Zaiwei Li Email: zaiweili@peer.caltech.edu Education: -Ph.D., Chemistry, Stanford University -M.S., Chemistry, Nanjing Uinversity, China -B.S., Chemistry, Shanxi University, China Research Interests: Dr. Zaiwei Li has over 30 years of experience in industrial/academic chemistry research and development. Dr. Li's main research interest includes homogeneous catalysis; organic, organometallic, inorganic and polymer synthesis; surface chemistry; separation/isolation and analytical chemistry. At present he is mainly involving in the development of specific ionic liquids. Dr. Li has created dozens new products for separation industry. His work is published in Science and Journal of America Chemical Society. Selected Publications: -Zai-Wei Li and Henry Taube, Use of Dihydrogen Osmium Complex as a Versatile 1H NMR Recognition Probe, Science, 256, 1992, 210. -Zai-Wei Li and Henry Taube, Dihydrogen Complexes of Tetraamineosmium(II) with Carbene as Coligand: Facile Hydrogen Transfer from Cyclic Ether to the Metal Center, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 116, 1994, 11584. -Zai-Wei Li and Henry Taube, Dihydrogen as a Coligand in Substitution and Isomerization Reactions, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 116, 1994, 9506. -Zai-Wei Li, Andrew Yeh and Henry Taube, Monohydride Complexes of Os(IV) Amines of Coordination Number 7, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 115, 1993, 10384. -Zai-Wei Li and Henry Taube, Modulation of Physical and Chemical Properties of ?-H2 Complexes of Osmium Ammines by Facile Substitution, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 113, 1991, 8946. -Zai-Wei Li, W. Dean Harman, Peter A. Lay, and Henry Taube, Extension of the Preparation of New Osmium Species to the cis-Tetraamine Moiety, Inorg. Chem. 33, 1994, 3635.