Teaching Staff
LEE, Albert W. M. - Chair Professor & Director of Student Affairs
李慧明
Educational Background
Professional Membership
Current Research Interests
Contacts
Selected Publications
Educational Background
- B.Sc. (Hons.), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Ph.D., UCLA, USA
- Postdoctoral: MIT, USA
- Nobel Connection at HKBU
- Nobel Connection - Barry Sharpless and Albert Lee
Professional Membership
- CChem
- FRSC
Current Research Interests
- asymmetric synthesis;
- synthesis offunctional materials;
- chemical sensor;
- computer applications in chemistry;
- chemical education.
- Current Research activity
Contacts
- Office (Chemistry): Room T1204
- Office (Student affairs): 8/F Yeung Shui Sang Building
- Tel (Chemistry): (852)3411-7064
- Tel (Student Affairs): (852)3411-7430
- E-mail: alee@hkbu.edu.hk or dsa@hkbu.edu.hk
- website: http://chem.hkbu.edu.hk/alee
Selected Publications
- J.F. Zhu, W.H. Chan, A.W.M. Lee, "Both Visual and Ratiometric Fluorescent Sensor for Zn2+ Based on Spirobenzopyran Platform", Tetrahedron Letters, 53, 2001-2004 (2012).
- X.B. Zhou, W.H. Chan, A.W.M. Lee, C.-C. Yeung, "Ratiometric Fluorescent Probe for Enantioselective Detection of D-cysteine in Aqueous Solution", Beilstein J. Org. Chem., 7, 1508-1515 (2011).
- X.B. Zhou, W.H. Chan, A.W.M. Lee, "Ratiometric Fluorescence Sensor for Detection of Polyphosphate Anions by Sensor-ensemble Method in Aqueous Solution", Tetrahedron Letters, 52, 5431-5434 (2011).
- L.-Y. Chen, H. He, W.-H. Chan, A.W.M. Lee, "Chiral Sulfonimide as a Bronsted Acid Organocatalysts for Asymmetric Friedel-Crafts Alkylation of Indoles with Imines", J. Org. Chem., 76, 7141-7147 (2011). (Selected by SYNFACTS, p. 1132, 2011, as a "Highlight in Current Synthetic Organic Chemistry". Contributors: List, B.; Mahlau, M.).
- X.B. Zhou, Y. Lu, J.-F. Zhu, W.-H. Chan, A.W.M. Lee, P.-S. Chan, R.N.S. Wong, N.K. Mak, "Ratiometric Fluorescent Zn2+ Chemosensor Constructed by Appending a Pair of Carboxamidoquinoline on 1,2-diaminocyclohexane Scafford", Tetrahedron, 67, 3412-3419 (2011).
- B.-J. Pei, W.-H. Chan, A.W.M. Lee, "Anthracene Capped Isobenzofuran: A Synthon for the Preparations of Iptycenes and Iptycene Quinones", Org. Lett. 13, 1774-1777 (2011).
- Q. Li, W.Y. Wong, W.H. Chan, A.W.M. Lee, "Second Generation CaSH (Camphor Sulfonyl Hydrazine) Organocatalysis. Asymmetric Diels-Alder Reactions and Isolation of the Catalytic Intermediate", Adv. Synth. Catal., 352, 2142-2146 (2010).
- B.-J. Pei, W.-H. Chan, A.W.M. Lee, "Oxadisilole Fused Triptycene and Extended Triptycene: Precursors of Triptycene and Extended Triptycene," J. Org. Chem., 75, 7332-7337 (2010). (Selected by SYNFACTS, Jan, 2011, page 35, as one of the "Highlights in Current Synthetic Organic Chemistry". Contributors: Timothy. M. Swager, Stefanie. A. Sydlik)
- H. He, L.Y. Chen, W.Y. Wong, W.H. Chan, A.W.M. Lee, "Practical Synthetic Approach to Chiral Sulfonimides (CSIs) - Chiral Bronsted Acids for Organocatalysis", Eur. J. Org. Chem., 4181-4184 (2010).
- H. He, B.-J. Pei, A.W.M. Lee, "Metal Free Oxidation of Alkyl Substituted Aromatic with Aqueous tert-butyl Hydroperoxide under Microwave Irradiation", Green Chemistry, 11, 1857-1861 (2009). (US Patent No. 7,488,843 February 10, 2009).
- L.-Y. Chen, Hao He, B.-J. Pei, W.H. Chan, A.W.M. Lee, "Sulfonyl Hydrazine as New Functionality in Organocatalysis: Camphor-sulfony Hydrazine Catalyzed Enantioselective Aze-Michael Addition", Synthesis, 9, 1573-1577 (2009). Selected by SYNFACTS as a Highlight in Current Synthetic Organic Chemistry (SYNFACTS, 7, 2009, 800. Contributors: List, B.; Zumbansen, K.).
- H. He, B.-J. Pei, H.-H. Chou, T. Tian, W.H. Chan, A.W.M. Lee, "Camphor Sulfonyl Hydrazines (CaSH) as Organocatalysts in Enantioselective Diels-Alder Reactions", Org. Lett., 10, 2421-2424 (2008).