Amir Hoveyda at the 2007 ACS conference in Boston

Amir H. Hoveyda is an American organic chemist and professor of chemistry at Boston College, and held the position of department chair until 2018.[1] In 2019, he embarked as researcher at the Institute of Science and Supramolecular Engineering at University of Strasbourg.[2]

Hoveyda received his Ph.D. from Yale University (advisor: Stuart Schreiber) in 1986, and worked as postdoctoral fellow in David A. Evans lab at Harvard University.[1] He received the Cope Scholar award from the American Chemical Society in 1998.

Hoveyda's research focuses on the development for chemoselective and stereoselective catalysis, in particular function-oriented catalyst design. He is particularly noted for his work on developing catalysts for stereoselective olefin metathesis,[3] such as the Hoveyda–Grubbs catalyst. In recent years he has worked extensively on copper(I)-N-heterocyclic carbenes complex catalyzed allyl addition, allylic substitution and conjugate addition reactions.[4] His research also involves metal-free catalysis, e.g. catalytic stereoselective allyl addition reactions promoted by chiral aminophenol-derived ligands, as well as bioactive molecules synthesis.

References

  1. 1 2 "BCC Faculty - Amir H. Hoveyda". Boston College. Archived from the original on 21 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-25.
  2. ↑ "Université de Strasbourg - Recherche: La " magie " de la catalyse au service de l'environnement". www.recherche.unistra.fr. Retrieved 2019-04-30.
  3. ↑ Hoveyda, Amir H.; Richard R. Schrock (2001-02-23). "Catalytic Asymmetric Olefin Metathesis". Chemistry: A European Journal. 7 (5): 945–950. doi:10.1002/1521-3765(20010302)7:5<945::AID-CHEM945>3.0.CO;2-3. PMID 11303874.
  4. ↑ Gillingham, D. G.; Hoveyda, A. H. (2007). "Chiral N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Natural Product Synthesis: Application of Ru-Catalyzed Asymmetric Ring-Opening/Cross-Metathesis and Cu-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation to Total Synthesis of Baconipyrone C*". Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 46 (21): 3860–4. doi:10.1002/anie.200700501. PMID 17415730.
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