Chemistry PhD student wins oral presentation award

PhD student Kwan Chak-shing from the Department of Chemistry won the second runner-up award with his presentation entitled “Design and Synthesis of Rotaxane Dual Organocatalyst and Derivatives” at the 24th Symposium of Chemistry Postgraduate Research held in May in Hong Kong.

Chak-shing combined the concepts of the molecular machine and organic catalysts to generate specialty rotaxane dual catalysts with a fluorescence tag. Upon the addition of acid/base, the two catalysts can be reversibly “switched on and off” to synthesise the desired product exclusively from a mixture of starting materials.

Under the supervision of Dr Ken Leung, Associate Professor of the Department of Chemistry, Chak-shing’s project highlighted the novel study of the mechanically interlocked molecule for organocatalysis.

The symposium was attended by over 600 faculty members and research postgraduate students from six local universities.


from HKBU eNews
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