Melanie S. Sanford

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Melanie Sarah Sanford (* 1975 in New Bedford , Massachusetts ) is a chemist at the University of Michigan .

Sanford grew up in Providence , Rhode Island . She earned both a bachelor's and master's degree in chemistry from Robert H. Crabtree at Yale University in 1996 and a PhD in 2001 with the thesis Synthetic and Mechanistic Investigations of Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalysts from Nobel Prize winner Robert Grubbs at the California Institute of Technology . She worked as a postdoctoral fellow with John T. Groves at Princeton University before accepting a professorship at the University of Michigan in 2003 .

Sanford deals with a border area between organic and inorganic chemistry , organometallic chemistry , in particular with the catalyst- controlled synthesis of complex molecules. Means activated palladium and other transition metals are specifically hydrogen atoms in carbon-hydrogen bonds by other atoms (for example fluorine be replaced) or functional groups ( methane functionalization , methane functionalization ). Related research topics are alkene difunctionalization and cross-coupling reactions . Further work deals with catalytic fluorination and the development of redox flow batteries .

Sanford has received a number of awards including the American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry in 2011, a MacArthur Fellowship in 2011 , the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society's Paul N. Rylander Award in 2012 , the Sackler Prize in Chemistry in 2013, and the American Chemical Society Award in 2021 in Organometallic Chemistry . In 2010 she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , and in 2016 a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Melanie Sanford is married, her husband is also a chemist.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sharon R. Neufeldt, Melanie S. Sanford: Controlling Site Selectivity in Palladium-Catalyzed C – H Bond Functionalization. In: Accounts of Chemical Research. 45, 2012, p. 936, doi: 10.1021 / ar300014f .
  2. ^ A b Elisabeth Pain: Melanie Sanford: The Interview. In: sciencemag.org. November 24, 2006, accessed December 12, 2017 .
  3. ^ ACS Award in Pure Chemistry - American Chemical Society. In: acs.org. Accessed December 12, 2017 .
  4. ^ MacArthur Foundation. In: macfound.org. June 25, 2015, accessed December 12, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Awards. In: orcs.org. Accessed December 12, 2017 .
  6. ^ Past Laureates of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in the Physical Sciences. In: english.tau.ac.il. Accessed December 12, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Sanford, Melanie. (No longer available online.) In: aaas.org. February 24, 2017, archived from the original on December 13, 2017 ; accessed on December 12, 2017 (English).
  8. ↑ Melanie Sanford. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved December 12, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter S. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed December 12, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Sanford, Melanie S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sanford, Melanie; Sanford Melanie Sarah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH New Bedford , Massachusetts