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For the American sound engineer, see David MacMillan (sound engineer). For those of a similar name, see David McMillan (disambiguation).

David MacMillan
FRS FRSE
Born
David William Cross MacMillan

(1968-03-16) 16 March 1968 (age 56)
Bellshill, Scotland, UK
EducationUniversity of Glasgow (BSc)
University of California, Irvine (MSc, PhD)
AwardsCorday-Morgan medal
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2018)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2021)
Scientific career
Institutions
ThesisStereocontrolled formation of bicyclic tetrahydrofurans and Enantioselective total synthesis of eunicellin diterpenes (1996)
Doctoral advisorLarry E. Overman
Other academic advisorsErnest W. Colvin
David A. Evans
Doctoral studentsVy Dong, Tehshik Yoon, Tristan Lambert
WebsiteOfficial website

David William Cross MacMillan FRS FRSE (born 16 March 1968)[1] is a British-American[2] chemist and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, where he was also the Chair of the Department of Chemistry from 2010 to 2015.[3][4] He shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Benjamin List "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis".[5]

Education and early life

MacMillan was born in Bellshill, Scotland in 1968. He received his undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of Glasgow, where he worked with Ernie Colvin.[6][7]

In 1990, he left the UK to begin his doctoral studies under the direction of Professor Larry Overman at the University of California, Irvine. During this time, he focused on the development of new reaction methodology directed toward the stereocontrolled formation of bicyclic tetrahydrofurans. MacMillan's graduate studies culminated in the total synthesis of 7-(−)-deacetoxyalcyonin acetate, a eunicellin diterpenoid isolated from the soft coral Eunicella stricta.[8] He earned his Ph.D. in 1996.[7]

He hailed his Scottish upbringing as a reason for him winning the Nobel.[9]

Career and research

Upon receiving his Ph.D., MacMillan accepted a position with Professor David Evans at Harvard University. His postdoctoral studies centered on enantioselective catalysis, in particular, the design and development of Sn(II)-derived bisoxazoline complexes (Sn(II)box).[7]

MacMillan began his independent research career as a member of the chemistry faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in July 1998. He joined the department of chemistry at Caltech in June 2000, where his group's research interests centered on new approaches to enantioselective catalysis. In 2004, he was appointed as the Earle C. Anthony Professor of Chemistry. He became the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University in September 2006.[7]

First generation MacMillan catalyst

He is considered to be one of the founders of organocatalysis.[10] In 2000, MacMillan designed small organic molecules that can provide or accept electrons and therefore efficiently catalyse reactions.[10][11] He developed catalysts that can drive asymmetric catalysis, in which a reaction produces more of the left-handed version of a molecule than the right-handed one, or vice versa.[10] MacMillan's research group has made many advances in the field of asymmetric organocatalysis, and they have applied these new methods to the synthesis of a range of complex natural products.[7][10] He developed chiral imidazolidinone catalysts.[12][11][13] MacMillan catalysts [de] are used in various asymmetric syntheses. Examples include Diels-Alder reactions,[11] 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions,[14] Friedel-Crafts alkylations[15] or Michael additions.[13]

Between 2010 and 2014, MacMillan was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Chemical Science, the flagship general chemistry journal published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.[7]

Honours and awards

References

  1. ^ Professor David MacMillan FRS
  2. ^ "Princeton's David MacMillan receives Nobel Prize in chemistry". Princeton University. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  3. ^ "Home". Macmillan Group. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  4. ^ A short interview of Professor MacMillan is available on the Eminent Organic Chemists Page provided by the ACS Organic Division
  5. ^ a b "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  6. ^ "Bellshill man and former Glasgow University student David WC MacMillan wins the Nobel prize for chemistry". Glasgow Times. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g "David MacMillan". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  8. ^ MacMillan, David William Cross (1996). Stereocontrolled formation of bicyclic tetrahydrofurans ; and, Enantioselective total synthesis of eunicellin diterpenes (Ph.D. thesis). University of California, Irvine. OCLC 35966904. ProQuest 304225710.
  9. ^ "David MacMillan: 'Being Scottish helped me win Nobel Prize'". BBC News. 7 October 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  10. ^ a b c d Castelvecchi, Davide; Stoye, Emma (6 October 2021). "'Elegant' catalysts that tell left from right scoop chemistry Nobel". Nature. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02704-2. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 34616090.
  11. ^ a b c Ahrendt, Kateri A.; Borths, Christopher J.; MacMillan, David W. C. (15 April 2000). "New Strategies for Organic Catalysis: The First Highly Enantioselective Organocatalytic Diels−Alder Reaction". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 122 (17). American Chemical Society (ACS): 4243–4244. doi:10.1021/ja000092s. ISSN 0002-7863.
  12. ^ "David MacMillan". Princeton University Department of Chemistry. 21 July 2014. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  13. ^ a b Paras, Nick A.; MacMillan, David W. C. (12 June 2002). "The Enantioselective Organocatalytic 1,4-Addition of Electron-Rich Benzenes to α,β-Unsaturated Aldehydes". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 124 (27). American Chemical Society (ACS): 7894–7895. doi:10.1021/ja025981p. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 12095321.
  14. ^ Jen, Wendy S.; Wiener, John J. M.; MacMillan, David W. C. (26 September 2000). "New Strategies for Organic Catalysis: The First Enantioselective Organocatalytic 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 122 (40). American Chemical Society (ACS): 9874–9875. doi:10.1021/ja005517p. ISSN 0002-7863.
  15. ^ Paras, Nick A.; MacMillan, David W. C. (13 April 2001). "New Strategies in Organic Catalysis: The First Enantioselective Organocatalytic Friedel−Crafts Alkylation". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 123 (18). American Chemical Society (ACS): 4370–4371. doi:10.1021/ja015717g. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 11457218.
  16. ^ "MacMillan Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship". California Institute of Technology. August 2002. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  17. ^ "Caltech Faculty Awards and Honors 2004–2005" (PDF). California Institute of Technology. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  18. ^ "New Fellows 2012". Royal Society. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  19. ^ "David W.C. MacMillan". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  20. ^ "Professor David William Cross MacMillan FRS, CorrFRSE – The Royal Society of Edinburgh". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  21. ^ "Past Recipients of the Harrison Howe Award". Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  22. ^ "The Society of SynthRyoji Noyori Prize Recipients". www.ssocj.jp (in Japanese). Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan. Archived from the original on 22 October 2017. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
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