From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Melanie Sanford
Melanie Sanford
Melanie Sanford (born June 16, 1975) is an American Functionalization Reactions". Chemical Reviews 110
chemist, and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry at (2): 1147–1169. doi:10.1021/cr900184e.
University of Michigan.[1] Sanford is best known for her [4] http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/
studies of high-valent organopalladium species, partic- b.7730827/k.8FBB/Melanie_Sanford.htm
ularly those implicated in Pd-catalyzed C–H functional- [5] Jim Austin (November 24, 2006). "Melanie Sanford:
ization reactions.[2][3] She has received numerous awards The Interview". Science.
and honors, including selection as a 2011 MacArthur Fel- http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/
low.[4] She is also a Fellow for the American Association career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/
for the Advancement of Science. 2006_11_24/noDOI.1162095531482324995.
Life External links
Sanford was born and grew up in Providence, Rhode Is- • Melinda Wenner Moyer (October 22, 2008). "The
land. She graduated from Yale University with a BS and Bond Breaker She’s invented a way to build exactly
MS in 1999, having carried out research with Robert H. the right molecule for the job". Popular Science.
Crabtree, and from the California Institute of Technology http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-10/
with a Ph.D. in 2001, where she studied with Robert H. bond-breaker.
Grubbs. She did postdoctoral work at Princeton Universi- • http://centc.blogspot.com/2011/01/melanie-
ty, where she studied with John T. Groves.[5] sanford-named-aaas-fellow.html
• http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-
References brightest-2009/advanced-cell-chemistry-1209
Persondata
[1] https://www.chem.lsa.umich.edu/chem/faculty/
Name Sanford, Melanie
facultyDetail.php?Uniqname=mssanfor
[2] Dick, Allison R.; Hull, Kami L.; Sanford, Melanie S. Alternative names
(2004). "A Highly Selective Catalytic Method for the Short description Chemist
Oxidative Functionalization of C–H Bonds". Journal Date of birth June 16, 1975
of the American Chemical Society 126 (8): 2300–2301.
doi:10.1021/ja031543m. Place of birth Providence, Rhode Island
[3] Lyons, Thomas W.; Sanford, Melanie S. (2010). Date of death
"Palladium-Catalyzed Ligand-Directed C–H Place of death
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• Yale University alumni
• California Institute of Technology alumni
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• American chemists
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