On April 12, 2016, Professor John A. Gladysz of Texas A&M University visits our university, and gave a wonderful report to the teachers and students of School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering. The report was emceed by Prof. Liang Ni, about one hundred faculties, graduate students and overseas students attended this report.
Prof. Gladysz’s report entitled “Werner Complexes: A New Class of Chiral Hydrogen Bond Donor Catalysts for Enantioselective Organic Reactions”. After the report, he gave a brief guideline of studying abroad. The attendees benefited a lot from the presentation.
Prof. Gladysz is a distinguished professor of Texas A&M University and Dow Chair in Chemical Invention. Now he is the associate editor of Chemical Reviews, editor-in-chief of Organometallics, chair of Organometallic Chemistry Gordon Conference. He also received many awards: Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (1988), American Chemical Society Award in Organometallic Chemistry (1994), von Humboldt Foundation Research Award for Senior Scientists (1995-1996), Lady Davis Professorship, Technion-Israel Institut of Technology (2003-2004), Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2004), International Fluorous Technologies Award (2007). So far, he has published over 400 research papers, most of them are in the journal of Science, JACS, Angew. Chem. PNAS, Chem. Commun. And so on. He is an outstanding scientist in the field of organometallic chemistry.