The Magic of Chemistry

Abstract

Mr. Ouyang Yu Xin Oscar believes that chemists can build something really amazing just by using simple motifs, just like playing lego. His final year project is in the field of organic chemistry and it studies a highly regioselective amidation reaction of alkenes. In this transformation, the starting material alkenes are cheap and abundant in nature, while the product amides are valuable pharmaceutical motifs. This knowledge can bring great advantages to the pharmaceutical industry.