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Eric V. Anslyn (born June 9, 1960, Santa Monica, California) is an American chemist , University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin.[1] He previously held the Norman Hackerman Professorship[citation needed]. Anslyn is co-author of Modern Physical Organic Chemistry, an introductory graduate textbook.[2]
Eric Anslyn | |
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| Born | Eric Van Anslyn June 9, 1960 |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology |
| Awards | Centenary Prize, Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physical organic chemistry |
| Institutions | The University of Texas at Austin |
| Thesis | Mechanistic, Synthetic and Theoretical Studies of High Valent Metallacycles and metal Alkylidenes (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Grubbs |
Anslyn is notable for his work in developing designed receptors and sensor arrays by incorporating principal component analysis and discriminant analysis to mimic human taste and smell.[3][4][5] Prof. Anslyn developed a colorimetric sensor to distinguish flavonoids (hydrolysis products of tannins) between varietals of red wines. An analogous colorimetric sensor was developed to mimic human taste by positioning polymer microbeads on a silicon chip.[citation needed] In related research, Prof. Anslyn designed a fluorometric chemical sensor consisting of a light-tight lego box and a smart phone to detect nerve agents such as VX and sarin.[6]
Anslyn received one of the American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards awarded in 2006 for his research in pattern recognition and supramolecular chemistry[7] and the Izatt-Christensen Award in Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry in 2013.[8]
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- Postdoctoral Work: [12/87-9/89] Columbia University, Research Advisor: Ronald Breslow
Research: Mechanistic studies of ribonuclease A mimics. Detailed kinetics analyses of imidazole catalyzed 3'→5' UpU hydrolysis and isomerization. Synthesis and kinetics studies of bis-imidazole β-cyclodextrin catalyzed phosphodiester hydrolyses.
- Ph.D., Chemistry: [11/87] California Institute of Technology, Research Advisor: Robert H. Grubbs
Research: Mechanistic and theoretical studies of olefin metathesis and ring-opening metathesis polymerizations catalyzed by group IV and VI metals.
- B.S., Chemistry: [5/82] California State University, Northridge
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