Keynote Speaker

Dr. John F. Hartwig#

Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
The Henry Rapoport Chair in Organic Chemistry
Lester Andrews Graduate Research Symposium Keynote Speaker

Dr. John F. Hartwig’s research focuses on the discovery and understanding of new reactions catalyzed by transition metal complexes. He has developed highly selective and widely applied methods for the borylation of unactivated alkanes, aryl amination, aryl etherification, α-arylation of ketones, alkene hydroamination and allylic amination of carbonates. In each system he has published thorough mechanistic investigations that are the currently accepted state-of-the-art understanding. He has deciphered several new classes of reductive eliminations, isolated discrete compounds that functionalize alkanes, reported novel three-coordinate aryl palladium complexes, and has identified intermediates in cross-coupling. For more detail regarding Dr. Hartwig visit: http://hartwigserver.cchem.berkeley.edu/wp/