2004-05 Richard F. Heck lecturer named

10:56 a.m., March 29, 2005--Stephen L. Buchwald, the Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has been named the Richard F. Heck lecturer for 2004-05 by UD’s Department of Chemistry.

An award ceremony, set for 4 p.m., Wednesday, April 6, in 101 Brown Lab, will give members of the University community an opportunity to meet and congratulate Buchwald.

Buchwald’s work has advanced organometallic chemistry both at the fundamental and the applied level. His work spans the fields of enantioselective reduction, carbon-carbon bond formation, carbon-heteroatom bond formation, catalyst design, total synthesis and mechanistic organometallic chemistry.

He received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Brown University and his doctorate from Harvard before spending two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology. In 1984, Buchwald began his tenure at MIT, where he has since received many honors for scholarship and instruction. He has been recognized with more than a dozen named lectureships and has coauthored more than 200 published papers and 16 issued patents.

The Richard F. Heck Lectureship was established by UD to recognize visionary leadership in organometallic chemistry. Buchwald will be the first Heck lecturer to follow the inaugural Heck lecture given by Richard Heck in October.

For more information on the Richard F. Heck Lectureship and the April 6 award ceremony, call (302) 831-2462.

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