Privileged Chiral Ligands and Catalysts

Qi-Lin Zhou is the Director of the Institute of Elemento-organic Chemistry, Nankai University in Tianjin, China. He obtained his PhD degree at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry. After several years of postdoctoral research (with professors Andreas Pfaltz and Michael Doyle et al.) he started his independent research in the field of asymmetric catalysis in China. Qi-Lin Zhou has authored over 100 scientific publications and has received many scientific awards including the Prize for Creation in Organic Synthesis (Chinese Chemical Society, Division of Organic Chemistry), Yao-Zeng Huang Prize of Organometallics (Chinese Chemical Society), and JSPS Fellowship Award (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science). He is also a member of different editorial boards such as Acc. Chem. Res..