Title: New Constructions of Heterocycles and Carbocycles by Cycloaddition
Speaker: Prof. Michael P. Doyle (Univ. of Texas at San Antonio)
Time: 3:00 -4:00p.m., Dec. 4th, 2017
Venue: Room 405, Shaw Engineering Building, Wushan Campus

[Biography]
Prof. Michael P. Doyle, the Rita and John Feik Distinguished University Chair in Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Texas at San Antonio, is a graduate of the College of St. Thomas and Iowa State University, has had academic appointments at undergraduate institutions (Hope College and Trinity University) and graduate universities (University of Arizona and University of Maryland), as well as being Vice President, then President, of a science foundation (Research Corporation) before taking his current position.

Doyle is the recipient of the 1988 American Chemical Society (ACS) Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution, the 1995 James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Teaching of Chemistry sponsored by the Northeastern Section of the ACS and the 2002 George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education from the ACS.He is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Royal Society of Chemistry, and he is the recipient of numerous awards for his research, including the 2014 Hillebrand Award from the Chemical Society of Washington, a 2006 Arthur C. Cope Senior Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society, and a 2003 Merit Award from the National Institutes of Health. His research is focused on metal carbene transformations and chemical oxidations. Up to now, Prof. M. P. Doyle has already published almost 130 papers in the journals of Nat. Chem.; J. Am. Chem. Soc.; Angew. Chem., Int. Ed.; Acc. Chem. Res.; Chem. Sci.

Announced by School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering