Melanie Sanford, University of Michigan

Melanie Sanford, Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan, has received the BASF Catalysis Award for 2009 and the ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award for 2008. Recent work from the Sanford lab has appeared on the cover of JACS 2009, showing two mechanistically distinct pathways for the reductive elimination from Pd(IV) complexes to form carbon-oxygen and carbon-carbon bonds.