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Hosea M. NelsonPresented by Eliseo E. Quiroz
BRG Meeting
July 21, 2020
Curriculum Vitae
• Completed B.S. in Chemistry at UC Berkeley in 2004
• Earned Ph.D. in 2012 at Caltech under Brian Stoltz
• From 2012-2015, postdoc appointment with Dean Toste at UC Berkeley
• Joined UCLA faculty in 2015
http://www.thenelsonlab.com/members1.html
Research Interest
• Organic catalysis and synthesis
• Chemical biology
• Structural chemistry
http://www.thenelsonlab.com/research.html
C-H Insertion
Shao, B.; Bagdasarian, A.; Popov, S.; Nelson, H. M. Science, 2017, 355, 1403-1407
WCA = Weakly coordinating anion
C-H Insertion
Shao, B.; Bagdasarian, A.; Popov, S.; Nelson, H. M. Science, 2018, 361, 381-387
C-H Insertion
Wigman, B.; Shao, B.; Bagdasarian, A.; Popov, S.; Nelson, H. M. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 9140-9144 Wigman, B.; Shao, B.; Bagdasarian, A.; Popov, S.; Nelson, H. M. Org. Lett. 2020, XXX, XXX-XXX
Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization
Nistanaki, S.; Nelson, H. M. ACS Macro Lett. 2020, 9, 731-735
Small MoleculeStructure Determination
• Use of the electron cryo-microscopy (cryoEM) method microcrystal electron diffraction (MicroED) to structural determination of small organic molecules on atomic resolution (<1 A).
Jones, C. G.; Martynowycz, M. W., Nelson, H. M. ACS Cent. Sci. 2018, 4, 1587-1592
Small MoleculeStructure Determination
Jones, C. G.; Martynowycz, M. W., Nelson, H. M. ACS Cent. Sci. 2018, 4, 1587-1592
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