The Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) was founded in May 1950 as one of the first 15 institutes established by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The mission of SIOC is to conduct cutting-edge research in the science and technology of organic chemistry and related disciplines and publicly disseminate its research results and technological developments.

Over the last 75 years, SIOC scientists have made tremendous contributions to the development of the nation’s science, economy and defense. The institute’s achievements include collaboration on the total synthesis of crystalline bovine insulin; collaboration on the total synthesis of yeast Ala-tRNA; and development of fluorine-containing plastics and key materials for the nation’s security. It has also conducted extensive basic research on physical organic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, and complex natural product synthesis and related methodologies.  

Since its establishment, SIOC has won 370 research awards, including 75 national-level awards. It has above 1287 patents and has published around 13,870 academic papers. 

SIOC’s research facilities include The State Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Nitrogen Chemistry and Advanced Material, The State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology, and The State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry. SIOC is also home to the CAS Interdisciplinary Research Center of Biology and Chemistry and Shanghai-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory of Chemical Synthesis.  

The institute has a staff of over 820, including 9 CAS academicians and 324 research fellows and engineers at the professor or associate professor level. In addition, the institute has 843 graduate students and 120 postdoctoral fellows.

Address: 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, P. R. China

Tel: +86-21-54925000

Fax: +86-21-64166128

E-mail: sioc@sioc.ac.cn

Website: (English) http://english.sioc.cas.cn/