From 12 to 14 May, 2025, the Symposium of Frontiers in Synthetic Chemistry was held successfully in Nankai University. The opening ceremony was addressed by Tang Pingping, deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Elemento-organic Chemistry. Tang welcomed the participating experts and expressed his gratitude to all the experts who have long cared, helped and supported the development of the Key Laboratory. He expected that the participating teachers and students would share the cutting-edge research results in the field of organic synthetic chemistry through the symposium, promote the in-depth exchanges of academic ideas, further promote the development of the discipline, and strengthen the cross-field cooperation.
The symposium invited eight professors to give reports, including Prof. Tang Yefeng from Tsinghua University, Prof. Niankai Fu from Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Prof. Xisheng Wang from University of Science and Technology of China, Prof. Xiaoyu Yang from Shanghai University of Science and Technology, Prof. Tu Tao from Fudan University, Prof. Guo Chang from University of Science and Technology of China, Prof. Xingang Zhang from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Prof. Zhenghui Guan from Northwestern University. Nearly 200 faculty members and students from the Key Laboratory participated in this symposium.
Participating teachers and students focused on the electropromoted asymmetric radical reaction, reductive coupling fluoroalkylation, asymmetric electrophilic reaction of aryl amines to construct diversified molecular chirality, metal-organic supramolecular assembly and other cutting-edge topics to carry out in-depth discussions. The experts' reports were rich in content and unique in perspective, which fully demonstrated the innovative charm of synthetic chemistry and benefited the participating teachers and students greatly.
