About Guoqing Lin’s work
Guoqing Lin held a Croucher Visitorship at the University of Hong Kong. At the time, Lin was based at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Biography
Lin Guoqiang graduated from Shanghai University of Science and Technology in 1964 and Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1968. From 1990 to 99, he served as Deputy Director and Director of the Institute. He became an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001. In 2005, he was appointed as a double academician of Fudan University. In 2006-14, he served as the Director of the Department of Chemical Sciences of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He is currently the Academic Committee of the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Lin's research interests include physiologically active natural product structure and synthesis, asymmetric synthesis reactions, biocatalytic reactions, and the synthesis of small molecules of chiral drugs. A total of 40 Chinese patents, 1 US patent and 3 PCT patents have been authorized. Among them, the novice-chiral diene ligand was commercialized by Sigma-Aldrich.