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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Chemistry
  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For kinetic and mechanistic studies of catalytic organic reactions for pharmaceuticals and for studies of chiral amplification.

Overview

Donna G. Blackmond is affiliated with the Scripps Research Institute in the United States and works primarily in the field of Chemistry, with specific focus on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Materials Chemistry. Their research includes topics such as Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis, Origins and Evolution of Life, Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods, Protein Structure and Dynamics, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, and Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions.

They have published extensively in notable venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • ACS Catalysis
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Recent papers include the following titles and publication years:

  • "Cobalt-electrocatalytic HAT for functionalization of unsaturated C-C bonds," 2022, Nature
  • "Electrochemical Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi Coupling: Scope, Applications, and Mechanism," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "A P(V) platform for oligonucleotide synthesis," 2021, Science
  • "Electrochemical borylation of carboxylic acids," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Chiral lipid bilayers are enantioselectively permeable," 2021, Nature Chemistry

Frequent collaborators in their publications include:

  • Andrea Darù
  • Wei Hao
  • Jinhan Yu
  • Michael A. Schmidt
  • K. N. Houk

Donna G. Blackmond has been recognized with multiple awards, including the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften in 2020 for work in Chemistry, election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016, and membership in the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for kinetic and mechanistic studies of catalytic organic reactions for pharmaceuticals and studies of chiral amplification.

Best Publications

  • Innate C-H trifluoromethylation of heterocycles.

    Yining Ji;Tobias Brueckl;Ryan D. Baxter;Yuta Fujiwara

  • Reaction progress kinetic analysis: a powerful methodology for mechanistic studies of complex catalytic reactions.

    Donna G. Blackmond

  • A New Reagent for Direct Difluoromethylation

    Yuta Fujiwara;Janice A. Dixon;Rodrigo A. Rodriguez;Ryan D. Baxter

  • The origin of biological homochirality

    Donna G. Blackmond

  • Emergence of a single solid chiral state from a nearly racemic amino acid derivative.

    Wim L. Noorduin;Toshiko Izumi;Alessia Millemaggi;Michel Leeman

  • Thermodynamic control of asymmetric amplification in amino acid catalysis

    Martin Klussmann;Hiroshi Iwamura;Hiroshi Iwamura;Suju P. Mathew;David H. Wells;David H. Wells

  • Mechanistic investigation leads to a synthetic improvement in the hydrolytic kinetic resolution of terminal epoxides.

    Lars P C Nielsen;Christian P Stevenson;Donna G Blackmond;Eric N Jacobsen

  • Water in Organocatalytic Processes: Debunking the Myths

    Donna G. Blackmond;Alan Armstrong;Vyv Coombe;Andrew Wells

  • Radical C-H functionalization of heteroarenes under electrochemical control.

    Alexander G. O'Brien;Akinobu Maruyama;Yasuhide Inokuma;Makoto Fujita

  • Asymmetric autocatalysis and its implications for the origin of homochirality

    Donna G. Blackmond

  • Kinetic Profiling of Catalytic Organic Reactions as a Mechanistic Tool

    Donna G. Blackmond

  • Hindered dialkyl ether synthesis with electrogenerated carbocations

    Jinbao Xiang;Jinbao Xiang;Ming Shang;Yu Kawamata;Helena Lundberg;Helena Lundberg

  • Reevaluation of the mechanism of the amination of aryl halides catalyzed by BINAP-ligated palladium complexes.

    Shashank Shekhar;Per Ryberg;John F Hartwig;Jinu S Mathew

  • Radical-based regioselective C-H functionalization of electron-deficient heteroarenes: scope, tunability, and predictability.

    Fionn O’Hara;Donna G. Blackmond;Phil S. Baran

  • A Catalytic Probe of the Surface of Colloidal Palladium Particles Using Heck Coupling Reactions

    Joël Le Bars;Ullrich Specht;John S. Bradley, ,† and;Donna G. Blackmond

  • Clarification of the role of water in proline-mediated aldol reactions.

    Natalia Zotova;Axel Franzke;Alan Armstrong;Donna G Blackmond

  • The role of chelating diamine ligands in the goldberg reaction: a kinetic study on the copper-catalyzed amidation of aryl iodides.

    Eric R. Strieter;Donna G. Blackmond;Stephen L. Buchwald

  • Insights into the Origin of High Activity and Stability of Catalysts Derived from Bulky, Electron-Rich Monophosphinobiaryl Ligands in the Pd-Catalyzed C-N Bond Formation

    Eric R. Strieter;Donna G. Blackmond;Stephen L. Buchwald

  • Evolution of solid phase homochirality for a proteinogenic amino acid.

    Cristobal Viedma;José E. Ortiz;Trinidad de Torres;Toshiko Izumi

  • Origins of asymmetric amplification in autocatalytic alkylzinc additions.

    Donna G. Blackmond;Christopher R. McMillan;Shailesh Ramdeehul;and Andrea Schorm

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Armstrong
Alan Armstrong Imperial College London
Phil S. Baran
Phil S. Baran Scripps (United States)
James G. Goodwin
James G. Goodwin Clemson University
Jin-Quan Yu
Jin-Quan Yu Scripps Research Institute
Julius Rebek
Julius Rebek Scripps Research Institute
Andreas Pfaltz
Andreas Pfaltz University of Basel
David E. Hill
David E. Hill Harvard University
Omar Matar
Omar Matar Imperial College London
João T. Cabral
João T. Cabral Imperial College London

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