The 4th meeting of the 6th academic committee
& academic symposium of the State Key Laboratory of Elemento-organic
Chemistry was held in Tianjin during Oct. 25th-27th. More
than 400 attendants took part in the conference, including special guests Prof.
Jinpei Cheng, vice chairman of the Education, Science, Culture and Health
Committee of the National People's Congress; Wenping Liang, deputy director of
the Department of Chemical Sciences of National Natural Science Foundation of
China; Professor Canping Du of the Second Office of the Department of Chemical
Sciences of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 13 members of the SKLEOC
academic committee, full-time faculty members and guest research fellows of the
SKLEOC, as well as other faculties and students of the SKLEOC. On behalf of
Nankai University, Jingjun Xu, vice president of Nankai University gave opening
remarks and extended his welcome to all governors and members of the SKLEOC
Academic Committee for their participation in the meeting. Vice Director
Wenping Liang delivered closing remarks and expressed congratulations on
success this meeting. Prof. Qilin Zhou,
director of the SKLEOC, gave an account of the institute’s scientific
accomplishments in the previous year. As specially invited speakers for the
meeting, Professor Guy Bertrand from University of California made a lecture titled
“stable carbenes and related species: powerful tools in organic, inorganic and organometallic
chemistry”, Professor Matthias Beller from University of Rostock of delivered a
speech entitled “Catalysis: An Enabling Technology for Practical &
Sustainable Chemistry”, and Professor Zhenfeng Xi of Peking University reported
on “semibullvalene and 2, 6-diazasemibullvalene: studies on homoaromatic molecules”.
In addition to the three invited speakers, several full-time research fellows
and guest research fellows of the SKLEOC were also given the opportunity to
discuss their science with the audience.
At the SKLEOC 4th meeting of 6th academic committee,
members of the committee deliberated the SKLEOC open fund application of 2013,
and decided to sponsor 23 research topics by voting. This meeting afterwards discussed
relevant issues on the future developments of the SKLEOC, in particularly the upcoming
state assessment.
