Suzanne Blum

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Suzanne A. Blum
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.
University of Michigan B.S.
Scientific career
Fields Organic chemistry

Organometallic chemistry

Catalysis

Mechanistic chemistry

Fluorescence microscopy
Doctoral advisor Robert G. Bergman
Other academic advisors Christopher T. Walsh
Edwin Vedejs
Website https://blumgroupuci.squarespace.com

Suzanne A. Blum is an American professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. Blum works on mechanistic chemistry, most recently focusing on borylation reactions and the development of single-molecule and single-particle fluorescence microscopy to study organic chemistry and catalysis. She received the American Chemical Society's Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award in 2023. [1]

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Education

Blum studied chemistry as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan. She participated in multiple teaching and research projects, winning outstanding American Chemical Society student chapter, the UM Alumni Leadership award, and a National Science Foundation fellowship to attend graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a PhD working with Robert G. Bergman. [2] Blum published multiple first-author papers and received teaching awards throughout her tenure at the University of California, Berkeley. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School in 2006. [3]

Research

Prof. Blum began her independent research career in 2006 at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Blum’s research focuses on the development and mechanistic study of reactions in organic, organometallic, catalytic, and materials chemistry, and on monitoring reaction intermediates by a combination of traditional spectroscopy and fluorescence microscopy methods. While many of her initial independent research publications were based on activated complexes of gold or palladium catalysts, [4] she has more recently focused on borylation reactions to make advanced oxygen-, nitrogen-, or sulfur-containing heterocycles, [5] amenable to pharmaceutical and agricultural derivation. Since starting her independent career, Blum developed single-molecule and single-particle techniques, often borrowed from biological or physical contexts, to study chemical processes, including to observe intermediates in "classical" reactions. [6] [7] [8] Blum was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2017 for distinguished contributions to molecular chemistry, particularly for the development of synthetic methods and of fluorescence microscopy tools to study chemical processes. [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 "ACS 2023 National Award winners". cen.acs.org. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  2. ↑ Marino, J.P. (2000). "University of Michigan Chemistry Newsletter" (PDF). Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Professor Blum". University of California, Irvine. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
  4. ↑ Hirner, Joshua J.; Shi, Yili; Blum, Suzanne A. (2011). "Organogold Reactivity with Palladium, Nickel, and Rhodium: Transmetalation, Cross-Coupling, and Dual Catalysis". Accounts of Chemical Research. 44 (8): 603–613. doi:10.1021/ar200055y. ISSN   0001-4842. PMID   21644576.
  5. ↑ Issaian, Adena; Tu, Kim N.; Blum, Suzanne A. (2017). "Boron–Heteroatom Addition Reactions via Borylative Heterocyclization: Oxyboration, Aminoboration, and Thioboration". Accounts of Chemical Research. 50 (10): 2598–2609. doi:10.1021/acs.accounts.7b00365. ISSN   0001-4842. PMID   28933550.
  6. ↑ Cordes, Thorben; Blum, Suzanne A. (2013). "Opportunities and challenges in single-molecule and single-particle fluorescence microscopy for mechanistic studies of chemical reactions". Nature Chemistry. 5 (12): 993–999. doi:10.1038/nchem.1800. ISSN   1755-4349. PMID   24256861.
  7. ↑ Hanada, Erin M.; Tagawa, Tristen Kazumasa Soriano; Kawada, Masamu; Blum, Suzanne A. (2022-07-13). "Reactivity Differences of Rieke Zinc Arise Primarily from Salts in the Supernatant, Not in the Solids". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144 (27): 12081–12091. doi:10.1021/jacs.2c02471. ISSN   0002-7863. PMC   9970556 . PMID   35767838. S2CID   250146552.
  8. ↑ Eivgi, Or; Blum, Suzanne A. (2022). "Real-Time Polymer Viscosity–Catalytic Activity Relationships on the Microscale". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144 (30): 13574–13585. doi:10.1021/jacs.2c03711. ISSN   0002-7863. PMID   35866383. S2CID   250954171.
  9. ↑ "10 faculty honored as AAAS fellows". UCI Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor. 2017-11-20. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
  10. ↑ "Prof. Dr. Suzanne Blum". www.humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved 2022-11-08.
  11. ↑ "Suzanne Blum named JSPS fellow | UCI Department of Chemistry". www.chem.uci.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-08.
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