Eric Jacobsen (chemist)

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Eric N. Jacobsen (born February 22, 1960 in New York City ) is an American chemist who has held the Sheldon Emery Professorship in Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University since July 2001 .

life and work

He graduated from New York University , was at the 1986 University of California at Robert Bergman with the work Synthesis and Reactions of Dinuclear Transition Metal Complexes Containing Bridging Ligands Relevant to Heterogeneous Catalysis doctorate and then moved as a postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Group by Barry Sharpless . He then worked from 1988 to 1993 at the University of Illinois as an associate professor or assistant professor , before he was appointed as a university professor at Harvard University in Cambridge in 1993 .

Jacobsen was best known for the development of Jacobsen epoxidation . He is interested in "the discovery of practical catalytic reactions and the application of cutting-edge mechanistic and computational methods to analyze these reactions".

Currently (2017) his working group is concerned not only with the development of new catalytic reactions but also with the elucidation of the associated mechanisms and with the rational development and predictability of chemical catalysis. The long-term goal is to be able to use a purely empirical approach to specifically design new synthesis options “on the drawing board”.

Due to the number of his citations, Clarivate Analytics has been one of the favorites for a Nobel Prize in Chemistry ( Clarivate Citation Laureates ) since 2018 .

Jacobsen is married and has three daughters.

Honors

Jacobsen has received numerous honors and awards. In 1990 he was awarded the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Prize and a year later the Packard Fellowship. In 1992 he became a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1993 he received the Cope Scholar Prize of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and in 1994 the Fluka Reagent of the Year Prize. In 1996 he was awarded the Thieme-IUPAC Prize in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, in 2001 he received the ACS Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry , the Mitsui Catalysis Science Prize in 2005, the Ryōji Noyori Prize in 2010 and the Remsen Award in 2013 . For 2016 he was awarded the Arthur C. Cope Award . He is also an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 2004) and the National Academy of Sciences (since 2008).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jacobsen Group: Eric Jacobsen. Harvard University , accessed July 10, 2017 .
  2. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Eric N. Jacobsen at academictree.org, accessed on February 13, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b Eric N. Jacobsen: Curriculum Vitae. (PDF; 272 kB) Harvard University , accessed on July 9, 2017 (English).
  4. ^ A b Jacobsen Group: Research. Harvard University , accessed July 10, 2017 .
  5. ^ Clarivate Analytics Reveals Annual Forecast of Future Nobel Prize Recipients. In: clarivate.com. Clarivate Analytics, September 20, 2018, accessed September 20, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Eric Jacobsen: Awards. Harvard University , accessed July 10, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Jacobsen, Eric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobsen, Eric N.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City