Bringing Efficiency to Materials Synthesis: The Philosophy of Click Chemistry

Craig J. Hawker; Valery V. Fokin; M. G. Finn; K. Barry Sharpless

doi:10.1071/CH07107

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Bringing Efficiency to Materials Synthesis: The Philosophy of Click Chemistry

Craig J. Hawker ^A ^C , Valery V. Fokin ^B , M. G. Finn ^B and K. Barry Sharpless ^B

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^A Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.

^B Department of Chemistry and the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, BCC-315 10550 N Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.

^C Corresponding author. Email: hawker@mrl.ucsb.edu

Craig J. Hawker, Ph.D., is currently Director of the Materials Research Laboratory and a Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received a B.Sc. from the University of Queensland in 1984, a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1988 (Professor Sir Alan Battersby), and undertook a post-doctoral fellowship with Professor Jean Fréchet at Cornell University. He has been honored with numerous awards including the 2005 ACS Award in Applied Polymer Science, 2005 Dutch Polymer Award, and the 2007 Hermann Mark Scholar Award. Professor Hawker is also Editor of the Journal of Polymer Science: Polymer Chemistry.

Australian Journal of Chemistry 60(6) 381-383 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH07107
Submitted: 14 April 2007 Accepted: 19 April 2007 Published: 18 June 2007

Acknowledgment

Financial support from the NSF MRSEC Program DMR-0520415 (MRL-UCSB) and NSF Chemistry Program (CHE-0514031) is gratefully acknowledged.

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