Cathleen Crudden

Cathleen Crudden
CitizenshipCanadian
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
University of Ottawa
Known forCatalysis

Chiral materials
Organometallic chemistry
Hydroboration
Materials

N-Heterocyclic Carbenes
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsQueen's University

Nagoya University (ITbM)
University of New Brunswick

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Doctoral advisorHoward Alper
Other academic advisorsMark Lautens
Scott E. Denmark
Websitehttp://www.cruddengroup.com/

Cathleen M. Crudden is a Canadian chemist. She is a Canada Research Chair in Metal Organic Chemistry at Queen's University at Kingston. In February 2021, she took up the role of Editor-in-chief at ACS Catalysis.[1]

Education

Crudden earned a Bachelors of Science at the University of Toronto in 1989, working with Mark Lautens, with whom she went on to complete her master's degree.[2] She moved to University of Ottawa for her PhD, working under the supervision of Howard Alper, which she completed in 1995.[3]

Research and career

Crudden was appointed a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council postdoctoral fellow at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign working with Scott E. Denmark in 1995.[2] She moved to University of New Brunswick in 1996 where she started her own research group.[4] In 2002, she was appointed a Queen's National Scholar and moved her research lab to Kingston, Ontario.

Crudden was the first to identify an enantiospecific Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction of chiral boranes.[5] In 2014 she designed more stable nitrogen-based self-assembled monolayer treatments for metal surfaces.[6][7] The N-heterocyclic carbene self-assembled monolayers can be used in a range of applications, including biosensors.[8] Her interests lie in hydroboration, organometallic chemistry, chiral materials and persistent carbenes.[9] In 2010 Crudden became head of a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council CREATE award in chiral materials, worth $1.6 million.[10] She became President of the Canadian Society of Chemistry.[11]

In 2015, as Principal Investigator of a group of ten collaborators, Crudden was awarded $8.8 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation for major infrastructure purchases.[12] She won the Queen's University Research Opportunities Fund, which she used to create inexpensive, sensitive biosensors.[13] Her group prepares carbon-based ligands for metal surfaces, which can be used as sensing systems based on surface plasmon resonance.[13] In 2016, she and Dr. Suning Wang held a trilateral Canada-Japan-Germany symposium at Queen's looking at Elements Functions for Transformative Catalysis and Materials.[14] Crudden is a joint Professor at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, based out of Nagoya University in Japan, where she runs a satellite lab. She is one of only four international collaborators at this Institute.[15][16] She was recognised as having made the most distinguished contribution to the field of catalysis by the Chemical Institute of Canada in 2018, when they awarded her the Catalysis Award.[16] Crudden also often comments on developments in the field of organic chemistry in various media outlets.[17][18][19][20][21]

Awards

References

  1. ^ "Cathleen Crudden to lead ACS Catalysis as editor-in-chief". acs.org. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Curriculum Vitae | The Crudden Group". www.cruddengroup.com. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
  3. ^ Crudden, Cathleen M.; Alper, Howard (1 June 1994). "The regioselective hydroformylation of vinylsilanes. A remarkable difference in the selectivity and reactivity of cobalt, rhodium, and iridium catalysts". The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 59 (11): 3091–3097. doi:10.1021/jo00090a029. ISSN 0022-3263.
  4. ^ "Biography | The Crudden Group". www.cruddengroup.com. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
  5. ^ Imao, Daisuke; Glasspoole, Ben W.; Laberge, Véronique S.; Crudden, Cathleen M. (15 April 2009). "Cross Coupling Reactions of Chiral Secondary Organoboronic Esters With Retention of Configuration". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131 (14): 5024–5025. doi:10.1021/ja8094075. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 19301820.
  6. ^ "Carbenes beat thiols for robust monolayers". Chemistry World. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  7. ^ Ritter, Stephen K. "Self-Assembled Makeover | March 31, 2014 Issue - Vol. 92 Issue 13 | Chemical & Engineering News". cen.acs.org. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  8. ^ Crudden, Cathleen M.; Horton, J. Hugh; Ebralidze, Iraklii I.; Zenkina, Olena V.; McLean, Alastair B.; Drevniok, Benedict; She, Zhe; Kraatz, Heinz-Bernhard; Mosey, Nicholas J. (May 2014). "Ultra stable self-assembled monolayers of N-heterocyclic carbenes on gold". Nature Chemistry. 6 (5): 409–414. Bibcode:2014NatCh...6..409C. doi:10.1038/nchem.1891. ISSN 1755-4349. PMID 24755592.
  9. ^ "Crudden, Cathleen | Department of Chemistry". www.chem.queensu.ca. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  10. ^ "CREATE Chiral Materials". faculty.chem.queensu.ca. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  11. ^ "Cathleen Crudden, FCIC | The Chemical Institute of Canada". www.cheminst.ca. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  12. ^ "Province injects $16 million into Queen's research". www.queensu.ca. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  13. ^ a b "2016 QROF Recipients | Office of the Vice-Principal (Research)". www.queensu.ca. Archived from the original on 21 March 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  14. ^ "Canada-Japan-Germany joint symposium | Office of the Vice-Principal (Research)". www.queensu.ca. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  15. ^ "Cathleen M. Crudden | WPI World Premier International Research Center Initiative: Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, Nagoya University". www.itbm.nagoya-u.ac.jp. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  16. ^ a b c "Catalysis Award | The Chemical Institute of Canada". www.cheminst.ca. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  17. ^ Owens, Brian (22 October 2019). "Canadian scientists relieved as Trudeau ekes out election win". Nature. 574 (7780): 606. Bibcode:2019Natur.574..606O. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-03208-w. PMID 31664199.
  18. ^ "Automating synthesis from planning to execution". Chemical & Engineering News. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  19. ^ Wogan2017-01-11T12:10:00+00:00, Tim. "Earth-abundant metal catalyst activation made simple". Chemistry World. Retrieved 9 February 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  20. ^ Linda Wang. "Foreign students and postdocs in U.S. worry about the future | March 7, 2017 Issue - Vol. 95 Issue 11 | Chemical & Engineering News". cen.acs.org. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  21. ^ Tien Nguyen. "Sulfones expand the reach of radical cross-couplings | January 8, 2018 Issue - Vol. 96 Issue 2 | Chemical & Engineering News". cen.acs.org. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  22. ^ "Alfred Bader Award". The Chemical Institute of Canada. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  23. ^ "Four professors receive one of the highest Canadian academic honours". Queen's Gazette | Queen's University. 8 September 2020. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  24. ^ Loock, Peter (11 February 2019). "Congratulations to Cathy Crudden (@cathleencrudden) for winning the 2019 Montréal Medal! "The Montréal Medal is presented as a mark of distinction and honour to a resident of Canada for an outstanding contribution to the profession of chemistry or chemical engineering in Canada."". @Peter_Loock. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
  25. ^ "ACS 2019 Award Winners". cen.acs.org. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  26. ^ "In Conversation with the Prizes for Excellence in Research Recipients, April 3 | Office of the Vice-Principal (Research)". www.queensu.ca. Archived from the original on 23 March 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  27. ^ "IPMI Scholarship and Awards Programs - International Precious Metals Institute (IPMI)". www.ipmi.org. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  28. ^ "Dr. Cathleen Crudden received the 2017 R.U. Lemieux Award of the CSC | Department of Chemistry". www.chem.queensu.ca. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  29. ^ "R. U. Lemieux Award". www.cscorgdiv.ca. Archived from the original on 23 March 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2018.