Winner of the IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists – 2012

Charles Yeung wins one of the six IUPAC Prizes for Young Chemists for his Ph.D. thesis work entitled “Transition Metal Catalysis: Activation of CO2, C–H, and C–O Bonds En Route to Carboxylic Acids, Biaryls, and N-Containing Heterocycles.”

 E-mail: charlesyeung@fas.harvard.edu

Academic Degrees:

  • University of Toronto, 2011, Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry

  • University of British Columbia, 2006, B.Sc. in Materials Chemistry

Ph.D. Thesis Title:

Transition Metal Catalysis: Activation of CO2, C–H, and C–O Bonds En Route to Carboxylic Acids, Biaryls, and N-Containing Heterocycles

Advisor:

Prof. Vy M. Dong

Thesis Essay: [link to full text; pdf file – 874kB]