John F. Hartwig

John F. Hartwig
Hartwig delivering his 2014 award lecture for the 2014 Nagoya Medal of Organic Chemistry
Born	John F. Hartwig 1964 (Elmhurst, IL) United States
Nationality	American
Fields	Chemistry
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Alma mater	Ph.D (1990) University of California, Berkeley A.B. (1986) Princeton University
Doctoral advisors	Robert G. Bergman and Richard A. Anderson
Known for	Organometallic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, Catalysis
Notable awards	Willard Gibbs Award (2015)

John F. Hartwig is the Henry Rapoport Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. His laboratory focuses on developing new methods for the preparation of a broad range of organic compounds. His explorations have illustrated the potential of the transition metal-catalyzed construction of important carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom linkages in a way that has elevated such transformations to strategy level reactions.

Hartwig is known for helping develop the Buchwald–Hartwig amination, a chemical reaction used in organic chemistry for the synthesis of carbon–nitrogen bonds via the palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of amines with aryl halides. Here is an example of this reaction:

He also helped develop a technique for steric-directed C–H borylation of arenes. The versatility of this method is described in the following reaction scheme:

Hartwig received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1986, and earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990.