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Bruce H. Lipshutz (born 1951) is an American chemist. He is a professor at the
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Biography

Lipshutz received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from
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in 1973. His graduate work was supervised by Harry H. Wasserman at
Yale Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges ch ...
. After a PhD degree in 1977, he spent two years at
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as a post-doctoral researcher in the group of Nobel Laureate E. J. Corey. Soon after, he accepted a position of Assistant Professor at
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rising to the ranks of Professor in 1987. He has received the
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Fellowship and the Camille & Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. In 2011 he was awarded Presidential Green Chemistry Award. He is Co-founder of Zymes LLC.


Contributions


Reagents

*Aqueous Micellar Catalysis using TPGS-750-M and Nok. *Sustainable Palladium catalysis. * 2-(Trimethylsilyl)ethoxymethyl chloride: hydroxyl protecting group, selectively cleaved with fluoride ion under mild conditions.
Di-(4-chlorobenzyl)azodicarboxylate (DCAD)
recyclable and convenient alternative to diethyl azodicarboxylate (DEAD) or diisopropyl azodicarboxylate (DIAD) in
Mitsunobu reaction The Mitsunobu reaction is an organic reaction that converts an alcohol into a variety of functional groups, such as an ester, using triphenylphosphine and an azodicarboxylate such as diethyl azodicarboxylate (DEAD) or diisopropyl azodicarboxy ...
. *Ligated copper hydride. *Heterogeneous catalysts: nickel-on-charcoal, copper-on-charcoal, nickel-in-graphite, copper+nickel-on-charcoal.


Methodologies

*Higher-order organocuprates (Lipshutz cuprates). *Chiral and achiral conjugate reductions. *Catalyst development for ppm Pd-catalyzed C-C couplings in water at ambient *Use of nonionic amphiphiles for transition metal-mediated cross coupling in organic synthesis. * Low-cost synthesis of
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lipshutz, Bruce H. 1951 births Living people 21st-century American chemists Yale University alumni Harvard University staff University of California, Santa Barbara faculty Binghamton University alumni