Modern Catalysis: Academic Discovery to Industrial Application

Professor Stephen L. Buchwald is the Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US. Buchwald received his PhD from Harvard University, US, in 1982 before conducting his postdoctoral work at Caltech, US. He joined MIT as an assistant professor in 1984, becoming a full professor in 1993. Buchwald has had a prolific career thus far, authoring over 500 publications and 49 patents. He is best known for his involvement in the development of the Buchwald-Hartwig amination reaction, as well as for the series of biaryl-phosphine ligands used today in almost every synthesis lab on the planet. He is the recipient of a plethora of prizes, including the Linus Pauling Medal Award and the 2019 Wolf Prize in Chemistry.