中国科学院上海有机化学研究所（简称上海有机所）是集基础研究、应用研究和高技术创新研究为一体的综合性化学研究机构，创建于1950年5月，是中国科学院首批成立的15个研究所之一，前身是建立于1928年7月的前中央研究院化学研究所。从开展抗生素和高分子化学的研究起步，经过70年几代人艰苦创业、奋力拼搏，在以有机化学研究为中心的基础研究、应用研究与高新技术开发、人才培养等方面均取得令人瞩目的成就。在中国“两弹一星”研制、“人工合成牛胰岛素、人工合成酵母丙氨酸转移核糖核酸”和“物理有机化学中的两个基本问题：自由基化学中取代基离域参数和有机分子簇集概念”等一批攀登科技高峰的重要成果中，我所科研人员作出了重要贡献。
根据中科院新时期“三个面向，四个率先”办院方针要求，上海有机所战略定位为：立足基础交叉前沿领域，坚持重大科学问题和国家重大需求导向，发挥有机合成化学的创造性，加强与生命科学、材料科学的交叉与融合；致力于推动我国化学转化方法学、化学生物学、有机新材料创制科学等重点学科领域的发展；在有机化学基础研究、新医药农药和高性能有机材料创制方面实现新的突破；引领有机化学学科前沿的发展，满足国家战略需求，服务国民经济主战场；将上海有机所建设成为国际一流的有机化学研究中心。
Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry) is a comprehensive chemical research institution integrating basic research, applied research and high-tech innovation research. Founded in May 1950, it is one of the first 15 research institutes established by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Its predecessor was the former Institute of Chemistry of Academia Sinica established in July 1928. Starting from the research of antibiotics and polymer chemistry, after 70 years of hard work and hard work of several generations, remarkable achievements have been made in basic research, applied research, high-tech development and personnel training centering on organic chemistry research. Our researchers have made important contributions to a number of important achievements that have reached the peak of science and technology, such as the development of "Two bombs and one star" in China, "Synthetic bovine insulin, Synthetic yeast alanine transfer RNA" and "Two Basic Problems in physical Organic Chemistry: Substituent delocalization Parameters in Free Radical Chemistry and the concept of Organic molecular bunking".
According to the guidelines of "three directions and four leads" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the new period, the strategic positioning of Shanghai Institute of Organic Sciences is: based on the basic interdisciplinary frontier fields, adhere to the orientation of major scientific issues and national major needs, give full play to the creativity of organic synthetic chemistry, and strengthen the intersection and integration with life science and materials science; We will promote the development of key disciplines such as chemical transformation methodology, chemical biology and organic new materials creation science. It has made new breakthroughs in basic research of organic chemistry, new medical pesticides and the creation of high-performance organic materials. To lead the development of the frontier of organic chemistry, meet the national strategic needs, and serve the main battlefield of national economy; To build the Institute into a world-class organic chemistry research center.