Academic Staff
Supporting Staff

LEE, Albert W.M. ( §õ¼z©ú )

B.Sc. (Hons.), CUHK; Ph.D., UCLA; CChem, FRSC
Postdoctoral: MIT
Rm. T1204, (852) 3411-7064; alee@hkbu.edu.hk

Current Research Interests : asymmetric synthesis, synthesis of functional materials, chemical sensor, computer application in chemistry, chemical education.

Selected Publications :

(1) H. He, B-J. Pei, H-H Chou, T. Tian, W.H. Chan and A.W.M. Lee, ¡§Camphor Sulfonyl Hydrazines (CaSH) as Organocatalysts in Enantioselective Diels-Alder Reactions¡¨, Org. Lett. , 10 , 2421-2424 (2008).

(2) Y.-L. Chen, W.-Y. Wong and A.W.M. Lee, ¡§Oxadisilole Fused Pentacenequinones and Heptacenequinones¡¨, Tetrahedron Letters , 49 , 1257-1260 (2008).

(3) H. Wang, W.H. Chan and A.W.M. Lee, ¡§Cholic Acid-based Fluorescent Probes for Enantioselective Recognition of Trifunctional Amino Acids¡¨, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry , 6 , 929-934 (2008).

(4) A.W.M. Lee, W.H. Chan, S.J. Zhang and H.K. Zhang, ¡§Non Camphor Based Sultam Chiral Auxiliaries¡¨, Current Organic Chemistry , 11 , 213-228 (2007).

(5) Y.L. Chen, C.K. Hau, H. Wang, H. He, M.S. Wong and A.W.M. Lee, ¡§Oxadisilole Fused Isobenzofurans. Synthesis and Characterization of Oxadisilole Substituted Acenes¡¨, J. Org. Chem ., 71 , 3512-3517 (2006).

(6) Y.-L. Chen, M.-H. Lee, W.-Y. Wong and A.W.M. Lee, ¡§Oxadisilole Fused Isoindole¡¨, Synlett, 2510-2512 (2006).

(7) Z.Y. Jiang, W.H. Chan and A.W.M. Lee, ¡§Synthesis of Enantiopure Sulfinimines (Thiooxime S-Oxides) Catalyzed by Yb(OTf)3 from p -Toluenesulfinamide and Aldehydes in Mild Reaction Conditions¡¨, J. Org Chem ., 70 , 1081-1083 (2005).

(8) H.K. Zhang, W.H. Chan, A.W.M. Lee, W.Y. Wong and P.F. Xia, ¡§Synthesis and Chiral Sultams and Their Application as Chiral Auxiliaries in an Asymmetric Diels-Alder Reaction¡¨, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 16 , 761-771 (2005).

(9) Y.L. Chen, J.Q. Sun, X. Wei, W.Y. Wong and A.W.M. Lee, ¡§Generation of Synthetic Equivalents of Benzdiynes from Benzobioxadisiloles¡¨, J. Org Chem., 69 , 7190-7197 (2004).

(10) W.Y. Wong, S.Y. Poon, A.W.M. Lee, J.X. Shi and K.W. Cheah, ¡§Oligo(fluorenyleneethynylenegermylene)s and Their Metallopolymers¡¨, Chem. Commun ., 2420-2421 (2004).

(11) Y. Wei, W.H. Chan, A.W.M. Lee and C.W. Huie, ¡§Alteration of Room Temperature Phosphorescence Lifetimes of Quinine and Quinidine by Chiral Additives¡¨, Chem. Commun ., 3 , 288-289 (2004).

(12) R.H. Yang, W. H. Chan, A.W.M. Lee, P.F. Xia, H.K. Zhang and K. Li, ¡§A Ratiometric Fluorescent Sensor for AgI with High Selectivity and Sensitivity¡¨, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125 , 2884-2885 (2003).