Category Archives: organic chemists

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, 2008- Research Fellow, George Whitesides Group, Harvard University, 2006-2008 Developed new materials and detection platforms with applications inmedicine, drug development, and less-industrialized nations. Post-Doctoral Fellow, Matthew Shair Group, Harvard University, 2004-2006 Designed, synthesized, … Continue reading →

Donald A. Watson was born in California in 1976. He received his BS in Chemistry from UC San Diego in 1998. During his undergraduate years, he worked in the laboratories of Professors K.C. Nicolaou and Emmanuel Theodorakis, working on natural … Continue reading →

Mary Waterson,BS, 2000, Harvard University, phd, 2006 with Larry E. Overman, 2006–2009, postdoc with Eric N. Jacobsen. During her postdoc, she developed a nickel-catalyzed method for olefin arylcyanation via activation of C–CN bonds. She joined the faculty at the University … Continue reading →

very good presentations, very broad topics. http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/denmark/presentations/ List of 2008: Transition Metal‐Catalyzed Carbon‐Carbon Bond Cleavage (C‐C Activation) The Petasis-Ferrier Union/Rearrangement Interrupted Nazarov Cyclizations Nickel Catalyzed sp3-sp3 Couplings Rhodium Catalyzed [5+2] Cycloaddition The 5 W’s of Chiral Dienes as Ligands for … Continue reading →