David MacMillan (chemist)

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David MacMillan (* 1968 in Bellshill , Scotland ) is a British chemist ( organic chemistry , organic synthesis).

MacMillan graduated from the University of Glasgow with a bachelor's degree in 1991 and received his PhD from the University of California, Irvine , under Larry E. Overman in 1996 . As a post-graduate student , he was with David A. Evans at Harvard University . From 1998 he was at the University of California, Berkeley and from 2000 at Caltech , where he became professor in 2004. Since 2006 he has been a professor at Princeton University and there director of the Merck Center of Catalysis. He has been the James S. McDonnell Distinguished Professor since 2010.

He developed new methods in enantioselective (asymmetric) organocatalysis with application to the synthesis of a number of natural products. He discovered new iminium ion catalysts and developed over 50 new reaction processes. In 2007 he developed SOMO catalysis (Singly occupied molecular orbital organocatalysis) and in 2008 organic photoredox catalysis.

He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 2012 and received the Corday Morgan Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2004 . In addition, he has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2012, of the National Academy of Sciences since 2018, and became an Arthur C. Cope Scholar in 2007. He also received the Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award in 2005, the Mukaiyama Award in 2007, the Harrison Howe Award in 2014 and the Thieme-IUPAC Prize in Organic Synthesis in 2006. In 2002 he was a Sloan Fellow . In 2011 he received the ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. For 2015 he was awarded the Ernst Schering Prize , for 2017 the Ryōji Noyori Prize and for 2019 the Centenary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry .

He has been the editor of Chemical Science since 2010 .

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  1. ↑ Appreciation from the Royal Society
  2. ↑ Or SOMO activation with one-electron oxidation of an enantiomer as an intermediate state instead of two electrons as in HOMO activation
personal data
SURNAME MacMillan, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Bellshill