Biography
Donna G Blackmond FRS is Professor of Chemistry and the John C. Martin Endowed Chair in Chemistry at Scripps Research. She has held professorships in chemistry and in chemical engineering in the US, Germany, and the UK. She has worked and consults in the pharmaceutical industry. She holds joint US/UK citizenship.
Prof. Blackmond is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the US National Academy of Engineering; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina; the Royal Society of London; the Royal Academy of Engineering. She received the Wolfson Research Merit Award from the Royal Society, the Centenary Prize for Communication in Chemistry from the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society, the IUPAC Award for Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering, and the Humboldt-Forschungspreis from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Prof. Blackmond’s research focuses on mechanistic studies of organic reactions, including asymmetric catalysis. She pioneered the methodology of “Reaction Progress Kinetic Analysis (RPKA)” for fundamental mechanistic studies of complex catalytic organic reactions as well as for streamlining pharmaceutical process research. The second main area of her research involves studies probing the origin of life, in particular the origin of biological homochirality.
Plenary Lecture
Title: Mechanistic Understanding of Complex Catalytic Reactions Through In-situ Monitoring
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