Scientific journals serve as crucial engines for leading disciplinary progress and fostering interdisciplinary integration. In active response to the national strategic call for cultivating world-class scientific journals, Chemical Reagents is taking new steps to promote innovation and standardization in chemical reagents and analytical technology, enhance its content, and improve overall quality. We are pleased to announce that, starting February 2026, Academician Qing Fengling of Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, will assume the role of Editor-in-Chief.
Editorial Office of Chemical Reagents
February 2026
Profile of the Editor-in-Chief
Qing Fengling is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He serves as the Director, a Researcher, and a Doctoral Supervisor of the State Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Nitrogen Chemistry and Advanced Materials, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Academician Qing has long been engaged in fundamental research in organofluorine chemistry and the development of high-performance organic materials. He pioneered a series of novel reactions in organic fluorine chemistry, and was the first to propose and realize oxidative trifluoromethylation and trifluoromethylthiolation reactions, providing efficient, highly selective, and strongly functional-group-tolerant new methods for synthesizing trifluoromethyl and fluoromethylthio compounds. These reactions have led international research trends in the field and are widely known as the “Qing fluorination.” By closely integrating fundamental fluorine chemistry research with the development of organic fluorinated materials, he overcame a number of key technical challenges in the preparation of fluoroether rubbers and successfully developed multiple fluoroether rubbers with excellent resistance to both high and low temperatures. He also researched and developed a series of organic thermal control materials resistant to space environments. These materials have been successfully applied in high-tech industries.
He has published over 340 research papers, been granted 26 Chinese invention patents, and authored Organofluorine Chemistry, the first monograph on fluorine chemistry published in China. He has served as an editorial board member for the Journal of Fluorine Chemistry since 2001. As the first contributor, he received the Second Prize of the State Natural Science Award (2019), the First Prize of the Military Science and Technology Progress Award (2019), the First Prize of the Shanghai Natural Science Award (2017), and the First Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award from the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (2013). He was awarded the Huang Weiyuan Fluorine Chemistry Prize by the Chinese Chemical Society in 2014 and the Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2023.