Background
Heathcock, Clayton Howell was born on July 21, 1936 in San Antonio, Texas, United States. Son of Clayton H. and Frances E. (Lay) Heathcock.
Heathcock, Clayton Howell was born on July 21, 1936 in San Antonio, Texas, United States. Son of Clayton H. and Frances E. (Lay) Heathcock.
Bachelor of Science, Abilene Christian College, Texas, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy, University Colorado, 1963.
Clayton Heathcock received his Bachelor of Science in chemistry in 1958 from Abilene Christian University and a Doctor of Philosophy in organic chemistry in 1963 from the University of Colorado. His graduate work was carried out under the direction of Alfred Hassner and dealt with the synthesis of steroidal heterocycles. In 1964, he joined the faculty at University of California Berkeley where he is currently Professor in the Graduate School and Dean of the College of Chemistry.
Heathcock is known for tackling the chemical synthesis of complex, polycyclic natural products, often possessing unusual biological activity including Daphniphyllum alkaloids, altohyrtin, zaragozic acid, spongistatins, and many others
He has also developed novel methodology for organic synthesis such as a modification of the Evans aldol reaction. Clayton Heathcock is the author of several hundred research papers and a coauthor of the popular college textbook Introduction to Organic Chemistry.
(Great Organic Chemistry journal!)
(Great Organic Chemistry journal!)
(Great Organic Chemistry journal!)
(Great Organic Chemistry journal!)
(Great Organic Chemistry journal!)
(Great Organic Chemistry journal!)
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Chemical Society (chairman division organic chemistry 1985, Ernest Guenther award 1986, award for creative work in synthetic organic chemistry 1990, A.C. Cope scholar 1990, hockey club Brown medal 2002, Paul Gassman award 2004), National Academy of Sciences, Royal Society Chemistry (Centenary medal 1995), American Society Pharmacology.
Married Mabel Ruth Sims, September 6, 1957 (divorced 1972). Children: Cheryl Lynn, Barbara Sue, Steven Wayne, Rebecca Ann. Married Cheri R. Hadley, November 28, 1980.