Chao-Jun Li received his B.S. at Zhengzhou University (1983), M.S. at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing (1988) and Ph.D. at McGill University (1992, with T. H. Chan and D. N. Harpp). After an NSERC Postdoctoral research term with B. M. Trost at Stanford University, he became Assistant Professor (1994), Associate Professor (1998), and Full Professor (2000-2003) at Tulane University. In 2003, he became a Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Organic/Green Chemistry and a Professor of Chemistry at McGill University in Canada. Currently, he serves as the Co-Chair (with Bernard West) of the Canadian Green Chemistry and Engineering Network. His current research efforts are focused on developing innovative and fundamentally new organic reactions that will defy conventional reactivities and have high synthetic efficiency.

PAUL T. ANASTAS, PhD, PAUL H. BICKART, PhD, and MARY M. KIRCHHOFF, PhD, are all in the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.