Ching Tat TO received his B.Sc. degree (2010) and Ph.D. degree (2015) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong under the supervision of Professor Kin Shing CHAN. TO’s thesis focuses on the group 9 metalloporphyrin catalyzed hydrogenation of carbon-carbon sigma-bond with water. After postdoctoral research on catalytic reduction of dinitrogen in Professor Zhaomin HOU group at RIKEN, he returned to his
alma mater as a research associate of CHAN group.
In 2019, he accepted an assistant professorship at the Tunghai University. The TO group is currently working on the synthesis and reactivity studies of metal perfluoroalkyl complexes, and the mechanochemistry for green synthesis. Recently, our research article on rhodium(III) porphyrin perfluoroalkyl complexes has been accepted by
Dalton Transactions. For earlier representative publications, please see: (a)
Org. Biomol. Chem. 2019,
17, 6757-6761.; (b)
Acc. Chem. Res. 2017,
50, 1702-1711.; (c)
ACS Catal. 2015,
5, 4333-4336.; (d)
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012,
134, 11388-11391.