Established by the Ministry of Education of China, the Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards aims to recognize and honor outstanding research projects at all tertiary institutions in mainland China and Hong Kong. The 2014 award presentation ceremony was held at the Yasumoto International Academic Park of CUHK on 7 May 2015, and the awards are presented by Prof. Lu Li, Director General of the Education, Science & Technology Department of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in HKSAR.
It is a great honor that Prof. Fuk-yee KWONG and Dr. Chau-ming SO from our Department were conferred a Second Class Award in Natural Science (自然科学二等奖) with the research project entitled 'Development of new series of highly tunable phosphine ligands and explanati of problematic and challenging cross-coupling reactions (新型膦配體的設計及其于偶聯反應上的應用)'.
This research project focused on catalyst development utilizing new technology to develop multiple catalysts for various bond construction processes. Prof. Kwong explained that 'previously the synthesis or preparation of large molecules has been based on multiple steps for the synthesis of large molecules and other medicinally useful compounds, and that often took a long time'. By developing this new technology 'akin to Lego style building blocks' the research team were able to use their catalyst to assemble a molecule more efficiently, and much more rapidly.
The output of such research is very broad, from materials science to pharmaceutical science. This new catalyst development can be applied to many different types of molecule preparation. The catalyst has recently been licensed to selected chemical companies for worldwide distribution.
Please visit the departmental webpage or the snapshots of the event:
https://www.polyu.edu.hk/abct/en/news/gallery/index_id_38.html
Congratulations to the award recipients and their research teams on receiving this prestigious award.
It is a great honor that Prof. Fuk-yee KWONG and Dr. Chau-ming SO from our Department were conferred a Second Class Award in Natural Science (自然科学二等奖) with the research project entitled 'Development of new series of highly tunable phosphine ligands and explanati of problematic and challenging cross-coupling reactions (新型膦配體的設計及其于偶聯反應上的應用)'.
This research project focused on catalyst development utilizing new technology to develop multiple catalysts for various bond construction processes. Prof. Kwong explained that 'previously the synthesis or preparation of large molecules has been based on multiple steps for the synthesis of large molecules and other medicinally useful compounds, and that often took a long time'. By developing this new technology 'akin to Lego style building blocks' the research team were able to use their catalyst to assemble a molecule more efficiently, and much more rapidly.
The output of such research is very broad, from materials science to pharmaceutical science. This new catalyst development can be applied to many different types of molecule preparation. The catalyst has recently been licensed to selected chemical companies for worldwide distribution.
Please visit the departmental webpage or the snapshots of the event:
https://www.polyu.edu.hk/abct/en/news/gallery/index_id_38.html
Congratulations to the award recipients and their research teams on receiving this prestigious award.
