Gary E. Keck
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materBowling Green State University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Harvard University[1]
Known forKeck asymmetric allylation
AwardsAlfred Sloan Fellow[2]
Scientific career
FieldsOrganic Chemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Utah

Gary E. Keck is an American chemist.

Biography

Education

Gary Keck received a BS from Bowling Green State University in 1971, a PhD from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1975 (studying with Howard E. Zimmerman) and was a postdoctoral with E. J. Corey at Harvard University from 1975-1977.[3]

Career

Keck spent his academic career in the department of chemistry at the University of Utah. His research group pioneered the use of transient acylnitroso compounds for alkaloid synthesis, macrolactonization methods, and the use of allylic stannanes for the stereocontrolled synthesis of polyketide chains. Throughout his career, he pursued the total synthesis of complex natural products, culminating in his work on bryostatins. Keck named several compounds after Merle Haggard.[4] Gary Keck was a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, was named an Arthur C. Cope Scholar of the American Chemical Society in 2014, and was made a distinguished professor at University of Utah in 2014.[5][6][7]

References

  1. ↑ "Gary E. Keck - Department of Chemistry - The University of Utah". chem.utah.edu. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  2. ↑ "Gary E. Keck - Department of Chemistry - The University of Utah". chem.utah.edu.
  3. ↑ "Gary E. Keck - Department of Chemistry - The University of Utah". chem.utah.edu. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  4. ↑ "Research Spotlight: Gary Keck - Department of Chemistry - The University of Utah". chem.utah.edu. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  5. ↑ "Distinguished Professors List" (PDF). utah.edu. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Gary E. Keck". utah.edu. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Keck Retirement". utah.edu. Retrieved February 11, 2017.


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