John F Hartwig

John F. Hartwig is the Henry Rapoport Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. His laboratory focuses 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.

Contents

• John Hartwig UC Berkeley Accelerating Chemical Synthesis with Catalysis 2018
• Career
• Academy Memberships and Fellowships
• Publications
• References

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 A.B. from Princeton University in 1986, and earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990.

Career

1984: General Electric Research and Development, Schenectady, NY

1985: Monsanto Japan Ltd., Kawachi, Japan

1986-1989: University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Graduate Student Instructor.

1990 - 1992: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Associate.

1992-1996: Yale University, New Haven, CT Assistant Professor of Chemistry.

1996-1998: Yale University, New Haven, CT Associate Professor of Chemistry.

1998-2004: Yale University, New Haven, CT Professor of Chemistry.

2004-2006: Yale University, New Haven, CT Irénée duPont Professor of Chemistry

2006-2011: University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Kenneth L. Reinhart Jr. Professor of Chemistry.

2011-present: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley Senior Faculty Scientist

2011-present: University of California, Berkeley Henry Rapoport Professor of Chemistry.

Academy Memberships and Fellowships

2015: Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2012: Member, National Academy of Sciences

2005: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Publications

Hartwig, John (2010). Organotransition Metal Chemistry: From Bonding to Catalysis. New York: University Science Books. p. 1160. ISBN 978-1-938787-15-7.