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American organic chemist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Seble-Hiwot Wagaw is an American organic chemist who is a senior leader at AbbVie pharmaceuticals outside Chicago, IL.[1]
Wagaw was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and emigrated to the United States in 1974.[2] Her father, Teshome Gebremichael Wagaw, was a faculty member at the University of Michigan for 28 years, and her mother is Tsehai Wolde-Tsadik.[3] She is one of three children, with an older brother and sister.[4] She received her Bachelor's and MS degrees in Chemistry from the University of Michigan in 1994, and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry with Stephen L. Buchwald at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999.[5] Her research in the Buchwald lab utilized chiral complexes of Palladium to forge new carbon-nitrogen bonds on Aryl rings.[6]
As a Senior Director for process research and R&D at Abbott Laboratories (later AbbVie) for her entire career, Wagaw has published research on enantiomerically enriched lead molecules using Pybox ligands.[7] She has led exploration into new technologies for her process group, including explorations of flow chemistry and commercial-scale electrochemistry.[8]
She is on the advisory board for Asymchem and co-founded the Cross-industry Women's chemical process group.[5]
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