Guangbin Dong

Guangbin Dong (Chinese: 董广彬) is an organic chemist. He currently serves as the Weldon G. Brown Professor at the University of Chicago. His expertise is in the field of organic synthesis, catalysis, organometallics, medicinal chemistry, and material science. He has worked in the field of carbon-carbon activation for reorganizing skeletons of organic molecules, systematic development of the palladium/norbornene catalysis for arene functionalization, site-selective and atom-economical carbonyl functionalization, diverse boron-based functionalization and programmable synthesis, and bottom-up precise synthesis of graphene nanoribbons.