David MacMillan

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Sir
David MacMillan
Corday-Morgan medal
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2018)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(2021)
Scientific career
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Sir David William Cross MacMillan

FRSE (born 16 March 1968)[2] is a Scottish[8] 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.[9][10] He shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Benjamin List "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis".[11] MacMillan used his share of the $1.14 million prize to establish the May and Billy MacMillan Foundation.[12]

Education and early life

MacMillan was born in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, in 1968 and grew up in nearby New Stevenston.[13] He attended the local state-funded schools, New Stevenston Primary and Bellshill Academy, and credited his Scottish education and Scottish upbringing for his success.[14][13]

He received his undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of Glasgow, where he worked with Ernie Colvin.[15][16]

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.[17] He earned his Ph.D. in 1996.[16]

Career and research

Upon receiving his Ph.D., MacMillan accepted a postdoctoral 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).[16]

MacMillan began his independent research career as a member of the chemistry faculty at the

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.[16]

First generation MacMillan catalyst

He is considered to be one of the founders of

Michael additions.[21]

MacMillan has also extensively developed photoredox catalysis for use in organic synthesis.[24][25][26]

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.[16]

As of March 2024, MacMillan has an h-index of 125 according to Google Scholar[27] and of 115 according to Scopus.[28]

Visit to Brasil

In April 2024, David MacMillan was in Brazil for events at the State University of Rio de Janeiro and the University of São Paulo.[29] In Rio, MacMillan asked to visit the headquarters of General Severiano, from Botafogo, and was received by the Club's board of directors.[30] Later in São Paulo, MacMillan held a short panel at University of São Paulo Chemistry Institute (IQ-USP) about his history as a researcher and recent Nobel laureate.

Honours and awards

MacMillan was knighted in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to chemistry and science.[31][32]

List

References

  1. ^ a b "Princeton's David MacMillan receives Nobel Prize in chemistry". Princeton University. 6 October 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  2. ^ "David W.C. MacMillan". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
  3. ^ "David MacMillan: 'Being Scottish helped me win Nobel Prize'". BBC News. 7 October 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  4. ^ Paterson, Laura (6 October 2021). "Scottish scientist jointly wins Nobel Prize in chemistry". www.standard.co.uk. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  5. ^ "Chemistry Nobel awarded for mirror-image molecules". BBC News. 6 October 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  6. ^ Russell, Jennifer (6 October 2021). "Scots scientist wins Nobel Prize for chemistry". Daily Record. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  7. ^ "Scottish scientist jointly wins Nobel Prize in chemistry". uk.news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  8. ^ [1][3][4][5][6][7]
  9. ^ "The MacMillan Group". Macmillan Group. Archived from the original on 21 July 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  10. ^ "David MacMillan". American Chemical Society Division of Organic Chemistry. 15 December 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  11. ^ a b "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  12. ^ Service, Purdue News. "David MacMillan, the 2021 Nobel laureate in chemistry, to join President Chiang for Presidential Lecture Series on Feb. 13". www.purdue.edu. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  13. ^ a b "David MacMillan: 'Being Scottish helped me win Nobel Prize'". BBC News. 7 October 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  14. ^ "Success wouldn't have happened if I wasn't Scottish, says Bellshill-born Nobel Prize winner". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  15. ^ "Bellshill man and former Glasgow University student David WC MacMillan wins the Nobel prize for chemistry". Glasgow Times. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  16. ^ a b c d e f g "David MacMillan". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
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  20. ^ "David MacMillan". Princeton University Department of Chemistry. 21 July 2014. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
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  27. ^ David MacMillan publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  28. ^ David MacMillan publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  29. ^ "Nobel Prize Dialogue – Criando nosso futuro junto com a ciência" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 13 April 2024.
  30. ^ Mesquita, Diego (13 April 2024). "Botafogo recebe vencedor do Prêmio Nobel de Química para visita à sede de General Severiano". Fogo na Rede (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 13 April 2024.
  31. ^ "No. 63714". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 June 2022. p. B2.
  32. ^ Newsroom, The (8 June 2022). "Nobel prize winning chemist from Bellshill has now been knighted by the Queen". GlasgowWorld. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  33. ^ "MacMillan Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship". California Institute of Technology. August 2002. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  34. ^ "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.
  35. ^ "New Fellows 2012". Royal Society. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  36. ^ "Sir David MacMillan's Royal Society Fellowship Biography". The Royal Society. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  37. ^ "David W.C. MacMillan". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  38. ^ "Professor David William Cross MacMillan FRS, CorrFRSE – The Royal Society of Edinburgh". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  39. ^ "Past Recipients of the Harrison Howe Award". Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  40. ^ "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.

External links

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