中國物理學會波譜學專業委員會于2010年11月23日至11月28日在海南省海口市召開第十六屆全國波譜學學術年會，會議期間評選第九屆王天眷波譜學獎(該獎已被科技部批准為社會力量設獎獎項)，波譜學專業委員會將本屆的王天眷波譜學獎授予了香港中文大學的林錫樂教授和中科院武漢物理與數學研究所的唐惠儒研究員，他們的研究方向分別是NMR研究DNA結構和生物代謝組分析。

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Prof. Leung attended the 5th International Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia (ICCEOCA-5), held in Hsinchu, Taiwan, 7-11 November 2010. He was selected to receive an ACP Lectureship Award and will be invited to take on a one-week lecture tour in Japan. He also serves as the conference secretary of the upcoming 6th International Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia (ICCEOCA-6), to be held at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in December 2011.

Dr. Ho shared his recent breakthrough in the area of alkene chemistry during the 5th International Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia (ICCEOCA-5), 7-11 November 2010. He has been selected by the coordinator of Japan to receive an ACP Lectureship Award and invited to deliver a series of lectures in 2011.

The presented work complements the P-Ni-H catalyzed alkene dimerization (for monoenes) and olefin cross-metathesis technology (for internal olefins), provides the first highly selective catalytic route to synthesize unsymmetric geminal disubstituted alkenes directly from two different types of monosubstituted olefins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkene). US Patent filed on 16 Feb 2010 via TLO, CUHK.

For further details about that work, please visit:
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 9182.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201001849/abstract

For the story behind the scene & the potential in regard to synthetic organic chemistry, please see:
SYNFACTS 2011, SYNFORM A15.
https://www.thieme-connect.com/ejournals/pdf/synfacts/doi/10.1055/s-0030-1259399.pdf

Ms. Lisi He has received the Poster Award at the Junior Workshop on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia, organized by National Tsing Hua University and National Science Council, for Catalytic Intermolecular Regioselective Terminal Olefins Dimerization.

中國化學會“黃耀曾金屬有機化學獎”管理委員會決定授予謝作偉教授2010年度第四屆中國化學會黃耀曾金屬有機化學獎, 以表彰他對金屬有機化學的卓越貢獻。

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二零一零年六月二十九日, 余濟美教授在武漢理工大學獲受聘為「長江學者講座教授」。武漢理工大學副校長張安富，人事處處長聶規劃、副處長唐昌飛，資環學院院領導及資環學院師生代表出席了儀式。張安富副校長向余濟美教授頒發了教育部聘任書，余教授將在以後的三年時間為武漢理工大學環境學科的研究作進一步指導。

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1. The Best Oral Presentation Award
   Miss. Janet T. F. Lau
   (Supervisor: Prof. Dennis K.P. Ng; co-Supervisor: Prof. Gigi P. C. Lo)
   Title : "Cyclodextrin-Phthalocyanine Conjugates as Efficient Photosensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy and Versatile Building Blocks for Multichromophoric Arrays"
   
2. The Best Poster Award in Physical Chemistry
   Mr. Qin Tang
   (Supervised : Prof. Q. Miao)
   

Prof. Tony Shing, the Hong Kong coordinator of ACP, led a group Hong Kong chemists to present their research results at the 4th International Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia, held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 29 November to 3 December 2009. Prof. Shing was selected to receive two ACP Lectureship Awards and will be invited to take on a one-week ACP Lecture Tour in Japan and in China this year.

Alumnus Prof. CHEN Xiaoming was elected as Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences — Division of Chemistry. Prof. Chen received his PhD in Chemistry from the CUHK in 1992, and has since then published over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, and has received numerous awards, including the second-class award of the 2007 State Natural Science Award.

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1. Best Poster Award
   Miss Qiu Zaozao
   (Supervisor: Prof. Xie Zuowei)
   Title: " Nickel-Mediated Three-Component Cycloaddition Reaction of Carboryne, Alkenes, and Alkynes”

The 20th Hong Kong Chemistry Olympiad

On 21 February 2009, our Chemistry team came first at the 20th Hong Kong Chemistry Olympiad for tertiary institutions, an annual event jointly organised by the Hong Kong Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Our team was made up of three second year students, Mr. Chung Cheuk Ting (鍾卓廷), Mr. Lau Ka Cheong (劉家昌) and Mr. Tam Yu Tong (譚裕同) who gave a brilliant lecture on the contribution of chemistry in taste and flavour.

The 19th Hong Kong Chemistry Olympiad

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1. The Best Oral Presentation Award
   Miss Cheng Hau-man
   (supervisor: Prof. Tony K.M. Shing)
   Title : "A novel synthesis of pseudo-acarviosin and its potential as a new class of anti-diabetic agents."
2. The Best Poster Award in Organic Chemistry
   Mr Qi-Xian Lin of Shanghai-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory in Chemical Synthesis
   (co-supervised by Prof. Henry N.C. Wong and Professor Tse-Lok Ho of National Jiaotong University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.)
   Title : "Total synthesis of (±)-tacamonine employing symmetry approach"

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On 23 February 2008, our Chemistry team came first at the 19th Hong Kong Chemistry Olympiad for tertiary institutions, an annual event jointly organised by the Hong Kong Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Our team was made up of three second year students, Mr. Wong Ka Hou, Mr. Wu Ho Tong, and Mr. Yim Sui Lung who gave a brilliant lecture on the contribution of chemistry in medicine regarding diagnostics.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Elsa Yan graduated with First Class Honors from Department of Chemistry, CUHK, in 1995. She then went to Columbia University in the United States for further study. She received her Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in 1996 and 2000, respectively. After graduation, Dr. Yan did post-doctoral work at the University of California at Berkeley. Later she became Visiting Scholar and Research Assistant Professor at Rockefeller University. In July this year, Dr Yan was appointed Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Yale University, one of the Ivy League schools. In this capacity, she teaches physical chemistry and biological science subjects. She will also set up an inter-disciplinary laboratory at Yale.

Elsa has been interested in physical chemistry since her undergraduate days at CUHK. Under the guidance and encouragement of two physical chemists in the Department of Chemistry, Professors Chi Wu and Steve C. F. Au-Yeung, she developed an excellent academic foundation and she is very grateful to the two professors and CUHK for the education and training she received. Elsa was very devoted to her study; she carried out chemistry research for four summers in several laboratories in the Department.

During the various phases of her studies, Elsa obtained a number of prizes and awards, including the First Prize in the Chemistry Olympiad, 1993, organized by Hong Kong Chemical Society and Royal Society of Chemistry, U.K. and Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Achievement in 1994. At Columbia University, she received a Graduate Faculty Fellowship, Distinction for Doctor of Philosophy, and the Pegram Award for Excellent Achievement in Graduate Research.

After obtaining her doctoral degree, Elsa started working in a new research area encompassing physical chemistry and biological science. Since 2004, her research has shifted to the general area of life science and medical science. She often interacts with scientists from different disciplines such as clinical science, cell biology, biochemistry and biophysics. At the same time, she has continued her research on the functions of proteins. Her current work is mainly on the investigation of the activation mechanism of G-protein coupled receptors using laser spectroscopy and molecular biology techniques. Details can be found in www.chem.yale.edu/faculty/yan.html.

Elsa Yan and her parents at the graduation ceremony of Columbia University (2000)


Elsa Yan in front of Sterling Library, Yale University (2007)


Rhodopsin: A photoreceptor and a prototypical model system for G protein-coupled receptors. This system has been the focus of Elsa Yan’s research for many years.

Hau Chun-Kit and Wang Yu-Man have won the following poster awards in the joint meeting of the 9th International Symposium for Chinese Organic Chemists and the 6th International Symposium for Chinese Inorganic Chemists. There are a total of 9 poster awards and CUHK students got 2.

(1) Professor Sunney Chan Poster Award:
Hau Chun-Kit
"Synthesis of 1,4,5,8,9,16-Hexahydroxytetraphenylene - A Chiral Building Block for 3-Dimensional Scaffold Construction".

(2) Wiley Poster Award:
Wang Yu-Man
"Synthesis and Chemistry of Acenes".

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