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Place of Birth: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
About Mark Lautens
- Mark Lautens, O.C., (born July 9, 1959) is a Canadian organic chemist and is a University Professor at the University of Toronto.
- Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Lautens received a Bachelor of Science degree with distinction from the University of Guelph in 1981 where he worked with Professor Gord Lange.
- He then moved to the University of Wisconsin–Madison for his Ph.D.
- (1981-1985) working with Professor Barry M.
- Trost with an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship.
- Following graduation, he was an NSERC PDF at Harvard University (1985-1987) in the laboratories of Professor David A.
- Evans.
- In 1987 he was appointed as an NSERC URF assistant professor at the University of Toronto and was promoted to professor in 1995.
- Since 2012, he has held the rank of University Professor, awarded to up to 2% of the faculty at the University of Toronto.He is known for his involvement in the developments of asymmetric ring-opening chemistry, synthetic utility and scope of the Catellani Reaction reaction including the use of ligands to facilitate the reaction, carbohalogenation, multi-component multi-catalyst reactions, and domino catalysis.
- He has supervised over 50 doctoral students and has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals.
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