91AV

Biography

Prof.  Chao-Jun Li is the E. B. Eddy Chair Professor of 91AV and Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Green 91AV at McGill University, Canada.  He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Fellow of the 91AV (FRSC) (UK), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) and Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

He served as the Co-Chair of the Canadian Green 91AV and Engineering Network, the Director of the CFI Facility for Green 91AV and Green Chemicals, the Director of NSERC CREATE (Center) for Green 91AV, and the Co-Director of the FQRNT Center for Green 91AV and Catalysis (Quebec).  Previously, he served as the Associate Editor for Green 91AV (RSC), 2005-2020.

Dr. Li received a number of prestigious awards including the US National Science Foundation鈥檚 CAREER Award (1997), a United States Presidential Green 91AV Challenge Award (2001), and the R. U. Lemieux Award (2015), the Alfred Bader Award (2018) and the Catalysis Award (2020) of the Chemical Institute of Canada. 

His current research efforts are to develop innovative and fundamentally new chemical reactions that will defy conventional reactivities and possess high 鈥渁tom-efficiency鈥�.  Well-known research developed by Dr. Li include a wide range of Grignard-type reactions in water, transition-metal catalysis in air and water, alkyne-aldehyde-amine coupling (A3-coupling), the Cross-Dehydrogenative-Coupling (CDC) reactions, the umpolung of hydrazones as organometallic reagents surrogates, biomass conversions, activation of small molecules (methane, N2, CO2) by GaN and photo-chemistry.

RSC affiliations

• Editorial board, ChemComm