{"id":2568,"date":"2026-04-22T16:31:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thechemistsinteractions.unimi.it\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2026-05-09T15:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:24:24","slug":"prof-ming-yu-ngai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechemistsinteractions.unimi.it\/en\/2026\/04\/22\/prof-ming-yu-ngai\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Ming-Yu Ngai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-b7bcb614c86004be5e87f33bd8b676a3\"><em>&#8216;Excited-State Catalysis in Organic Synthesis<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><\/span>&#8216;<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-image-fill\" style=\"grid-template-columns:45% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/thechemistsinteractions.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2026\/04\/Foto.jpg);background-position:48% 27%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"725\" height=\"770\" src=\"https:\/\/thechemistsinteractions.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2026\/04\/Foto.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2561 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thechemistsinteractions.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2026\/04\/Foto.jpg 725w, https:\/\/thechemistsinteractions.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2026\/04\/Foto-565x600.jpg 565w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Prof. Ming-Yu Ngai (Purdue University) is a leading figure in modern organic chemistry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">His laboratory develops innovative catalytic platforms for the synthesis and selective modification of organic molecules. By integrating experimental and computational studies to understand reaction mechanisms and reactivity principles, his group designs new catalytic systems and applies them to key challenges in organic synthesis, bioorganic chemistry, and medicinal chemistry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">His scientific contributions have been internationally recognized with prestigious awards such as the NIH MIRA, NSF CAREER, and the ACS Young Academic Investigator Award.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:64px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excited-State Catalysis in Organic Synthesis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":385,"featured_media":2561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-en","category-eventi-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechemistsinteractions.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechemistsinteractions.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechemistsinteractions.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechemistsinteractions.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/385"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechemistsinteractions.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thechemistsinteractions.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2584,"href":"https:\/\/thechemistsinteractions.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions\/2584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechemistsinteractions.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechemistsinteractions.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechemistsinteractions.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechemistsinteractions.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}