Mary Watson, University of Delaware

Mary Waterson,
BS, 2000, Harvard University, phd, 2006 with Larry E. Overman, 2006–2009, postdoc with Eric N. Jacobsen. During her postdoc, she developed a nickel-catalyzed method for olefin arylcyanation via activation of C–CN bonds. She joined the faculty at the University of Delaware in July 2009.
Research:
centered on the discovery of new catalytic, stereoselective methods for organic synthesis by utilizing the power of both transition metal and Brønsted acid catalysts.
1. Selective Activation of Relatively Strong Bonds
C-H activation.
2. Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Reactions of Unactivated Olefins
enantioselective additions of H–X (X = C, O, N, etc.) across olefins.

publication:
pending