Preface

Professor Xikui Jiang was born on September 5, 1926 in Shanghai, China. He received a B.Sc with honors from St. John＇s University, Shanghai in 1947 and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Washington at Seattle （with H. J. Dauben） in 1952. He then joined M, W, Kellog Company as a research chemist for three years. During this period, he invented the addition reaction of SO3 to fluoroethylene. In the following decades, this reaction had found wide applications chemical industry. In 1956, Dr. Jiang returned to China and was appointed as associate professor in the Institute of Chemistry in Beijing, the Chinese Academy of Sciences （CAS）. In 1963, he and his research group moved to Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry （SIOC） of CAS. He was promoted to full professorship in 1978 and elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991.     

蒋锡夔研究员及其在物理有机化学和有机氟化学领域的成就

蒋锡夔研究员是我国物理有机化学和有机氟化学的主要奠基人。本文首先介绍蒋锡夔研究员的科学经历,然后介绍他在不同时期取得的代表性科学成就,主要包括有关四氟乙烯的亲电加成反应,氟橡胶研究,亲卤反应,自由基化学及有机分子的簇集与自卷等方面的研究。