John F. Hartwig

John F. Hartwig is the Henry Rapoport Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. His laboratory focuses on developing new methods for the preparation of a broad range of organic compounds. His explorations have illustrated the potential of the transition metal-catalyzed construction of important carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom linkages in a way that has elevated such transformations to strategy level reactions.

John F. Hartwig
John Hartwig at the 2007 Boston ACS meeting
Born
John F. Hartwig

1964 (Elmhurst, IL)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materPh.D (1990) University of California, Berkeley
A.B. (1986) Princeton University
Known forOrganometallic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, Catalysis
AwardsWillard Gibbs Award (2015)
Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisorsRobert G. Bergman and Richard A. Anderson

Hartwig is known for helping develop the Buchwald–Hartwig amination, a chemical reaction used in organic chemistry for the synthesis of carbon–nitrogen bonds via the palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of amines with aryl halides. Here is an example of this reaction:

The Buchwald–Hartwig reaction

He also helped develop a technique for steric-directed C–H borylation of arenes.[1] The versatility of this method is described in the following reaction scheme:

Meta-functionalization of arenes through C–H borylation

Hartwig received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1986, and earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990.

Career

Academy Memberships and Fellowships

Major Awards

2019Wolf Prize in Chemistry[3]
2015Willard Gibbs Award[4]
2014Janssen Pharmaceutical Prize
2013Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods[6]
2010GlaxoSmithKline Scholars Award
2009National Institutes of Health MERIT Award
2009Edward Mack Jr. Memorial Award, Ohio State University
2009Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Science Award, Japan[7]
2009Joseph Chatt Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry[8]
2008International Catalysis Award from the International Association of Catalysis Society[9]
2008Mukaiyama Award from the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan[10]
2008Paul N. Rylander Award of the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society
2007Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences
2007Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award in Organic Synthesis[11]
2006ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry[12]
2004Thieme-IUPAC Prize in Synthetic Organic Chemistry[13]
2003Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award[14]
1998Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award[15]
1997Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award[16]
1992Dreyfus Foundation New Faculty Award

Publications

  • Hartwig, John (2010). Organotransition Metal Chemistry: From Bonding to Catalysis. New York: University Science Books. p. 1160. ISBN 978-1-938787-15-7.

References

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