Invited Lectures
1. Invited Speaker (Travel Expenses sponsored by the Organizer) at General Telephone Electric Laboratories Incorporated, USA, December 1985.
2. Invited Speaker (with honorarium) to give a 30-40 minute lecture at the Annual Industrial Associate Conference on Oxidation Chemistry held at California Institute of Technology, February 1986.
3. Invited Speaker (with honorarium) to give an one-hour lecture at the International Symposium on Chemistries of Macrocyclic Complexes held at the Institute for Molecular Science Okazaki, Japan, March 1989.
4. Invited Speaker (with honorarium) to give a 30-40 minute lecture at the Symposium on Atom Transfer Reactions, National Meeting of American Chemical Society, held in Dallas, USA, April 1989.
5. Honorary Speaker invited by the National Science Council of Taiwan to deliver a 30-40 minute lecture at the Annual Chemistry Meeting of Taiwan, 1990.
6. Invited Speaker (with honorarium) to give a 45 minute lecture on “Oxidation of Alkanes by Ruthenium-Oxo Complexes” at the Petrochemistry Division of National Meeting of American Chemical Society held in Boston, USA, April 1990.
7. Invited Speaker (with honorarium) to give a 30 minute lecture at the EuroAsian Meeting held in Seoul, Korea, April 1990.
8. Invited Speaker (with honorarium) to give an one-hour lecture at the Florida Catalysis Conference organised by the American Chemical Society held in Florida, USA, April 1991.
9. Invited (with honorarium) by the Arco Chemical Company, USA, to deliver a lecture at the Arco Chemical Company, October 1991.
10. Invited Speaker (with honorarium) to deliver a 30 minutes lecture “Molecular design for Photo-Redox Reactions and Organic Oxidation” at the International Symposium on Inorganic and Organic Chemistry in Commenoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Chinese Chemical Society held at National Taiwan University, Taiwan, November 20–23, 1992.
11. Invited Speaker (with honorarium) to deliver a 60 minutes lecture “The Redox Reactions of Nitrido and Imido Complexes of Ruthenium and Osmium” at the 3rd CBM International Symposium on Biofunctional Molecules held at Pohang Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, November 21–24, 1992.
12. Invited Speaker (with honorarium) to deliver a 30-40 minutes lecture at the 3rd Eurasia conference on Chemical Sciences held in Bangkok, December 14–18, 1992.
13. Invited Speaker to deliver a 30 minutes lecture on “Donor-Acceptor Supramolecular Platinum Complexes. Synthesis and Photoluminescent Studies” at the 10th International Symposium of Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds held in Sendai, Japan, July 25–30, 1993.
14. Invited Speaker (with honorarium) to deliver a 40 minutes lecture “Hydrocarbon Oxidation and Alkene Epoxidation by Ruthenium and Manganese Complexes” at the 34th IUPAC Congress held in Beijing, China, August 15–20, 1993.
15. Invited Speaker of the First and Second Annual Scientific Conferences and Annual General Meeting organised by Hong Kong Institution of Science, 1993 and 1994.
16. Invited Speaker (with honorarium) to deliver a 30 minute lecture at the 3rd Japan-Sino Binational Symposium on Photochemistry held in Osaka, Japan, October 26–29, 1994.
17. Invited Speaker at the Inorganic Photochemistry Symposium at the 1995 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies organised by the American Chemical Society, December 17–22, 1995.
18. Invited Speaker at the 23rd International Symposium on Macrocyclic Chemistry held in Hawaii, June 7–12, 1998.
19. Invited Speaker at the Xiangshan Science Conference on Supramolecular Systems held in Beijing, China, October 16–21, 1998.
20. Invited Speaker to give a 30 minute lecture “Luminescent Metal-Organic Compounds for Molecular Recognitions and Blue Light Emitting Diode Devices” at the 2nd SANKEN International Symposium held in Osaka, Japan, January 26–27, 1999.
21. Invited Speaker to give a 30 minutes lecture “Luminescent Transition Metal Compounds as Advanced Materials for Light Emitting Diodes” at the Asia-Pacific Symposium on Organic Electroluminescent Materials and Devices in Hong Kong, June 8–11, 1999.
22. Invited Speaker to give a 30 minutes lecture on “The Fascinating Gold(I) Photoluminescence” at the 2nd Asian Photochemistry Conference held in Seoul, Korea, June 28–July 1, 1999.
23. Invited Speaker at the Int’l Symposium on Photonics & Applications held in Singapore, November 29–December 3, 1999.
24. Invited Speaker at the 8th International SPACC Symposium-Chemistry for Selective Reactions-Coordination Chemistry in Harmony with Other Fields of Chemistry, “Ruthenium porphyrins as a new class of catalysts for organic synthesis”, held in Beijing, China, October 17–19, 2001.
25. Invited Speaker of Singapore International Chemical Conference (II). Frontiers in Chemical Design and Synthesis, “Reactive iron, ruthenium and osmium-carbene complexes for carbon-carbon bond formation reactions”, Singapore, December 18–20, 2001.
26. Invited Speaker at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Mainland – Hong Kong Academicians Forum held in Hong Kong, May 24–25, 2002.
27. Invited Speaker at the 2nd International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, “Chiral Ruthenium-Oxo, Imido and Carbene Complexes with Porphyrin Ligands for Enantioselective Carbon-Oxygen, Carbon-Nitrogen and Carbon-Carbon Bond Formations”, held in Kyoto, Japan, June 30–July 5, 2002.
28. Invited Speaker at the XIXth IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry, “Luminescent Platinum(II) Complexes with Cyclometalated and Aromatic Diimine Ligands: Photophysical Studies and Applications”, held in Budapest, Hungary, July 14–19, 2002.
29. Invited Speaker at the Taiwan Bioinorganic Chemistry Symposium 2003, “Ruthenium-Catalyzed C–H Bond Functionalization”, held in Hsinchu, Taiwan, October 2–4, 2003.
30. Invited Speaker at the Third International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, “Ruthenium Porphyrin Catalysts for Organic Synthesis”, held in New Orleans, USA, July 11–16, 2004.
31. Invited Speaker at the First Chemistry Week of Changchun, “Bioinspired Organic Catalysis”, held in Changchun, China, August 9, 2004.
32. Invited Speaker at the International Symposium on Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, “Bioinspired Organic Catalysis”, held in Guangzhou, China, December 16–18, 2004.
33. Invited Speaker [a 35-minute lecture] at the 229th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Symposium on Frontiers in Inorganic Spectroscopy and Photochemistry, “Luminescent Platinum(II) Materials. Spectroscopic Characterization of Metal-Metal-to-Ligand and Ligand-to-Ligand Charge Transfer Excited States and Sensory Materials Applications”, held at San Diego, US, March 13–17, 2005.
34. Invited Speaker at the National Conferences of Coordination Chemistry and Bioinorganic Chemistry, “Metal-Carbon Multiple Bonded Complexes: Bondings, Catalysis and Materials Science Applications”, held in Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, November 19, 2005.
35. Invited Speaker at the Singapore International Chemical Conference 4 (SICC-4), “Metal-Carbon Multiple Bonded Complexes: Bondings, Catalysis and Materials Science Applications”, held in Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore, December 8–10, 2005.
36. Invited Speaker at the 2005 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (Pacifichem 2005), “Neutral luminescent platinum(II) materials with multi-anionic chelating ligands: photophysical studies and applications in high-performance orange and red OLEDs”, held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 15–20, 2005.
37. Invited Speaker at the International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-4), “Chiral metalloporphyrin catalysts for Lewis-acid catalyzed organic reactions and oxidative carbon-oxygen and carbon-nitrogen bond formation reactions”, held in Rome, Italy, July 2–7, 2006.
38. Invited Speaker at the 6th International Conference on Electroluminescence of Molecular Materials and Related Phenomena (ICEL-6), “Phosphorescent Platinum(II) Materials for Organic Photonics and Nano-Devices”, held in the City University of Hong Kong, August 6–10, 2006.
39. Invited Poster Presentation by the 232nd American Chemical Society National Meeting, “Bis(pyridyl)allenylidene Complex of Ruthenium with a Tetradentate Macrocyclic Amine: a “Molecular Clip” that Displays Intense Near Infrared Absorption upon Coordination to Ruthenium(II)”, held in San Francisco, USA, September 10–14, 2006. [Frontiers of Inorganic Chemistry: The Grey Areas]
40. Invited Speaker at the Third Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (AsBIC-III), “Metalloporphyrins as a New Class of Anti-Cancer Compounds”, held in Nanjing, China, October 30–November 3, 2006.
41. Invited Lecture at the 3rd Sino-US Symposium on Organic Chemistry, “Reactive Ruthenium Carbenoid Complexes for Group Transfer Reactions”, held in Wuhan, China, Jun 1–2, 2007.
42. Invited Lecture at the 234th ACS National Meeting Boston on “Functional nanostructured phosphorescent materials driven by weak closed-shell metal-metal interactions and metal-ligand coordination”, held in Boston, USA, August 19, 2007.
43. Invited Speaker at Frontiers of Material Chemistry, “Phosphorescent Platinum(II) Materials. Spectroscopy, Photophysical Properties and Materials Science Applications” held at The University of Warwick, UK, September 6, 2007.
44. Invited Speaker at ISHC-XVI International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis, “Metal Catalyzed Oxidation of Organic Compounds with Dioxygen or Hydrogen Peroxide as Terminal Oxidant”, held in Florence, Italy, July 6–11, 2008.
45. Invited Speaker at 2008 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, “Self-Assembled Functional Molecular Materials for Optoelectronic Applications”, held at Boston, USA, December 1–5, 2008.
46. Invited Speaker at Envonik Meets Science China 2009 Catalytic Processes, “Ruthenium-catalyzed organic oxidation reactions with oxygen or hydrogen peroxide as terminal oxidant”, held in Shanghai, China, March 20, 2009.
47. Invited Speaker at Professor Peng's 60th birthday Symposium, “The unique phosphorescent planar metal complexes. From photocatalysis to materials science applications and medicines”, held in Taiwan, May 30, 2009.
48. Invited Speaker at Academia sinica, “Anti-Cancer and Anti-viral Transition Metal Complexes”, held in Taiwan, June 1, 2009.
49. Invited Speaker at 6th National Conference on Coordination Chemistry, “Self-assembled Metal Coordination Polymers”, held in Hong Kong, July 6–9, 2009.
50. Invited Speaker at Frontiers in Chemistry, “Metal-Catalyzed Atom and Group Transfer Reactions for Practical Organic Synthesis”, held in Singapore, July 20–22, 2009.
51. Invited Lecture at Tsing Hua University, “Gold Catalysed Organic Transformation Reactions” held in Beijing, China, September 24, 2009 (supported by KC Wong Education Foundation Lectureship).
52. Invited Lecture at Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC), “Selective Alkane Activation and Aerobic Oxidations with Practical Interest”, held in China, September 25, 2009 (supported by KC Wong Education Foundation Lectureship).
53. Invited Lecture at City University of Hong Kong, “Selective Activation of C-H Bonds by Atom and Group Transfer Reactions”, held in Hong Kong, February 24, 2010.
54. Invited Lecture at Molecular Engineering Symposium on Nanostructured Functional Materials for celebrating JLU-PUV (Jilin University-Polytechnic University of Valencia) collaboration, “Self-Assembled Multi-Functional Coordination Polymers”, held at Jilin University, Changchun, China, April 10–11, 2010.
55. Invited Lectures at Visiting Hubei Scheme of Famous Scientists, “The unique phosphorescent planar metal complexes. From photocatalysis to materials science applications and medicines” and “Anti-Cancer and Anti-Viral Transition Metal Complexes”, held in Wuhan, China, May 20–23, 2010.
56. Invited Lecture at the 6th Asian-European Symposium on Metal Mediated Efficient Reactions, “Gold-Catalyzed Reactions”, held in Singapore, June 7-9, 2010.
57. Invited Lecture at Gordon Research Conferences: Metals in Medicine (Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry), “Anti-cancer gold complexes”, held at Proctor Academy, Andover, NH, USA, June 27-July 2, 2010.
58. Invited Lecture at International Symposium on Advancing the Chemical Sciences: Challenges in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry (ISACS3), “Functional Molecular Materials and Photo-Catalysis with Phosphorescent Square Planar Metal Complexes”, held in Hong Kong, July 20-23, 2010
59. Nanqiang Lectureship at Xiamen University, “Self-Assembled Molecular Functional Materials Directed by Metal-Metal Interactions and Metal-Ligand Coordination”, September 16-18 2010, China.
60. Special Invited Lecture at The 60th Anniversary Conference on Coordination Chemistry (60CCCO), “Self-Assembled Molecular Functional Materials”, September 27-30 2010, Osaka, Japan.
61. Invited Lecture at UGC AoE on Institute of Molecular Functional Materials Research Symposium, Department of Chemistry, “Phosphorescent Metal Complexes. The Heavy Atom Effect, Materials Science Applications, and Photochemistry”, held at The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, November 8-9, 2010.
62. Invited Lecture at The 2010 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (Pacifichem), “Self-assembled metal coordination polymers and nanostructures by metal-metal and metal-ligand interactions: Functions and structures” in the Area of (2) Inorganic and the Session of Molecular Photonics (#9), held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 15-20, 2010.
63. Invited Speaker at the Molecular Materials Meeting (M3) @ Singapore – An international conference on “Big Ideas in Molecular Materials”, “Self-Assembled Molecular Functional Materials”, held in Singapore, January 10–11, 2011.
64. Invited Lecture at Inorganic Chemistry Symposium in National Chung Cheng University, “Practical Iron Catalysed Atom and Group Transfer Reactions”, held in Chiayi, Taiwan, April 29, 2011.
65. Lecture at Fudan Advisory Professorship, “Green Chemistry: Iron Catalyzed Atom and Group Transfer Reactions” held at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, June 27, 2011.
66. Invited Lecture at The 242nd American Chemical Society National Fall Meeting, Division of Polymer Chemistry, Symposium on “Metal-Containing and Metallo-Supramolecular Polymers and Materials”, “Functional supramolecular metal-containing polymeric materials”, held in Denver, USA, August 28–September 1, 2011.
67. Invited Speaker at光電功能有機金屬配合物-新結構、新功能與新應用研討會held in Changchun, Jilin, China, September 10, 2011.
68. Invited Lecture at The 6th International Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia (ICCEOCA-6), “Practical Iron Catalysed C–H Bond Functionalization” held at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, December 12, 2011.
69. Invited Speaker at 2012 NJC Symposium, “Phosphorescent Planar Metal Complexes as Biological Probes and Enzyme Inhibitors” held at The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, April 23, 2012.
70. Invited Lecture at The 2nd Hong Kong-Munster-Shanghai Joint Trilateral Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry, “Self-Assembled Coordination Polymer” held in Shanghai, China, May 28–29, 2012.
71. Invited Lecture at Photoactivatable Metal Complexes: from Theory to Therapy, “Light-Induced Catalytic and Cytotoxic Properties of Phosphorescent Transition Metal Compounds with a d8 Elelctronic Configuration”, held in London, United Kingdom, June 18–19, 2012.
72. Invited Lecture at Seventh International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-7), “Anti-Cancer Gold(III) Porphyrin Complexes”, held in Jeju, South Korea, July 1–6, 2012.
73. Invited Lecture at Seventh International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-7), “Metalloporphyrin-catalyzed C–H Bond Functionalization”, held in Jeju, South Korea, July 1–6, 2012.
74. Lecture at Nankai University, “Metal-Atom/Group Transfer Reactions for C–H Bond Functionalization. From Chemical Bonding to Practical Organic Synthesis”, held at Tianjin, China, September 19, 2012.
75. Invited Lecture at UGC AoE on Institute of Molecular Functional Materials Research Symposium, “Long Lived Emissive Excited States. Excited State Dynamics and Applications”, held at Hong Kong, China, November 13–14, 2012.
76. Invited Lecture at The 3rd Hong Kong-Munster-Shanghai Joint Trilateral Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry, “Iron-Catalyzed C–H Functionalization” held in Münster, Germany, May 1– 2, 2013.
77. Invited Lecture at The 20th International Symposium on the Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds (ISPPCC 20), “Strongly Emissive Gold(III) and Platinum(II) Complexes with very Long-Lived Excited Emissive States. Moleculat Design Studies, Photophysical Properties, and Applications” held in Michigan, USA, July 7–12, 2013.
78. Invited Lecture at The 15th Asian Chemical Congress (15ACC), “Strongly Emissive Long-Lived Electronic Excited States of Planar Transition Metal Complexes. Photophysics and Applications” held in Sentosa, Singapore, August 19–23, 2013.
79. Invited Lecture at The Eighth International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-8), “Iron Porphyrins Catalyzed Oxidative C–N and C–O Bond Formation Reactions” held in Istanbul, Turkey, June 23–26, 2014.
80. Invited Lecture at Frontiers in Inorganic Chemistry, “Oxidation Chemistry of Iron Complexes with Nitrogen Atom Donor Ligands. Reactive Iron-Ligand Multiple Bonded Intermediates and Application Studies”, held in Hong Kong, July 18–19, 2014.
81. Invited Lecture at The 41st International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ICCC-41), “Luminescent Metal Complexes with a Planar Coordination Geometry”, held in Singapore, July 21–25, 2014.
82. Invited speaker at The Sixth International Forum on Homogeneous Catalysis, “Selective Iron Catalyzed Organic Transformation Reactions”, held at Shanghai, China, October 19–22, 2014.
83. Invited speaker at Symposium in Honour of Professor Melcolm L. H. Green To Celebrate Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry in Hong Kong, “Practical Iron-Catalyzed Organic Transformations”, held at Hong Kong, China, November 7, 2014.
84. Invited speaker at Symposium for OLEDs and Organic Photovoltaics, “Structurally Robust Phosphorescent Platinum Emitters with Innovative Tetradentate Ligands for High Performance OLED Applications”, held at Hong Kong, China, November 13, 2014.
85. Invited speaker at UGC AoE on Institute of Molecular Functional Materials Research Symposium, “Design on Strongly Phosphorescent Platinum(II) Complexes with Pincer-Type Ligands. Photophysics, Photochemistry and Applications”, held at Hong Kong, China, November 17–18, 2014.
86. Invited speaker at The 5th Hong Kong-Shanghai-Muenster Joint Trilateral Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry, “Phosphorescent Metal Complexes”, held at Shanghai, China, March 30–April 1, 2015.
87. Invited speaker at 第十二屆全國分析化學年會, “Detection of Nucleic Acid Structures with Phosphorescent Metal Complexes”, held at Wuhan, China, May 8–11, 2015.
88. Invited speaker at RGC Theme-Based Research Scheme on “Challenges in Organic Photo-Voltaics and Light Emitting Diodes – A Concerted Multi-Disciplinary and Multi-Institutional Effort” for Team Discussion and Exchange, “Luminescent Metal Emitters of Earth Abundant Metals for High Performance OLEDs”, held at Hong Kong, China, June 6, 2015.
89. Invited speaker at “Dedicated to Excellence: Hong Kong Symposium for Prof. Harry B. Gray’s 80th Birthday”, “Square Planar Metal Complexes”, held at Hong Kong, China, September 18, 2015.
90. Invited speaker at UGC AoE on Institute of Molecular Functional Materials Research Symposium, “Strongly Luminescent Palladium(II) Complexes. Synthesis, Photophysical Properties and Applications”, held at Hong Kong, China, November 23–24, 2015.
91. Invited speaker at The 6th Hong Kong-Shanghai-Muenster Joint Trilateral Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry, “Luminescent Pd(II) Complexes”, held at Muenster, Germany, May 9–10, 2016.
92. Invited speaker at The 5th Grubbs Symposium on “Green Synthetic Chemistry & Polymer”, “Practical Iron Catalyzed C–O and C–N Bond Formation Reactions”, held at Shenzhen, China, June 20–21, 2016.
93. Invited speaker at Pre-Symposium of 16th International Congress of Catalysis, “Practical Iron Catalyzed C–O and C–N Bond Formation Reactions”, held at Lanzhou, China, July 1–2, 2016.
94. Invited speaker at The Ninth International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-9), “Metal Porphyrin-Catalyzed Alkylcarbene C–H Insertion and Cyclopropanation”, held at Nanjing, China, July 3–9, 2016.
95. Invited speaker at 3rd Japan-Taiwan-Singapore-Hong Kong Quadrilateral Symposium on Coordination Chemistry, “Phosphorescent Metal Complexes with Long-Lived Electronic Excited States. Photo-Physics, Photo-Catalysis, and Materials Applications”, held at Taipei, Taiwan, August 4–5, 2016.
96. Invited speaker at Seminar on Research and Development of Chinese Medicines, “Assisting research and development of anti-cancer drugs from Chinese medicines by using advanced chemical technologies”, held at Hong Kong, China, September 20, 2016.
97. Invited speaker at UGC AoE Institute of Molecular Functional Materials Research Symposium, “Phosphorescent Palladium(II) Complexes”, held at Hong Kong, China, November 10–11, 2016.
98. Invited speaker at ICCAS-SUSTech-HKU Trilateral Symposium: Frontier of Chemical Sciences, “Phosphorescent Palladium Complexes with Long-Lived Excited State”, held at Shenzhen, China, January 13, 2017.
99. Invited speaker at Manchester-Shanghai-Hong Kong Trilateral Symposium on Chemistry Frontiers, “Practical Iron-catalyzed Oxidative C–H and C=C Functionalization and Lewis Acid Catalysis”, held at Shanghai, China, April 3–4, 2017.
100. Invited speaker at 2017 MRS Spring Meeting, “Photophysics of Platinum Complexes with Tetradentate Ligands”, held at Phoenix City, USA, April 17–21, 2017.
101. Invited speaker at The 2nd Science and Technology Innovation Summit, “Anticancer Medicines”, held at Hong Kong, China, May 5, 2017.
102. Invited speaker at The 6th Grubbs Symposium on “Selective Catalysis”, “Practical Iron Catalyzed C–O and C–N Bond Formation Reactions”, held at Shenzhen, China, May 29–30, 2017.
103. Invited speaker at UGC AoE on Institute of Molecular Functional Materials Research Seminar, “Metal-Organic Framework Composite with Luminescent Pincer Platinum(II) Complexes: 3MMLCT Emission and Photoinduced Dehydrogenation Catalysis”, held at Hong Kong, China, November 30 – December 1, 2017.
104. Invited speaker at The 1st Hong Kong-Beijing/Nanjing-London Joint Symposium on Frontier Inorganic Chemistry, “Transition Metal Complexes with Long-Lived Emissive Excited States”, held at Hong Kong, China, May 14-16, 2018.
105. Invited speaker at The 8th Hong Kong-Shanghai-Münster Joint Trilateral Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry, “The Use of Light Photons and Metal Complexes for C–H Bond and C=C Bond Functionalization”, held at Shanghai, China, May 24–25, 2018.
106. Invited speaker at The 2nd Symposium of Metal-Carbene Consortium (Beijing Symposium 2018 on Metal-Carbene Chemistry), “Iridium Porphyrin Carbene Complexes. Structure, Catalysis and Anti-Cancer Properties”, held at Beijing, China, June 7–9, 2018.
107. Invited speaker at 慶賀陸熙炎院士九十華誕學術報告會, “Practical Iron Catalyzed Organic Transformations”, held at Shanghai, China, August 29, 2018.
108. Invited speaker at 2nd Joint Symposium on Meterials Research – Diverse Aspects of Future Chemistry, “Self-Assembled Phosphorescent Clusters, Catanane Structures and Polymers with d10 Metal-Alkynyl Systems”, held at Osaka, Japan, December 3–5, 2018.
109. Invited speaker at the 2nd Manchester-Shanghai-Hong Kong Trilateral Symposium on Chemistry Frontiers, “Transition Metal Quinone Carbene Complexes. Structures and Reactivity”, held at Hong Kong, China, December 17–19, 2018.
110. Invited speaker at Cross-State Conference of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, “Chemical Biology of Anti-Cancer Medicines. From Metal Chemotherapy to Tradition Chinese Medicines”, held at Hong Kong, China, December 8, 2018.
111. Invited speaker at 2019 International Conference on Display Technology, “High Performance Tungsten-TADF OLED Emitters”, held at Suzhou, China, March 26–29, 2019.
112. Invited speaker at The 9th Hong Kong-Shanghai-Münster Joint Trilateral Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry, “Dinuclear Metal Complexes with Metal-Metal Bonded Excited States. Photophysics and Photochemical Activation of C–H and C–X Bonds”, held at Münster, Germany, June 17–18, 2019.
113. Invited speaker at Sino-German Joint Workshop on Key Scientific Issues of TADF Materials, “High Perforamance Gold and Tungsten-TADF Emitters”, held at Foshan, China, July 21–23, 2019.
114. Invited speaker at The 15th China International Display Conference, “Metal TADF Materials”, held at Shenzhen, China, November 14, 2019.
115. Invited speaker at Supramolecular Coordination Chemistry: From metal-metal multiple bonds to helical coordination metal strings – 2020 Retirement Symposium for Professor Shie-Ming Peng, “The Fascinating Gold Chemistry”, held at Taipei, Taiwan, Web meeting, September 26, 2020.
116. Invited speaker at “多层次手性物质的精准构筑”重大研究计划 2019年度学术交流会, “手性铁络合物催化的不对称氧化反应、胺化反应及手性铁路易斯酸催化的不对称加成反应”, held at Chengdu, China, Web meeting, October 29, 2020.
117. Invited speaker at 2020 Mini-Symposium of the State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry, “Practical Iron Catalyzed Asymmetric Organic Transformation Reactions”, held at Hong Kong, China, Web meeting, December 7, 2020.
118. Invited speaker at Croucher Advanced Study Institute 2020 – Metals in Biology and Medicine: From Molecular Image to Drug Resistance, “Transition-metal-based Anticancer Drug”, held at Hong Kong, China, Web meeting, December 10–12, 2020.
119. Invited speaker at 中国化学会第32届学术年会 第三十一分会:光化学, “发光铂(II)配合物:光催化和生物医学应用”, Zhuhai, China, Web meeting, April 19–22, 2021.
120. Invited speaker at The 1st SNU Organometallic Chemistry Symposium, “Metal-Catalyzed C–H Bond Functionalization via Reactive Metal-Imido/Nitrene and Metal-Carbene Intermediates”, Seoul, South Korea, Web meeting, October 29, 2021.
121. Invited speaker at “多层次手性物质的精准构筑”重大研究计划 2021年度学术交流会, “手性铁络合物催化的不对称氧化反应、胺化反应及手性铁路易斯酸催化的不对称加成反应”, held at Tianjin, China, Web meeting, December 28, 2021.
122. Invited speaker at ACS Spring 2022: Josef Michl ACS Award in Photochemistry: Symposium in Honor of Vivian W.-W. Yam, “Super-efficient triplet exciton diffusion by metal-metal interaction”, held at San Diego, USA, Web meeting, March 20–24, 2022.
123. Invited speaker at 湖南大学2022年化学生物学与分子医学前沿论坛, “Anti-Cancer Metal Medicines for Combating Advanced Metastatic Malignancy”, held at Hunan, China, Web meeting, November 5-6, 2022.
124. Invited speaker at 第七届香港–深圳国际肿瘤会议, “Targeted Chemotherapy”, held at Shenzhen, China, Web meeting, November 26–27, 2022.
125. Invited speaker at Mini-Symposium of the State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry, “Iron-Catalyzed C–H Amination Reactions”, held at Hong Kong, China, Web meeting, March 21, 2023.
126. Invited speaker at Chemistry – An Innovation Forum, “The fascinating gold chemistry – From catalysis to materials applications and pharmaceuticals”, held at Tsingdao, China, June 17-20, 2023.
127. Invited speaker at The 8th Hong Kong-Shenzhen Oncology Conference cum 6th Sanming Project Conference, “Fighting against Metastatic Cancer”, held at Shenzhen, China, November 24-25, 2023.
2. Invited Speaker (with honorarium) to give a 30-40 minute lecture at the Annual Industrial Associate Conference on Oxidation Chemistry held at California Institute of Technology, February 1986.
3. Invited Speaker (with honorarium) to give an one-hour lecture at the International Symposium on Chemistries of Macrocyclic Complexes held at the Institute for Molecular Science Okazaki, Japan, March 1989.
4. Invited Speaker (with honorarium) to give a 30-40 minute lecture at the Symposium on Atom Transfer Reactions, National Meeting of American Chemical Society, held in Dallas, USA, April 1989.
5. Honorary Speaker invited by the National Science Council of Taiwan to deliver a 30-40 minute lecture at the Annual Chemistry Meeting of Taiwan, 1990.
6. Invited Speaker (with honorarium) to give a 45 minute lecture on “Oxidation of Alkanes by Ruthenium-Oxo Complexes” at the Petrochemistry Division of National Meeting of American Chemical Society held in Boston, USA, April 1990.
7. Invited Speaker (with honorarium) to give a 30 minute lecture at the EuroAsian Meeting held in Seoul, Korea, April 1990.
8. Invited Speaker (with honorarium) to give an one-hour lecture at the Florida Catalysis Conference organised by the American Chemical Society held in Florida, USA, April 1991.
9. Invited (with honorarium) by the Arco Chemical Company, USA, to deliver a lecture at the Arco Chemical Company, October 1991.
10. Invited Speaker (with honorarium) to deliver a 30 minutes lecture “Molecular design for Photo-Redox Reactions and Organic Oxidation” at the International Symposium on Inorganic and Organic Chemistry in Commenoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Chinese Chemical Society held at National Taiwan University, Taiwan, November 20–23, 1992.
11. Invited Speaker (with honorarium) to deliver a 60 minutes lecture “The Redox Reactions of Nitrido and Imido Complexes of Ruthenium and Osmium” at the 3rd CBM International Symposium on Biofunctional Molecules held at Pohang Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, November 21–24, 1992.
12. Invited Speaker (with honorarium) to deliver a 30-40 minutes lecture at the 3rd Eurasia conference on Chemical Sciences held in Bangkok, December 14–18, 1992.
13. Invited Speaker to deliver a 30 minutes lecture on “Donor-Acceptor Supramolecular Platinum Complexes. Synthesis and Photoluminescent Studies” at the 10th International Symposium of Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds held in Sendai, Japan, July 25–30, 1993.
14. Invited Speaker (with honorarium) to deliver a 40 minutes lecture “Hydrocarbon Oxidation and Alkene Epoxidation by Ruthenium and Manganese Complexes” at the 34th IUPAC Congress held in Beijing, China, August 15–20, 1993.
15. Invited Speaker of the First and Second Annual Scientific Conferences and Annual General Meeting organised by Hong Kong Institution of Science, 1993 and 1994.
16. Invited Speaker (with honorarium) to deliver a 30 minute lecture at the 3rd Japan-Sino Binational Symposium on Photochemistry held in Osaka, Japan, October 26–29, 1994.
17. Invited Speaker at the Inorganic Photochemistry Symposium at the 1995 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies organised by the American Chemical Society, December 17–22, 1995.
18. Invited Speaker at the 23rd International Symposium on Macrocyclic Chemistry held in Hawaii, June 7–12, 1998.
19. Invited Speaker at the Xiangshan Science Conference on Supramolecular Systems held in Beijing, China, October 16–21, 1998.
20. Invited Speaker to give a 30 minute lecture “Luminescent Metal-Organic Compounds for Molecular Recognitions and Blue Light Emitting Diode Devices” at the 2nd SANKEN International Symposium held in Osaka, Japan, January 26–27, 1999.
21. Invited Speaker to give a 30 minutes lecture “Luminescent Transition Metal Compounds as Advanced Materials for Light Emitting Diodes” at the Asia-Pacific Symposium on Organic Electroluminescent Materials and Devices in Hong Kong, June 8–11, 1999.
22. Invited Speaker to give a 30 minutes lecture on “The Fascinating Gold(I) Photoluminescence” at the 2nd Asian Photochemistry Conference held in Seoul, Korea, June 28–July 1, 1999.
23. Invited Speaker at the Int’l Symposium on Photonics & Applications held in Singapore, November 29–December 3, 1999.
24. Invited Speaker at the 8th International SPACC Symposium-Chemistry for Selective Reactions-Coordination Chemistry in Harmony with Other Fields of Chemistry, “Ruthenium porphyrins as a new class of catalysts for organic synthesis”, held in Beijing, China, October 17–19, 2001.
25. Invited Speaker of Singapore International Chemical Conference (II). Frontiers in Chemical Design and Synthesis, “Reactive iron, ruthenium and osmium-carbene complexes for carbon-carbon bond formation reactions”, Singapore, December 18–20, 2001.
26. Invited Speaker at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Mainland – Hong Kong Academicians Forum held in Hong Kong, May 24–25, 2002.
27. Invited Speaker at the 2nd International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, “Chiral Ruthenium-Oxo, Imido and Carbene Complexes with Porphyrin Ligands for Enantioselective Carbon-Oxygen, Carbon-Nitrogen and Carbon-Carbon Bond Formations”, held in Kyoto, Japan, June 30–July 5, 2002.
28. Invited Speaker at the XIXth IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry, “Luminescent Platinum(II) Complexes with Cyclometalated and Aromatic Diimine Ligands: Photophysical Studies and Applications”, held in Budapest, Hungary, July 14–19, 2002.
29. Invited Speaker at the Taiwan Bioinorganic Chemistry Symposium 2003, “Ruthenium-Catalyzed C–H Bond Functionalization”, held in Hsinchu, Taiwan, October 2–4, 2003.
30. Invited Speaker at the Third International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, “Ruthenium Porphyrin Catalysts for Organic Synthesis”, held in New Orleans, USA, July 11–16, 2004.
31. Invited Speaker at the First Chemistry Week of Changchun, “Bioinspired Organic Catalysis”, held in Changchun, China, August 9, 2004.
32. Invited Speaker at the International Symposium on Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, “Bioinspired Organic Catalysis”, held in Guangzhou, China, December 16–18, 2004.
33. Invited Speaker [a 35-minute lecture] at the 229th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Symposium on Frontiers in Inorganic Spectroscopy and Photochemistry, “Luminescent Platinum(II) Materials. Spectroscopic Characterization of Metal-Metal-to-Ligand and Ligand-to-Ligand Charge Transfer Excited States and Sensory Materials Applications”, held at San Diego, US, March 13–17, 2005.
34. Invited Speaker at the National Conferences of Coordination Chemistry and Bioinorganic Chemistry, “Metal-Carbon Multiple Bonded Complexes: Bondings, Catalysis and Materials Science Applications”, held in Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, November 19, 2005.
35. Invited Speaker at the Singapore International Chemical Conference 4 (SICC-4), “Metal-Carbon Multiple Bonded Complexes: Bondings, Catalysis and Materials Science Applications”, held in Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore, December 8–10, 2005.
36. Invited Speaker at the 2005 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (Pacifichem 2005), “Neutral luminescent platinum(II) materials with multi-anionic chelating ligands: photophysical studies and applications in high-performance orange and red OLEDs”, held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 15–20, 2005.
37. Invited Speaker at the International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-4), “Chiral metalloporphyrin catalysts for Lewis-acid catalyzed organic reactions and oxidative carbon-oxygen and carbon-nitrogen bond formation reactions”, held in Rome, Italy, July 2–7, 2006.
38. Invited Speaker at the 6th International Conference on Electroluminescence of Molecular Materials and Related Phenomena (ICEL-6), “Phosphorescent Platinum(II) Materials for Organic Photonics and Nano-Devices”, held in the City University of Hong Kong, August 6–10, 2006.
39. Invited Poster Presentation by the 232nd American Chemical Society National Meeting, “Bis(pyridyl)allenylidene Complex of Ruthenium with a Tetradentate Macrocyclic Amine: a “Molecular Clip” that Displays Intense Near Infrared Absorption upon Coordination to Ruthenium(II)”, held in San Francisco, USA, September 10–14, 2006. [Frontiers of Inorganic Chemistry: The Grey Areas]
40. Invited Speaker at the Third Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (AsBIC-III), “Metalloporphyrins as a New Class of Anti-Cancer Compounds”, held in Nanjing, China, October 30–November 3, 2006.
41. Invited Lecture at the 3rd Sino-US Symposium on Organic Chemistry, “Reactive Ruthenium Carbenoid Complexes for Group Transfer Reactions”, held in Wuhan, China, Jun 1–2, 2007.
42. Invited Lecture at the 234th ACS National Meeting Boston on “Functional nanostructured phosphorescent materials driven by weak closed-shell metal-metal interactions and metal-ligand coordination”, held in Boston, USA, August 19, 2007.
43. Invited Speaker at Frontiers of Material Chemistry, “Phosphorescent Platinum(II) Materials. Spectroscopy, Photophysical Properties and Materials Science Applications” held at The University of Warwick, UK, September 6, 2007.
44. Invited Speaker at ISHC-XVI International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis, “Metal Catalyzed Oxidation of Organic Compounds with Dioxygen or Hydrogen Peroxide as Terminal Oxidant”, held in Florence, Italy, July 6–11, 2008.
45. Invited Speaker at 2008 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, “Self-Assembled Functional Molecular Materials for Optoelectronic Applications”, held at Boston, USA, December 1–5, 2008.
46. Invited Speaker at Envonik Meets Science China 2009 Catalytic Processes, “Ruthenium-catalyzed organic oxidation reactions with oxygen or hydrogen peroxide as terminal oxidant”, held in Shanghai, China, March 20, 2009.
47. Invited Speaker at Professor Peng's 60th birthday Symposium, “The unique phosphorescent planar metal complexes. From photocatalysis to materials science applications and medicines”, held in Taiwan, May 30, 2009.
48. Invited Speaker at Academia sinica, “Anti-Cancer and Anti-viral Transition Metal Complexes”, held in Taiwan, June 1, 2009.
49. Invited Speaker at 6th National Conference on Coordination Chemistry, “Self-assembled Metal Coordination Polymers”, held in Hong Kong, July 6–9, 2009.
50. Invited Speaker at Frontiers in Chemistry, “Metal-Catalyzed Atom and Group Transfer Reactions for Practical Organic Synthesis”, held in Singapore, July 20–22, 2009.
51. Invited Lecture at Tsing Hua University, “Gold Catalysed Organic Transformation Reactions” held in Beijing, China, September 24, 2009 (supported by KC Wong Education Foundation Lectureship).
52. Invited Lecture at Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC), “Selective Alkane Activation and Aerobic Oxidations with Practical Interest”, held in China, September 25, 2009 (supported by KC Wong Education Foundation Lectureship).
53. Invited Lecture at City University of Hong Kong, “Selective Activation of C-H Bonds by Atom and Group Transfer Reactions”, held in Hong Kong, February 24, 2010.
54. Invited Lecture at Molecular Engineering Symposium on Nanostructured Functional Materials for celebrating JLU-PUV (Jilin University-Polytechnic University of Valencia) collaboration, “Self-Assembled Multi-Functional Coordination Polymers”, held at Jilin University, Changchun, China, April 10–11, 2010.
55. Invited Lectures at Visiting Hubei Scheme of Famous Scientists, “The unique phosphorescent planar metal complexes. From photocatalysis to materials science applications and medicines” and “Anti-Cancer and Anti-Viral Transition Metal Complexes”, held in Wuhan, China, May 20–23, 2010.
56. Invited Lecture at the 6th Asian-European Symposium on Metal Mediated Efficient Reactions, “Gold-Catalyzed Reactions”, held in Singapore, June 7-9, 2010.
57. Invited Lecture at Gordon Research Conferences: Metals in Medicine (Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry), “Anti-cancer gold complexes”, held at Proctor Academy, Andover, NH, USA, June 27-July 2, 2010.
58. Invited Lecture at International Symposium on Advancing the Chemical Sciences: Challenges in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry (ISACS3), “Functional Molecular Materials and Photo-Catalysis with Phosphorescent Square Planar Metal Complexes”, held in Hong Kong, July 20-23, 2010
59. Nanqiang Lectureship at Xiamen University, “Self-Assembled Molecular Functional Materials Directed by Metal-Metal Interactions and Metal-Ligand Coordination”, September 16-18 2010, China.
60. Special Invited Lecture at The 60th Anniversary Conference on Coordination Chemistry (60CCCO), “Self-Assembled Molecular Functional Materials”, September 27-30 2010, Osaka, Japan.
61. Invited Lecture at UGC AoE on Institute of Molecular Functional Materials Research Symposium, Department of Chemistry, “Phosphorescent Metal Complexes. The Heavy Atom Effect, Materials Science Applications, and Photochemistry”, held at The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, November 8-9, 2010.
62. Invited Lecture at The 2010 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (Pacifichem), “Self-assembled metal coordination polymers and nanostructures by metal-metal and metal-ligand interactions: Functions and structures” in the Area of (2) Inorganic and the Session of Molecular Photonics (#9), held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 15-20, 2010.
63. Invited Speaker at the Molecular Materials Meeting (M3) @ Singapore – An international conference on “Big Ideas in Molecular Materials”, “Self-Assembled Molecular Functional Materials”, held in Singapore, January 10–11, 2011.
64. Invited Lecture at Inorganic Chemistry Symposium in National Chung Cheng University, “Practical Iron Catalysed Atom and Group Transfer Reactions”, held in Chiayi, Taiwan, April 29, 2011.
65. Lecture at Fudan Advisory Professorship, “Green Chemistry: Iron Catalyzed Atom and Group Transfer Reactions” held at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, June 27, 2011.
66. Invited Lecture at The 242nd American Chemical Society National Fall Meeting, Division of Polymer Chemistry, Symposium on “Metal-Containing and Metallo-Supramolecular Polymers and Materials”, “Functional supramolecular metal-containing polymeric materials”, held in Denver, USA, August 28–September 1, 2011.
67. Invited Speaker at光電功能有機金屬配合物-新結構、新功能與新應用研討會held in Changchun, Jilin, China, September 10, 2011.
68. Invited Lecture at The 6th International Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia (ICCEOCA-6), “Practical Iron Catalysed C–H Bond Functionalization” held at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, December 12, 2011.
69. Invited Speaker at 2012 NJC Symposium, “Phosphorescent Planar Metal Complexes as Biological Probes and Enzyme Inhibitors” held at The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, April 23, 2012.
70. Invited Lecture at The 2nd Hong Kong-Munster-Shanghai Joint Trilateral Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry, “Self-Assembled Coordination Polymer” held in Shanghai, China, May 28–29, 2012.
71. Invited Lecture at Photoactivatable Metal Complexes: from Theory to Therapy, “Light-Induced Catalytic and Cytotoxic Properties of Phosphorescent Transition Metal Compounds with a d8 Elelctronic Configuration”, held in London, United Kingdom, June 18–19, 2012.
72. Invited Lecture at Seventh International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-7), “Anti-Cancer Gold(III) Porphyrin Complexes”, held in Jeju, South Korea, July 1–6, 2012.
73. Invited Lecture at Seventh International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-7), “Metalloporphyrin-catalyzed C–H Bond Functionalization”, held in Jeju, South Korea, July 1–6, 2012.
74. Lecture at Nankai University, “Metal-Atom/Group Transfer Reactions for C–H Bond Functionalization. From Chemical Bonding to Practical Organic Synthesis”, held at Tianjin, China, September 19, 2012.
75. Invited Lecture at UGC AoE on Institute of Molecular Functional Materials Research Symposium, “Long Lived Emissive Excited States. Excited State Dynamics and Applications”, held at Hong Kong, China, November 13–14, 2012.
76. Invited Lecture at The 3rd Hong Kong-Munster-Shanghai Joint Trilateral Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry, “Iron-Catalyzed C–H Functionalization” held in Münster, Germany, May 1– 2, 2013.
77. Invited Lecture at The 20th International Symposium on the Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds (ISPPCC 20), “Strongly Emissive Gold(III) and Platinum(II) Complexes with very Long-Lived Excited Emissive States. Moleculat Design Studies, Photophysical Properties, and Applications” held in Michigan, USA, July 7–12, 2013.
78. Invited Lecture at The 15th Asian Chemical Congress (15ACC), “Strongly Emissive Long-Lived Electronic Excited States of Planar Transition Metal Complexes. Photophysics and Applications” held in Sentosa, Singapore, August 19–23, 2013.
79. Invited Lecture at The Eighth International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-8), “Iron Porphyrins Catalyzed Oxidative C–N and C–O Bond Formation Reactions” held in Istanbul, Turkey, June 23–26, 2014.
80. Invited Lecture at Frontiers in Inorganic Chemistry, “Oxidation Chemistry of Iron Complexes with Nitrogen Atom Donor Ligands. Reactive Iron-Ligand Multiple Bonded Intermediates and Application Studies”, held in Hong Kong, July 18–19, 2014.
81. Invited Lecture at The 41st International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ICCC-41), “Luminescent Metal Complexes with a Planar Coordination Geometry”, held in Singapore, July 21–25, 2014.
82. Invited speaker at The Sixth International Forum on Homogeneous Catalysis, “Selective Iron Catalyzed Organic Transformation Reactions”, held at Shanghai, China, October 19–22, 2014.
83. Invited speaker at Symposium in Honour of Professor Melcolm L. H. Green To Celebrate Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry in Hong Kong, “Practical Iron-Catalyzed Organic Transformations”, held at Hong Kong, China, November 7, 2014.
84. Invited speaker at Symposium for OLEDs and Organic Photovoltaics, “Structurally Robust Phosphorescent Platinum Emitters with Innovative Tetradentate Ligands for High Performance OLED Applications”, held at Hong Kong, China, November 13, 2014.
85. Invited speaker at UGC AoE on Institute of Molecular Functional Materials Research Symposium, “Design on Strongly Phosphorescent Platinum(II) Complexes with Pincer-Type Ligands. Photophysics, Photochemistry and Applications”, held at Hong Kong, China, November 17–18, 2014.
86. Invited speaker at The 5th Hong Kong-Shanghai-Muenster Joint Trilateral Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry, “Phosphorescent Metal Complexes”, held at Shanghai, China, March 30–April 1, 2015.
87. Invited speaker at 第十二屆全國分析化學年會, “Detection of Nucleic Acid Structures with Phosphorescent Metal Complexes”, held at Wuhan, China, May 8–11, 2015.
88. Invited speaker at RGC Theme-Based Research Scheme on “Challenges in Organic Photo-Voltaics and Light Emitting Diodes – A Concerted Multi-Disciplinary and Multi-Institutional Effort” for Team Discussion and Exchange, “Luminescent Metal Emitters of Earth Abundant Metals for High Performance OLEDs”, held at Hong Kong, China, June 6, 2015.
89. Invited speaker at “Dedicated to Excellence: Hong Kong Symposium for Prof. Harry B. Gray’s 80th Birthday”, “Square Planar Metal Complexes”, held at Hong Kong, China, September 18, 2015.
90. Invited speaker at UGC AoE on Institute of Molecular Functional Materials Research Symposium, “Strongly Luminescent Palladium(II) Complexes. Synthesis, Photophysical Properties and Applications”, held at Hong Kong, China, November 23–24, 2015.
91. Invited speaker at The 6th Hong Kong-Shanghai-Muenster Joint Trilateral Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry, “Luminescent Pd(II) Complexes”, held at Muenster, Germany, May 9–10, 2016.
92. Invited speaker at The 5th Grubbs Symposium on “Green Synthetic Chemistry & Polymer”, “Practical Iron Catalyzed C–O and C–N Bond Formation Reactions”, held at Shenzhen, China, June 20–21, 2016.
93. Invited speaker at Pre-Symposium of 16th International Congress of Catalysis, “Practical Iron Catalyzed C–O and C–N Bond Formation Reactions”, held at Lanzhou, China, July 1–2, 2016.
94. Invited speaker at The Ninth International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-9), “Metal Porphyrin-Catalyzed Alkylcarbene C–H Insertion and Cyclopropanation”, held at Nanjing, China, July 3–9, 2016.
95. Invited speaker at 3rd Japan-Taiwan-Singapore-Hong Kong Quadrilateral Symposium on Coordination Chemistry, “Phosphorescent Metal Complexes with Long-Lived Electronic Excited States. Photo-Physics, Photo-Catalysis, and Materials Applications”, held at Taipei, Taiwan, August 4–5, 2016.
96. Invited speaker at Seminar on Research and Development of Chinese Medicines, “Assisting research and development of anti-cancer drugs from Chinese medicines by using advanced chemical technologies”, held at Hong Kong, China, September 20, 2016.
97. Invited speaker at UGC AoE Institute of Molecular Functional Materials Research Symposium, “Phosphorescent Palladium(II) Complexes”, held at Hong Kong, China, November 10–11, 2016.
98. Invited speaker at ICCAS-SUSTech-HKU Trilateral Symposium: Frontier of Chemical Sciences, “Phosphorescent Palladium Complexes with Long-Lived Excited State”, held at Shenzhen, China, January 13, 2017.
99. Invited speaker at Manchester-Shanghai-Hong Kong Trilateral Symposium on Chemistry Frontiers, “Practical Iron-catalyzed Oxidative C–H and C=C Functionalization and Lewis Acid Catalysis”, held at Shanghai, China, April 3–4, 2017.
100. Invited speaker at 2017 MRS Spring Meeting, “Photophysics of Platinum Complexes with Tetradentate Ligands”, held at Phoenix City, USA, April 17–21, 2017.
101. Invited speaker at The 2nd Science and Technology Innovation Summit, “Anticancer Medicines”, held at Hong Kong, China, May 5, 2017.
102. Invited speaker at The 6th Grubbs Symposium on “Selective Catalysis”, “Practical Iron Catalyzed C–O and C–N Bond Formation Reactions”, held at Shenzhen, China, May 29–30, 2017.
103. Invited speaker at UGC AoE on Institute of Molecular Functional Materials Research Seminar, “Metal-Organic Framework Composite with Luminescent Pincer Platinum(II) Complexes: 3MMLCT Emission and Photoinduced Dehydrogenation Catalysis”, held at Hong Kong, China, November 30 – December 1, 2017.
104. Invited speaker at The 1st Hong Kong-Beijing/Nanjing-London Joint Symposium on Frontier Inorganic Chemistry, “Transition Metal Complexes with Long-Lived Emissive Excited States”, held at Hong Kong, China, May 14-16, 2018.
105. Invited speaker at The 8th Hong Kong-Shanghai-Münster Joint Trilateral Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry, “The Use of Light Photons and Metal Complexes for C–H Bond and C=C Bond Functionalization”, held at Shanghai, China, May 24–25, 2018.
106. Invited speaker at The 2nd Symposium of Metal-Carbene Consortium (Beijing Symposium 2018 on Metal-Carbene Chemistry), “Iridium Porphyrin Carbene Complexes. Structure, Catalysis and Anti-Cancer Properties”, held at Beijing, China, June 7–9, 2018.
107. Invited speaker at 慶賀陸熙炎院士九十華誕學術報告會, “Practical Iron Catalyzed Organic Transformations”, held at Shanghai, China, August 29, 2018.
108. Invited speaker at 2nd Joint Symposium on Meterials Research – Diverse Aspects of Future Chemistry, “Self-Assembled Phosphorescent Clusters, Catanane Structures and Polymers with d10 Metal-Alkynyl Systems”, held at Osaka, Japan, December 3–5, 2018.
109. Invited speaker at the 2nd Manchester-Shanghai-Hong Kong Trilateral Symposium on Chemistry Frontiers, “Transition Metal Quinone Carbene Complexes. Structures and Reactivity”, held at Hong Kong, China, December 17–19, 2018.
110. Invited speaker at Cross-State Conference of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, “Chemical Biology of Anti-Cancer Medicines. From Metal Chemotherapy to Tradition Chinese Medicines”, held at Hong Kong, China, December 8, 2018.
111. Invited speaker at 2019 International Conference on Display Technology, “High Performance Tungsten-TADF OLED Emitters”, held at Suzhou, China, March 26–29, 2019.
112. Invited speaker at The 9th Hong Kong-Shanghai-Münster Joint Trilateral Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry, “Dinuclear Metal Complexes with Metal-Metal Bonded Excited States. Photophysics and Photochemical Activation of C–H and C–X Bonds”, held at Münster, Germany, June 17–18, 2019.
113. Invited speaker at Sino-German Joint Workshop on Key Scientific Issues of TADF Materials, “High Perforamance Gold and Tungsten-TADF Emitters”, held at Foshan, China, July 21–23, 2019.
114. Invited speaker at The 15th China International Display Conference, “Metal TADF Materials”, held at Shenzhen, China, November 14, 2019.
115. Invited speaker at Supramolecular Coordination Chemistry: From metal-metal multiple bonds to helical coordination metal strings – 2020 Retirement Symposium for Professor Shie-Ming Peng, “The Fascinating Gold Chemistry”, held at Taipei, Taiwan, Web meeting, September 26, 2020.
116. Invited speaker at “多层次手性物质的精准构筑”重大研究计划 2019年度学术交流会, “手性铁络合物催化的不对称氧化反应、胺化反应及手性铁路易斯酸催化的不对称加成反应”, held at Chengdu, China, Web meeting, October 29, 2020.
117. Invited speaker at 2020 Mini-Symposium of the State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry, “Practical Iron Catalyzed Asymmetric Organic Transformation Reactions”, held at Hong Kong, China, Web meeting, December 7, 2020.
118. Invited speaker at Croucher Advanced Study Institute 2020 – Metals in Biology and Medicine: From Molecular Image to Drug Resistance, “Transition-metal-based Anticancer Drug”, held at Hong Kong, China, Web meeting, December 10–12, 2020.
119. Invited speaker at 中国化学会第32届学术年会 第三十一分会:光化学, “发光铂(II)配合物:光催化和生物医学应用”, Zhuhai, China, Web meeting, April 19–22, 2021.
120. Invited speaker at The 1st SNU Organometallic Chemistry Symposium, “Metal-Catalyzed C–H Bond Functionalization via Reactive Metal-Imido/Nitrene and Metal-Carbene Intermediates”, Seoul, South Korea, Web meeting, October 29, 2021.
121. Invited speaker at “多层次手性物质的精准构筑”重大研究计划 2021年度学术交流会, “手性铁络合物催化的不对称氧化反应、胺化反应及手性铁路易斯酸催化的不对称加成反应”, held at Tianjin, China, Web meeting, December 28, 2021.
122. Invited speaker at ACS Spring 2022: Josef Michl ACS Award in Photochemistry: Symposium in Honor of Vivian W.-W. Yam, “Super-efficient triplet exciton diffusion by metal-metal interaction”, held at San Diego, USA, Web meeting, March 20–24, 2022.
123. Invited speaker at 湖南大学2022年化学生物学与分子医学前沿论坛, “Anti-Cancer Metal Medicines for Combating Advanced Metastatic Malignancy”, held at Hunan, China, Web meeting, November 5-6, 2022.
124. Invited speaker at 第七届香港–深圳国际肿瘤会议, “Targeted Chemotherapy”, held at Shenzhen, China, Web meeting, November 26–27, 2022.
125. Invited speaker at Mini-Symposium of the State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry, “Iron-Catalyzed C–H Amination Reactions”, held at Hong Kong, China, Web meeting, March 21, 2023.
126. Invited speaker at Chemistry – An Innovation Forum, “The fascinating gold chemistry – From catalysis to materials applications and pharmaceuticals”, held at Tsingdao, China, June 17-20, 2023.
127. Invited speaker at The 8th Hong Kong-Shenzhen Oncology Conference cum 6th Sanming Project Conference, “Fighting against Metastatic Cancer”, held at Shenzhen, China, November 24-25, 2023.
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