Stephen Buchwald
Stephen Buchwald · Science & Medicine
Organic chemist known for the Buchwald–Hartwig amination reaction
1955, Bloomington, Indiana, United States
United States
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Buchwald, an American organic chemist of Jewish background at MIT, co-developed the Buchwald-Hartwig amination, a palladium-catalyzed method for forming carbon-nitrogen bonds that became a workhorse of modern drug and materials synthesis. He designed the family of dialkylbiaryl phosphine ligands that make these reactions efficient and widely usable. He shared the 2019 Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
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Organic chemist known for the Buchwald–Hartwig amination reaction
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