Time：2015.1.19 (Tuesday) 9:30-11:30 am
Location：Conference Room of Basic Energy Science Building
Lecturer：Prof. Chao-Jun Li
Department of Chemistry and FQRNT Center for Green Chemistry and Catalysis,
McGill University, Canada
Abstract:
The efficient making of new molecules is central to any new product in the pharmaceutical, materials science, microelectronics, energy and biotech industries. On the other hand, chemical manufacturing and chemical products have also affected us adversely from personal, local, national, and international scales. As a new philosophy over the last two decades, Green Chemistry through the 12 principles of green chemistry has emerged to develop the next generation of chemical science and technologies, as well as chemical products to meet such challenges in a proactive manner both environmentally and economically, ideally from readily available natural resources directly in a benign solvent. We have explored various unconventional chemical reactivities that can potentially simplify synthesis, decrease overall waste and maximize resource utilization. In this talk, we will discuss our recent development on this subject. Specifically, we explore new reactivities to simplify protection-deprotections, halogenation-dehalogenation as well as the possibility of chemical transformations beyond functionalization and defunctionalization in syntheses, and for solar enegy conversions. Many of these new reactions can also be used to functionalize biomass directly.
Introduction:
Position: E. B. Eddy Professor of Chemistry and Canada Research Chair, McGill University
Education: 1983 BSc, Zhengzhou University
1988 MSc, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1992 PhD, McGill University
1994 Postdoc, Stanford University
Awards: US Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (2001); Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow (2002); Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) (2007); Canadian Green Chemistry and Engineering Award (2010); Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2012)
Current research interests: Green chemistry for synthesis, such as Grignard-type reactions in water and cross-dehydrogenative-coupling (CDC) reactions
Contact: DNL0603 Zhang Xiaochen（9798）