Since:	Aug. 1, 1992
	Specialty:	Organic Synthesis
	Tel:	(05) 272-0411 ext. 66400
	Fax:	(05) 272-1040
	Email:	chetcc@ccu.edu.tw

Academic Experience:

• Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, 1975 - 1976
• Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 1976 - 1979
• Associate Professor, Tunghai University, 1979 - 1981
• Professor, Tunghai University, 1982 - 1992
• Research Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, USA, 1983/8 -1983/12
• Chairman, Department of Chemistry, Tunghai University, 1985-1989
• Visiting Scholar, Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 1989-1990
• Professor, National Chung Cheng University, 1992 - present
• Chairman, Department of Chemistry, 1995 - 1996
• Dean of College of Sciences, National Chung Cheng University, 1996 - 2002

Course Opened This Semester

• Organic Chemistry (II)
• Organic Chemistry Seminar

Research Interest:

• Design and Synthesis of theoretical Interesting Molecules
• Application of ROMP (ring-closing metathesis polymerization)

Representative Publications:

• Chou, T.-C.; Lin, G.-H. “Bicyclo[2.2.2]octene-Based Molecular Spacers. Construction of U-Shaped Syn-Facial Etheno- Bridged Polyhydrononacenyl Frameworks”, Tetrahedron 2004, 60, 7907-7920.
• Chou, T.-C.; Hsu, C.-J.; Chen, J.-Y. “Benzoannulation of Quinones by A Cycloaddition-Fragmentation Approach. A Simple Synthesis of Methoxycarbonyl-Substituted Poly- acenoquinones”, J. Chin. Chem. Soc. 2004, 51, 167-174.
• Chou, T.-C.; Chen, S.-Y.; Chen, Y.-H. “Periphery-Modified Crown Ethers. Synthesis of Bis-5,8-Dimethoxy-1,4-methano- naphthalene-Fused Crown Ethers”, Tetrahedron 2003, 59, 9939-9950.
• Chou, T.-C.; Kuo, L.-H.; Liu, K.-F. “Stereoselectivity in the Diels-Alder Cycloadditions of a Facially Dissymmetric Bicyclo[2.2.2]octadiene-Grafted Maleic Anhydride with Exocyclic Butadienes. Unexpected Facial Selectivity in the Cycloaddition with 2,3,5,6-Tetramethylidenebicyclo[2.2.2]- octene”, J. Chin. Chem. Soc. 2003, 50, 303-313.
  
• Teh-Chang Chou, "Base-promoted Reaction of Cage Diketone. Novel Rearrangement to A Tricyclic Bridgedhead Olefin", J. Chin. Chem. Soc. 2000, 47, 993-1000
• Cheng-Tung Lin; Hsiang-Chin Hsu; M.-F. Wang, and Teh-Chang Chou, "Facial Stereoselective Diels-Alder Cycloadditions of Sesquibicyclo[2.2.2]octadiene-fused Maleic Anhydride with Exocyclic-1,3-butadienes", Tetrahedron 2000, 56, 5383-5390
• Cheng-Tung Lin; Hsiang-Chin Hsu; Mei-Fei Wang,and Teh-Chang Chou, "The Diels-Alder Cycloadditions of 11-Oxapentacyclo[6.5.2.23,6.02,7.09,13]heptadeca-4,14,16-trien-4,5-dicarboxylix Anhydride with Cyclopentadiene and The Transannular Reactions of The Resulting Cycloadducts", J. Org. Chem. 1999, 64, 7260-7264
• Teh-Chang Chou; Tzong-Shing Jiang; Jenn-Tsang Hwang; Kuan-Jiuh Lin, and Cheng-Tung Lin, "Laticyclic Conjugated Polyenes. Study on the Diels-Alder Cycloadditions of A Facially Dissymmetric Maleic Anhydride", J. Org. Chem. 1999, 64, 4874-4883
• Teh-Chang Chou; Gerng-Horng Lin; Yu-Lin Yeh, and Kuan-Jiuh Lin, "Synthetic Approach Towards Hexaprismane. A Novel Entry to Homosecohexa-prismane Skeleton by Cage Enlargement", J. Chin. Chem. Soc. 1997, 44, 477-493
• Cheng-Tung Lin; Nae-Jen Wang; Hsien-Zong Tseng, and Teh-Chang Chou, "Synthesis and Transannular Reactions of A Polycyclic Compound Containing Three Parallel Face-to-Face Double Bonds", J. Org. Chem. 1997, 62, 4857-4861
• Liang-Hsuan Kuo; Zdenek Slanina, and Teh-Chang Chou, "Additions of Cyclopentadiene to a Dissymmetric Maleic Anhydride: Semiempirical Calculations of Their Thermodynamics and Kinetics", Z. Naturforsch. 1996, 51a, 1134-1138
• Teh-Chang Chou; Yu-Lin Yeh, and Gerng-Horng Lin, "A Fragmentation-Photocyclization Approach Towards Homosecohexaprismane Skeleton", Tetrahedron Lett. 1996, 37, 8779-8782
• Teh-Chang Chou; Pao-Chiung Hong; Yane-Fong Wu; Wen-Yean Chang; Cheng-Tung Lin, and Kuan-Jiuh Lin, "Diels-Alder Reactions of A Cage-Annulated Cyclohexa-1,3-diene. Synthesis and Crystal Structure of A Doubly-Caged Sterically-Congested Tetraol", Tetrahedron 1996, 52, 6325-6338
• Teh-Chang Chou; Holger Lange; Tibor Gogh; Miroslav Kriz; Max H. Pfenninger; Marian Valentiny, and Camille Ganter, "Syntheses and PE-Spectroscopic Investigations of 2,6- and 3,5-Bridged 1,4-Dimethylidenecyclohexanes", Helv. Chim. Acta 1995, 78, 2011-2025