Zhenhua Chen

Associate professor, Xiamen University

He received his Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry from Xiamen University with Prof. Wei Wu. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Mark R. Hoffmann and Prof. Yirong Mo. His research fields focus on the methodology and algorithm in quantum chemistry and the applications in electron transfer and energy transfer reaction mechanism.

Research Interests

• Ab initio electronic-structure quantum chemistry method
• algorithm and program and their applications in electron transfer
• energy transfer reactions

Selected Publications

• Z. Chen*, Graphical Representation of Hückel Molecular Orbitals, J. Chem. Educ. 2020, 97, 2, 448-456.
• M. Ren, B. Ma, Z. Chen* and W. Wu, Two-Dimensional Analysis of the Diabatic Transition of a General Vectorial Physical Observable Based on Adiabatic-to-Diabatic Transformation, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2019, 10, 5868-5872.
• X. Lin, X. Liu, F. Ying, Z. Chen* and W. Wu*, Explicit construction of diabatic state and its application to the direct evaluation of electronic coupling, J. Chem. Phys. 2018, 149, 044112.
• Zhenhua Chen, Xun Chen and Wei Wu*, Nonorthogonal Orbital Based N-body Reduced Density Matrices And Their Applications To Valence Bond Theory I: Hamiltonian Matrix Elements Between Internally Contracted Excited Valence Bond Wave Functions, J. Chem. Phys. 2013, 138, 164119.
• Zhenhua Chen and Mark R. Hoffmann*, Orbitally Invariant Internally Contracted Multireference Unitary Coupled Cluster Theory and Its Perturbative Approximation: Theory and Test Calculations of Second Order Approximation, J. Chem. Phys. 2012, 137, 014108.