John F. Hartwig
John F. Hartwig is the Henry Rapoport Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. His laboratory focuses on developing new methods for the preparation of a broad range of organic compounds. His explorations have illustrated the potential of the transition metal-catalyzed construction of important carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom linkages in a way that has elevated such transformations to strategy level reactions.
Hartwig is known for helping develop the Buchwald–Hartwig amination, a chemical reaction used in organic chemistry for the synthesis of carbon–nitrogen bonds via the palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of amines with aryl halides. Here is an example of this reaction:
He also helped develop a technique for steric-directed C–H borylation of arenes. The versatility of this method is described in the following reaction scheme:
Hartwig received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1986, and earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990.Career
- 1984: General Electric Research and Development, Schenectady, NY
- 1985: Monsanto Japan Ltd., Kawachi, Japan
- 1986-1989: University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Graduate Student Instructor.
- 1990 - 1992: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Associate.
- 1992-1996: Yale University, New Haven, CT Assistant Professor of Chemistry.
- 1996-1998: Yale University, New Haven, CT Associate Professor of Chemistry.
- 1998-2004: Yale University, New Haven, CT Professor of Chemistry.
- 2004-2006: Yale University, New Haven, CT Irénée duPont Professor of Chemistry
- 2006-2011: University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Kenneth L. Reinhart Jr. Professor of Chemistry.
- 2011–present: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley Senior Faculty Scientist
- 2011–present: University of California, Berkeley Henry Rapoport Professor of Chemistry.
Academy Memberships and Fellowships
- 2015: Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2012: Member, National Academy of Sciences
- 2005: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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