Lewis Norman Mander, Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Reserve System is a New Zealand organic chemistry
Education
Lew Mander completed a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 1960, followed by an Master of Science degree in 1961 from the same institution. He then moved to Australia in 1962 to undertake a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Sydney before committing to an initial Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Michigan with Bob Ireland. Mander then moved with Ireland to Caltech in 1965 (after his Doctor of Philosophy had been conferred) for an additional two years.
Career
He has widely explored the synthesis and chemistry of the gibberellin class of diterpenes over a 20-year period. Mander then returned to Australia in 1966 to join the academic fraternity as a Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at the University of Adelaide. Mander was promoted to Senior Lecturer in Organic Chemistry in 1970 where he remained until 1975 when he relocated to the Australian National University Research School of Chemistry as a Senior Fellow where he has risen through the ranks to become one of Australia"s leading Organic Chemistry professors.
In 2004 the Australian Journal of Chemistry published a special issue for the occasion of Mander"s 65th Birthday.
Amongst his many scholarly activities, Mander contributed a chapter on "Stereoselective Synthesis" to the classic text "Stereochemistry of Organic Compounds" by Professors Ernest L. Eliel and Samuel H. Wilen. Synthesis and preparation of semi-synthetic derivatives of gibberellins.
Molecular basis of plant growth regulation with gibberellins. Synthesis of diterpenoid natural products with high bioactivity.
Dissolving metal-mediated reductive alkylation of bezenoid synthons.
C-selective acylation of enolates using methyl cyanoformate (Mander"s reagent). Fellowships and J. American New Jersey (U.S.) American North. M. J. American
, 2003, 125, 2400–2401.
Membership
Royal Society]
Member of the Australian Academy of Science 1983.
