Stephen L. Buchwald

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Stephen Leffler Buchwald (* 1955 in Bloomington , Indiana ) is an American chemist (organic chemistry). He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Buchwald received his bachelor's degree from Brown University in 1977 and received his doctorate in 1982 from Harvard University under Jeremy R. Knowles on phosphorylation ( chiral phosphate monoesters in organic chemistry ). As a post-doctoral student he was with Robert H. Grubbs at Caltech . In 1984 he became Assistant Professor, 1989 Associate Professor and 1993 Professor of Chemistry at MIT. In 1997 he became a Camille Dreyfus professor . In 1988 he became a research fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellow ).

He deals with organic synthesis and the development of organometallic catalysts for this, for example catalysis of carbon-nitrogen and carbon-oxygen bonds with organometallic catalysts based on copper and palladium. The catalysts have found widespread use in drug development.

The Buchwald-Hartwig coupling is named after him and John F. Hartwig (1994).

In 2013 he received the Arthur C. Cope Award and in 2014 the Linus Pauling Award and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award . For 2016 he was awarded the William H. Nichols Medal , for 2018 the Roger Adams Award and the Tetrahedron Prize . He received the MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health and the Bristol Myers Squibb Distinguished Achievement Award, and in 2010 the Gustavus J. Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest. In 1997 he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 2000 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2008 a member of the National Academy of Sciences . For 2019 he received the Wolf Prize for Chemistry.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Stephen L. Buchwald at academictree.org, accessed on January 22, 2018.
  2. ↑ MIT News 2009 .
  3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter B. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved February 22, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Wolf Prize 2019
personal data
SURNAME Buchwald, Stephen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buchwald, Stephen Leffler (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Bloomington (Indiana)