C.j. Li
Professor
Chemistry
McGill University
Canada
Biography
Professor (E.B. Eddy Chair) Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Green/Organic Chemistry Director of NSERC CREATE in Green Chemistry and Green Chemicals Co-Director, FQRNT Centre for Green Chemistry and Catalysis Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Science) Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) B. Sc. (Zhengzhou University, 1983) M.S. (Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1988) Ph. D. (McGill University, 1992) NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow (Stanford University, 1992-94) Visiting Faculty, UC Berkeley (2002) Professor (Assistant, Associate, Full) (Tulane University, 1994-2003) (US) NSF CAREER Award, 1998-2002 Outstanding Young Oversea Scientist Award (NSFC), 2001 (US) Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (Academic), 2001 Japan Society for Promotion of Science (Senior) Fellow, 2002 Honorary Research Professor (Chemistry Institute, Chinese Academy of Science) Canadian Green Chemistry and Engineering Award (individual), 2010 Award of Merit, Federation of the Chinese Canadian Professionals (ont), 2011 R. U. Lemieux Award (CSC), 2015
Research Interest
Synthesis/Catalysis
Publications
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Umpolung Addition of Aldehydes to Aryl Imines Angewandte Chemie International Edition Ning Chen, Xi-Jie Dai, Haining Wang and Chao-Jun Li
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Carbonyls as Latent Alkyl Carbanions for Conjugate Additions Angewandte Chemie International Edition Xi-Jie Dai, Haining Wang, Chao-Jun Li
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Formal aromaticity transfer for palladium-catalyzed coupling between phenols and pyrrolidines/indolines Chemical Science Zihang Qiu, Jiang-Sheng Li and Chao-Jun Li