15. Mengnan Wu,† Ling Xie,† Wen He,† Yuhang Yao,* Juanjuan Yang, Huifang Huang, Zhitong Chen, Xucong Lin, Zhaowei Chen,* and Huanghao Yang*, Artificial MetalloDNAzymes with High-Density, Near-Atomic Precision Organization of Metal Cofactors for Enhanced Bioorthogonal Catalysis, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2026, accepted.
14. Dilan Ouyang, Rongjin Yang,
Yuhang Yao
,* Fang Jiang, Sijie Song, Yuheng Yang, Edikan A. Ogunnaike, Zhitong Chen, Zhaowei Chen,* and Huanghao Yang*, In Situ PROTAC Synthesis Enabled by Pathologically Activated Bioorthogonal Catalysis for Precision Cancer Therapy,
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, 2025,
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, 39987-39998.
13. Yuheng Guo, Fang Jiang, Xiaohui Zhu, Wen He, Sijie Song, Xuecen Shou, Mengnan Wu, Ting Wu, Tingjing Huang, Zhi Ye, Xuyang Wang, Zhitong Chen, Yu He*, Yuhang Yao*, Zhaowei Chen*, Huanghao Yang, An enzyme-gated bioorthogonal catalytic nanoreactor for tumor-specific prodrug activation, Nano Res., 2025, 18, 94907134.
12. Yuhang Yao,† Jia-Hui Wu,† Guiyu Liu,† Ruijing Zhang, Zi-Shu Yang, Song Gao, Tai-Chu Lau* and Jun-Long Zhang*, A Bio-Inspired Bimetallic Fe-M Catalyst for Electro- and Photochemical CO2 Reduction,ChemCatChem, 2024, e202301705.
11. Yuhang Yao,† Jiyun Hu,† Guiyu Liu,† Yin-Shan Meng, Song Gao and Jun-Long Zhang*, Fluoride counterion boosts gold(I) catalysis: case studies for hydrodefluorination and CO2 hydrosilylation, Inorg. Chem. Front., 2023, 10, 5573-5583. (Cover).
10. Yuhang Yao,† Guangliu Ran,† Chun-Liang Hou,† Ruijing Zhang, Daniel N. Mangel, Zi-Shu Yang, Mengliang Zhu, Wenkai Zhang,* Jing Zhang,* Jonathan L. Sessler,* Song Gao and Jun-Long Zhang*, Nonaromatic organonickel(II) phototheranostics, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144, 7346-7356.
9. Yuhang Yao, Jun-Long Zhang*, Porpholactone chemistry: regioisomeric effect of β-substituents and biological applications of rare earth complexes, J. Chin. Rare. Earth. Soc., 2021, 39, 456-468.
8. Yuhang Yao, Chun-Liang Hou, Zi-Shu Yang, Guangliu Ran, Lei Kang, Cuicui Li, Wenkai Zhang,* Jing Zhang* and Jun-Long Zhang*, Unusual near infrared (NIR) fluorescent palladium(II) macrocyclic complexes containing M–C bonds with bioimaging capability, Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 10170-10178.
7. Yuhang Yao, Hao-Yan Yin, Yingying Ning, Jian Wang, Yin-Shan Meng, Xinyue Huang, Wenkai Zhang, Lei Kang, and Jun-Long Zhang*, Strong fluorescent lanthanide salen complexes: photophysical properties, excited-state dynamics, and bioimaging, Inorg. Chem., 2019, 58, 1806-1814 (Cover).
6. Yuhang Yao,† Yu Rao,† Yiwei Liu, Liang Jiang, Jin Xiong, Ying-Jie Fan, Zhen Shen,* Jonathan L. Sessler* and Jun-Long Zhang*, Aromaticity versus regioisomeric effect of β-substituents in porphyrinoids, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019,21, 10152-10162.
5. Yuhang Yao, Xuedan Song, Jieshan Qiu, Ce Hao*, Interaction between formaldehyde and luminescent MOFs [Zn(NH2bdc)(bix)]n in the electronic excited state, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2014, 158, 143-151.
4. Chun-Liang Hou,† Yuhang Yao,† Da Wang, Jing Zhang,* Jun-Long Zhang*, Orthogonally arranged tripyrrin-BODIPY conjugates with an “edge to plane” mode, Org. Chem. Front., 2019, 6, 2266–2274.
3. Jun-Fei Wang,† Yuhang Yao,† Yingying Ning, Yin-Shan Meng, Chun-Liang Hou, Jing Zhang* and Jun-Long Zhang*, The design of rigid cyclic tripyrrins: the importance of intermolecular interactions on aggregation and luminescence, Org. Chem. Front., 2018, 5, 1877–1885 (Cover).
2. Hang Zhang,† Wen-Chuan Xie,† Yuhang Yao,† Zi-Yi Tang, Wen-Xiu Ni, BingWu Wang, Song Gao, Jonathan L. Sessler* and Jun-Long Zhang*, Electrostatic Force-Enabled Microneedle Patches that Exploit Photoredox Catalysis for Transdermal Phototherapy, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2024, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c18211.
1. Mengliang Zhu,† Hang Zhang,† Yuhang Yao,† Mingpu Wen, Guangliu Ran, Yi Yu, Ruijing Zhang, Xing-Jie Liang, Jing Zhang, Wenkai Zhang* and Jun-Long Zhang*, More is different: progressive β-thiolation induced-porphyrin aggregation switches singlet oxygen photosensitization, Chem. Sci., 2024, 15, 13841–13852.