1. Xiao-Yu Zhang, Hao-Liang Li, Bo Xiang, Xiang-Wei Liu, Shu Zhang*, Yixian Wu*. Imidazolidin-2-iminato vanadium complexes for the synthesis of ethylene/propylene/5-ethylidene-2-norbornene (ENB) terpolymers with high ENB incorporation and ultra-high molecular weight. Polymer Chemistry, 2024, 12, 15 (21), 2148-2156.
2. Yi-Cong Wang, Hui Zha, Pei-Yi Cheng, Shu Zhang*, Xiang-Wei Liu, Yixian Wu*. Vanadium(V) Complexes Containing Unsymmetrical N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands: Highly Efficient Synthesis and Catalytic Behavior towards Ethylene/Propylene Copolymerization. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2024,42(1), 84-94.
3. Shu Zhang, Na Wu, and Yixian Wu*.. Highly Cis-1,4 Selective Polymerization of Conjugated Dienes Catalyzed by N-heterocyclic Carbene-ligated Neodymium Complexes. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2020, 38, 1305-1312.
4. Dan-Dan Pan, Ke-Xin Fan, Shu Zhang* and Yixian Wu*.. Syndiospecific Polymerization of Styrene Catalyzed by Half-titanocenes Containing Monodentate Anionic Nitrogen Ligands. Chin. J. Chem. 2021, 39, 2815-2822.
5. Yi-Cong Wang,# Pei-Yi Cheng,# Zhi-Qian Zhang, Ke-Xin Fan, Rui-Qi Lu, Shu Zhang* and Yixian Wu*. Highly Efficient Terpolymerization of Ethylene/Propylene/ENB with Half-Titanocene Cayalytic System. Polymer Chemistry, 2021, 12, 6417-6425
6. Shu Zhang, Na Wu, and Yixian Wu*. Highly Cis-1,4 Selective Polymerization of Conjugated Dienes Catalyzed by N-heterocyclic Carbene-ligated Neodymium Complexes. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2020, 38, 1305-1312.
7. Xiaoxian Xue, Li Tian, Song Hong, Shu Zhang*, Yixian Wu*. Effects of Composition and Sequence of Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate Copolymers on Their Alcoholysis and Oxygen Barrier Property of Alcoholyzed Copolymers, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2019, 58, 4125−4136.
8. Shu Zhang, Wen-Chao Zhang, Dan-Dan Shang, Yixian Wu*. Synthesis of ultra-high molecular weight ethylene-propylene copolymer via quasi-living copolymerization with N-heterocyclic carbene ligated vanadium complexes. J. Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem., 2019, 57, 553-561.
9. Zhi-Qian Zhang, Jun-Teng Qu, Shu Zhang*, Qiu-Ping Miao, Yi-Xian Wu*, Ethylene/propylene copolymerization catalyzed by half-titanocenes containing monodentate anionic nitrogen ligands: effect of ligands on catalytic behaviour and structure of copolymer, Polym. Chem., 2018,9,48-59.
10. Shu Zhang#, Wenjuan Zhang#, Kotohiro Nomura*, Synthesis and Reaction Chemistry of Alkylidene Complexes With Titanium, Zirconium, Vanadium, and Niobium: Effective Catalysts for Olefin Metathesis Polymerization and Other Organic Transformations. Adv. Organomet. Chem., 2017, 68, 93-136.
11. Shu Zhang,* Wenchao Zhang, Dandan Shang, Zhiqian Zhang and Yixian Wu*, Ethylene/propylene copolymerization catalyzed by vanadium complexes containing N-heterocyclic carbenes, Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 15264-15270.
12. Shu Zhang, Matthias Tamm, Kotohiro Nomura*. 1,2-C-H Activation of Benzene Promoted by (Arylimido)-vanadium(V)-Alkylidene Complexes: Isolation of the Alkylidene, Benzyne Complexes.Organometallics, 2011, 30, 2712-2720.
13. Kotohiro Nomura*, Shu Zhang. Design of new generation vanadium complex catalysts for precise olefin polymerization.Chem. Rev., 2011, 111, 2342-2362.
14. Shu Zhang, Kotohiro Nomura*. Highly efficient dimerization of ethylene by (imido)vanadium complexes containing ((2-anilidomethyl)pyridine ligands: notable ligand effect toward activity and selectivity. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 132, 4960-4965.
15. Shu Zhang, Wen-Hua Sun*, XiangHao, Tianpengfei Xiao. Ferrous and cobaltous chlorides bearing 2,8-bis(imino)quinolines: highly active catalysts for ethylene polymerization at high temperature. Organometallics, 2010, 29,1168-1173.