"Father of Supramolecular Chemistry" Jean-Marie Lehn Appointed as an Honorary Professor of Zhejiang University

Oct. 23, 2007

On October 19, 2007, Professor Jean-Marie Lehn, a well-known organic chemist and a Nobel laureate in chemistry in 1987, was appointed as an honorary professor of Zhejiang University. President Wei Yang issued an honorary certification and put on a university badge for him.

Professor Jean-Marie Lehn was born in 1939, and worked as a post-doctor at Laboratory of Robert Burns Woodward at Harvard University, where he took part in the immense enterprise of the total synthesis of Vitamin B12 in 1964. Now he is a director of the Supramolecular Chemistry Laboratory at Louis Pasteur University in France, and his research interests are in supramolecular chemistry, theoretic organic chemistry, molecular dynamics, actinochemistry, and material science, etc. He, as one of the earliest chemists in supramolecular chemistry, put forward concept of supramolecular chemistry, and was named “father of supramolecular chemistry”.

After the ceremony, Professor Jean-Marie Lehn gave a report entitled From Supramolecular Chemistry to Constitutional Dynamic Chemistry, for faculty members and students.