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Siu Choon NG

Professor
Associate Provost (Students & Faculty Development)
D.Phil (Organic Chemistry), Oxford University, United Kingdom
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SIT Appointments

  • Associate Provost (Students & Faculty Development)
    – Present
  • Professor
    – Present
  • Associate Provost (Students)
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Education

  • D.Phil (Organic Chemistry)
    Oxford University , United Kingdom
  • BA (First Class Honours) in Chemistry
    Oxford University , United Kingdom

Achievements

  • NUS Teaching Award
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  • Sir Alan Sewell Visiting Fellowship, Australia
  • CASE Scholarship at Dyson Perrin Laboratory, Oxford
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  • Turbett Prize, Oxford (Organic Chemistry)
  • Singapore Government Overseas Merit Scholar, Teaching
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  • Oxford University Open Scholar
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Professional Memberships

  • H2 Chemistry Syllabus Development Committee - MOE
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  • Chairman of Accreditation Committee, School of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering, NTU
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  • National Research Foundation Singapore, Member of the Expert Panels
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  • Advisory Committee Ngee Ann Polytechnic, School of Life Sciences & Chemical Technology
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  • Member of the Expert Panels for Research Funding Agencies, MOE Tier 2
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Current Projects

  • Chiral Enabling Technologies: Chiral separation & purifications of racemic drugs, flavours/fragrance & fine chemicals
    Present
  • Organic functional materials for electronic devices
    Present

Past Projects

  • A*STAR SERC Grant No: 102 170 0135
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    Synthesis, modelling and structural correlation of enabling printed electronics materials; Principal Investigator (PI): $1,124,364

    Apr 2011 - Sep 2014

  • A*STAR SERC Grant No: 092 101 0056
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    Development of novel solid supports and their applications in enantiopurity analyses using ultraperformance liquid chromatography, PI: $959,628

    Sep 2009 - Feb 2013

  • Principal Investigator, Co-Principal Investigator or Collaborator in more than 20 research projects awarded by government agencies, industry or university totalling more than S$13M in grants

Journal Papers

  • Wang Y, X. Xin, Y. Lu, T. Xiao, X. Xu, N. Zhao, X. Hu, B. S. Ong, S. C. Ng, Substituent Effects on Physical and Photovoltaic Properties of 5,6-Difluorobenzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazole-Based D−A Polymers:Toward a Donor Design for High Performance Polymer Solar Cells, Macromolecules (2013), 9587- 9592.

  • Wang Y, Chen H, Xiao Y, Ng CH, Oh TS,, Tan TTY, Ng SC, Preparation of cyclodextrin chiral stationary phases by organic soluble catalytic “click” chemistry, Nature Protocols, 6 (2011): 935-942.

  • Tang WH and Ng SC, Facile synthesis of mono-6-amino-6-deoxy-alpha-, beta-, gamma-cyclodextrin hydrochlorides for molecular recognition, chiral separation and drug delivery, Nature Protocols, 3 (2008): 691-697.

  • Tang WH and Ng SC, Synthesis of cationic single-isomer cyclodextrins for the chiral separation of amino acids and anionic pharmaceuticals, Nature Protocols, 2 (2007): 3195-3200.

  • Ng SC, HF Lu, HSO Chan, A Fujii and K Yoshino, Blue electroluminesscence from a novel donor/acceptor polymer structure. Advanced Materials, 12 (2000): 1122.

  • Ng SC and P Miao, Electrochemical synthesis and characterization studies of poly[3,3'- dialkylsulfanyl-2,2'-bithiophene films. Macromolecules, 32 (1999): 5313-5320.

  • Ng, SC and LG Xu, Poly[4-(2-heteroacryl)benzenamines] : Novel electrically conducting alternating block copolymers of aniline and chalcophenes. Advanced Materials, 10 (1998): 1525-1530. (Germany).

  • Ng, SC, P Miao and HSO Chan, Electrochemical syntheses and doping properties of poly[3,3'-dialkylsulphanyl-2,2'-bithiophene]S: Novel materials which exhibit facile N- and P-dopability. Chemical Communications, 153 (1998).

  • Ng, SC, P Miao and HSO Chan, A facile electrochemical grafing of poly(3,3'-dioctyl-2,2'- bithiophene) on gold surface modified with a chemisorbed monolayer of 3-mercapto-2,2'- bithiophenes. Advanced Materials, 10 (1998): 782-786.

  • Chan, HSO and SC Ng, Some recent development in the synthesis, characterization and applications of thiophene based functional polymers. Progress in Polymer Science, 23 (1998):1167-1231.

  • Ng, SC, WL Yu and ACH Huan, Facile approach to a chemisorbed thin film of functionalized polythiophene on a glass surface. Advanced Materials, 9 (1997): 887.

  • Chan, HSO, PKH Ho, SC Ng, BTG Tan and KL Tan, A new water-soluble self-doping conducting polyaniline from poly(o-aminobenzylphosphoric acid) and its sodium salts: synthesis and characterisation. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 117 (1995): 8517-8523.

  • Ng, SC, HSO Chan, HH Huang and PKH Ho, Poly(o-aminobenzylphosphonic acid): A novel water soluble self-doped functionalised polyaniline. Chemical Communications (1995): 1327-1328.

Books

  • [Book Chapter] Y Wang and SC Ng, Invited book chapter “A Novel Synthesis of Cyclodextrin Chiral Stationary Phases for Chiral LC” in Chiral Separation (2nd Edition), Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2013, p69-80.

  • [Book] Modified Cyclodextrins for Chiral Separation, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2013. [Book Chapter] Dai, Y, WH Tang, Y Wang and SC Ng, Invited book chapter “Chromatographic Separations and Analysis: New Stationary Phases” in Comprehensive Chirality, Vol 8; Elsevier: Oxford, 2012, pg 286–310.