第一张photo超震撼吧!关键是这位年轻的美女化学家确实实力非凡。M. Christina White是University of Illinois化学系的Associate Professor。White的文章产量不是很高,不到20篇,但质量挺高,除了分别有一篇OL和T外,全是JACS以上的好文章。总的来说她就做了一个反应C-H(绝大部分是allylic的C-H)到C-O。在这过程中,她发现亚砜是这个反应的很好的配体(全新的Pd的配体结构),并将这个反应做的很深入(也就是合成不同的底物),而且还在合成进行了运用(她那篇nature chemistry就这一个亮点)。最近,又将这一体系运用到C-N的合成中去。暂时还没有实现不对称的反应。估计她日后的工作方向就应该是合成手性亚砜,实现C-O的不对称合成,再做其他的C-X键。http://chem8.org/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=33308&rpid=205189&ordertype=0&page=14#pid205189http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/white/Associate Professor of Chemistry July 2005-present white@scs.uiuc.edu Fax: (217) 244-8024 Ph: (217) 333-6173
Education
Associate Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2009-present
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2005-2009
Assistant Professor, Harvard University, 2002-2005
Melanie Sanford grew up in Providence, RI. She received her undergraduate degree in chemistry from Yale University in 1996 where she worked with Professor Bob Crabtree studying C-F bond functionalization. She then moved to Caltech where she worked with Professor Bob Grubbs investigating the mechanism of ruthenium-catalyzed olefin metathesis reactions. After receiving her PhD in 2001, she worked with Professor Jay Groves at Princeton University as an NIH post-doctoral fellow studying metalloporphyrin-catalyzed functionalization of olefins. Melanie has been a professor at the University of Michigan since the summer of 2003.