Chiral Ferrocenes in Asymmetric Catalysis: Synthesis and Applications

Li-Xin Dai is Professor at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), Chinese Academy of Sciences. He graduated from Zhejiang University in 1947 and joined the SIOC in 1953. He is the Honorary President of Shanghai Society of Chemistry and Chemical Industry, and the Chairman of the Academic Committee of the State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry in Nankai University. His research interests include the design of chiral ligands and their applications in asymmetric catalysis. He was elected as the Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1993. He has authored over 150 scientific publications and has received numerous scientific awards, including Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize and the National Natural Science Award of China.

Xue-Long Hou received his PhD in 1986 from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), Chinese Academy of Sciences under the mentorship of Professors Wei Yuan Huang of SIOC and Henry N.C. Wong of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship and completed two years of postdoctoral research with Professor Emanuel Vogel at Cologne University, Germany. He is currently Professor at the SIOC and his research interests include OMCOS, the design of chiral ligands and their applications in asymmetric catalysis and the transformation of organic molecules under non-metal conditions.