由秦鑫主研的含铜亚硝酸还原酶的研究取得阶段性进展，发现了双质子耦合电子自旋交换传递机理，相应的成果发表于：
Xin Qin, Li Deng, Caihong Hu, Li Li and Xiaohua Chen* Copper-Containing Nitrite Reductase Employing Proton-Coupled Spin-Exchanged Electron-Transfer and Multi-Proton Synchronized Transfer to Reduce Nitrite Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23( 59), 14900–14910.
网址：http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.201703221/full
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