Cathleen Crudden

Cathleen Crudden
Alma mater

University of Toronto

University of Ottawa
Known for

Catalysis
Chiral materials
Organometallic chemistry
Hydroboration
Materials

N-Heterocyclic Carbenes
Scientific career
Institutions

Queen's University
Nagoya University (ITbM)
University of New Brunswick

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Cathleen Crudden is a multi-award winning Professor of Chemistry based at Queen's University, Ontario.

Education

Crudden earned a Bachelors of Science at the University of Toronto in 1989, working with Mark Lautens, with whom she went on to complete her Masters degree.[1] She moved to University of Ottawa for her PhD, working under the supervision of Howard Alper, which she completed in 1995.[2]

Career

Crudden was appointed a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council postdoctoral fellow at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign working with Scott E. Denmark in 1995.[1] She moved to University of New Brunswick in 1996 where she started her own research group.[3] In 2002 she was appointed a Queen's National Scholar and moved her research lab to Kingston, Ontario.

Crudden was the first to identify an enantiospecific Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction of chiral boranes.[4] In 2014 she designed more stable nitrogen-based self-assembled monolayer treatments for metal surfaces.[5][6] The N-heterocyclic carbene self-assembled monolayers can be used in a range of applications, including biosensors.[7] Her interests lie in hydroboration, organometallic chemistry, chiral materials and persistent carbenes.[8]

In 2010 she became head of a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council CREATE award in chiral materials, worth $1.6 million.[9] She became President of the Canadian Society of Chemistry.[10]

In 2015 she, as Principal Investigator of a group of ten collaborators, was awarded $8.8 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation for major infrastructure purchases.[11] She won the Queen's University Research Opportunities Fund, which she used to create inexpensive, sensitive biosensors.[12] Her group prepares carbon-based ligands for metal surfaces, which can be used as sensing systems based on surface plasmon resonance.[12] In 2016, she and Dr. Suning Wang held a trilateral Canada-Japan-Germany symposium at Queen's looking at Elements Functions for Transformative Catalysis and Materials.[13]

Crudden is a joint Professor at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, based out of Nagoya University in Japan, where she runs a satellite lab. She is one of only four international collaborators at this Institute.[14][15] She became the first woman to receive the R.U. Lemieux Award in 2017.[16][17] She won the annual Queen's University prize for Excellence in Research in 2018.[18] She was recognised as having made the most distinguished contribution to the field of catalysis by the Chemical Institute of Canada in 2018, when they awarded her the Catalysis Award.[15] The International Precious Metal Institute awarded Crudden the Carol Tyler Award in March 2018.[19] She won the 2019 American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award.[20]

References

  1. 1 2 "Curriculum Vitae | The Crudden Group". www.cruddengroup.com. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
  2. ↑ Crudden, Cathleen M.; Alper, Howard (1994-06-01). "The regioselective hydroformylation of vinylsilanes. A remarkable difference in the selectivity and reactivity of cobalt, rhodium, and iridium catalysts". The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 59 (11): 3091–3097. doi:10.1021/jo00090a029. ISSN 0022-3263.
  3. ↑ "Biography | The Crudden Group". www.cruddengroup.com. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
  4. ↑ Imao, Daisuke; Glasspoole, Ben W.; Laberge, Véronique S.; Crudden, Cathleen M. (2009-04-15). "Cross Coupling Reactions of Chiral Secondary Organoboronic Esters With Retention of Configuration". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131 (14): 5024–5025. doi:10.1021/ja8094075. ISSN 0002-7863.
  5. ↑ "Carbenes beat thiols for robust monolayers". Chemistry World. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  6. ↑ Ritter, Stephen K. "Self-Assembled Makeover | March 31, 2014 Issue - Vol. 92 Issue 13 | Chemical & Engineering News". cen.acs.org. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  7. ↑ Crudden, Cathleen M.; Horton, J. Hugh; Ebralidze, Iraklii I.; Zenkina, Olena V.; McLean, Alastair B.; Drevniok, Benedict; She, Zhe; Kraatz, Heinz-Bernhard; Mosey, Nicholas J. (May 2014). "Ultra stable self-assembled monolayers of N-heterocyclic carbenes on gold". Nature Chemistry. 6 (5): 409–414. doi:10.1038/nchem.1891. ISSN 1755-4349.
  8. ↑ "Crudden, Cathleen | Department of Chemistry". www.chem.queensu.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  9. ↑ "CREATE Chiral Materials". faculty.chem.queensu.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  10. ↑ "Cathleen Crudden, FCIC | The Chemical Institute of Canada". www.cheminst.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  11. ↑ "Province injects $16 million into Queen's research". www.queensu.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  12. 1 2 "2016 QROF Recipients | Office of the Vice-Principal (Research)". www.queensu.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  13. ↑ "Canada-Japan-Germany joint symposium | Office of the Vice-Principal (Research)". www.queensu.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  14. ↑ "Cathleen M. Crudden | WPI World Premier International Research Center Initiative: Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, Nagoya University". www.itbm.nagoya-u.ac.jp. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  15. 1 2 "Catalysis Award | The Chemical Institute of Canada". www.cheminst.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  16. ↑ "Dr. Cathleen Crudden received the 2017 R.U. Lemieux Award of the CSC | Department of Chemistry". www.chem.queensu.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  17. ↑ "R. U. Lemieux Award". www.cscorgdiv.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  18. ↑ "In Conversation with the Prizes for Excellence in Research Recipients, April 3 | Office of the Vice-Principal (Research)". www.queensu.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  19. ↑ "IPMI Scholarship and Awards Programs - International Precious Metals Institute (IPMI)". www.ipmi.org. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  20. ↑ "ACS 2019 Award Winners". cen.acs.org. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
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