Research Interest :

· Reductive Dehalogenation

· Reaction Mechanism Decipherment

· Environmental Remediation

· Biogeochemistry of Inorganics

Featured Funded Projects :

· Mechanisms Behind Nitrogen Fate in Water and Soil, National Program on Key Research Project of China (Grant No. 2022YFC3202202), PI, 600, 000 RMB, 2022-2026

· Mechanisms Underlying Microbial Reductive Debromination of Novel Chemicals and the Respective Controls, National Natural Science Funds of China (Grant No. 52270148), PI, 540,000 RMB, 2023-2026

· Essentials of Microbial Reductive Dehalogenation, State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control (Grant No. 22Z01ESPCW), PI, 150,000 RMB, 2023-2025

· Bioinspired Reductive Dehalogenation, Beijing Normal University (Grant No. 310432102), PI, 200,000 RMB, 2022-2023

Featured Publications :

· Zhang, S.; Li, Y.; Wang, S.* Microbial Reductive Dechlorination of Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-Dioxins: Pathways and Features Unravelled via Electron Density. J. Hazard. Mat. 2022. 127673.

· Zhang, S.;* Adrian, L.; Schüürmann, G.* Outer-Sphere Electron Transfer Does Not Underpin B12-Dependent Olefinic Reductive Dehalogenation in Anaerobes. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2021. 23, 27520-27524.

· Zhang, S.;* Adrian, L.; Schüürmann, G.* Dehalococcoides-Mediated B12-Dependent Reductive Dehalogenation of Aromatics Does Not Proceed through Outer-Sphere Electron Transfer. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2020. 54, 15751-15758.

· Zhang, S.; Adrian, L.; Schüürmann, G.* Interaction Mode and Regioselectivity in Vitamin B12-Dependent Dehalogenation of Aryl Halides by Dehalococcoides mccartyi Strain CBDB1. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2018, 52, 1834-1843.

· Zhang, S.; Wondrousch, D.; Cooper, M.; Zinder, S. H.; Schüürmann, G.;* Adrian, L.* Anaerobic Dehalogenation of Chloroanilines by Dehalococcoides mccartyi Strain CBDB1 and Dehalobacter Strain 14DCB1 via Different Pathways as Related to Molecular Electronic Structure. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2017, 51, 3714–3724.

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