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Invited Talks & Seminars

1.    “Homogenous Lewis and Brønsted Acid Catalyzed Strategies for Carbocycle and N-Heterocycle Synthesis”, 1st Joint German-Singaporean Research Symposium on Catalysis, Biopolis, Singapore, November 2009.

2.    “Gold-Catalyzed Strategies for Swapping C-OH Bonds for C-C and C-N Bonds”, Gold2009 – The 5th International Conference on Gold Science, Technology and its Applications, University of Heidelberg, Germany, July 2009.

3.    “Lewis and Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Reactions of Alcohol Pro-Electrophiles”, Frontiers in Chemistry Symposium, NTU, Singapore, July 2009.

4.    “Lewis and Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Reactions of Alcohol Pro-Electrophiles”, University of Heidelberg, Germany, May 2009.

5.    “Lewis and Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Reactions of Alcohol Pro-Electrophiles”, NanoCat Symposium, Germany, May 2009.

6.    “Lewis and Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Reactions of Alcohol Pro-Electrophiles”, 2nd NTU – Waseda University Joint Symposium in Chemistry, NTU, Singapore, March 2009.

7.    “Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Reactions of Alcohols for Developing New C-C and C-N Bond Formation Strategies”, Asian CORE Program Lectureship Award 2007, Award Speaker, Beijing University, China, May 2008.

8.    “Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Reactions of Alcohols for Developing New C-C and C-N Bond Formation Strategies”, Asian CORE Program Lectureship Award 2007, Award Speaker, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, China, May 2008.

9.    “Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Reactions of Alcohols for Developing New C-C and C-N Bond Formation Strategies”, Asian CORE Program Lectureship Award 2007, Award Speaker, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China, May 2008.

10. “Exploring the Alcohol Approach for the Development of New Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Nitrogen Bond Formation Strategies”, 2nd UK-Singapore Symposium – Contemporary Organic Synthesis, Methods and Techniques, Biopolis, Singapore, February 2008.

11. “Exploring the Alcohol Approach for the Development of New Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Nitrogen Bond Formation Strategies”, International Symposium on Catalysis and Fine Chemicals 2007, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, December 2007.

12. “Exploring New Metal-Catalyzed Bond Formation Strategies”, Asian CORE Program Lectureship Award 2007, Award Speaker, Tohoku University, Japan, September 2007.

13. “Exploring New Metal-Catalyzed Bond Formation Strategies”, Asian CORE Program Lectureship Award 2007, Award Speaker, The University of Tokyo, Japan, September 2007.

14. “Exploring New Metal-Catalyzed Bond Formation Strategies”, Asian CORE Program Lectureship Award 2007, Award Speaker, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, September 2007.

15. “Exploring New Metal-Catalyzed Bond Formation Strategies”, Asian CORE Program Lectureship Award 2007, Award Speaker, Nagoya University, Japan, September 2007.

16. Iodobenzene Diacetate-Mediated Synthesis of Trans-a-Ketohydrazones and a-Ketohydrazines from Silyl Enol Ethers. Effect of Gold(I) Chloride on Chemoselectivity”, Chan, P. W. H.; Rao, W. Fundamentals and Applications of Organic Chemistry, A*STAR-Noyori Forum Joint Symposium, Biopolis, Singapore, May 2007.

17. “Carbon-Nitrogen Bond Formation Strategies by Design – Exploring the Transition Metal-Mediated Approach”, First International Conference of Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry, Naha-city, Okinawa, Japan, October 2006.

18. Metal Mediated Bond Formations by Design – Applications to Drug Discovery and Natural Product Synthesis”, 1st Nanyang Technological University-University of Warwick Symposium, NTU, Singapore, August 2006.

19. Transition Metal-Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Nitrogen Bond Formations – Applications to Drug Discovery and Natural Product Synthesis”, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, May 2006.

20. Transition Metal Mediated Carbenoid and Nitrenoid Transfer Reactions - Applications to Natural Product Synthesis and Drug Discovery”, Mahidol University, Thailand, May 2006.

21. “Carbon-carbon and carbon-nitrogen bond formations Mediated by Transition Metal Catalysts – Applications to the Synthesis of Natural Products and Drug Discovery”, Chulabhorn Research Institute, Thailand, May 2006.

22. Transition Metal Catalyzed C-H Bond Functionalization”, Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, A*STAR, Singapore, March 2006.

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