Education
Princeton University.
Princeton University.
His laboratory studies focus on developing new methods for the preparation of a broad range of organic compounds. His explorations have illustrated the potential of the transition metal-catalyzed construction of important carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom linkages in a way that has elevated such transformations to strategy level reactions. Hartwig is known for helping develop the Buchwald–Hartwig amination, a chemical reaction used in organic chemistry for the synthesis of carbon–nitrogen bonds via the palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of amines with aryl halides.
Here is an example of this reaction:
He also helped develop a technique for steric-directed C–H borylation of arenes.
The versatility of this method is described in the following reaction scheme:
Hartwig received his Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in 1986, and earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990. 1984: General Electric Research and Development, Schenectady, New York
1985: Monsanto Japan Limited., Kawachi, Japan
1986-1989: University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California Graduate Student Instructor.
1990 - 1992: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Master of Arts American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Associate. 1992-1996: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Assistant Professor of Chemistry.
1996-1998: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Associate Professor of Chemistry.
1998-2004: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Professor of Chemistry. 2004-2006: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Irénée duPont Professor of Chemistry
2006-2011: University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Kenneth L. Reinhart Junior. Professor of Chemistry.
2011-present: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley Senior Faculty Scientist
2011-present: University of California, Berkeley Henry Rapoport Professor of Chemistry.
2012: Member, National Academy of Sciences
2005: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
National Academy of Sciences.