1. Sheng-Qing Xia, Svilen Bobev*. “Combined Experimental and Density Functional Theory Studies on the Crystal Structures and Magnetic Properties of Mg(Mg1–xMnx)2Sb2 (x ≈ 0.25) and BaMn2Sb2” European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (2008), 27, 4262–4269.
2. Bayrammurad Saparov, Sheng-Qing Xia, Svilen Bobev*. “Synthesis, Structure, and Bonding of the Zintl Phase Ba3Cd2Sb4”, Inorganic Chemistry (2008), 47, 11237–11244.
3. Sheng-Qing Xia, Svilen Bobev*. “Gallium substitutions as a means to stabilize alkaline-earth and rare-earth metal pnictides with the cubic Th3P4 type: Synthesis and structure of A7Ga2Sb6 (Sr, Ba, Eu)”, Journal of Solid State Chemistry (2008), 181, 1909-1914.
4. Sheng-Qing Xia, Svilen Bobev*. “Are Ba11Cd6Sb12 and Sr11Cd6Sb12 Zintl Phases or Not? A Density-Function Theory Study” Journal of Computational Chemistry (2008), 29, 2125-2133.
5. Sheng-Qing Xia, Svilen Bobev*. “Zintl Phase Variations Through Cation Selection. Synthesis and Structure of A21Cd4Pn18 (A = Eu, Sr, Ba; Pn = Sb, Bi)”, Inorganic Chemistry (2008), 47, 1919-1921.
6. Sheng-Qing Xia, Svilen Bobev*. “Interplay between Size and Electronic Effects in Determining the Homogeneity Range of the A9Zn4+xPn9 and A9Cd4+xPn9 Phases (0 x 0.5), A = Ca, Sr, Yb, Eu; Pn = Sb, Bi”, Journal of the American Chemical Society (2007), 129, 10011-10018.
7. Sheng-Qing Xia, Svilen Bobev*. “Cation-anion Interactions as Structure Directing Factors: Structure and Bonding of Ca2CdSb2 and Yb2CdSb2”, Journal of the American Chemical Society (2007), 129, 4049-4057.
8. Sheng-Qing Xia, Svilen Bobev* “Diverse Polyanions Based on MnBi4 and MnSb4 Tetrahedra: Polymorphism, Structure, and Bonding in Ca21Mn4Bi18 and Ca21Mn4Sb18”, Inorganic Chemistry (2007), 46, 874-883.
9. Sheng-Qing Xia*, Svilen Bobev. “Synthesis, Structural Characterization, Electronic Structure and Magnetic Properties of the New Zintl Phase Eu10Cd6Bi12”, Chemistry - An Asian Journal (2007), 2, 619-624.
10. Sheng-Qing Xia, Svilen Bobev*. “On the crystal structure of the quasicrystalline approximant YbCd6 at low temperature”, Intermetallics (2007), 15, 550-556.
11. Sheng-Qing Xia, Svilen Bobev*. “On the Existence of Ca2Bi – Crystal and Electronic Structure of Ca4Bi2O”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds (2007), 427, 67-72.
12. Sheng-Qing Xia, Jonathan Hullmanna, Svilen Bobev*, Arif Ozbay,Edmund R. Nowak, Veronika Fritsch. “Synthesis, crystal structures, magnetic and electric transport properties of Eu11InSb9 and Yb11InSb9”, Journal of Solid State Chemistry (2007), 180, 2088-2094.
13. Jonathan Hullmanna, Sheng-Qing Xia, Svilen Bobev*. “Sr11InSb9 grown from molten In” Acta Crystallographica Section E -Structure Reports Online 63: I178, Jan 2007.
14. Sheng-Qing Xia, Svilen Bobev*. “Ba11Cd8Bi14: Bismuth Zigzag Chains in a Ternary Alkaline-earth Transition-Metal Zintl Phase”, Inorganic Chemistry (2006), 45, 7126-7132.
15. Sheng-Qing Xia, Svilen Bobev*. “Temperature-dependent crystallographic studies and electronic structure of Ba2Cd3Bi4”, Journal of Solid State Chemistry (2006), 179, 3371-3377.
16. Sheng-Qing Xia, Paul King, Svilen Bobev*. “Mg and Zn disorder in Mg1.59(1)Zn1.41(1)Sb2”, Acta Crystallographica Section E-Structure Reports Online 62: I184-I186 Part 9, Sep 2006.
17. Sheng-Qing Xia, Svilen Bobev*. “YbMn6Sn6”, Acta Crystallographica Section E -Structure Reports Online 62: I7-I9 Part 1, Jan 2006.
18. Sheng-Qing Xia, Svilen Bobev*. “SmAl2.64(4)Ge0.36(4), with the hexagonal Ni3Sn structure type”, Acta Crystallographica Section E-Structure Reports Online 62: I10-I12 Part 1, Jan 2006.
19. Zhong-Ming Sun, Sheng-Qing Xia, Yi-Zhi Huang, Li-Ming Wu, Jiang-Gao Mao*. “Ca6Cu2Sn7: Novel 3D Open Framework with Unusual Sn4 Tetramers”, Inorganic Chemistry (2005), 44, 9244-9246.
20. Ling Chen, Sheng-Qing Xia, John D. Corbett*. “Metal-rich chalcogenides. synthesis, structure, and bonding of the layered Lu11Te4. Comparison with the similar Sc8Te3 and Ti11Se4”, Inorganic Chemistry (2005), 44, 3057-3062.
21. Ya-Min Li, Sheng-Qing Xia, Jian-Jun Zhang, Xin-Tao Wu*, Long-Sheng Wang, Wen-Xin Du, Sheng-Min Hu. “Syntheses, Crystal Structures and Properties of Two New W-Ag 1D Chain Complexes: [W2Ag2S8∙Ca(DMF)6]n and [WAgS4∙Na(DMF)3]n”, Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry (2005), 24, 716-722.