Fundamentals of Asymmetric Catalysis (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781891389542)

Patrick J. Walsh (Author) Patrick J. Walsh is a Professor of Chemistry at University of Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. from UC San Diego, where he was mentored by Prof. Charles Perrin, and his Ph.D from UC Berkeley, where he studied organometallic chemistry with Prof. Robert G. Bergman. Following an NSF postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. K. B. Sharpless at the Scripps Research Institute, he moved across town to become an assistant professor at San Diego State University and a professor at Centro de Graduados e Investigación, Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana (Mexico). In 1999 he moved to his current position at the University of Pennsylvania where he is currently professor of chemistry. Walsh has received several awards, most recent of which was the 2006 Philadelphia Section Award of the ACS. Walsh's interests are in asymmetric catalysis, development of new methods, reaction mechanisms, and inorganic synthesis.Marisa C. Kozlowski (Author) Marisa Kozlowski is a Professor of Chemistry at University of Pennsylvania. She received an A. B. in Chemistry from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley under the direction of Paul Bartlett. After studying asymmetric catalysis in the laboratories of David A. Evans at Harvard University as a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow, she joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. Kozlowski is the recipient of a number of awards including a DuPont Young Investigator Award, an NSF Career Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. The major focus of Professor Kozlowski's research is the development of methods for the design of asymmetric catalysts.