Dennis P. Curran
Dennis Patrick Curran (born June 10, 1953 in Easton , Pennsylvania ) is an American chemist . He deals with radical chemistry , organic synthesis and fluorine chemistry.
Curran attended Boston College with a bachelor's degree in 1975 and was in 1979 at the University of Rochester with Andrew S. Kende with the subject Part I. The total synthesis of juncusol; Part II. The total synthesis of podophyllin lignan lactones in chemistry doctorate . He was a post-doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin with Barry Trost . In 1981 he became an assistant professor and later professor at the University of Pittsburgh . He has been Distinguished Service Professor there since 1995 and Bayer Professor since 1996 . In 2011 he was visiting professor in Osaka and Münster, 2007/2008 at the University of Paris (Blaise Pascal Professur) and 2007 at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
He deals with organic synthesis, especially with fluorine radicals, and founded Fluorous Technologies (FTI) in 2000 for the application of fluorine chemistry, of which he was chief scientist until 2012. Camptothecins ( Silatecane ) developed by him and his group are in preclinical tests as a cancer drug (2012). He has published over 350 papers and holds over 30 patents.
Curran received the Humboldt Research Award (1998), the Arthur Cope Award, the ACS Award for Creativity in Organic Synthesis (2000), the Jansen Award (1998) and in 2010 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Paris. From 1985 to 1987 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1994 he was Reichstein Professor at the University of Basel and in 1994 was a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science . He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Chemical Society (2009). He is one of the top 100 ISI Highly Cited Researchers in Chemistry. He received the Ernest Guenther Award for 2014.
Fonts
- Edited with John A. Gladysz, István T. Horváth: Handbook of Fluorous Chemistry, Wiley-VCH 2004
- with Ned A. Porter, Bernd Giese : Stereochemistry of radical reactions: concepts, guidelines, and synthetic applications, VCH 1996
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Dennis P. Curran at academictree.org, accessed on January 28, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Curran, Dennis P. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Curran, Dennis Patrick (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Easton , Pennsylvania |