The 1st meeting of the 7th academic committee & academic symposium of the State Key Laboratory of
Elemento-organic Chemistry was held in Tianjin during November 14th-16th,
2014. The conference welcomed more then 400 attendees, including 15 members of the
SKLEOC academic committee, full-time research fellows and guest research
fellows of SKLEOC, as well as other faculties and students of the SKLEOC. On
behalf of Nankai University, Jingjun Xu, vice president of Nankai University,
extended his gratitude to members of SKLEOC Academic Committee for their
participation in this meeting. He also presented the letter of appointment to
new members of the academic committee. President Xu spoke highly of the
scientific achievements of the SKLEOC in the past five years under the
leadership of the previous director Prof. Qilin Zhou. Prof. Chunming Cui, current
director of the SKLEOC, gave an account of SKLEOC’s research accomplishments in
the previous year. As specially invited speakers, Prof. Masahiro Murakami from Kyoto
University gave a lecture on “reactions set up in Sequence open new, save lots”,
Prof. Matthias Driess from Berlin Institute of Technology reported “a silicon-based
new generation of steering ligands in catalysis”, Prof. Jinpei Cheng from
Nankai University spoke on “towards rational development of ionic liquid chemistry:
the absolute equilibrium acidity scales”, and Prof. Xiaoming Feng from Sichuan
University delivered a speech named “asymmetric catalytic reactions using chiral
N,N’-dioxide–metal complexes”. In addition to these speakers, Prof. Wenxiong
Zhang of Peking University and Prof. Xuefeng Jiang of East China Normal
University discussed their respective works as representatives of guest
research fellows of the SKLEOC, whereas Prof. Pingping Tang (also and Professor
Zhijin Fan introduced their research work on behalf of full-time faculty
members of the SKLEOC.
At the SKLEOC 1st meeting of the 7th academic committee,
members of the committee members deliberated SKLEOC open fund application of
2014 and decided to sponsor 26 research topics by voting. The meeting focused afterwards
focused on the future developments of the SKLEOC.
