Brian M. Stoltz is currently a
professor of
chemistry
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at the
California Institute of Technology. The primary focus of his research is chemical synthesis with an emphasis on expanding the scope of allylic alkylation for the preparation of complex molecules possessing unique structural, biological, and physical properties. His research involves the total synthesis of
natural product
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s such as dragmacidin F and (–)-cyanthiwigin F, and development of synthetic reactions to access quaternary stereocenters. Specifically, he has focused on the
allylic alkylation of enolates, developing an
enantioselective variant in 2004.
Education
Stoltz received undergraduate degrees in Chemistry and German from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1993. As an undergraduate he spent a year abroad at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He went on to earn his M.S. and Ph.D. at Yale University, where he studied organic chemistry under the supervision of
John L. Wood
John L. Wood (born December 4, 1961) is a Robert A. Welch Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry;
Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas Scholar; and
Associate Editor for the Americas, Tetrahedron Letters at
Baylor University ...
, completing his studies in 1997. Upon completion of his graduate work, he held an NIH post-doctoral fellowship appointment in the laboratory of
E. J. Corey
Elias James Corey (born July 12, 1928) is an American organic chemist. In 1990, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis", specifically retrosynthetic analysis. Regarded by many a ...
at Harvard University from 1998 to 2000.
Career and research
Stoltz is the Editor-in-Chief of Tetrahedron. At present he is also an associate editor for the ''
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry''.
Awards and honors
* Fellow of the
American Chemical Society
* 2018
American Chemical Society, Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
* 2017 Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching, California Institute of Technology
*
National Science Foundation Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2002)
* American Association for the Advancement of Science (2006)
*
Sackler Prize (2009)
* ACS E. J. Corey Award (2009)
* Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award (2010)
* Mukaiyama Award (2015)
References
California Institute of Technology faculty
Yale University alumni
1970 births
Living people
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