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Best Oral and Poster Presentation Awards

Best Oral Presentation Award
Dye-Sensitized Active Colloids: From Reversible Phototaxis to Optically Guided Dynamic Assemblies Jingyuan Chen The University of Hong Kong

Best Poster Presentation Awards
Category 1 Analytical, Biological, and Environmental Chemistry (AnaBioEnv)	Development of Inhibitors targeting YEATS2 as a Novel Strategy against Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Sha Liu, The University of Hong Kong
	Mechanistic Insights into Bismuth (III) Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 Helicase Xueying Wei, The University of Hong Kong
	High-Resolution 3D Spatial Distribution of Complex Microbial Colonies Revealed by Mass Spectrometry Imaging Yuting Shen, Hong Kong Baptist University
Category 2 Inorganic and Organic Chemistry (InoOrg)	Evolution of Polynuclear Gold(i) Sulfido Complexes from Clusters and Cages to Macrocycles Liang Liang Yan, The University of Hong Kong
	Nickel-catalyzed enantioselective a-heteroarylation of ketones via C-F bond activation to construct all-carbon quaternary stereocenters Xiaodong Gu, Hong Kong Baptist University
	Palladium-Catalyzed Direct C-H Olefination of Polyfluoroarenes with Alkenyl Tosylates Ka Yee Yee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Category 3 Materials and Physical Chemistry (MatPhy)	A Photoactivatable Luminescent Motif through Ring-Flipping Isomerization for Multiple Photopatterning Xin Li, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
	Electropolymerized 3D Cobalt Porphyrin for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Yuzhuo Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University
	Synthesis of Unconventional 2H Pt Facets via Wet-chemical Epitaxial Growth and Crystal Structure-dependent Catalytic Behaviors of Pt in Selective Hydrogenation Long Zheng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Introduction

The 30th Symposium on Chemistry Postgraduate Research in Hong Kong will be held online via the Video Conference Facility Zoom and simultaneously physically at City University of Hong Kong on 6 April 2024 (Saturday) . This Symposium will consist of a Keynote Lecture delivered by Professor Lutz Ackermann, an Oral Session led by postgraduate student representatives from six universities, and a Poster Session. Interested participants are requested to fill in their information in the registration form and submit it via their institutional representatives on or before 8 March 2024 (Friday). Postgraduate students who are interested in presenting posters online during the Symposium must provide their abstracts in soft copy by email in the prescribed format via their institutional representatives on or before 20 March 2024 (Wednesday).

Abstract Book

Program

Time	Event
10:00 - 10:10 am	Opening Ceremony
10:10 - 10:20 am	Group Photo Taking
10:20 - 10:45 am	Oral Presentation 1 Phase engineering of noble metal-based alloys for highly efficient electrocatalysis Biao Huang City University of Hong Kong
10:45 - 11:10 am	Oral Presentation 2 Negatively Curved Molecular Nanocarbons Containing Multiple Heptagons Are Enabled by the Scholl Reactions of Macrocyclic Precursors Ka Man Cheung The Chinese University of Hong Kong
11:10 - 11:35 am	Oral Presentation 3 A Study of Emerging Disinfection Byproducts in Drinking Water Weiyu Peng Hong Kong Baptist University
11:35 am - 12:00 nn	Oral Presentation 4 Dye-Sensitized Active Colloids: From Reversible Phototaxis to Optically Guided Dynamic Assemblies Jingyuan Chen The University of Hong Kong
12:00 nn - 2:00 pm	Lunch Break & Poster Session
2:00 - 2:25 pm	Oral Presentation 5 A Photoactivatable Luminescent Motif through Ring-Flipping Isomerization for Multiple Photopatterning Xin Li The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2:25 - 2:50 pm	Oral Presentation 6 Intramolecular Arene C(sp2)—H Amidation Enabled by Ferrocenium-Mediated Decomposition of 1,4,2-Dioxazol-5-ones as Amidyl Radical Precursorsg Chi Ming Au The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
3:00 - 4:00 pm	Keynote Lecture (Zoom) "Catalyzed C-H Functionalization" -By Professor Lutz Ackermann Institute for Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry Georg-August-University Göttingen
4:00 - 4:15 pm	Award Presentation & Closing Ceremony

Keynote Lecture (3:00 pm - 4:00 pm)

Catalyzed C–H Functionalization

Lutz Ackermann
Institute for Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, Georg-August-University Göttingen,
Tammannstrasse 2, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Lutz.Ackermann@chemie.uni-goettingen.de

Abstract:

C–H activation has surfaced as a powerful platform in molecular synthesis, with transformative applications to material sciences and drug discovery, among others.1 In this context, we have introduced carboxylates, for position-selective C–H activation with versatile ruthenium(II) complexes. In light of limited resources, we developed Earth-abundant 3d metal catalysis based on detailed mechanistic insights.2 Thus, we established inter alia benign iron-catalyzed C–H transformations.3 Studies towards metallaelectrocatalytic C–H and C–C activation with a unique level of resource-economy,4 late-stage functionalization,5 data science,6 and enantioselective catalysis7 will be discussed, with a topical focus on sustainable base metals.

References:

1. a) L. Ackermann, Acc. Chem. Res. 2014, 47, 281; b) L. Ackermann, Chem. Rev. 2011, 111, 1315.
2. A. M. Messinis, L. H. Finger, L. Hu, L. Ackermann, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 13102.
3. a) A. M. Messinis, T. von Münchow, M. Surke, L. Ackermann, Nat. Catal. 2024 in press; b) J. Mo, A. M. Messinis, J. Li, S. Warratz, L. Ackermann, Acc. Chem. Res. 2023, 57 10.
4. T. H. Meyer, L. H. Finger, P. Gandeepan, L. Ackermann, Trends Chem. 2019, 1, 63.
5. S. D. Friis, M. J. Johansson, L. Ackermann, Nat. Chem. 2020, 12, 511.
6. Z. Lin, U. Dhawa, X. Hou, M. Surke, B. Yuan, S.-W. Li, Y.-C. Liou, M. J. Johansson, L.-C. Xu, C.-H. Chao, X. Hong, L. Ackermann, Nat. Commun. 2023, 14, 4224.
7. a) T. von Münchow, S. Dana, Y. Xu, B. Yuan, L. Ackermann, Science 2023,, 379, 1036; b) U. Dhawa, C. Tian, T. Wdowik, J. C. A. Oliveira, J. Hao, L. Ackermann, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 13451.

Biography:

Professor Lutz Ackermann studied Chemistry at the University Kiel (Germany) and performed his PhD with Professor Alois Fürstner at the Max-Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung (Mülheim/Ruhr, 2001). After a postdoctoral stay at UC Berkeley with Professor Robert G. Bergman, he started his independent research career in 2003 at the Ludwig Maximilians-University München. In 2007, he became Full Professor (W3) at the Georg-August-University Göttingen. His recent awards and distinctions include an AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award (2011), an ERC Consolidator Grant (2012), highly-cited researcher (2014-2023, Web of Science), a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis (2017), an ERC Advanced Grant (2021), a Werner Siemens-Stiftung (WSS) Research Award (2023), and the Otto Roelen-Medal (2024). His current research interests primarily focus on the development and application of novel concepts for sustainable catalysis, particularly in electrocatalysis, late-stage functionalization, and bond activation for benign molecular architecture with full selectivity control.

Map

(A) How to get to City University of Hong Kong (By MTR):
https://www.cityu.edu.hk/about/campus/getting-to-cityu/by-mtr
Festival Walk

(B) Direction to Yeung Kin Man Academic Building:
https://www.cityu.edu.hk/about/campus/map#code:YEUNG
YEUNG

(C) Location of LT-1:
LT-1

1. After entering campus of City University of Hong Kong, please go to Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
2. Once you see the library, please go up 1 set of the escalator.
3. Please go straight to Red Zone and look for Lift 10 (on the right), Tin Ka Ping Lecture Theatre (LT-1) is next to Lift 10.

Organizers

Professor Kenneth Lo
Professor K C Lau

Institutional representatives

Institution
CityU
CUHK
HKBU
HKU
HKUST
PolyU

Faculty
Professor Kenneth Lo
Professor Zhifeng Huang
Dr Di Hu
Professor Junzhi Liu
Professor Yangjian Quan
Dr Franco Leung

Postgraduate
Eunice Mak
Tao Yao
Chin Wai Leung
Biao Xia
Zixuan Zhang
Ka Lung Hung