John F. Hartwig | |
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 Hartwig at the 2007 Boston ACS meeting | |
| Born | John F. Hartwig 1964 (age 61–62) Elmhurst, Illinois |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley Ph.D (1990) Princeton University A.B. (1986) |
| Known for | Organometallic chemistry,Inorganic chemistry,Catalysis |
| Awards | Willard Gibbs Award(2015) Wolf Prize in Chemistry(2019) Arthur C. Cope Award(2021) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisors | Robert G. Bergman andRichard A. Andersen |
| Website | hartwig |
John F. Hartwig is an American organometallic chemist who holds the position ofHenry Rapoport Professor ofChemistry at theUniversity of California, Berkeley. His laboratory traditionally focuses on developing transition metal-catalyzed reactions. Hartwig is known for helping develop theBuchwald–Hartwig amination, achemical reaction used inorganic chemistry for the synthesis ofcarbon–nitrogen bonds via thepalladium-catalyzed cross-coupling ofamines witharyl halides.
Hartwig received his A.B. fromPrinceton University in 1986. WithRobert G. Bergman andRichard A. Andersen as coadvisors, he earned his Ph.D. from theUniversity of California, Berkeley in 1990. Thereafter he was an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Associate at MIT, where he worked in the laboratory ofStephen J. Lippard.
He assumed an independent position at Yale University in 1992. Over the next 14 years, he was promoted to associate professor, full professor and finally the Irénée duPont professorship. During this period, theBuchwald–Hartwig amination was developed. Here is an example of this reaction (OTf =triflate or trifluoromethanesulfonate):
Also while at Yale, he discovered the metal-catalyzed borylation of unactivated C-H bonds.[1][2]
In 2006, he assumed the Kenneth L. Reinhart Jr. professorship at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. There he published "Organotransition Metal Chemistry: From Bonding to Catalysis."[3] In 2011 he returned to Berkeley as Henry Rapoport Professor of Chemistry as well as a member of theLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012. In 2019, together with Stephen Buchwald, he was awarded the Wolf Prize.
| 2024 | BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award[4] |
| 2022 | Emanuel Merck Lectureship[5] |
| 2021 | Arthur C. Cope Award |
| 2020 | Clarivate Citation Laureate |
| 2019 | Wolf Prize in Chemistry[6] |
| 2015 | Member,American Academy of Arts and Sciences[7] |
| 2015 | Willard Gibbs Award[8] |
| 2014 | Janssen Pharmaceutical Prize |
| 2013 | Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods[10] |
| 2012 | Member,National Academy of Sciences |
| 2010 | GlaxoSmithKline Scholars Award |
| 2009 | Edward Mack Jr. Memorial Award,Ohio State University |
| 2009 | Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Science Award, Japan[11] |
| 2009 | Joseph Chatt Award of theRoyal Society of Chemistry[12] |
| 2008 | International Catalysis Award from the International Association of Catalysis Society[13] |
| 2008 | Mukaiyama Award from the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan[14] |
| 2008 | Paul N. Rylander Award [de] of the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society |
| 2007 | Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences |
| 2007 | Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award in Organic Synthesis[15] |
| 2006 | ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry[10] |
| 2005 | Fellow of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science |
| 2004 | Thieme-IUPAC Prize in Synthetic Organic Chemistry[16] |
| 2003 | Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award[17] |
| 1998 | Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award[18] |
| 1997 | Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award[19] |
| 1992 | Dreyfus Foundation New Faculty Award |
