Date of employment: Aug. 1, 2024

Specialty:

Inorganic Chemistry

Metal-organic framework

Polymer Chemistry

TEL (O): (886-5) 272-0411 ext. 66405

Email: chyetsai@ccu.edu.tw

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B.S. in Chemistry, Chung Yuan Christian University, 2011

Ph. D. in Chemistry, National Chung Hsing University, 2016

Visiting Researcher, University of South Florida, 2016

Postdoc Fellow, National Chung Hsing University, 2017

Postdoc Fellow, Chung Yuan Christian University, 2018

Assistant Professor, Chinese Culture University, 2018.08-2022.01

Associate Professor, Chinese Culture University, 2022.02-2024.07

Assistant Professor, National Chung Cheng University, 2024.08-

Research Interests

Synthesis of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs)

Design and Synthesis of Homogeneous Catalysts

Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysts for Ring-Opening
(Co)Polymerization and CO 2 Reactions

• Chen-Yen Tsai*, Chin-Hung Liao, Mei-Ling Lin, and Chia-Her Lin "Cordierite@MOFs with Easy Recovery in CO2 Cycloaddition" Inorg. Chem., 2023,62,14158−14162.
• Mei-Ling Lin and Chen-Yen Tsai* "High-Activity and High-Selectivity Air-Stable Nickel and Copper Complexes for Copolymerization of Epoxides with Anhydrides" Inorg. Chem., 2023, 62, 12298−12307.
• Chen-Yen Tsai*, Min-Chia Huang, Mei-Ling Lin, Yu-Chia Su, and Chu-Chieh Lin* “Well-Defined and Highly Effective Nickel Catalysts Coordinated on Tridentate SNO Schiff-Base Derivatives for Alternating Copolymerization of Epoxides and Anhydrides” Inorg. Chem., 2022, 61, 19870-19881.
• Chen-Yen Tsai*, Yi-Hsuan Chen, Szetsen Lee, Chia-Her Lin, Wan-Ting Dai and Wan-Ling Liu, “Uniform Core-Shell Microspheres of SiO2@MOF for CO2 Cycloaddition Reactions” Inorg. Chem., 2022, 61, 2724-2732. (Selected as a supplementary cover of Inorganic Chemistry)
• Junyu Ren, Zheng Niu, Yingxiang Ye, Chen-Yen Tsai, Shixi Liu, Qingzhi Liu, Xianqiang Huang, Ayman Nafady and Shengqian Ma*, “Second-Sphere Interaction Promoted “Turn-on” Fluorescence for Selective Sensing of Organic Amines in a Tb(III)-based Macrocyclic Framework” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 23705–23712.
• Wan-Ting Dai, Chen-Yen Tsai*, Yu-Chia Su and Bao-Tsan Ko “Ionic cobalt complexes derived from an amine-bis(benzotriazole phenolate) ligand as bifunctional catalysts for copolymerization of epoxides and anhydrides” Polymer, 2021, 228, 123928.
• Yu-Chia Su, Chih-Hsiang Tsui, Chen-Yen Tsai and Bao-Tsan Ko* “Highly active bimetallic nickel catalysts for alternating copolymerization of carbon dioxide with epoxides” Polym. Chem., 2020, 11, 3225-3236.
• Chia-Jung Yua, Chen-Yu Li, Chen-Yen Tsai* and Bao-Tsan Ko* “Titanium, zirconium and hafnium complexes bearing amino-benzotriazole phenolate ligands as efficient catalysts for ring-opening polymerization of lactides” Inorg. Chem. Commun., 2019, 109, 107561.
• Yu-Chia Su, Chen-Yen Tsai, Li-Shin Huang, Chia-Her Lin and Bao-Tsan Ko* “Synthesis and characterization of di-nuclear bis(benzotriazole iminophenolate) cobalt complexes: catalysis for the copolymerization of carbon dioxide with epoxides. Dalton Trans., 2019, 48, 12239-12249.
• Fu-Yin Cheng, Chen-Yen Tsai*, Bor-Hunn Huang, Kuan-Yeh Lu, Chu-Chieh Lin* and Bao-Tsan Ko* “Mono- and dinuclear copper complexes coordinated on NNO-tridentate Schiff-base derivatives for copolymerization of cyclohexene oxide and cyclic anhydrides.” Dalton Trans., 2019, 48, 4667-4676.