Suzanne Blum

Suzanne Blum
Suzanne Blum
Born	1978 (age 42–43)
Occupation	Professor of organometallic chemistry
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Michigan
Doctoral advisor	Robert G. Bergman
Website	https://www.chem.uci.edu/people/suzanne-blum

Suzanne A. Blum (born 1978) is an American professor of organometallic chemistry at the University of California, Irvine.

Education[]

Blum studied chemistry as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan. As evidenced by the 2000 Departmental newsletter, she had already participated in multiple teaching and research projects, winning outstanding American Chemical Society student chapter, the UM Alumni Leadership award, and a National Science Foundation fellowship to attend graduate school at UC-Berkeley.^[1] Blum published multiple first-author papers and received teaching awards throughout her tenure at UC-Berkeley. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School in 2006.^{[citation needed]}

Research[]

Prof. Blum's research focuses on the development of new reactions based on "early" transition metals and on monitoring reaction intermediates by a combination of fluorescent and analytical methods. While many of her initial independent research publications were based on fleeting complexes of gold or platinum, she has more recently focused on copper(I)-catalyzed borylation reactions to make advanced oxygen-containing heterocycles,^[2] amenable to pharmaceutical and agricultural derivation. Blum's group advocates for use of single-molecule techniques often borrowed from biological or physical contexts, and using them to observe intermediates in "classical" reactions.^[3]

Awards[]

Fellow of the AAAS - 2017
Humboldt Fellowship - 2013-2016
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science - 2013
NSF CAREER Award - 2008
National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow - 2005-2006

References[]

^ Marino, J.P. (2000). "University of Michigan Chemistry Newsletter" (PDF). Retrieved 18 October 2018.
^ Faizi, Darius (2016). "Oxyboration: Synthesis of Borylated Benzofurans". Organic Syntheses. 93: 228–244. doi:10.15227/orgsyn.093.0228. PMC 6474368. PMID 31007301.
^ Cordes, Thorben; Blum, Suzanne A. (December 2013). "Opportunities and challenges in single-molecule and single-particle fluorescence microscopy for mechanistic studies of chemical reactions". Nature Chemistry. 5 (12): 993–999. Bibcode:2013NatCh...5..993C. doi:10.1038/nchem.1800. ISSN 1755-4330. PMID 24256861.

[1] Marino, J.P. (2000). "University of Michigan Chemistry Newsletter" (PDF). Retrieved 18 October 2018.

[2] Faizi, Darius (2016). "Oxyboration: Synthesis of Borylated Benzofurans". Organic Syntheses. 93: 228–244. doi:10.15227/orgsyn.093.0228. PMC 6474368. PMID 31007301.

[3] Cordes, Thorben; Blum, Suzanne A. (December 2013). "Opportunities and challenges in single-molecule and single-particle fluorescence microscopy for mechanistic studies of chemical reactions". Nature Chemistry. 5 (12): 993–999. Bibcode:2013NatCh...5..993C. doi:10.1038/nchem.1800. ISSN 1755-4330. PMID 24256861.

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