Prof. Albert Padwa at Emory University, USA, visited the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on November 18. During his visit, Albert Padwa delivered a report entitle Use of Sulfur Fragments for the Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles.

In the report, Albert Padwa introduced in detail the use of sulfur fragments for the synthesis of nitrogen heterocycles, including the background and history, synthesis of some specific nitrogen heterocycles using sulfur, their synthetic methods and processes, research on the properties of these heterocycles and the application of the studies in total synthesis of natural products.

Albert Padwa is a world renowned organic chemist and expert in heterocycles. He has more than 800 publications and works.

On the same day, Prof. HONG Xuechuan from Wuhan University was also invited to give a lecture entitled Synthesis of Antitubercular Natural Compounds introducing the 2,1-benzothiazines for the synthesis of anti-tubercular natural products at LICP.

Albert Padwa and HONG Xuechuan were invited by the State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis and Selective Oxidation of the LICP.

About Albert Padwa

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Biography

Columbia University, B.A.

Columbia University, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin, National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow

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Experience

Associate Professor of Chemistry - SUNY at Buffalo, 1967-1969

Professor of Chemistry - State University of New York at Buffalo, 1969-1979

William P. Timmie Professor of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., 1979-

Editorial Advisory Board, Organic Letters, 1999-present

American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, 2000

Associate Editor of Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2002-present

Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2008

2010 American Chemistry Society ACS Fellow

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Research interests

Tandem cascade chemistry

1,3-dipolar cycloaddition chemistry

Pummerer induced processes

Amino furan cycloadditions

Prof. Albert Padwa is delivering a report.

Prof. HONG Xuechuan is delivering a report.

Listening attentively.