Plenary and Keynote Lectures
1. Plenary Lecture at the 30th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, “Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds. Oxo, Imido and Nitrido Complexes of Ruthenium and Osmium”, held in Kyoto, Japan, July 25–29, 1994.
2. Plenary Lecture at the Hong Kong International Symposium on Heterocyclic Chemistry (organised under the auspices of the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry), “Metal Complexes of Heterocyclic Ligands for Organic Synthesis and Photochemical Reactions”, held in Hong Kong, August 13–16, 1995.
3. Plenary Lecture at World Chinese Workshop on Applied Chemistry to give a one hour lecture, “Ruthenium Catalysed Organic Oxidation, Alkene Cyclopropanation, and Alkene Aziridination”, held in Hangzhou, China, September 10–13, 1995.
4. Keynote Lecture at the Fifth Eurasia Conference on Chemical Sciences, “Oxo and Imido Complexes of Ruthenium for Catalytic and Asymmetric Oxidation and Aziridination of Alkenes”, held in Guangzhou, China, December 10–14, 1996.
5. Keynote Lecture at The First International Symposium on Inorganic Chemistry for Chinese Scientists, “Luminescent Metal Complexes with Metal-Metal and Ligand-Ligand Interactions”, held in Hong Kong, July 14–19, 1996.
6. Plenary Lecture at the 3rd National Meeting of Coordination Chemistry, held in Xi’an, China, September 1997.
7. Keynote Lecture at Symposium “New Trends in Catalytic Oxidations”, held in Osaka University, Japan, December 1–5, 1997.
8. Plenary Lecture at the 9th International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds, organised by IUPAC, “Chiral ruthenium-oxo and imido porphyrin complexes for asymmetric oxidations and aziridinations”, held in Hong Kong, August 2–7, 1998.
9. Keynote Lecture at the XIXth IUPAC International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (XIX ICOMC), “Ruthenium-Carbon Multiple Bonded Complexes containing Macrocyclic Tertiary Amine and Porphyrin Ligands”, held in Shanghai, China, July 23–28, 2000.
10. Plenary Lecture at The Third Conference for Worldwide Chinese Young Chemists, “Inorganic Photohemistry: Past, Present, and Future”, held in Xiamen, China, December 20–23, 2000.
11. Plenary Lecture at the 15th International Symposium on Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds (ISPPCC), “Structural and Spectroscopic Evidence for Weak Metal-Metal Interactions and Metal-Substrate Exciplex Formation”, held at The University of Hong Kong, July 4–9, 2004.
12. Plenary Lecture at the International Symposium on Catalysis and Fine Chemicals 2004 (C&FC 2004), “Ruthenium Porphyrin Catalysts for Organic Synthesis”, held at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, December 12–15, 2004.
13. Plenary Lecture at 第一屇納米與生物交流科學研討會-青島, “Functional Molecular Materials. From Nanomedicine to Field-Effect Transistors”, held in Qingdao, China, May 4–7, 2005.
14. Plenary Lecture at the 4th National Conference on Chemical Biology and International Symposium on the Interdisciplinary Science of Chemistry with Biology and Medicine, held in Wuhan, China, October 9–12, 2005.
15. Plenary Lecture at the 7th National Conference of Chinese Chemical Society on Inorganic Chemistry, “Self-Assembled Functional Molecular Materials for Optoelectronic Applications”, held at Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China, July 18–22, 2007.
16. Keynote Lecture at the Dalton Discussion 10: Applications of Metals in Medicine and Healthcare, “Some uses of transition metal complexes as anti-cancer and anti-HIV agents”, held at Durham University, UK, September 3–5, 2007.
17. Keynote Lecture at The First Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry, “Luminescent Platinum(II) Complexes. Photophyscial Properties and Materials Science Applications”, held at Okazaki, Japan, July 29–August 2, 2007.
18. Plenary Lecture at The 9th Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry of the Chinese Chemcial Society, “Some uses of transition metal complexes as anti-cancer and anti-HIV agents”, held in Guilin, China, October 19–22, 2007.
19. Keynote Lecture at 2007 International Conference on Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials, “Research on Nano-structured Materials at HKU-CAS Jointed Laboratory on New Materials: Applications in Organic Optoelectronics and Biomedical Sciences”, held in Hong Kong, China, December 11–13, 2007.
20. Keynote Lecture at International Workshop on Green Chemistry, “Ruthenium-Catalyzed Organic Oxidation Reactions with Dioxygen or Hydrogen Peroxide as Terminal Oxidant”, held at The City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, April 28, 2008.
21. Symposium Keynote Speaker at the Fifth International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-5), “Metalloporphyrin Catalyzed Functionalization of C-H Bonds and Activation of Dioxygen for Practical Organic Catalysis”, held in Moscow, Russia, July 6–11, 2008.
22. Plenary Lecture at 38th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ICCC38), “The unique phosphorescent square planar metal complexes from photocatalysis, materials science applications to medicines”, held in Jerusalem, Israel, July 20–25, 2008.
23. Keynote Speaker and Organic program committee at 14th International Workshop on Inorganic and Organic Electroluminescence & 2008 International Conference on the Science and Technology of Emissive Displays and Lighting, “New OLED Materials Technologies for Displays, Illumination and Backlighting”, held in Rome, Italy, September 9–12, 2008.
24. Keynote Lecture at Tateshina Conference on Organic Chemistry, “Atom and Group Transfer Catalysis with Reactive Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonded Complexes”, held in Nagano, Japan, November 7–9, 2008.
25. Keynote Lecture at The 4th Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (AsBic IV) “Medicinal Applications of Transition Metal-Based Coordination Complexes”, held in Jeju, Korea, November 10–13, 2008.
26. Keynote Lecture at Frontier in Inorganic Chemistry, “Anti-Cancer and Anti-viral Transition Metal Complexes”, held at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, November 28, 2008.
27. Plenary Lecture at Inorganic Chemistry Conference IC08, “Atom and Group Transfer Catalysis with Reactive Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonded Complexes”, held at University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, December 14–18, 2008.
28. Plenary Lecture at The 8th International Conference on Optical Probes of Conjugated Polymers and Organic Nanostructures, “Functional Supramolecular Nanostructures Self-assembled from Organometallic Complexes: Properties and Applications”, held in Beijing, China, June 6–10, 2009.
29. Plenary Lecture at The 6th National Organic Chemistry Conference, “Gold catalysed Organic Transformation Reactions”, held in Xi’an, China, August 17–20, 2009.
30. Plenary Lecture at the 5th National Conference on Physical Inorganic Chemistry, “Self-Assembled Functional Metal Coordination Polymers and Nanostructures Directed by Metal-Metal Interactions and Metal-Ligand Bonding”, held in Shantou, China, September 20–23, 2009.
31. Plenary Lecture at The 2nd Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry, “Photophysical properties, photocatalysis, and material science applications of phosphorescent platinum(II) complexes”, held in Nanjing, China, November 1–4, 2009.
32. Plenary Lecture at 6th Singapore International Chemical Conference (SICC 6), “Phosphorescent Square Planar Metal Complexes”, held in Singapore, December 15–18, 2009.
33. Keynote Lecture at the Sixth International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-6), “Selective Functionalization of Alkanes Catalyzed by Metalloporphyrin Complexes”, held in New Mexico, USA, July 4–9, 2010.
34. Plenary Lecture at The 16th National Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry (NSOC-2010), held in Wenzhou, China, October 22-25, 2010.
35. Plenary Lecture at International Symposium on Activation of Dioxygen and Homogeneous Catalytic Oxidation, “Practical Organic Oxidation Using Iron Catalysts and Photogenerated Singlet Oxygen”, held in Okinawa, Japan, July 3–8, 2011.
36. Plenary Lecture at The 16th IUPAC International Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis (OMCOS 16), “Practical Iron Catalyzed Atom and Group Transfer and Insertion Reactions”, held in Shanghai, China, July 24–28, 2011.
37. Plenary Lecture at International Workshop on Organic Composite Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, “Self-Assembled Molecular Functional Materials” held in Weihai, China, August 4–8, 2011.
38. Keynote Lecture at 3rd Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ACCC3), “Homoleptic Metal-containing Self-assembled Coordination Polymers”, held in New Delhi, India, October 17–20, 2011.
39. Plenary Lecture at 12th International Symposium for Chinese Organic Chemists (ISCOC) and 9th International Symposium for Chinese Inorganic Chemists (ISCIC), "Closed Shell Metal-Metal Interaction of d8 and d10 Metal Ions. From Bonding to Spectroscopy and Applications", held at Lanzhou, China, August 19–22, 2012.
40. Plenary Lecture at 兩岸三地高分子液晶態與超分子有序結構學術研討會, "Materials Self-Assembled Supramolecular Molecular", held at Hunan, China, August 27–29, 2012.
41. Plenary Lecture at 1st International Symposium of C–H Activation, “Metal-Atom/Group Transfer Reactions for C–H Bond Functionalizarion. From Chemical Bonding to Practical Organic Synthesis”, held at Beijing, China, October 5–8, 2012.
42. Plenary Lecture at 6th National Conference on Physical Inorganic Chemistry, “Long-Lived Emissive Electronic Excited States. Excited State Dynamics and Applications”, held at Tianjin, China, October 13–15, 2012.
43. Plenary Lecture at 13th National Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis, “Practical Iron Catalyzed Oxidative Transformation Reactions”, held at Suzhou, China, September 25–28, 2013.
44. Keynote lecture at 4th Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry, “Phosphorescent Metal Complexes of Gold(III), Palladium(II) and Platinum(II) with Strongly Emissive, Long-Lived Triplet Excited States”, held at Jeju, South Korea, November 4–7, 2013.
45. Plenary Lecture at ISACS13: Challenges in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry, “Phosphorescent Metal Complexes with Long-Lived Electronic Excited States. Photophysics, Photocatalysis, and Material Applications” held in Dublin, Ireland, July 1–4, 2014.
46. Keynote Lecture at 7th Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference, “Anti-Cancer Gold Medicines”, held at Golden Coast, Australia, November 30 – December 5, 2014.
47. Plenary Lecture at 2015 Queenstown Molecular Biology Meetings at Shanghai, “Anti-Cancer Gold Medicines”, held at Shanghai, China, March 19–20, 2015.
48. Plenary Lecture at 5th Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry, “Long-Lived Emissive Electronic Excited States in Solutions. Fundamentals and Translational Applications”, held at Hong Kong, China, July 13–16, 2015.
49. Keynote Lecture at The 17th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry, “Anti-Cancer Gold Medicines”, held at Beijing, China, July 20–24, 2015.
50. Plenary Lecture at The 5th International Symposium on Solar Fuels and Solar Cells (5th SFSC), “Phosphorescent Metal Complexes with Long-Lived Electronic Excited States. Photophysics and Applications”, held at Dalian, China, October 11–14, 2016.
51. Plenary Lecture at 3rd Symposium on Natural Product Synthesis and Process Methods for Drug Manufacture (3rd NPSPM), “Iron Catalysis and Chemical Biology of Timosapponins”, held at Beijing, China, October 14–16, 2016.
52. Keynote Lecture at The 8th Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (AsBIC 8), “Recent Advances in Medical Applications of Ruthenium and Iron Complexes”, held at Auckland, New Zealand, December 4–9, 2016.
53. Distinguished Keynote Lecture at HKU-ZIRI Institute of Research and Innovation (HKU-ZIRI) Summer Industrial Symposium, “Phosphorescent Molecular Materials. Molecular Design and Applications”, held at Hangzhou, China, June 26, 2017.
54. Plenary Lecture at 28th International Conference on Photochemistry (ICP2017), “Phosphorescent Plalladium Complexes with Long-Lived Excited State”, held at Strasbourg, France, July 16–22, 2017.
55. Ryoji Noyori Award Lecture at RACI Centenary Congress 2017, “Towards Sustainable Catalysis. Iron Catalysis and Photochemical C–H Functionalization”, held at Melbourne, Australia, July 23–28, 2017.
56. Keynote Lecture at 滬港合成化學前沿論壇, “Towards Sustainable Catalysis. Iron Catalysis and Photochemical C–H Functionalization”, held at Shanghai, China, September 1, 2017.
57. Keynote Lecture at The 10th Pong Ding Yuen International Symposium on Traditional Chinese Medicine – Drug Discovery from Chinese Medicines: Strategies for Complicated Diseases, “The Search for Non-toxic Natural Products from Traditional Chinese Medicine for Cancer Treatment”, held at Hong Kong, China, December 2–3, 2017.
58. Plenary Lecture at 中國化學會第十屆全國有機化學學術會議, “Oxidative C=C and C–H Bond Functionalization”, held at Shenzhen, China, December 19–21, 2017.
59. Keynote Lecture at International Conference on DisplayTechnology (ICDT) 2018, “Non-Iridium OLED Materials”, held at Guangzhou, China, April 10–12, 2018.
60. Plenary Lecture at 中國化學會第八屆全國物理無機化學學術會議, “磷光金屬配合物:激發態的動力學和應用”, held at Taiyuan, China, April 13–16, 2018.
61. Plenary Lecture at The 14th Sino-US Chemistry Professor Conference, “Anti-Cancer Medicines”, held at Wuhan, China, June 20–23, 2018
62. Plenary Lecture at The 13th International Symposium on Activation of Dioxygen and Homogeneous Oxidation Catalysis (ADHOC), “High-Valent Ruthenium and Iron-Oxo Complexes for Alkane Oxidation”, held at Xi’an, China, June 24–29, 2018.
63. Keynote Lecture at Gold 2018, “Gold Complexes for Materials Applications and Anti-Cancer Medicines”, held at Paris, France, July 15–18, 2018.
64. Plenary Lecture at The 14th National Bioinorganic Chemistry Symposium, “Anticancer Metal Medicines”, held at Nanjing, China, October 18–21, 2018.
65. Plenary Lecture at the 12th International Symposium for Chinese Inorganic Chemistry (ISCIC-12), “The Fascinating Gold Chemistry. Photo-catalysis, Materials Applications and Anti-Cancer Medicines”, held at Taipei, Taiwan, October 26–29, 2018.
66. Plenary Lecture at 9th Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (AsBIC 9), “Anti-Cancer Metal Medicines with N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands”, held at Singapore, December 9–14, 2018.
67. Plenary Lecture at 23rd International Symposium on the Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds (ISPPCC 2019), “The Fascinating Luminescent Palladium Complexes”, held at Hong Kong, July 14–19, 2019.
68. 院士讲坛, 2020世界显示产业大会, “Planar Metal OLED Emitters”, held at Hefei, China, Web meeting, November 20–21, 2020.
69. Plenary Lecture at The 2021 World Conference on Display Industry, “Practical Platinum and Gold OLED Emitters”, Hefei, China, Web meeting, June 8, 2021.
70. Plenary Lecture at International Conference on Photochemistry (ICP 2021), “Photophysics and Photochemistry of Metal Complexes with Open Coordination Sites”, Web meeting, July 19–23, 2021.
71. Keynote speaker at 11th Asian Photochemistry Conference (APC 2021), “Photophysics and Photochemistry of Earth Abundant Metal Complexes”, Web meeting, October 31– November 4, 2021.
72. Plenary speaker at 第一届微纳材料化学高峰讨论坛, ““Metallophilicity” and Exciton Transport in d8 and d10 Metal Complexes”, Hunan, China, Web meeting, June 23, 2022.
73. Keynote speaker at The 8th Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ACCC8), “Photo-catalysis with Earth Abundant Metal Complexes. Excited State Dynamics and Application Studies”, Taipei, Taiwan, Web meeting, August 7–11, 2022.
74. Plenary speaker at 44th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ICCC 2022), "The Fascinating Gold Chemistry. From Catalysis to Materials Application and Medicines", Rimini, Italy, August 28 - September 2, 2022.
75. Plenart speaker at International Symposium on Carbene and Nitrene Chemistry 2023 (ISCNC2023), “Iron-Catalyzed Nitrene and Carbene Transfer and Insertion Reactions”, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 25–28, 2023.
2. Plenary Lecture at the Hong Kong International Symposium on Heterocyclic Chemistry (organised under the auspices of the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry), “Metal Complexes of Heterocyclic Ligands for Organic Synthesis and Photochemical Reactions”, held in Hong Kong, August 13–16, 1995.
3. Plenary Lecture at World Chinese Workshop on Applied Chemistry to give a one hour lecture, “Ruthenium Catalysed Organic Oxidation, Alkene Cyclopropanation, and Alkene Aziridination”, held in Hangzhou, China, September 10–13, 1995.
4. Keynote Lecture at the Fifth Eurasia Conference on Chemical Sciences, “Oxo and Imido Complexes of Ruthenium for Catalytic and Asymmetric Oxidation and Aziridination of Alkenes”, held in Guangzhou, China, December 10–14, 1996.
5. Keynote Lecture at The First International Symposium on Inorganic Chemistry for Chinese Scientists, “Luminescent Metal Complexes with Metal-Metal and Ligand-Ligand Interactions”, held in Hong Kong, July 14–19, 1996.
6. Plenary Lecture at the 3rd National Meeting of Coordination Chemistry, held in Xi’an, China, September 1997.
7. Keynote Lecture at Symposium “New Trends in Catalytic Oxidations”, held in Osaka University, Japan, December 1–5, 1997.
8. Plenary Lecture at the 9th International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds, organised by IUPAC, “Chiral ruthenium-oxo and imido porphyrin complexes for asymmetric oxidations and aziridinations”, held in Hong Kong, August 2–7, 1998.
9. Keynote Lecture at the XIXth IUPAC International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (XIX ICOMC), “Ruthenium-Carbon Multiple Bonded Complexes containing Macrocyclic Tertiary Amine and Porphyrin Ligands”, held in Shanghai, China, July 23–28, 2000.
10. Plenary Lecture at The Third Conference for Worldwide Chinese Young Chemists, “Inorganic Photohemistry: Past, Present, and Future”, held in Xiamen, China, December 20–23, 2000.
11. Plenary Lecture at the 15th International Symposium on Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds (ISPPCC), “Structural and Spectroscopic Evidence for Weak Metal-Metal Interactions and Metal-Substrate Exciplex Formation”, held at The University of Hong Kong, July 4–9, 2004.
12. Plenary Lecture at the International Symposium on Catalysis and Fine Chemicals 2004 (C&FC 2004), “Ruthenium Porphyrin Catalysts for Organic Synthesis”, held at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, December 12–15, 2004.
13. Plenary Lecture at 第一屇納米與生物交流科學研討會-青島, “Functional Molecular Materials. From Nanomedicine to Field-Effect Transistors”, held in Qingdao, China, May 4–7, 2005.
14. Plenary Lecture at the 4th National Conference on Chemical Biology and International Symposium on the Interdisciplinary Science of Chemistry with Biology and Medicine, held in Wuhan, China, October 9–12, 2005.
15. Plenary Lecture at the 7th National Conference of Chinese Chemical Society on Inorganic Chemistry, “Self-Assembled Functional Molecular Materials for Optoelectronic Applications”, held at Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China, July 18–22, 2007.
16. Keynote Lecture at the Dalton Discussion 10: Applications of Metals in Medicine and Healthcare, “Some uses of transition metal complexes as anti-cancer and anti-HIV agents”, held at Durham University, UK, September 3–5, 2007.
17. Keynote Lecture at The First Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry, “Luminescent Platinum(II) Complexes. Photophyscial Properties and Materials Science Applications”, held at Okazaki, Japan, July 29–August 2, 2007.
18. Plenary Lecture at The 9th Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry of the Chinese Chemcial Society, “Some uses of transition metal complexes as anti-cancer and anti-HIV agents”, held in Guilin, China, October 19–22, 2007.
19. Keynote Lecture at 2007 International Conference on Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials, “Research on Nano-structured Materials at HKU-CAS Jointed Laboratory on New Materials: Applications in Organic Optoelectronics and Biomedical Sciences”, held in Hong Kong, China, December 11–13, 2007.
20. Keynote Lecture at International Workshop on Green Chemistry, “Ruthenium-Catalyzed Organic Oxidation Reactions with Dioxygen or Hydrogen Peroxide as Terminal Oxidant”, held at The City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, April 28, 2008.
21. Symposium Keynote Speaker at the Fifth International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-5), “Metalloporphyrin Catalyzed Functionalization of C-H Bonds and Activation of Dioxygen for Practical Organic Catalysis”, held in Moscow, Russia, July 6–11, 2008.
22. Plenary Lecture at 38th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ICCC38), “The unique phosphorescent square planar metal complexes from photocatalysis, materials science applications to medicines”, held in Jerusalem, Israel, July 20–25, 2008.
23. Keynote Speaker and Organic program committee at 14th International Workshop on Inorganic and Organic Electroluminescence & 2008 International Conference on the Science and Technology of Emissive Displays and Lighting, “New OLED Materials Technologies for Displays, Illumination and Backlighting”, held in Rome, Italy, September 9–12, 2008.
24. Keynote Lecture at Tateshina Conference on Organic Chemistry, “Atom and Group Transfer Catalysis with Reactive Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonded Complexes”, held in Nagano, Japan, November 7–9, 2008.
25. Keynote Lecture at The 4th Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (AsBic IV) “Medicinal Applications of Transition Metal-Based Coordination Complexes”, held in Jeju, Korea, November 10–13, 2008.
26. Keynote Lecture at Frontier in Inorganic Chemistry, “Anti-Cancer and Anti-viral Transition Metal Complexes”, held at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, November 28, 2008.
27. Plenary Lecture at Inorganic Chemistry Conference IC08, “Atom and Group Transfer Catalysis with Reactive Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonded Complexes”, held at University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, December 14–18, 2008.
28. Plenary Lecture at The 8th International Conference on Optical Probes of Conjugated Polymers and Organic Nanostructures, “Functional Supramolecular Nanostructures Self-assembled from Organometallic Complexes: Properties and Applications”, held in Beijing, China, June 6–10, 2009.
29. Plenary Lecture at The 6th National Organic Chemistry Conference, “Gold catalysed Organic Transformation Reactions”, held in Xi’an, China, August 17–20, 2009.
30. Plenary Lecture at the 5th National Conference on Physical Inorganic Chemistry, “Self-Assembled Functional Metal Coordination Polymers and Nanostructures Directed by Metal-Metal Interactions and Metal-Ligand Bonding”, held in Shantou, China, September 20–23, 2009.
31. Plenary Lecture at The 2nd Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry, “Photophysical properties, photocatalysis, and material science applications of phosphorescent platinum(II) complexes”, held in Nanjing, China, November 1–4, 2009.
32. Plenary Lecture at 6th Singapore International Chemical Conference (SICC 6), “Phosphorescent Square Planar Metal Complexes”, held in Singapore, December 15–18, 2009.
33. Keynote Lecture at the Sixth International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-6), “Selective Functionalization of Alkanes Catalyzed by Metalloporphyrin Complexes”, held in New Mexico, USA, July 4–9, 2010.
34. Plenary Lecture at The 16th National Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry (NSOC-2010), held in Wenzhou, China, October 22-25, 2010.
35. Plenary Lecture at International Symposium on Activation of Dioxygen and Homogeneous Catalytic Oxidation, “Practical Organic Oxidation Using Iron Catalysts and Photogenerated Singlet Oxygen”, held in Okinawa, Japan, July 3–8, 2011.
36. Plenary Lecture at The 16th IUPAC International Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis (OMCOS 16), “Practical Iron Catalyzed Atom and Group Transfer and Insertion Reactions”, held in Shanghai, China, July 24–28, 2011.
37. Plenary Lecture at International Workshop on Organic Composite Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, “Self-Assembled Molecular Functional Materials” held in Weihai, China, August 4–8, 2011.
38. Keynote Lecture at 3rd Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ACCC3), “Homoleptic Metal-containing Self-assembled Coordination Polymers”, held in New Delhi, India, October 17–20, 2011.
39. Plenary Lecture at 12th International Symposium for Chinese Organic Chemists (ISCOC) and 9th International Symposium for Chinese Inorganic Chemists (ISCIC), "Closed Shell Metal-Metal Interaction of d8 and d10 Metal Ions. From Bonding to Spectroscopy and Applications", held at Lanzhou, China, August 19–22, 2012.
40. Plenary Lecture at 兩岸三地高分子液晶態與超分子有序結構學術研討會, "Materials Self-Assembled Supramolecular Molecular", held at Hunan, China, August 27–29, 2012.
41. Plenary Lecture at 1st International Symposium of C–H Activation, “Metal-Atom/Group Transfer Reactions for C–H Bond Functionalizarion. From Chemical Bonding to Practical Organic Synthesis”, held at Beijing, China, October 5–8, 2012.
42. Plenary Lecture at 6th National Conference on Physical Inorganic Chemistry, “Long-Lived Emissive Electronic Excited States. Excited State Dynamics and Applications”, held at Tianjin, China, October 13–15, 2012.
43. Plenary Lecture at 13th National Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis, “Practical Iron Catalyzed Oxidative Transformation Reactions”, held at Suzhou, China, September 25–28, 2013.
44. Keynote lecture at 4th Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry, “Phosphorescent Metal Complexes of Gold(III), Palladium(II) and Platinum(II) with Strongly Emissive, Long-Lived Triplet Excited States”, held at Jeju, South Korea, November 4–7, 2013.
45. Plenary Lecture at ISACS13: Challenges in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry, “Phosphorescent Metal Complexes with Long-Lived Electronic Excited States. Photophysics, Photocatalysis, and Material Applications” held in Dublin, Ireland, July 1–4, 2014.
46. Keynote Lecture at 7th Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference, “Anti-Cancer Gold Medicines”, held at Golden Coast, Australia, November 30 – December 5, 2014.
47. Plenary Lecture at 2015 Queenstown Molecular Biology Meetings at Shanghai, “Anti-Cancer Gold Medicines”, held at Shanghai, China, March 19–20, 2015.
48. Plenary Lecture at 5th Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry, “Long-Lived Emissive Electronic Excited States in Solutions. Fundamentals and Translational Applications”, held at Hong Kong, China, July 13–16, 2015.
49. Keynote Lecture at The 17th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry, “Anti-Cancer Gold Medicines”, held at Beijing, China, July 20–24, 2015.
50. Plenary Lecture at The 5th International Symposium on Solar Fuels and Solar Cells (5th SFSC), “Phosphorescent Metal Complexes with Long-Lived Electronic Excited States. Photophysics and Applications”, held at Dalian, China, October 11–14, 2016.
51. Plenary Lecture at 3rd Symposium on Natural Product Synthesis and Process Methods for Drug Manufacture (3rd NPSPM), “Iron Catalysis and Chemical Biology of Timosapponins”, held at Beijing, China, October 14–16, 2016.
52. Keynote Lecture at The 8th Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (AsBIC 8), “Recent Advances in Medical Applications of Ruthenium and Iron Complexes”, held at Auckland, New Zealand, December 4–9, 2016.
53. Distinguished Keynote Lecture at HKU-ZIRI Institute of Research and Innovation (HKU-ZIRI) Summer Industrial Symposium, “Phosphorescent Molecular Materials. Molecular Design and Applications”, held at Hangzhou, China, June 26, 2017.
54. Plenary Lecture at 28th International Conference on Photochemistry (ICP2017), “Phosphorescent Plalladium Complexes with Long-Lived Excited State”, held at Strasbourg, France, July 16–22, 2017.
55. Ryoji Noyori Award Lecture at RACI Centenary Congress 2017, “Towards Sustainable Catalysis. Iron Catalysis and Photochemical C–H Functionalization”, held at Melbourne, Australia, July 23–28, 2017.
56. Keynote Lecture at 滬港合成化學前沿論壇, “Towards Sustainable Catalysis. Iron Catalysis and Photochemical C–H Functionalization”, held at Shanghai, China, September 1, 2017.
57. Keynote Lecture at The 10th Pong Ding Yuen International Symposium on Traditional Chinese Medicine – Drug Discovery from Chinese Medicines: Strategies for Complicated Diseases, “The Search for Non-toxic Natural Products from Traditional Chinese Medicine for Cancer Treatment”, held at Hong Kong, China, December 2–3, 2017.
58. Plenary Lecture at 中國化學會第十屆全國有機化學學術會議, “Oxidative C=C and C–H Bond Functionalization”, held at Shenzhen, China, December 19–21, 2017.
59. Keynote Lecture at International Conference on DisplayTechnology (ICDT) 2018, “Non-Iridium OLED Materials”, held at Guangzhou, China, April 10–12, 2018.
60. Plenary Lecture at 中國化學會第八屆全國物理無機化學學術會議, “磷光金屬配合物:激發態的動力學和應用”, held at Taiyuan, China, April 13–16, 2018.
61. Plenary Lecture at The 14th Sino-US Chemistry Professor Conference, “Anti-Cancer Medicines”, held at Wuhan, China, June 20–23, 2018
62. Plenary Lecture at The 13th International Symposium on Activation of Dioxygen and Homogeneous Oxidation Catalysis (ADHOC), “High-Valent Ruthenium and Iron-Oxo Complexes for Alkane Oxidation”, held at Xi’an, China, June 24–29, 2018.
63. Keynote Lecture at Gold 2018, “Gold Complexes for Materials Applications and Anti-Cancer Medicines”, held at Paris, France, July 15–18, 2018.
64. Plenary Lecture at The 14th National Bioinorganic Chemistry Symposium, “Anticancer Metal Medicines”, held at Nanjing, China, October 18–21, 2018.
65. Plenary Lecture at the 12th International Symposium for Chinese Inorganic Chemistry (ISCIC-12), “The Fascinating Gold Chemistry. Photo-catalysis, Materials Applications and Anti-Cancer Medicines”, held at Taipei, Taiwan, October 26–29, 2018.
66. Plenary Lecture at 9th Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (AsBIC 9), “Anti-Cancer Metal Medicines with N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands”, held at Singapore, December 9–14, 2018.
67. Plenary Lecture at 23rd International Symposium on the Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds (ISPPCC 2019), “The Fascinating Luminescent Palladium Complexes”, held at Hong Kong, July 14–19, 2019.
68. 院士讲坛, 2020世界显示产业大会, “Planar Metal OLED Emitters”, held at Hefei, China, Web meeting, November 20–21, 2020.
69. Plenary Lecture at The 2021 World Conference on Display Industry, “Practical Platinum and Gold OLED Emitters”, Hefei, China, Web meeting, June 8, 2021.
70. Plenary Lecture at International Conference on Photochemistry (ICP 2021), “Photophysics and Photochemistry of Metal Complexes with Open Coordination Sites”, Web meeting, July 19–23, 2021.
71. Keynote speaker at 11th Asian Photochemistry Conference (APC 2021), “Photophysics and Photochemistry of Earth Abundant Metal Complexes”, Web meeting, October 31– November 4, 2021.
72. Plenary speaker at 第一届微纳材料化学高峰讨论坛, ““Metallophilicity” and Exciton Transport in d8 and d10 Metal Complexes”, Hunan, China, Web meeting, June 23, 2022.
73. Keynote speaker at The 8th Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ACCC8), “Photo-catalysis with Earth Abundant Metal Complexes. Excited State Dynamics and Application Studies”, Taipei, Taiwan, Web meeting, August 7–11, 2022.
74. Plenary speaker at 44th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ICCC 2022), "The Fascinating Gold Chemistry. From Catalysis to Materials Application and Medicines", Rimini, Italy, August 28 - September 2, 2022.
75. Plenart speaker at International Symposium on Carbene and Nitrene Chemistry 2023 (ISCNC2023), “Iron-Catalyzed Nitrene and Carbene Transfer and Insertion Reactions”, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 25–28, 2023.
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