6月19日上午，加拿大女王大学P. Andrew Evans教授应邀为我校师生作了题为“Stereoselective Construction of Challenging C-C Bonds and the Development of Antimetastatic Agents”的学术报告，报告会由白大昌副教授主持，平原实验室，全国重点实验室部分师生参加。
报告中，Evans教授深入浅出地介绍了其团队构建非常具有挑战性的碳碳键的研究成果，包括动态动力学转化和不对称催化领域的工作。此外，他还分享了团队在癌症治疗领域取得的最新研究成果。报告结束后，Evans教授耐心细致地回答了师生们提出的问题，并就相关研究进行了友好和热烈的讨论。
报告人简介：
Professor P. Andrew Evans is the Alfred R. Bader Chair of Organic Chemistry, a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Organic and Organometallic Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at Queen’s University and a Changjiang Scholar at Central South University in China. He received a B.Sc. with honors in Applied Chemistry at Newcastle Polytechnic in 1987 and a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 1991 under the supervision of Andrew B. Holmes, FRS. He then completed postdoctoral studies with Philip D. Magnus, FRS, at the University of Texas at Austin as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow. In 1993 he initiated his independent career at the University of Delaware, where he was promoted to Professor before moving to Indiana University in 2001. In 2006, he moved to the University of Liverpool, where he was the Heath Harrison Chair of Organic Chemistry before moving to his current position in July 2012. Recent awards include the R. U. Lemieux Award, the Paul G. Gassman Distinguished Service Award, the Harry and Carol Mosher Award, a Changjiang Scholar Award, an ACS Cope Scholar Award and the RSC Pedler Award. He has also served on the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry as a Member-at-Large, Councilor, National Organic Symposium Executive Officer and Division Chair. He is currently a co-chair of the highly acclaimed ACS-DOC Graduate Research Symposium. Additionally, he has served as an Associate Editor for Chem. Comm. and Synthesis. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief for Organic Reactions. He has published nearly 150 papers, articles, reviews, book chapters and monographs and delivered over 500 plenary and invited lectures.