DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED BIOLOGY & CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY 47 Email chau.ming.so@polyu.edu.hk Qualification BSc (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) PhD (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) ORCID ID 0000-0001-6268-651X Dr SO Chau-ming Associate Professor Research Overview Our research programme focuses on the innovation of cutting-edge catalysis reaction and its usage as a core technology to enrich organic chemistry to (1) address the problems in pharmaceutical synthesis and (2) advance industrial and material science. We focus on five major areas: (1) design and development of new ligands (2) application in chemo-, regio-, and enantioselective cross-coupling reactions (3) application in a variety of transition metal-catalysed coupling reactions, e.g. the activation of inert carbon-heteroatom bond (4) DFT study on reaction mechanisms (5) synthesis of pharmaceutically active molecules and functional materials Representative Publications • Adv. Synth. Catal. 2022, 364, 1596-1601 • Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 4762-4769 • ACS Catal. 2021, 11, 7820-7827 • Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 23438-23444 • Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 3879-3883 Patents US Patent (licensed): • 8212056-B2 CN Patents (licensed): • CN106588983B • CN107445989B • CN104945434B • CN104327106B Awards and Achievements • RGC Early Career Scheme (ECS) Award, 2019-2020 • Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards, Ministry of Education of China (Second-Class Award in Natural Science), 2014 • Young Scientist Awards, Hong Kong Institution of Science, 2010 • Eli Lilly Asia Outstanding Graduate Thesis Award (1st Place Award), 2010 Professional Memberships • Member, Chinese Chemical Society • Member, Royal Society of Chemistry
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