Eric Jacobsen
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Eric N. Jacobsen (born February 22, 1960, New York, NY) is the Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. He is a prominent figure in the field of organic chemistry and is best known for the development of the Jacobsen epoxidation.
Jacobsen attended New York University and the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D., 1986) before doing his postdoctoral studies in the laboratory of Barry Sharpless, then of MIT.
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Jacobsen has developed catalysts for asymmetric epoxidation, hydrolytic kinetic resolution and desymmetrization of epoxides, asymmetric pericyclic reactions, and asymmetric additions to imines.
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