Lectures:

Monday, September 30:
"Transition Metal Catalyzed Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Forming Process"

Tuesday, October 1:
"Transition Metal Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Processes"

Wednesday, October 2:
"The Asymmetric Conjugate Reduction of α,β-unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds"

Stephen L. Buchwald was born (1955), raised and received his precollege education in Bloomington, Indiana. He received his Sc.B. degree, Magna Cum Laude, in Chemistry, from Brown University in 1977. During his undergraduate years he worked in the laboratories of Professors Kathlyn A. Parker and David E. Cane at Brown University and Professor Gilbert Stork at Columbia University. He entered Harvard University as a National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in 1977 and received his Ph.D. in 1982. He thesis work, under the supervision of Professor Jeremy R. Knowles, concerned the mechanism of phosphoryl transfer reactions in chemistry and biochemistry. In early 1982 he took up a position as a Myron A. Bantrell postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology where he worked in the laboratory of Professor Robert H. Grubbs. His work at Caltech concerned the study of titanocene methylenes as reagents in organic synthesis. During this time he was also involved in work on the mechanism of Ziegler-Natta polymerization. In 1984 he began as an assistant professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 1989 and to Professor in 1993. He was named the Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry in January of 1997. During his time at MIT he has received numerous honors including the Harold Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award of MIT, an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, the 2000 Award in Organometallic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society and a MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health. In 2000, he was elected as a member in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a named lecturer at the University of British Columbia (John G. Moffatt Lecturer), Scripps (Tanabe Research Laboratories Lecturer), the University of Missouri at Columbia (Lloyd B. Thomas Lecturer), McGill (Merck Lecturer), Max Planck Institüt Für Kohlenforschung (Karl Ziegler Guest Professor), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Carl Marvel Lecturer), Marquette University (Haberman Lecturer), Case Western Reserve University (Lubrizol Lecturer), Emory University (Eli Lilly Lecturer), Université de Sherbrooke (Astra Zeneca Lecturer), Cornell University (Debye Lecturer), University of Pennsylvania (Wyeth Lecturer) and Sussex University (Conforth-Eaborn Lecturer). He is the coauthor of 213 published or accepted papers and 19 issued patents.