Chao-Jun Li
McGill University
Biography
Prof. Chao-Jun Li is the E. B. Eddy Chair Professor of Chemistry and Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Green Chemistry 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 Royal Society of Chemistry (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 Chemistry and Engineering Network, the Director of the CFI Facility for Green Chemistry and Green Chemicals, the Director of NSERC CREATE (Center) for Green Chemistry, and the Co-Director of the FQRNT Center for Green Chemistry and Catalysis (Quebec). Previously, he served as the Associate Editor for Green Chemistry (RSC), 2005-2020.
Dr. Li received a number of prestigious awards including the US National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award (1997), a United States Presidential Green Chemistry 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 “atom-efficiency”. 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