F. Dean Toste
F. Dean Toste is the Gerald E. K. Branch Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a prominent figure in the field of organic chemistry and is best known for his contributions to gold chemistry and asymmetric ion-pairing catalysis.
Toste attended the University of Toronto for his undergraduate and masters studies in the group of Ian Still, and attended graduate school at Stanford University, earning his PhD under the supervision of Barry Trost. He subsequently was a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology with Robert H. Grubbs before joining the faculty at Berkeley in 2002.
Toste was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.
