017, 8, 6416. DOI: 10.1039/C7PY01606A

Chuanbing Huang, Youfu Zhang, Gregory A. Solan, Yanping Ma, Xinquan Hu, Yang Sun and Wen-Hua Sun, Vinyl-polyethylene waxes with narrow dispersity using a thermally robust bis(imino)trihydroquinolyl-chromium catalyst, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2017, 4158-4166. doi: 10.1002/ejic.201700837

Chantsalnyam Bariashir, Zheng Wang, Shizhen Du, Gregory A. Solan, Chuanbing Huang, Tongling Liang, and Wen-Hua Sun, Cycloheptyl-fused NNO-ligands as electronically modifiable supports for M(II) (M = Co, Fe) chloride precatalysts; probing performance in ethylene oligo-/polymerization, Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 2017, 55,  3980-3989. DOI:10.1002/pola.28767 

Zheng Wang, Youfu Zhang, Yanping Ma, Xinquan Hu, Gregory A. Solan, Yang Sun, and Wen-Hua Sun, Molecular Weight Control of Polyethylene Waxes using a Constrained Imino-Cyclopenta[b]pyridyl-Nickel Catalyst, Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 2017, 55, 3494-3505. DOI: 10.1002/pola.20170389

Zheng Wang, Yong Li, Qing-bin Liu, Gregory A. Solan, Yanping Ma, Wen-Hua Sun, Direct Hydrogenation of a Broad Range of Amides under Base-free Conditions using an Efficient and Selective PNN-Ru(II) catalyst, ChemCatChem, 2017, 9, 4275-4281. doi: org/10.1002/cctc.201700952

Zheng Wang, Qingbin Liu, Gregory A. Solan, Wen-Hua Sun, Recent advances in Ni-mediated ethylene chain growth: Nimine-donor ligand effects on catalytic activity, thermal stability and oligo-/polymer structure, Coordination Chemistry Reviews,  2017, 350, 68-83. DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2017.06.003

Hongyi Suo, Youfu Zhang,Zhifeng Ma, Wenhong Yang, Zygmunt Flisak, Xiang Hao, Xinquan Hu, Wen-Hua Sun,  2-Chloro/phenyl-7-arylimino-6,6-dimethylcyclopenta[b]pyridylnickel chlorides: Synthesis, characterization and ethylene oligomerization, Catal. Commun. 2017, 102, 26-30. DOI: 10.1016/j.catcom.2017.08.021

Yanning Zeng, Qaiser Mahmood Tongling Liang and Wen-Hua Sun, Judiciously balancing steric and electronic influences on 2,3-diiminobutane-based Pd(II) complexes in nourishing polyethylene properties, Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 2017, 55, 3214-3222.  DOI:10.1002/pola.28663

Wenhong Yang, Jun Yi, Zhifeng Ma, Wen-Hua Sun, 2D-QSAR modeling on the catalytic activities of 2-azacyclyl-6-aryliminopyridylmetal precatalysts in Ethylene Oligomerization, Catalysis Communication, 2017, 101， 40-43. DOI: 10.1016/j.catcom.2017.07.018

Shi-Fang Yuan, Ting Duan, Lijing Wang, Xuehong Wei, Xinxin Wang, Wen-Hua Sun, Oxo-bridged Azaallylzirconium Complexes: Synthesis, Characterization and Ethylene Polymerization Behavior, Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2017, 466, 497-501. DOI: org/10.1016/j.ica.2017.07.017

Randi Zhang, Zheng Wang, Zygmunt Flisak, Xiang Hao, Qingbin Liu, and Wen-Hua Sun, Achieving branched polyethylene waxes by aryliminocycloocta[b]pyridylnickel precatalysts: Synthesis, characterization and ethylene polymerization, Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 2017, 55, 2601-2610. DOI: 10.1002/pola.28653

Qiurui Zhang,Wenjuan Zhang, Natesan Mannangatti Rajendran,Tongling Liang, and Wen-Hua Sun, Thermo-enhanced ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactone: The synthesis, characterization and catalytic behavior of aluminum hydroquinolin-8-olates, Dalton Transations. 2017,46, 7833 – 7843. DOI: 10.1039/C7DT01720K

Natesan Mannangatti Rajendran, Yanxia Xi, Wenjuan Zhang, yang Sun and Wen-Hua Sun, Lithium quinolyl-amidinates efficiently promoting ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactone: Synthesis and ⁷Li NMR studies, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2017, 2653–2660.  DOI: 10.1002/ejic.20170013

Chuanbing Huang, Shizhen Du, Gregory A. Solan, Yang Sun and Wen-Hua Sun, From Polyethylene Waxes to HDPE Using a α,α'-Bis(arylimino)- 2,3:5,6-bis(pentamethylene)pyridyl-Chromium(III) Chloride Pre-catalyst in Ethylene Polymerisation, Dalton Transations. 2017,46, 6948 – 6957. DOI: 10.1039/C7DT01077J

Qaiser Mahmood, Yanning Zeng, Xinxin Wang, Yang Sun and Wen-Hua Sun, Advancing polyethylene properties by incorporating –NO2 moiety in 1,2-bis(arylimino)acenaphthylylnickel precatalysts: Synthesis, characterization and ethylene polymerization, Dalton Transations, 2017, 46, 6934 – 6947. DOI: 10.1039/C7DT01295K 

Houbo Zhou,Shuangshuang Wang,Huahua Huang,Zhiyong Li,Christopher M. Plummer,Shaoli Wang, Wen-Hua Sun,Yongming Chen, Direct Amination of Polyethylene by Metal-Free Reaction, Macromolecules, 2017, 50, 3510−3515.  DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b02572

Xinxin Wang, Linlin Fan, Yanping Ma, Cun-Yue Guo, Gregory A. Solan, Yang Sun and Wen-Hua Sun, Elastomeric polyethylenes accessible via ethylene homo-polymerization using an unsymmetrical α-diimino-nickel catalyst, Polymer Chemistry, 2017,  8,  2785 - 2795. DOI: 10.1039/C7PY00434F

Yanning Zeng, Qaiser Mahmood, Tongling Liang and Wen-Hua Sun, (Co-)Polymerization of Methylacrylate with NBE/1-hexene by (8-arylimino-5,6,7-trihydroquinolyl)(methyl)palladium chlorides: Approaching mechanism and the polymeric microstructures, New Journal of Chemistry, 2017, 41, 3653-3660.  DOI: 10.1039/C6NJ04019E 

Chuanbing Huang, Yanning Zeng, Zygmunt Flisak, Zhijuan Zhao, Tongling Liang, and Wen-Hua Sun, Tailoring polymers through interplay of ligands within precatalysts: 8-(Nitro/benzhydryl-arylimino)-7,7-dimethyl-5,6-dihydroquinolylnickel halides in ethylene polymerization, Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 2017, 55, 2071–2083. DOI: 10.1002/pola.28595.

 Yanjun Chen, Shizhen Du, Chuanbing Huang, Gregory A. Solan, Xiang Hao and Wen-Hua Sun, Balancing High Thermal Stability with High Activity in Diaryliminoacenaphthene-Nickel(II) Catalysts for Ethylene Polymerization, Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 2017, 55, DOI: 10.1002/pola.28562  (Cover paper)

Wenhong Yang, Zhifeng Ma, Jun Yi, Wen-Hua Sun, Quantitative Structure-Thermostability Relationship of Late Transition Metal Catalysts in Ethylene Oligo/Polymerization, Catalysts, 2017, 7, 120; doi:10.3390/catal7040120.

Zheng Wang, Bing Pan,Qingbin Liu, Erlin Yue, Gregory A. Solan, Yanping Ma, andWen-Hua Sun, Efficient Acceptorless Dehydrogenation of Secondary Alcohols to Ketones mediated by a PNN-Ru(II) Catalyst, Catalysis Science & Technology, 2017, 7, 1654 – 1661. DOI: 10.1039/C7CY00342K

Hongyi Suo, Tong Zhao, Yiqing Wang, Qing Ban and Wen-Hua Sun, N-(2,2-Dimethyl-1-(quinolin-2-yl)propylidene) arylaminonickel complexes and their ethylene oligomerization, Molecules, 2017, 22, 630.  doi:10.3390/molecules22040630

Nina V. Semikolenova, Wen-Hua Sun, Igor E. Soshnikov, Mikhail A. Matsko, Olga V.Kolesova, Vladimir A. Zakharov, and Konstantin P. Bryliakov, The Origin of ‘Multisite-like' Ethylene Polymerization Behavior of Single-SiteNon-Symmetrical Bis(imino)pyridine Iron(II) Complex in the Presence ofMMAO, ACS Catal. 2017, 7,2868−2877.  DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.7b00486

Shaofeng Liu, Jie Zhang, Weiwei Zuo, Wenjuan Zhang, Wen-Hua Sun, Hongqi Ye, Zhibo Li, Synthesis of Aluminum Complexes Bearing 8-Anilide-5,6,7-trihydroquinoline Ligands: Highly Active Catalyst Precursors for Ring-opening Polymerization of Cyclic Esters, Polymers, 2017, 9(3), 83; doi:10.3390/polym9030083

Yanning Zeng, Qaiser Mahmood, Xiang Hao,Wen-Hua Sun, Synthesis and ethylene polymerization of 8-(fluorenylarylimino)-5,6,7-trihydroquinolylnickel chlorides: Tailoring polyethylenes by adjusting fluorenyl position and adduct Et₂Zn, Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 2017, 55, 1910-1919. DOI: 10.1002/pola.28563

Zheng Wang,Xiangyang Chen, Bo Liu, Qing-bin Liu, Gregory A. Solan, Xinzheng Yang, and Wen-Hua Sun, Cooperative Interplay between a Flexible PNN-Ru(II) Complex and a NaBH₄ Additive in the Efficient Catalytic Hydrogenation of Esters, Catalysis Science & Technology, 2017, 7, 1297 – 1304. DOI: 10.1039/C6CY02413K

Yi Lai, Zhijian Zong, Yujie Tang, Weimin Mo, Nan Sun, Baoxiang Hu, Zhenlu Shen, Liqun Jin, Wen-hua Sun, and Xinquan Hu, Highly bulky and stable geometry-constrained iminopyridines: Synthesis, structure and application in Pd-catalyzed Suzuki coupling of aryl chlorides, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2017, 13, 213–221

Youfu Zhang, Chuanbing Huang, Xinxin Wang, Qaiser Mahmood, Xiang Hao, Xinquan Hu, Cun-Yue Guo, Gregory A. Solan, and Wen-Hua Sun, Highly Branched Unsaturated Polyethylenes Achievable Using Strained Imino-cyclopenta[b]pyridyl- nickel Precatalysts, Polymer Chemistry, 2017, 8, 995 - 1005. DOI: 10.1039/C6PY02089E  (Back Cover) 

Zhifeng Ma, Wenhong Yang, and Wen-Hua Sun, Recent Progress on Transition Metal (Fe, Co, Ni, Ti and V) Complex Catalysts in Olefin Polymerization with High Thermal Stability, Chin. J. Chem., 2017, 35, 531-540. DOI: 10.1002/cjoc.201600720

Weizhen Zhao, Erlin Yue, Xinxin Wang, Wenhong Yang, Yan Chen, Xiang Hao, Xiaoping Cao, Wen-Hua Sun, Activity and stability spontaneously enhanced toward ethylene polymerization by employing 2-(1-(2,4-dibenzhydrylnaphthylimino) ethyl)-6-(1-(arylimino)ethyl)pyridyliron(II) dichlorides, Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 2017, 55, 988–996. DOI: 10.1002/pola.20160706

Youfu Zhang, Hongyi Suo, Fang Huang, Tongling Liang, Xinquan Hu, Wen-Hua Sun, Thermo-stable 2-(Arylimino)benzylidene-9-arylimino-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro cyclohepta[b]pyridyliron(II) Precatalysts toward Ethylene Polymerization and Highly Linear Polyethylenes, Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 2017, 55, 830–842. DOI: 10.1002/pola.20160651