Donald A. Watson, University of Delaware

Donald A. Watson was born in California in 1976. He received his BS in Chemistry from UC San Diego in 1998. During his undergraduate years, he worked in the laboratories of Professors K.C. Nicolaou and Emmanuel Theodorakis, working on natural products synthesis.

He completed his PhD in Organic Chemistry at UC Irvine in 2004, working under the direction of Professor Larry E. Overman. His dissertation work focused on stereochemical problems in palladium catalyzed transformations.

From 2004 to 2006 he was a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratories of Professor Robert G. Bergman at UC Berkeley. During this time he developed zirconium-based catalysts for asymmetric intramolecular hydroaminations. He then moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as to take a position as a Postdoctoral Associate in Professor Stephen L. Buchwald's laboratory, where he studied metal catalyzed processes C-F bond formation.

He joined the Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty at the University of Delaware as an Assistant Professor in July 2009.

1. Bimetallic Complexes for Remote Substrate-Directed Catalysis.

2.New Methods for the Preparation of a-Chiral Amines.

3. Electrocatalysts for the Reduction of CO2 to Methanol.

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