Dr. Kendrew Kin Wah MAK（麥建華博士）

Senior Lecturer, Organic Chemistry Laboratory

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location Room 355 Science Centre South Block
Phone No. (852) 3943 8136
Email kendrewmak@cuhk.edu.hk

 

 

 

Education

1994 B.Sc. The Chinese University of Hong Kong
1998 Ph.D. The Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

 

Position

2006-2018 Associate Director, Centre for Promoting Science Education, Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Since 2005 Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
1999-2005 Instructor, Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

Representative Publications

1. Kendrew K. W. Mak, Y. M. Lai, Yuk-Hong Siu:
”Regiospecific Epoxidation of Carvone: A Discovery-Oriented Experiment for Understanding the Selectivity and Mechanism of Epoxidation Reactions”
J. Chem. Educ., Vol. 83, 1058-1061 (2006).
2. Kendrew K. W. Mak, Jane Siu, Y. M. Lai, Pak-Kei Chan:
”Mannich Reactions in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids (RTILs): An Advanced Undergraduate Project of Green Chemistry and Structural Elucidation”
J. Chem. Educ., Vol. 83, 943-946 (2006).
3. Kendrew K. W. Mak:
”Synthesis and Resolution of the Atropisomeric 1,1’-Bi-2-naphthol: An Experiment in Organic Synthesis and 2-D NMR Spectroscopy
J. Chem. Educ., Vol. 81, 1636-1640 (2004)
4. K.W. Mak, S. K. Yeung; K. S. Chan
“Nonradical Trapping Pathway for Reactions of Nitroxides with Rhodium Porphyrin Alkyls Bearing β -Hydrogens and Subsequent Carbon-Carbon Bond Activation”
Organometallics., Vol. 21, 2362-2364 (2002)
5. K.W. Mak, X. Feng, T. C. W. Mak, K. S. Chan:
“Electronic effects in reversible 1,2-rearrangement of planar porphyrinato rhodium(III) alkyls”
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., Vol. 19, 3333-3334 (1999)
6. K. W. Mak, K. S. Chan:
“A Novel 1,2-Rearrangement of Porphyrinato Rhodium(III) Alkyls : cis β-Hydride Elimination / Olefin Metal-Hydride Insertion Pathway”
J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 120, 9686-9687 (1998).
7. A. K. S. Tse, K. W. Mak, K. S. Chan:
“Synthesis of Novel Cobalt(III) Porphyrin-Phosphoryl Complexes”
Organometallics, Vol. 17, 2651-2655 (1998).
8. C. Shi, K. W. Mak, K. S. Chan, F. C. Anson:
“Enhancement by surfactants of the activity and stability of iridium octaethylporphyrin as an electrocatalyst for the four-electron reduction of dioxygen ”
J. Electroanal. Chem., Vol. 397, 321- 4 (1995).