Catalysis and Synthesis

Innovation comes from not only intelligence, but also dreams and passion

Professor Deng's research program focuses on the discovery of powerful and practical chiral organic catalysts promoting novel and highly selective reactions. His group pioneered the development and application of general base catalysis as general means for the development of new reactions. Many of these reactions have already found wide applications in target- and diversity-oriented synthesis. The reactions have also been developed into viable tools for industrial manufacturing of chiral compounds.