Prof. LI Chaojun from McGill University, Canada, visited Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter (FJIRSM) on December 10th, 2018. During his stay at FJIRSM, Prof. LI delivered a speech entitled “Exploration of New Reactivities for Synthetic Efficiency”, and carried out detailed discussion with the research staff at FJIRSM.

Prof. LI Chaojun received his B.Sc. at Zhengzhou University (1983), MS at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing (1988) and Ph.D. (with honors) at McGill University (1992) under the direction of T. H. Chan and D. N. Harpp. He spent 1992-94 as a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow with Barry M. Trost at Stanford University (US), and was an Assistant Professor (1994), Associate Professor (1998) and Full Professor (2000) at Tulane University (US). His current research efforts are to develop Green Chemistry for organic synthesis based upon innovative and fundamentally new chemical reactions that will defy conventional reactivities and possess high “atom-efficiency”. He has published >400 peer-reviewed articles, 6 books, and has given ca 400 plenary/keynote/invited lectures. His research has been cited widely in the literature (> 39,000 times, h-index=96) and was featured as one of the top 20 Canadian Chemistry Discoveries in the past century by Canadian Chemical News in 2007.