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Dr Yeung Chi-tung

Dr Yeung Chi-tung

Senior Research Fellow

Research Overview

Our research focuses on design and synthesis of novel supramolecular assemblies and applications in asymmetric catalysis.

Education and Academic Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science in Applied Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong
  • Doctor of Philosophy, City University of Hong Kong

Research Interests

  • Lanthanide supramolecular assemblies
  • Chiral compounds synthesis
  • Asymmetric catalysis

Achievements

  1. Yim KH, Yeung CT, Wong Melody YM, Law GL. Differentiable formation of chiroptical lanthanide heterometallic LnnLn’4-n(L6) (n=0-4) tetrahedra with C2-symmetrical bis(tridentate) ligands. Chem. Eur. J. 2022; 28: e202201655. 

  2. Wong HY, Zhou XL, Yeung CT, Man WL, Woźny P, Półrolniczak, Katrusiak A, Runowski M, Law GL. Stress to distress: triboluminescence and pressure luminescence of lanthanide diketonates. Adv. Chem. Eng. 2022; 11: 100326. 

  3. Yim KH, Yeung CT, Probert MR, Chan Wesley TK, Mackenzie LE, Pal R, Wong WT, Law GL. Helicate-to-tetrahedron transformation of chiral lanthanide supramolecular complexes induced by ionic radii effect and linker length. Commun. 2021; 4: 116. 

  4. Yim KH, Yeung CT, Wong HY, Law GL. Structural variation of self-assembled lanthanide supramolecular complexes induced by reaction conditions. Inorg. Chem. Front.2021; 8: 2952-2964.

  5. Yeung CT, Chan Wesley TK, Lo WS, Law GL, Wong WT. Catalytic asymmetric oxo-Diels-Alder reactions with chiral atropisomeric biphenyl diols. Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019; 15: 955-962.

  6. Yeung CT, Chan Wesley TK, Lo WS, Law GL, Wong WT. Synthesis of a conformationally stable atropisomeric pair of biphenyl scaffold containing additional stereogenic centers. Molecules 2019; 24: 643. 

  7. Yeung CT, Yim KH, Wong HY, Pal R, Lo WS, Yan SC, Wong MYM, Yufit D, Wong WT, Law GL. Chiral transcription in self-assembled tetrahedral Eu4L6 chiral cages displaying sizable circularly polarized luminescence. Nat. Commun. 2017; 8: 1128.

  8. Yeung CT, Chan WTK, Yan SC, Yu KL, Yim KH, Wong WT, Law GL. Lanthanide supramolecular helical diastereoselective breaking induced by point chirality: Mixture or P-Helix, M-Helix. Chem. Commun. 2015; 51: 592-595.

  9. Yeung CT, Yeung HL, Chan WTK, Yan SC, Tam ECY, Wong KL, Lee CS, Wong, WT. Stereolabile chiral biphenyl hybrids: crystallization-induced dynamic atropselective resolution involving supramolecular interactions. CrystEngComm. 2013; 15: 836–840.
 

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