Canadian Award – Individual

The Canadian Green Chemistry and
Engineering Award (Individual)

The 2010 winner is:

Chao-Jun Li
McGill University

Chao-Jun Li received his PhD (with honors) from McGill University in1992, under the direction of T. H. Chan and D. N. Harpp. He spent 1992–1994 as a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow with Barry M. Trost at Stanford University, and was an assistant professor in 1994, associate professor in 1998 and full professor in 2000 at Tulane University. Since 2003, he has been a Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Green Chemistry. Since 2010 he has been the E. B. Eddie Professor of Chemistry at McGill University in Montréal, Que. Currently, he serves as the co-chair of the Canadian Green Chemistry and Engineering Network, the director of the CFI Facility for Green Chemistry and Green Chemicals, and the co-director of the FQRNT Centre for Green Chemistry and Catalysis. He also serves as the associate editor for the Americas for the Journal of Green Chemistry, and a consulting editor for McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Sciences and Technologies and McGraw-Hill’s Year Book of Sciences and Technologies and is on the Advisory Board of a number of journals. He has received a number of prestigious awards and honours worldwide. These include the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award, an outstanding young Chinese Scientist Award (overseas) from the Chinese National Science Foundation, and a Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency . He was named a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Senior) Fellow and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. His current research efforts are to develop green chemistry for organic synthesis based upon innovative and fundamentally new organic reactions that will defy conventional reactivities and possess high “atom-efficiency.” Well-known research developed by Li includes the development of a wide range of Grignard-type reactions in water, transition-metal catalysis in air and water, alkyne-aldehyde-amine coupling (A3-coupling), and cross-dehydrogenative-coupling (CDC) reactions, among others.

Nomination Form

Terms of Reference

Deadline:
For the initial year: June 30, 2010
For all subsequent years: July 2 of every year

Sponsor:GreenCentre Canada

Award: a framed scroll, $1,000 cash prize and up to $1,200 for travel expenses

Eligibility: The Canadian Green Chemistry and Engineering Award (Individual) is presented to an individual working in Canada who has made significant contributions to advance green chemistry and/or engineering, including the technical, human health and environmental benefits.

The award shall be presented at one of the Chemical Institute of Canada’s (CIC) annual conferences, an independent conference or symposium organized by the CIC or an event chosen by the CGCEN. The recipient will be asked to present an award lecture.

The award shall be presented annually unless the Selection Committee considers that no suitable candidate has been nominated. All nominations will remain in force for three years. Nominators are responsible for keeping the record of the nominee up to date and complete.

Membership in the Chemical Institute of Canada is not a prerequisite.

Application: Submit the nomination package, as outlined on the nomination form to the CGCEN Awards Manager.

Submit nominations to: Awards Manager, Canadian Green Chemistry and Engineering Network at awards@cheminst.ca