On June 17, the Frontiers of Elemento-Organic Chemistry mini international symposium, hosted by the State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, was successfully held in the conference room 422 of the 6th academic building both online and offline. It has attracted nearly 200 faculty and students on or off the campus. The theme of the symposium was: Organosilicon Chemistry. The conference was chaired by Prof. Dongbing Zhao。
Three internationally renowned experts were invited to the symposium, including Professor Donald Watson from the University of Delaware, Professor Martin Oestreich from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, and Professor Alejandro Perez-Luna from the Sorbonne, France, to give keynote presentations. After each presentation, the participating teachers and students had a full communication and interaction with the experts. The experts answered every question patiently and in detail, leading to strong academic atmosphere.
It is reported that the Frontiers of Elemento-Organic Chemistry Mini International Symposium is a series of academic activities of the Key Laboratory. Each issue designates a theme and invites internationally renowned experts and scholars to conduct academic exchanges with the faculty and students of the Laboratory. It was aimed at creating an international exchange platform, strengthening communication and cooperation, and improving the international influence of the Key Laboratory.
Introduction of experts：
Professor Donald Watson is a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Delaware, USA. He completed this PhD studies at the UC Irvine and postdoctoral studies at both UC Berkeley and MIT. He started his independent academic career at the University of Delaware in 2009. He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2015, and Professor in 2018. He also served as Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in his department from 2015-2018. His research program focuses on the development of new synthetic methods, with particular interest in the synthesis of carbon-heteroatom bonds and in transition metal reactivity of main-group electrophiles in cross-coupling reaction.
Professor Martin Oestreich was born in 1971 in Pforzheim, Germany. He is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Technische Universität Berlin. He received his diploma degree with Paul Knochel (Marburg, 1996) and his doctoral degree with Dieter Hoppe (Münster, 1999). After a two-year postdoctoral stint with Larry E. Overman (Irvine, 1999-2001), he completed his habilitation with Reinhard Brückner (Freiburg, 2001-2005) and was appointed as Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (2006-2011). He also held visiting positions at Cardiff University in Wales (2005), at The Australian National University in Canberra (2010), and at Kyoto University (2018). Martin recently received the Wacker Silicone Award 2021.
Professor Alejandro Perez-Luna is a CNRS Research Director at Sorbonne Université in Paris. He completed a PhD in asymmetric catalysis at Université René Descartes (Paris 5) followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in organometallic chemistry at the University of Geneva. He joined the Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire (IPCM) at Pierre et Marie Curie University (now Sorbonne Université) in 2004 and obtained his habilitation degree in 2012. In the same university, he leads since 2017 the team Reactivité Organometallique et Catalyse pour la Synthèse (ROCS) devoted to metal-mediated synthesis. His recent research activity in this area has focused on combining the radical and polar reactivity of organometallic reagents and on the preparation through original C–Si and C–Ge bond-forming reactions of complex/functionalized organosilanes and organogermanes.
