Education:
2015-present
Boston College
Ph.D Candidate in Chemistry
Advisor: Prof. Jeffery A. Byers
2013-2015
National University of Singapore
Master of Science in Chemistry
Advisors: Prof. T. S. Andy Hor, Dr. Zhongxing Zhang
2010-2013
Soochow University
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry
Current Research:
Controlled polymerization with electrochemical methods
Biography:
Miao is originally from Anhui, China. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Soochow University in 2013 and a Master’s degree in Chemistry from National University of Singapore in 2015. Her previous research includes titanium oxo clusters synthesis, mechanistic studies of transition metal catalysis with DFT calculations, and developing a supramolecular host-guest catalysis system.
Publications:
1. Qi M, Dong Q, Wang D, et al. Electrochemically switchable ring-opening polymerization of lactide and cyclohexene oxide[J]. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018, 140(17), 5686-5690. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b02171
2. M. Qi, P. Z. Tan, F. Xue, H. S. Malhi, Z. X. Zhang, D. J. Young, T. S. A. Hor, SupramolecularInclusion Complex System as Recyclable Catalyst for Aqueous Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling, RSC. Adv. 2015, 5, 3590−3596
3. K. P. Hou, M. Qi，X. G. Bao, H. F. Schaefer, Mechanistic Investigations of the AuCl3-CatalyzedNitrene Insertion into an Aromatic C-H Bond of Mesitylene, J. Org. Chem, 2015, 80(11), 5795–5803
4. Y. Y. Wu, X. W. Lu, M. Qi, H. C. Su, X. W. Zhao, Q. Y. Zhu, and J. Dai, Titanium–Oxo Cluster with9-Anthracenecarboxylate Antennae: A Fluorescent and Photocurrent Transfer Material, Inorg. Chem., 2014, 53, 7233−724
Contact:
qimi@bc.edu