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Barry M. Trost

Tamaki Professor of Humanities and Sciences

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BARRY MARTIN TROST
 
Biographical Data
 
 
Birthplace & Date:       Philadelphia, PA; June 13, 1941
 
Marital Status:             Married; wife Susan, sons Aaron, Carey
 
Education:                   Undergraduate - B.A. University of Pennsylvania, 1962
                                    Philadelphia Board of Education Scholarship 1959-62
                                    Graduate - Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965
                                    Thesis Advisor: H.O. House
                                    Thesis Title: The Structure and Reactivity of Enolate Anions.
                                    National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow 1963-65
 
Appointments:             Stanford University :
                                    Professor of Chemistry, 1987.
                                    Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, 1990
                                    Chair, 1996 - 2002
 
Appointments:             University of Wisconsin:
                                    Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 1965
                                    Associate Professor of Chemistry, 1968
                                    Professor of Chemistry, 1969
                                    Evan P. and Marion Helfaer Professor of Chemistry, 1976
                                    Chairman, 1980-82
                                    Vilas Research Professor of Chemistry, 1982
 
Appointments:             Visiting Professor of Chemistry:
                                    University of Marburg, West Germany, 1972
                                    University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1979
                                    University of Hamburg, West Germany, 1985
                                    Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France, 1986
                                    Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, 1987
                                    University of Münich, West Germany, 1988
                                    University of Paris-Orsay, 1990
                                    University of Pisa, Italy, 1992
                                    Universidade De Santiago De Compostela, Spain, 2002
                                    University of Cambridge, UK, 2002
                                    University of Chicago, 2003
 
Awards and Honors:    Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow 1967-69,
                                    Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar 1970-75
                                    H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship, 1975
                                    American-Swiss Foundation Fellow, 1975
                                    ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, 1977
                                    ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 1981
                                    Elected Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1977
                                    Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 1980
                                    Baekeland Award, 1981
                                    Julius Stieglitz Memorial Lecturer of ACS-Chicago Section, 1980-81
                                    Centenary Lecturer, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), 1981-82
                                    Elected Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1982
                                    First Allan R. Day Award of Philadelphia Organic Chemist's Club, 1983
                                    Chemical Pioneer of the American Institute of Chemists, 1983
                                    Medal of the University of Helsinki, 1983
                                    Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Award, 1984
                                    Kentucky Colonel, State of Kentucky, 1987
                                    MERIT Award of the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences of NIH, 1988
                                    Nebraska Admiral, State of Nebraska, 1988
                                    Hamilton Award, University of Nebraska, 1988
                                    Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, 1989
                                    Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Essential Oils and Related Products, American Chemical Society, 1990
                                    Dr. Paul Janssen Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis, 1990
                                    ASSU Graduate Teaching Award, Stanford University, 1991
                                    Pfizer Senior Faculty Award, 1992
                                    Bing Teaching Award, Stanford University, 1993
                                    Docteur honoris causa of the Université Claude Bernard (Lyon-I), France, 1994
                                    Roger Adams Award, American Chemical Socity, 1995
                                    Doctor Scientiarum Honoris Causa, Technion, Haifa, Israel, 1997
                                    Merck-Schuchardt Lecturer of the French Chemical Society, 1998
                                    SCI-ACS (Joint Italian-American Chemical Societies) Lecturer, 1998
                                    Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, 1998
                                    Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods, American Chemical Society, 1999
                                    Elsevier Award, Belgium Organic Synthesis Symposium, 2000
                                    Nichols Medal, New York Section, American Chemical Society, 2000
                                    Yamada Prize, Japan, 2001
                                    Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education, American Chemical Society, 2002
                                    Arthur C. Cope Award, American Chemical Society, 2004
 
Editorial Appointments:
                     Journals:
                                    Associate Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1974-80
                                    Advisory Board of Editors, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1973-77
                                    Editorial Advisory Board, Organometallics, 1981-85
                                    Editorial Advisory Board, Synthesis, 1985-
                                    Editorial Advisory Board, Chemical & Engineering News, 1989-92
                                    Board of Editors, Heteroatom Chemistry, 1989-
                                    Tetrahedron Board of Consulting Editors, 1992-
                                    International Editorial Board, Journal of the Chemical Society-Perkin I, 1992-97
                                    Editor, CHEMTRACTS-Organic Chemistry, 1993-
                                    Editorial Board - Chemistry. A European Journal, 1995-
                                    Advisory Board, Bulletin de la Société Chimique de France, 1996-7
                                    International Advisory Board, Current Organic Chemistry, 1997-
                                    Editorial Advisory Board, Organic Letters, 1999-
                                    Editorial Board, Green Chemistry, 1999-
                                    Editorial Advisory Board, Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, 2000-
                                    Editorial Advisory Board, Accounts of Chemical Research, 2001-2003
                                    Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2002-04
                                    Editorial Board, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2003-2004
                     Books:
                                    Active Editorial Board of Organic Reactions Series, 1972-81
                                    Editor, Structure and Reactivity, Concepts in Organic Chemistry Series (Springer-Verlag)
                                    Editorial Board, Dictionary of Organic Compounds
                                    Editorial Board, Dictionary of Organometallic Compounds
                                    Editor, Synthesis Today and Tomorrow, with C.R. Hutchinson, Pergamon Press, 1981
                                    Editor, Selectivity - A Goal for Synthetic Efficiency, with W. Bartmann, Verlag Chemie, 1984
                                    Editor-in-Chief, Comprehensive Organic Synthesis, Pergamon Press, 1991, Editorial Board, Houben-Weyl 2000
                                    Editor, Stereocontrolled Organic Synthesis. Chemistry of the 21st Century, IUPAC-Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1994
                                    Editor, Foundations of Organic Chemistry series, Thieme Verlag, 1995-
                                    Editorial Board, Science of Synthesis, Houben-Weyl Methods of Molecular Transformations
 
Consultant:                  Central Research, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc.
                                    Merck, Sharp and Dohme Research Laboratories
                                    Argonaut Technologies Inc.
                                    ChiroTech
                                    Personal Chemistry
 
Author:                        "Problems in Spectroscopy", W.A. Benjamin Co., 1967
                                    "Sulfur Ylides - Emerging Synthetic Intermediates", Academic Press, 1975
 
Short Courses:             ACS - "Modern Synthetic Methods"
                                    Pharmaceutical Society of Sweden - "Modern Organic Synthesis"
                                    ACS - "Frontiers in Organic Chemistry", Course Director
                                    ACS Satellite Television Seminar on “Biological and Abiological Catalysis”
                                    National Science Council, Taiwan - “Organometallics in Synthesis”
                                    Swiss 3ème Cycle en Chemie - “Transition Metal Complexes. The Chemists’ Enzymes”
                                    ACS Satellite TV Seminar on “Essentials of Organic Chemistry: An Update”
 
Committees, Panels, Juries, Delegations:
                 Executive Committee, ACS Division of Organic Chemistry, 1977-79
                 Advisory Panel, NSF Chemistry Section, 1973-77
                 Scientific Review Panel, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
                 Canvassing Committee (and Chairman), ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 1972-74, 1976
                 Organizing Committee, Roussel "Table Ronde" on Selectivity in Organic Synthesis, 1977-78
                 Evaluation Panel, NRC Postdoctoral Fellowships, 1978
                 Jury, Willard Gibbs Medal, Chicago Section ACS, 1979-85
                 Organizing Committee Chairman, 3rd IUPAC Symposium on Organic Synthesis, 1980
                 Committee on Chemical Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, 1980-83
                 U.S. Delegation to People's Republic of China, Chemistry of Natural Products, 1980
                 Science Advisory Council, ARCO, 1981-87
                 Technical Advisory Panel, Indicators of Scientific Research Instrumentation in Academic Institutions - A Feasibility Study, 1981-83
                 Swedish Natural Science Research Council and Swedish Board for Technical Development Review Panel on Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry, 1982
                 Award Committee, ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 1980-82
                 NIH Medicinal Chemistry A Study Section, 1982-86 (Chairman 1984-86)
                 Hoechst Workshop - Scientific Organizer, Reisensburg, West Germany, 1983
                 National Academy of Sciences, Research Briefing Panel on Chemistry, 1983
                 Canvassing Committee, Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry, 1983-89
                 Chairman, Review Committee for Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, 1984
                 U.S.-Swedish Workshop on the Future of Chemistry, 1984 - One of Five Invited U.S. Participants
                 Participant Selection Committee, NSF Organometallic Chemistry Workshop, 1985
                 Award Committee, American Institute of Chemists' Chemical Pioneers Award, 1985-
                 Visiting Committee for Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, 1985
                 American Academy of Arts and Sciences-Midwest Center Council, 1985-
                 International Advisory Committee if VI International Conference on Organic Synthesis, Moscow, USSR, 1986
                 U.S. Organizer, U.S.-Swedish Joint Seminar on Synthetic Selectivity:  A Time of Opportunity, Tynningo, Sweden, 1986
                 Visiting Committee for Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, 1988
                 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Panel, 1988
                 Ciba Foundation Discussion on Molecular Recognition in Synthesis, 1988
                 NIH Institute of General Medical Sciences Council Ad-Hoc Member, 1988
                 Chairman, Visiting Committee for Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, 1991
                 NRC Committee on Alternative Chemical Demilitarization Technologies, 1992-3
                 Canvassing Committee, ACS Cope Award, 1992-5
                 Visiting Committee for Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, 1993
                 Organizer of US-Former Soviet Union Workshop on Organic Synthesis, Stanford, 1994
                 Jury, Thieme-IUPAC Prize in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 1994
                 Visiting Committee for Department of Chemistry, Texas A & M University, 1994
                 National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, 1994-2000
                 Jury, Springer Award for Organometallic Chemistry, 1997
                 Committee of Visitors, Division of Chemistry, NSF, 1998
                 Program Review Committee , Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 1998
                 Visiting Committee for Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 2000
                 NICHD Review Panel, 2000
                 National Research Council Advisory Board for the Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, 2000-2002
                 Visiting Committee for Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, 2001
                 Organizing Committee, Mesilla Conference, 2002
 
Lectureships, Special University and Industry:
                 Humble Lecturer in Science, Esso Laboratories, 1972
                 Sherwin-Williams Lecturer, University of Illinois, 1974
                 Timmie Lecturer, Emory University, 1975
                 American Swiss Foundation Lecturer, 1975
                 Visiting Distinguished Professor, University of Iowa, 1976
                 Merck Lecturer, Bucknell University, 1976
                 First Whitmore Lecturer, Penn State University, 1976
                 Visiting Distinguished Professor, University of Texas-Austin, 1977
                 Denkewalter Lecturer, Loyola University of Chicago, 1978
                 Friedman Lecturer, Rutgers University, 1978
                 Lemieux Lecturer, University of Ottawa, 1978
                 Arthur D. Little Lecturer, Northeastern University, 1979
                 Frank B. Dains Memorial Lecturer, University of Kansas, 1979
                 Ritter Memorial Lecturer, Miami University, 1980
                 Presidential Lecturer, University of Arizona, 1980
                 Sandia Lecturer, University of Mexico, 1981
                 Bachmann Lecturer, University of Michigan, 1981
                 Frontiers in Chemistry Lecturer, Case-Western Reserve, 1981
                 Arapahoe Distinguished Lecturer, University of Colorado, 1982
                 McNeil-Ortho Chemistry Lecturer, Philadelphia, 1982
                 Ayerst Lecturer, University of Montreal, 1983
                 Georges-Elie Amyot Lecturer, Universite Laval Quebec, 1983
                 Hilmar Johannes Backer Lecturer, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 1983
                 Arnold Lecturer, University of Southern Illinois, 1983
                 R.P. Schere Lecturer, University of South Florida, 1983
                 Randolph T. Major Lecturer, University of Connecticut, 1983
                 Frontiers in Chemical Research Lecturer, Texas A&M University, 1984
                 First Bachman-Pierce Lecturer, Purdue University, 1984
                 Convention Intercantonal Romande Pour l'Enseigncment du 3e Cycle en Chemie Lecturer, Switzerland, 1984
                 Hirschmann Symposium, University of Wisconsin, 1985
                 Northwestern's Fall Symposium on Organic Synthesis, 1985
                 Middle Rhine Lectureship, 1986
                 Rabjohn Lecturer, University of Missouri, Columbia, 1986
                 First Burkett Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, DePaul University, 1986
                 Kolthoff Lecturer, University of Minnesota, 1987
                 10th Annual Distinguished Lecturer, University of Louisville, 1987
                 First Glaxo Lecturer, Duke University, 1987
                 H.C. Brown Lecturer, Purdue University, 1987
                 Job Visiting Professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1987
                 Smith Kline and French Lecturer, University of Illinois, 1987
                 Warner-Lambert Lecturer, Michigan State University, 1987
                 C.S. Hamilton Award, University of Nebraska, 1988-89
                 William Rauscher Lecturer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1988
                 Glenn Brown Visiting Professor, Case Western Reserve University, 1988
                 Francis Clifford Phillips Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh, 1989
                 Greater Manchester Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, Manchester, England, 1989
                 Armes Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Manitoba, Canada, 1989
                 Organic Synthesis Lecturer, U.C. - Irvine, 1991
                 Distinguished Visiting Speaker, University of Calgary, 1992
                 Turner Lecturer, Rice University, 1992
                 Merck Lecturer, McGill University, 1992
                 Research Center for New Drug Development, Seoul National University, 1992
                 Chandler Society Lecturer, Columbia University, 1992
                 Sandin Lecturer, University of Alberta, 1993
                 Distinguished Scholar Lecturer, Hope College 1993
                 Visiting Scholar, University of Iowa, 1993
                 Leopold Marcus Lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis, 1993
                 Karl Ziegler Gastprofessor, Max Planck Institut-Mülheim, 1993
                 Bergmann Lecturer, Yale University, 1993
                 Fred Pattison Senior Lecturer, University of Western Ontario, 1994
                 Syntex Distinguished Lecturer, Colorado State University, 1994
                 Distinguished Lecturer, National Science Council, Taiwan, 1994
                 Russell E. Marker Lecturer, University of Maryland, 1994
                 Merck Lecturer, University of Sherbrook, 1994
                 Henry Gilman Lecturer, Iowa State University, 1994
                 Syntex Distinguished Lecturer, University of Colorado, 1995
                 Friend E. Clark Lecturer, University of West Virginia, 1995
                 Karcher Lecturer, University of Oklahoma, 1995
                 Fuson Lecturer, University of Nevada-Reno, 1996
                 Rowland Pettit Memorial Lecture, University of Texas-Austin, 1996
                 Wyeth-Ayerst Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, 1997
                 Pfizer Lecture, University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras, 1997
                 Biomega-Boehringer Ingelheim Research Lecturer, University of British Columbia, 1997
                 Joel Broberg Distinguished Lecturer, North Dakota State University, 1998
                 McElvain Lecturer, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1998
                 Rennebohm Lecturer, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Pharmacy, 1998
                 Rayson Huang Visiting Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Hong Kong, 1998
                 Gilbert Stork Lecturer, Columbia University, 1999
                 Novartis Lecturer in Chemistry, Novartis Pharmaceutical Co., 1999
                 Calvin-Lilly Lecturer, University of Minnesota, 1999
                 Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecturer, M.I.T., 1999
                 Merck-Schuchardt-Lectureship, Northern German Universities, 1999
                 Boehringer-Ingelheim Lecturer, Yale, 1999
                 Bio-Méga Lecturer, Université de Montréal, 1999
                 Provid-Rutgers Lectureship, 2000
                 Gordon L. Hodgson Jr. Memorial Lecturer, Glaxo-Wellcome, 2000
                 BCI Distinguished Lecturer, Queen’s University, 2000
                 Vielberth Award, University of Regensburg, Germany, 2001
                 Hilmar Johannes Backer Lecturer, Groningen, Netherlands, 2001
                 Alexander Todd Visiting Professor, Cambridge University, 2002
                 Ruzicka Lecturer, ETH-Zürich, 2002
                 Henry J. Shine Endowment Lecturer, Texas Tech University, 2002
                 Eli Lilly Lectureship in Organic Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, 2002
                 Kilpatrick Lecturer, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago 2003
                 Morris S. Kharasch Visiting Professor, University of Chicago, 2003
                 Allergan Lecturer, California State University-Long Beach, 2003
                 Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecturer, Princeton, NJ, 2004
 
Plenary Lectures:        Over 220 presented at national and international meetings
 
Publications:               Over 720 scientific publications
 
Membership:               Phi Beta Kappa
                                    Phi Lambda Upsilon
                                    Sigma Chi
                                    Pi Mu Epsilon
                                    American Chemical Society
                                    Royal Society of Chemistry, London
                                    American Association for the Advancement of Science
                                    American Academy of Arts and Sciences
                                    American Institute of Chemists
                                    World Innovation Foundation
 
Other Citations:          
                 List of 1000 Most Cited Contemporary Scientists, ISI
                 List of World’s 50 Most Cited Chemists, ISI
                 List of ISI Highly Cited Researchers
                 Marquis' Who's Who in America
                 Cattell's American Men and Women of Science
                 McGraw-Hill Modern Scientists and Engineers
                 Marquis' Who's Who in Science and Technology
                 Marquis' Who's Who in the Midwest
                 Men of Achievement, International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England
                 The International Who's Who
                 America's Names and Faces
                 Sterling Who’s Who
                 American Biographical’s Institute’s Five Thousand Personalities of the World

 
Plenary Lectures:
                 Gordon Research Conference on Medicinal Chemistry, 1967
                 ACS Great Lakes Regional Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, 1968
                 National Meeting, Minneapolis, MN 1969
                 Canadian Institute of Chemistry Joint Meeting, Toronto, 1970
                 Gordon Research Conference on Natural Products, 1970
                 ACS Great Lakes Regional Meeting, Fargo, ND, 1970
                 ACS National Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, 1970
                 Gordon Research Conference on Organic Reaction, 1970
                 Gordon Research Conference on Heterocyclic Compounds, 1971
                 ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC, 1971
                 15th Conference on Organic Chemistry, Natick Laboratories, 1972
                 Gordon Conference on Hydrocarbon Chemistry, 1973
                 23rd National Organic Chemistry Symposium, Tallahassee, FL 1973
                 US-Japan Joint Seminar on Natural Products, 1973
                 Societe Chemie de France, Orsay, 1973
                 VIth International Conference on Organosulfur Chemistry, Bangor, Wales, 1974
                 1st IUPAC Conference on Organic Synthesis, Louvain-Laneuve, Belgium, 1974
                 14th National Medicinal Chemistry Symposium, Durham, NH, 1974
                 Chemical Society (London), Stirling, Scotland, 1974
                 13th Industrial Affiliates Symposium, Stanford University, 1975
                 Gordon Conference on Natural Products, 1975
                 1st North American Chemical Congress, Mexico City, 1975
                 ACS Central Regional Meeting, Morgantown, WV, 1975
                 ACS Midwest Regional Meeting, Carbondale, IL, 1975
                 Workshop on Organic Synthesis and Natural Product Chemistry, Gatlingburg, TN, 1975
                 Vth International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry, Paris, 1976
                 International Symposium on Present and Potential Uses of Transition Metals in Organic Synthesis, St. Raphael, France, 1976
                 ACS Great Lakes Regional Meeting, Evanston, IL 1976
                 ACS Northeast Regional Meeting, Albany, NY, 1976
                 Yugoslav Symposium on Organic Chemistry, Belgrade, 1977
                 ACS Middle Atlantic Regional meeting, Newark, DE, 1977
                 ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA 1977
                 Gordon Research Conference on Organic Reactions and Processes, 1977
                 Gordon Research Conference on Natural Products Chemistry, 1977
                 11th IUPAC Symposium on Natural Products, Varna, Bulgaria, 1978
                 ACS North Jersey Section meeting, Newark, NJ, 1978
                 Workshop on Stereoselective Synthesis of Natural Products, Ulm, West Germany, 1978
                 ACS Japanese Chemical Society Joint Meeting, Honolulu, HI, 1979
                 ACS Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting, W. Long Beach, NJ, 1979
                 6th International Symposium on Organic Synthesis, Cambridge, England, 1979
                 Conversations in the Disciplines, Symposium on Creativity in Organic Synthesis, Buffalo, NY 1979
                 1st International Kyoto Conference on New Aspects of Organic Chemistry, Kyoto, Japan, 1979
                 Gordon Conference on Heterocycles, 1980
                 2nd North American Chemical Congress, San Francisco, CA 1980
                 1st Sino-US Symposium on the Chemistry of Natural Products, Shanghai, China, 1980
                 ACS National Meeting, Las Vegas, NE, 1980
                 27th National Organic Chemistry Symposium, Nashville, TN, 1981
                 International Conference on the Chemistry of the Platinum Group Metals, Bristol, England, 1981
                 International Symposium on the Chemistry of Carbocations, Bangor, Wales, 1981
                 1st IUPAC Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Toward Organic Synthesis, Fort Collins, CO, 1981
                 US-Japan Joint Seminar on Asymmetric Synthesis, Stanford, CA, 1981
                 Royal Society of Chemistry Symposium, London, 1982
                 Sheffield Symposium, Sheffield, 1982
                 Royal Dutch Chemical Society Symposium, Wageningen, 1982
                 4th IUPAC Symposium on Organic Synthesis, Tokyo, 1982
                 Highlights in Organic Synthesis, Sapporo, 1982
                 3rd International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis, Milan, 1982
                 Oesper Symposium, University of Cincinnati, 1982
                 Esther Humphrey Symposium, University of Vermont, 1982
                 Chemical Institute of Canada Symposium, Montreal, 1983
                 Royal Society of Chemistry Annual Congress, Lancaster, England, 1983
                 2nd Symposium on Organic Chemistry of Natural Products in Industrial Chemistry.  Structure and Synthesis, Pisa, Italy, 1983
                 Organic Chemistry Conference, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, 1983
                 GECO XXIV, Cap d'Agde Herault, France, 1983
                 I. Cappuccini Symposium, S. Miniato, Pisa, Italy, 1983
                 American Institute of Chemists, Atlantic City, 1983
                 Bachmann Symposium, University of Michigan, 1983
                 International Symposium on Heteroatoms for Organic Synthesis, Montreal, 1983
                 Royal Australian Chemical Institute, 1984
                 Chemical Society of Zurich, 1984
                 Gordon Conference on Natural Products, 1984
                 Sixth Annual ACS Fall Organic Chemistry, Italian Chemical Society, 1984
                 ISCHIA Advanced School of Organic Chemistry, Italian Chemical Society, 1984
                 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basis Societies, 1984
                                    Symposium on Natural Products
                                    Symposium on Transition Metals in Organic Synthesis
                 Ninth Biannual Meeting of the Society of Chemical Engineers and Croatian Chemical Society, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1985
                 ACS National Meeting, Miami, FL, 1985
                 Ninth International Symposium on Synthesis in Organic Chemistry, Oxford, England, 1985
                 51st Annual meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan, Kanazawa, 1985
                 Chemical Society of Basel, Switzerland, 1985
                 XX Organosilicon Symposium, Tarrytown, NY, 1986
                 ACS Lexington Section, 1986
                 Syntex Synthetic Chemistry Symposium, Boulder, Colorado, 1986
                 Gordon Conference on Organic Reactions and Processes, 1986
                 Workshop on Stereochemistry of Bioorganic and Organic Transformations at Reisensburg, West Germany, 1986
                 600th Anniversary of University of Heidelberg, West Germany, 1986
                 Meeting of Grant-in-aid Special Research, Japanese Ministry of Education, 1986
                 U.S.-Swedish Joint Seminar on Synthetic Selectivity: A Time of Opportunity Tynningo, Sweden, 1986
                 Hirschmann Symposium, Merck Sharp & Dohme-West Point, 1987
                 NSF Workshop on Organometallic Chemistry, 1987
                 JUC Pharm Sci 87 Symposium, Honolulu, HI, 1987
                 The First Princess Chulabhorn Science Congress, Bangkok, Thailand, 1987
                 The Royal Society Discussion Meeting on the Influence of Organometallic Chemistry on Organic Synthesis, London, England, 1988
                 7th IUPAC Conference on Organic Synthesis, Nancy, France, 1988
                 Rochester Fall ACS Symposium 1988
                 Journées Scientifiques of Rhone-Poulence, 1988
                 NATO Workshop on Strain and Its Implications in Organic Chemistry, 1988
                 Gordon Research Conference On Natural Products, 1889
                 ACS National Meeting, Miami, FL, 1989
                 The 1989 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, HI
                 AAAS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 1989
                 New York Academy of Sciences, 1989
                 The Royal Society Symposium on the Application of Transition Metals in Synthesis, St. Andrews, Scotland, 1989
                 13th Conference on Isoprenoids, Poznan, Poland, 1989
                 5th Nozaki Conference, Okayama, Japan, 1990
                 Ficini Memorial Workshop, Nemur, Belgium, 1990
                 4th International Symposium on Natural Products, Karachi, Pakistan, 1990
                 ACS Symposium on “New Science and Homogeneous Transition Metal Catalyzed Reactions,” Boston, 1990
                 Belgium Organic Synthesis Symposium, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, 1990
                 EUCHEM Meeting on “Theoretical Chemistry and Organic Synthesis,” Avignon, France, 1990
                 Goering Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990
                 John K. Stille Memorial Symposium, ACS Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1990
                 EUCHEM Conference on Palladium in Organic Synthesis, Sigtuna, Sweden, 1990
                 French-American Chemical Society Meeting, Captiva Island, Fla., 1991
                 International Conference on Chemical Sciences in Development, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1991
                 6th IUPAC Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis, Utrecht, Netherlands, 1991
                 33rd IUPAC Congress, Budapest, Hungary, 1991
                 Second Annual Organic Chemistry Symposium, Rhone-Poulenc Ag Co., 1991
                 Glaxo-UNC Conferences on the Frontiers of Chemistry and Medicine, Chapel Hill, 1991
                 3rd EUCHEM Symposium on the Total Synthesis of Antibiotics, Franken, Germany, 1992
                 5th Brazilian Meeting on Organic Synthesis, Campinas, Brazil, 1992
                 75th Canadian Chemical Conference, Edmonton, Canada, 1992
                 Gordon Conference on Heterocyclic Chemistry, 1992
                 Hirschmann Symposium, University of Pennsylvania, 1992
                 Searle Symposium, 1992
                 A.I. Meyers Symposium on Organic Chemistry, 48th Southwest ACS Regional Meeting, Lubbock, Texas, 1992
                 Gordon Conference on Stereochemistry, 1992
                 Organic Chemistry Day, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1993
                 Frontiers in Biomedical Research, Annenberg Center at Eisenhower, 1993
                 Society of Chemical Industry, London, 1993
                 Cycloaddition Chemistry in Synthesis, London, 1993
                 3ème Cycle en Chimie, Champery, Switzerland, 1994
                 French Chemical Society, Lyons, 1994
                 XVI International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Sussex, England, 1994
                 19th IUPAC Symposium on the Chemistry of Natural Products, Karachi, Pakistan, 1994
                 Chemistry as a Life Science, Newark, 1994
                 Zeneca Excellence in Chemistry Symposium, Wilmington, 1994
                 4th International Conference of Heteroatom Chemistry, Seoul, Korea, 1995
                 Royal Society of Chemistry Conference on Organic Synthesis, Cambridge, England, 1995
                 34th National Organic Chemistry Symposium, Williamsburg, VA, 1995
                 Symposium for the 80th Anniversary of Pharmaceutical Education in Korea, Seoul, 1995
                 International Symposium on Selectivity in Basic & Applied Organic Chemistry, Jerusalem, 1995
                 ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA 1995
                        Pure Chemistry Award Symposium
                        Environmentally Benign Synthesis Symposium
                 1995 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, HI
                 Vth Konigstein/Kreuth Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Wildbad Kreuth, Germany, 1995
                 ARCO Chemical Fall Symposium, 1995
                 First Annual Proctor and Gamble Lectures in Organic Chemistry, Cincinnati, OH, 1995
                 7th Biennial Lilly Grantee Symposium, Indianapolis, 1996
                 International Symposium in Chemistry, Mexico City, 1996
                 Chiral USA ‘96 Symposium, Boston, MA, 1996
                 Tenth International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis, Princeton, NJ, 1996
                 Gordon Research Conference on Heterocycles, 1996
                 Gordon Research Conference on Environmentally Benign Organic Synthesis, 1996
                 Welch Foundation Conference, 1996
                 ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, 1996
                 30th Sheffield Stereochemistry Conference, England, 1996
                 Chira Tech, 96, Brussels, Belgium, 1996
                 ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, 1997
                       William S. Johnson Memorial Symposium
                       Symposium on Recent Advances in Organopalladium Chemistry
                       Symposium on Design and Optimization of Organic Synthesis
                 French-American Chemical Society Meeting, Tuscon, AZ, 1997
                 1997 Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference, Washington, D.C.
                 Gordon Research Conference on Organic Reactions and Processes, 1997
                 Gordon Research Conference on Environmentally Benign Synthesis, 1997
                 7th International Kyoto Conference on Organic Chemistry, Japan, 1997
                 2nd International Forum on Chemistry of Functional Organic Chemicals, Japan, 1997
                 1997 Otsuka Symposium, Japan
                 3rd Hiroshima International Symposium on Organic Chemistry, Japan, 1997
                 Princeton Fall Organic Chemistry Symposium, 1997
                 Gordon Research Conference on the Chemistry of Natural Products, 1998
                 Ernst Schering Research Foundation Workshop, Germany, 1998
                 2nd Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference, Washington, D.C., 1998
                 ACS National Meeting, Dallas, 1998
                 ACS National Meeting, Boston, 1998
                 1998 Heidelberg Symposium
                 Ischia Advanced School of Organic Chemistry, Italy. 1998
                 Chiral Europe ‘98, Nice, France, 1998
                 New Synthetic Methods for Effective Drug Design, Sanibel Is., 1998
                 Société Française de Chimie, Paris, 1998
                 ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, 1999
                 International Symposium on Chirality, Cambridge, England, 1999
                 Accademia dei Lincei Fondazione Donegani, Rome, 2000
                 Herbert C. Brown Symposium, Purdue, 2000
                 Nichols Award Symposium, 2000
                 Belgium Organic Synthesis Symposium, 2000
                 Interuniversity Consortium Chemistry for the Environment, Venice, 2000
                 36th ACS Western Regional Meeting, San Francisco, 2000
                 11th Quebec/Ontario Symposium in Synthetic and Bioorganic Chemistry, 2000
                 5th Loughborough Synthesis Symposium, 2000
                 UCSD/DuPont Pharma Symposium on Organic Chemistry, 2000
                 Pacifichem 2000 Congress, Honolulu, HI, 2000
                 Royal Society of Chemistry Green Chemistry Symposium, Swansea, Wales, 2001
                 First Spring Festival of Chemistry, Bristol, UK, 2001
                 Johnson-Matthey Catalysis in Organic SynthesisSymposium, New Jersey, 2001
                 2nd Symposium on Selective Synthesis Mediated by Organometallic Compounds, Oviedo, Spain, 2001
                 12th European Symposium on Organic Chemistry, Groningen, Netherlands, 2001
                 2nd European Catalysis Symposium, Pisa, Italy 2001
                 18th International Congress of Heterocyclic Chemistry, 2001
                 Organic Division, Danish Chemical Society, Copenhagen, 2001
                 Kjell Undheim Symposium, Oslo, 2001
                 Heidelberg Forum of Molecular Catalysis, Germany, 2001
                 Mesilla Conference on Asymmetric Catalysis, New Mexico, 2002
                 Société Française de Chemie Congress, Toulouse, France, 2002
                 First International SPECS and BioSPECS Symposium on the New Chemistries, Delft, The Netherlands, 2002
                 Symposium on Organic Synthesis, Irvine, CA, 2002
                 ACS Perspectives on Catalysis Symposium, Boston, MA, 2003
                 123rd Annual Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, Nagasaki, Japan, 2003
                 Korean Chemical Society, Seoul, 2003
                 Gordon Conference on Medicinal Chemistry, New London, NH, 2003
                 Blue Danube Symposium on Heterocyclic Chemistry, Vienna, Austria, 2003
                 Danish Academy of Technical Sciences Symposium on Synthetic Efficiency, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2004
                 International Conference on Modern Synthetic Methods- Reaction to Reality, Messe Berlin Germany, 2004
                 7th International Symposium on Carbanion Chemistry, Alicante, Spain, 2004
                 21st International Symposium on the Organic Chemistry of Sulfur, Madrid, Spain, 2004
                 Gordon Conference on Organic Reactions and Processes, Bristol, RI, 2004
                 Gordon Conference on Natural Products, Tilton, NH, 2004
                 Cope Award Symposium, ACS Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2004
 
Academic Lectures:
1967          Cornell
1968          St. Louis
1969          SUNY-Buffalo; Temple University; University North Dakota; North Dakota State University
1970          University of Chicago; University of Delaware; Brown University; SUNY-Albany; Johns Hopkins University;  Illinois Institute of Technology; Wilmington Organic Chemist's Club
1971          Marquette University; Cornell University; Harvard University;  Ohio State University; Michigan State University; Columbia University; University of Illinois; Iowa State-Ames, Lawrence University; University of Cincinnati
1972          University of Michigan; Bucknell University; University of Cologne, W. Germany; University of Giessen, W. Germany; University of Hannover, W. Germany; University of Gottingen, W. Germany; University of Darmstadt, W. Germany; University of Münster, W. Germany; University of Saarbrucken, W. Germany; University of Würzburg, W. Germany; University of Marburg, W. Germany; University of Heidelburg, W. Germany; University of Karlsruhe, W. Germany; University of Frieburg, W. Germany; University of Bonn, W. Germany; University of Bochum, W. Germany; University of Munich, W. Germany; University of Stuttgart, W. Germany; University of Regensburg, W. Germany; Geneva, Switzerland; Paris, France; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1973          University of Chicago; Philadelphia Organic Chemist's Club; Texas A&M; University of Texas-Austin; Rice University; University of Western Michigan;  University of North Carolina; University of Kyoto, Japan; University of Tokyo, Japan;  Cambridge University, England
1974          Pennsylvania State University; University of Indiana; Stanford University; UC-Berkley; Texas A&M; McGill; Case-Western University; SUNY-Stony Brook; Utah; California Institute of Technology; UC-Los Angeles;  University of Marburg, W. Germany; University of Gottingen, W. Germany; University of Würzburg, W. Germany; University of Alberta, Canada; NY Academy of Sciences; University of Illinois; University of Kent, England
1975          Emory University; Kansas State University; UC-Riverside; UC-Irvine; UC-San Diego; USC; Purdue University; ETH-Zurich, Geneva, Bern, Basel, Switzerland;  University of Colorado; Princeton University
1976          Iowa; Minnesota; Pittsburgh; Bucknell; Penn State; Yale; CNRS-GIF-sur-Yvette, Ecole Normal Superieure-Paris; McMaster; Waterloo; UC-San Diego
1977          Zagreb, Yugoslavia; Columbia; U. South Carolina; Rochester; Georgia Tech; University of Texas-Austin; University of Toronto; University of Western Ontario; NIH
1978          Rutgers University; Oxford University, UK; Reims, France; Lodz, Warsaw, Poland; University of Wisconsin; Loyola University; Cornell University; Wayne State University; Philadelphia-Wilmington Joint Organic Chemist's Club Symposium; ACS Milwaukee Section; University of Ottawa
1979          Iowa State University; Colorado State University; Danish Chemical Society, Copenhagen, Denmark; University of Oslo, Norway; University of Gothenburg, Sweden; University of Lund, Sweden; University of Aarhus, Denmark; University of Odense, Denmark; University of Braunschweig, W. Germany; University of Marburg, W. Germany; University of Hamburg, W. Germany; University of Frankfurt, W. Germany; Technical University of Darmstadt, W. Germany; University of Karlsruhe, W. Germany; University of Munich, W. Germany; University of Cologne, W. Germany; University of Hannover, W. Germany; Northeastern University, Boston; California Institute of Technology; Kyoto University, Japan;  University of Tokyo, Japan
1980          University of Chicago; Northern Illinois University; Miami University; University of Arizona; Stanford University; MIT; University of Oklahoma; University of Nebraska; Chicago ACS Section; Organic Discussion Group, Midland, MI
1981          UC-Berkeley; University of Mexico; University of Victoria BC; University of British Columbia; University of New Mexico; Ohio State University; Georgetown University; University of Michigan; University of Alberta; Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; University of Uppsala, Sweden; North Jersey ACS Section
1982          University of Liverpool, UK; Heriot-Watt University of Edinburgh, UK; University of Sussex, UK; University of Swansea, UK; University of Bath, UK; University of Sheffield, UK; Mahidol University, Bangkok; Princeton; Yale; University of Colorado; Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry (Microbial Chemistry Research Foundation), Tokyo; New York University
1983          Philadelphia Organic Chemist's Club; University of Montreal, Université Laval, Quebec; McGill University; University of Michigan; University of Connecticut; University of Pavia, Italy; University of Bologna, Italy; University of Rome, Italy; University of Pisa, Italy; University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; Stellenbosch University, South Africa; University of Capetown, South Africa; Center for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa; University of Pretoria, South Africa; University of Witwatersrand, South Africa; Rand Afrikaans University, South Africa; University of Florence, Italy; University of Gottingen, W. Germany; Wesleyan University
1984          Texas A&M; Purdue University; University of Sydney, Australia; James Cook University of North Queensland, Australia; University of Queensland, Australia; University of New South Wales, Australia; Research School of Australian National University; Monash University, Australia; University of Melbourne, Australia; University of Zürich, Switzerland; University of Fribourg, Switzerland; University of Geneva, Switzerland; University of Tokyo, Japan; Nagoya University, Japan; Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
1985          National Institutes of Health, Bethesda; University of Indiana (Distinguished Lecture Series): Technischen Universitat-Münich; University of Stuttgart, W. Germany; Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, W. Germany; University of Hamburg, W. Germany; University of Munster, W. Germany; Max Planck Institut fur Kohlenforschung, Mulheim, W. Germany; University of Cologne, W. Germany; University of Frankfurt, W. Germany; University of Hannover, W. Germany; University of Marburg, W. Germany; Karl Marx University, Leipzig, DDR; University of Braunschweig, W. Germany; University of Florence, Italy; University of Pisa, Italy; University of Munich, W. Germany; Oxford University, England; Cornell University; Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; University of Tokyo, Japan; Institute for Microbial Chemistry, Tokyo; University of Kanazawa, Japan; Osaka City University, Japan; Kyoto University, Japan; University of Wisconsin; Northwestern University
1986          Chemical Society of Basel; University of Basel, Switzerland; University of Freiburg, W. Germany; University of Mulhouse, France; University of Karlsrue, W. Germany; University of Strasbourg, France; University of Maryland; Harvard University; University of Kentucky; University of South Carolina; University of California-Riverside; University of California-Irvine; University of California-San Diego; University of Colorado; University of Paris VI, France; University of Lyon, France; University of Marseille, France; University of Montpellier, France; University of Reims, France; University of Rochester; University of Uppsala, Sweden; DePaul University; University of Heidelberg, W. Germany; Tohoku University, Japan; University of Tokyo, Japan; Kyushu University, Japan; Université de Paris-Sud, France
1987          University of Minnesota; University of Louisville; Duke University; Michigan State University, University of Illinois-Urbana; Purdue University; Columbia University; Memorial University of Newfoundland; University of Barcelona, Spain
1988          University of Chicago; University of California at Los Angeles; University of Missouri-St. Louis; University of Munich, W. Germany; University of Wurzburg, W. Germany; University of Bochum, W. Germany; University of Siegen, W. Germany; Case-Western Reserve; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; University of Nebraska; University of Rochester
1989          University of Manitoba, Canada; University of Pittsburgh; Louisiana State University; Oregon State University; University of Manchester, England; University of Salford, England; Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, England; University of Cologne, West Germany; Princeton; Zentralinstitut fur Organische Chemie, Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, Berlin; Princeton; Scripps Institute
1990          University of Namur, Belgium; H.E.J. Research Institute of Karachi, Pakistan; Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; Riken Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Japan; Okayama University of Science, Japan; Nagoya University, Japan; Osaka Univerisity, Japan; Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France; CNRS-Gif, France; Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, West Germany; University of Wisconsin-Madison; École Nationale Superieure de Chemie de Paris, France; Université, Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
1991          University of California-Irvine; Arizona State University; University of California-Berkeley; University of of Pisa, Italy; Scripps Research Institute; University of British Columbia; Simon Fraser University; University of Victoria; University of North Carolina
1992          Rice University; University of California-Santa Barbara; University of California-Davis; University of Illinois; University of Calgary; University of Pisa, Italy; University of Pennsylvania; Seoul National University, South Korea; KAIST, South Korea; University of Marburg, Germany; University of Erlangen, Germany; University of Florence, Italy; McGill University; Columbia University
1993          University of Pittsburgh; Cornell College; University of Iowa; Washington University at St. Louis; University of Missouri, Columbia; University of Alberta, Canada; Hope College; Texas A & M University; University of Göttingen, Germany; Max Planck Institut-Mülheim, Germany; Wayne State University; Yale University
1994          Colorado State University; University of Wyoming; University of Western Ontario; University of Toronto; University of Waterloo; University of Maryland; University of California-Los Angeles; University of Sherbrook; Iowa State University; National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; Academia Sinica, Taiwan; National Taiwan University, Taiwan
1995          N.Y. Academy of Sciences; Duke University; University of Colorado; University of West Virginia; University of California-San Diego; Scripps Institute; University of Arkansas; University of Oklahoma; Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet, Freiburg, Germany; Hebrew University of Jerusalum, Israel; Weizmann Institute, Israel; Technion, Israel
1996          University of California-Santa Cruz; Harvard University, Cambridge; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; University of Chicago; University of Nevada-Reno; University of Washington, Seattle; University of Texas, Austin; National University of Mexico, Mexico City; University of Sheffield, England
1997          University of Stuttgart, Germany; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras; University of Cincinnati; Ohio State University, Columbus; Boston College; University of Virginia, Charlottesville; California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; ACS Local Section, Cincinnati; University of British Columbia; Technion, Haifa, Israel; Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Science University of Tokyo, Japan
1998          University of Wisconsin, Madison; North Dakota State University; University of Hong Kong; University of Lyons, France; University of Marseilles, France; École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes, France; Technical University of Berlin, Germany; Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; Chinese University of Hong Kong
1999                   Columbia University; University of Minnesota; Massachussetts Institute of Technology; Yale; University of Goettingen, Germany; University of Munich, Germany; University of Dresden, Germany; Humboldt University - Berlin, Germany; University of Darmstadt, Germany;  Université de Montréal, Canada
2000                   Purdue University; University of Barcelona, Spain; University of Oviedo, Spain; Instituto de Investigaciones Quimicas, Sevilla, Spain; University of Malaga, Spain; University of California-Los Angeles; University “La Sapienza” Rome, Italy; Rutgers University, New Brunswick; University of Loughborough, England; University of California-San Diego
2001                   Tokyo University of Pharmacy & Life Science, Japan; Osaka University, Japan; University of Nagoya, Japan; University of Pisa, Italy; Boston University; University of Regensburg, Germany; University of Groningen; University of Colorado, Boulder; Texas A&M University; University of Bristol, England; University of Heidelberg, Germany; University of Oslo, Norway; Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
2002                   University of California-Berkeley; Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain; ETH-Zürich, Switzerland; University of Bern, Switzerland; University of Geneva, Switzerland; Texas Tech University; University of Cambridge, UK; University of Pittsburgh; University of California-Irvine
2003          Tulane University, New Orleans; University of Utah; Kitasato Institute, Tokyo, Japan; Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago; University of Chicago; University of Nagasaki, Japan; Seoul National University, Korea; Wayne State University, Detroit; California State University-Long Beach; National Taiwan University, Taipei
2004          Princeton University
 
Industrial Lectures:
 
1967          Merck Sharp & Dohme, Rahway, West Point, Eli Lilly, Abbott, du Pont
1968          Morton Chemical, Hoffman-LaRoche, Lakeside, Sterling-Winthrop, du Pont, R.J. Reynolds, Gulf
1969          Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Hercules
1970          Union Carbide, Eli Lilly, Sandoz
1971          Smith Kline & French, Upjohn, Ciba-Geigy
1972          ESSO; G.D. Searle, Firmenich, Switzerland; BASF, Sandoz, Switzerland; Hoffman-LaRoche
1973          McNeil, Upjohn, 3M, Merck, West Point
1974          Mead-Johnson; Lederle; Schering; Burroughs Wellcome; BASF; Pfizer, Aspro-Nicholas, ICI, Shell, England
1975          Eli Lilly, Merck, Rahway
1976          Sandoz; Eastman Kodak; Pfizer; Roussel-UCLAF, France; General Electric
1977          Lederle, Diamond Shamrock, Ortho Pharmaceutical, Upjohn, Procter & Gamble
1978          Abbott; Union Carbide; Bound Brook; American Cynamid, Stamford; Union Carbide, Charleston; Monsanto, Dynapol
1979          Schering, Berlin; BASF, Ludwigshafen, West Germany; Sandoz, Basel, Switzerland, Fissons, England; Rohm & Haas, Teijin, Japan
1980          Ethyl Corporation, Hoechst-Roussel, W.R. Grace, Dow, ICI Americas
1981          Syntex; Ortho Division of Chevron; FMC Corporation; Shell, England; Pfizer, England; Lubrizol; Standard Oil of Ohio; Allied Chemical; Merck
1982          ARCO Chemical, Merck, FMC Corporation, McNeil
1983          Hoechst, West Germany; FMC Corporation
1984          Merck-Frosst Laboratories, Montreal; Hoffmann-LaRoche-Basel; Hoffmann-LaRoche-Nutley; Abbott Laboratories, UOP Lecturer; Sagami Chemical Research Center, Japan; Sankyo Pharmaceutical Co.; Ltd.; Japan
1985          Hoechst-Roussel Pharmaceutical Co.; ARCO Plant Cell Research Institute; Bayer A.G.; W. Germany; Hoechst A.G.; W. Germany; Zambon Chimica, Milan, Italy; Beechams Pharmaceuticals, England; Merck Sharp & Dohme, Terlings Park, England; Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Osaka, Japan; Teijin Pharmaceuticals, Tykyo, Japan; Stewart Pharmaceuticals; Merck-Frosst, Montreal
1986          BASF-Ludwigshaven, W. Germany; Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Co. Indianapolis; The Upjohn Co., Kalamazoo; Smith Kline & French Laboratories; Roussel-UCLAF, Paris; Eastman-Kodak, Rochester; Astra Laboratories, Sweden; Merck Sharp & Dohme, England; Upjohn; Kuraray Co.; Japan; Daicel Co., Japan
1987          3M; Merck Sharp & Dohme, Montreal; Merck Sharp & Dohme, West Point; Tennessee Eastman
1988          Monsanto; Merck Sharp & Dohme, Montreal; Rhone-Poulenc Santé, Paris, France; Rhone-Poulenc, Lyons, France; Sandoz, Switzerland; Karl Thomae GmbH, West Germany; E. Merck-Darmstadt, West Germany; Pharma Synthese Hoechst, West Germany; Schering Pharmaceuticals, New Jersey; Upjohn Pharmaceutical Co.
1989          Merck-Frosst, Canada; Zambon Group, Italy; Ethyl Corporation; Rorer Pharmaceutical; ICI Organics Division, England; ICI Pharmaceuticals Division, England; Pfizer, England; Glaxo-Greenford, England; Glaxo-Ware, England; ICI Plant Protection, England; Bayer, West Germany; Hoffmann-LaRoche, Nutley
1990          Merck-Frosst, Canada; Yamanouchi Pharmceutical Company, Japan; Hitachi Chemical Company, Japan; Roussel-Uclaf, France; Rhone-Poulenc, Dagenham, England; Bristol Myers S.A., France; Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Japan; Hoechst Pharma Forschung Allgemein, Frankfurt, Germany; Fritsche Dodge & Olcott, New York City
1991          Rhone-Poulenc Ag Co.; Research Triangle Park; Menarini Pharmaceutical Co., Italy; Parke-Davis, Ann Arbor; Glaxo Inc. Research Institute; Mallincrodt Medical Inc.
1992          Searle Research and Development, Abbott Laboratories, Merck Frosst
1993          Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton; Bristol Myers Squibb, New Brunswick; Merck Frosst, Canada; Hoechst Celanese, Corpus Christi; Schering-Plough Research Institute; Roche Research Centre, England; ICI Agrochemicals (Zeneca), England; Pfizer Ltd., England; BASF, Germany; Merck Frosst, Montreal; Pfizer, Groton; Ciba-Geigy, Summit; Miles, Connecticut; Sumitomo Pharmaceuticals, Japan; Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Japan
1994          Wellcome Foundation, England; Smith Kline Beecham, England; Hoffman-LaRoche, Basel; Chiroscience, England; Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, Wilmington; Lonza AG, Switzerland
1995          Fisons Pharmaceuticals, England; Glaxo, England; Smith Kline Beecham, Philadelphia; Ligand Pharmaceuticals, San Diego; DuPont, Wilmington; Degussa, Germany; Bayer, Germany; Israel Chemicals (TAMI), Haifa; Proctor and Gamble Pharmaceutical Co., Cincinnati; ARCO Chemical Co., Philadelphia
1996          Eli Lilly, Indianapolis; Sumitomo Pharmaceutical Co., Osaka, Japan; Synthelabo Recherche, France;  Zeneca Pharmaceutical Co., Alderley Park, England
1997          Hoechst, Germany; Parke-Davis Warner-Lambert, Ann Arbor; Wyeth Ayerst, Princeton; Shionogi Pharmaceutical Co., Japan
1998          Eli Lilly, Indianapolis; Boehringer-Ingelheim, Germany; Johnson-Matthey, New Jersey; Schering-Plough Research Institute, New Jersey; Ligand Pharmaceuticals, California
1999                   Novartis, Basel, Switzerland; Novartis, Vienna, Austria; Novartis, Horsham, England; Novartis, Summit, New Jersey; Albany Molecular Research, New York; Boehringer-Ingelheim, Connecticut; Bayer, Connecticut; Bio-Méga, Montréal; E. Merck, Darmstadt,  Germany; Pfizer, Groton; Pfizer, Sandwich, UK; SmithKline Beecham, Harlowe, UK; Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, Wilmington; DuPont, Wilmington; Merck, Rahway
2000                   Provid, Piscataway, New Jersey; Glaxo Wellcome, Research Triangle, North Carolina; Brantford Chemical, Canada; Astra/Zeneca, Loughborough, England
2001                   Fujisawa, Osaka, Japan; Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Tsukuba, Japan
2002         Merck San Diego; Firmenich, Geneva, Switzerland; Dow Chemical Company, Michigan; DSM Pharmaceuticals, Greenville, NC
2003         Tanabe Pharmaceutical, Osaka, Japan; Kaneka Pharmaceutical, Takasago (Himeji), Japan; Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, New Brunswick; Abbott Research Labs, Chicago; Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge; Aventis Pharma, Frankfurt, Germany; Boehringer-Ingelheim, Vienna, Austria
2004         Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA
 
Patents:
"Conversion of Organic Carboxylic Acid to Corresponding Ketone with Loss of Carbon Atom"
B.M. Trost and Y. Tamaru
US Patent 4,007,211 February 8, 1977
 
"Allylic Alkylation"
B.M. Trost and T.R. Verhoeven
US Patent 4,051,157 September 27, 1977
 
"Ring Expansion and Chain Extension Process and Reagents"
B.M. Trost
US Patent 4,307,241 December 22, 1981
 
"New Process for Five Member Ring Compound"
B.M. Trost
US Patent Application March 10, 1986
 
"Process for 1,4-Dihydropyridine Compounds Using a Titanamine Catalyst"
S.M. Pitzenberger and B.M. Trost
US Patent 4,789,538 October 25, 1988
 
"Palladium Catalyzed Alkylative Cyclization Useful in Syntheses of Vitamin D and Analogues"
B.M. Trost and J. Dumas
US Patent 5,292,977 March 8, 1994, U.S. Patent 5,446,225 August 29, 1995
 
“Asymmetric Ligands Useful for Transition Metal Catalyzed Bond Forming Reactions”
B.M. Trost, D.L. VanVranken, and R.C. Bunt
US Patent 5,739,396 April 14, 1998
 
“Method for Extraction of Essential Oils from Plant Material”
L.L. McKellip, P. Bing, and B.M. Trost
US Patent 5,891,501 April 6, 1999
                
“Asymmetric Ligands Useful for Transition Metal Catalyzed Bond Forming Reactions and Epoxide Reactions Therewith”
B.M. Trost and R.C. Bunt
US Patent 5,919,948 July 6, 1999    
 
“Enantiomerically Enriched a,a-Disubstituted Amino Acids and Method”
B.M. Trost and J. Ariza Piquer
US Patent 6,130,337 October 10, 2000
 
“Catalytic Composition and Methods for Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation”
B.M. Trost and I. Hachiya
US Patent 6,130,349 October 10, 2000
 
“Novel Asymmetric Ligands for Transition Metal Catalysts”
E.J. McEachern, F.D. Toste, B.M. Trost
US Patent 6,307,067 B! October 23, 2001
 
"Asymmetric Ligands Useful for Transition Metal Catalyzed Bond Forming Reactions and Epoxide Reactions Therewith"
B.M. Trost and R.C. Bunt
European Patent )782577 B1 June 12, 2002
 
 "Catalytic Compositions and Methods for Asymmetric Aldol Reactions"
 B.M. Trost and H. Ito
 US Patent 6,610,889 August 26, 2003 
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