Chemist. Born in Pengxi , Sichuan Province. Graduated from the
Department of Chemistry, Peking University . Received Ph.D. from the
University of Illinois , USA in 1944. Research professor, Institute
of Chemistry , Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Jiang has been engaged in the research on organic chemistry and
pharmaceutical chemistry. He paid great attention to the
relationship between specific phenomena and the entire phenomenon in
his research work. He stressed the relation between the structures
of drugs and pharmacology in his early work of pharmaceutical
chemistry. In the 1950s, he began to study the quantitative
relationship between the structures of organic compounds and their
properties. In 1962, he proposed that the "index of inductive
effect"may be used for the property prediction of nonconjugated
organic compounds and this was widely accepted. In 1977, he put
forward the "linear law of homologous series" which could be used
for the quantitative calculation and prediction of the relationship
between the properties and structures of all homologous series of
organic compounds.
He
was elected Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.
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