Oriented by the preparation of valuable pharmaceutical intermediates and useful functional materials, the goal of organic chemistry is: the development of efficient and highly selective chiral catalyst and investigating the reaction mechanism; the design and synthesis of organic molecules with important biological activity and to study its interaction with biological macromolecules; the development of molecules with novel structures and functions based on molecular bionic concept. The research directions bionic concept. The research directions of organic chemistry are listed as follow:

1) Organic Synthesis:

Researches include the development of novel methodologies based on new strategies and concepts, and to explore those methods in the synthesis of biologically valuable molecules and natural products; the design and synthesis of new reagents, catalysts, or to develop simple, green process for industry synthesis.

2) Asymmetric Catalysis:

Researches include the design and development of highly efficient biomimetic chiral catalysts from small organic molecules as well as the development of new chiral ligands; based on biomimetic concept, exploring the stereoselectivity in secondary bond induced organocatalysis or transition metal catalysis; establishing new types of synergetic catalytic systems to control the stereoselectivity in free radical reactions; focusing on green synthesis, to achieve significant application of asymmetric catalysis in drug discovery, material science, biology and so on.

3) Supramolecular Chemistry:

Researches include the design and synthesis of a series of supramolecule systems such as luminescent aggregates, artificial helices, coordination cage compounds, to study their application in host guest recognition, molecular probe, catalysis, molecular machines; exploring the inter action and assembly mechanism between the assembly elements to achieve the advanced assembly of artificial molecules, or use of molecular bionic principle, to build intelligent molecular devices.

4) Elemento-organic Chemistry:

Researches include the preparation of fluorine containing super acid derived rare earth metal salts and evaluation of their catalytic performance; preparation of fluorine superacid lithium salts and evaluation of their electrochemical performance; the synthesis and application of fluoride anionic ionic liquids and their applications; the development of new fluorination reaction and their applications.