Cathleen Crudden

Cathleen M. Crudden is a Canadian chemist. She is a Canada Research Chair in Metal Organic Chemistry at Queen's University at Kingston.

Cathleen Crudden
CitizenshipCanadian
Alma materUniversity of Toronto University of Ottawa
Known forCatalysis

Chiral materials
Organometallic chemistry
Hydroboration
Materials

N-Heterocyclic Carbenes
Scientific career
Fieldschemistry
InstitutionsQueen's University

Nagoya University (ITbM)
University of New Brunswick

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Doctoral advisorHoward Alper
Other academic advisorsMark Lautens
Scott E. Denmark
Websitecruddengroup.com

Education

Crudden earned a Bachelors of Science at the University of Toronto in 1989, working with Mark Lautens, with whom she went on to complete her master's degree.[1] She moved to University of Ottawa for her PhD, working under the supervision of Howard Alper, which she completed in 1995.[2]

Research and career

Crudden was appointed a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council postdoctoral fellow at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign working with Scott E. Denmark in 1995.[1] She moved to University of New Brunswick in 1996 where she started her own research group.[3] In 2002, she was appointed a Queen's National Scholar and moved her research lab to Kingston, Ontario.

Crudden was the first to identify an enantiospecific Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction of chiral boranes.[4] In 2014 she designed more stable nitrogen-based self-assembled monolayer treatments for metal surfaces.[5][6] The N-heterocyclic carbene self-assembled monolayers can be used in a range of applications, including biosensors.[7] Her interests lie in hydroboration, organometallic chemistry, chiral materials and persistent carbenes.[8] In 2010 Crudden became head of a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council CREATE award in chiral materials, worth $1.6 million.[9] She became President of the Canadian Society of Chemistry.[10]

In 2015 she, as Principal Investigator of a group of ten collaborators, was awarded $8.8 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation for major infrastructure purchases.[11] She won the Queen's University Research Opportunities Fund, which she used to create inexpensive, sensitive biosensors.[12] Her group prepares carbon-based ligands for metal surfaces, which can be used as sensing systems based on surface plasmon resonance.[12] In 2016, she and Dr. Suning Wang held a trilateral Canada-Japan-Germany symposium at Queen's looking at Elements Functions for Transformative Catalysis and Materials.[13] Crudden is a joint Professor at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, based out of Nagoya University in Japan, where she runs a satellite lab. She is one of only four international collaborators at this Institute.[14][15] She was recognised as having made the most distinguished contribution to the field of catalysis by the Chemical Institute of Canada in 2018, when they awarded her the Catalysis Award.[15] Crudden also often comments on developments in the field of organic chemistry in various media outlets.[16][17][18][19][20]

Awards

References
  1. "Curriculum Vitae | The Crudden Group". www.cruddengroup.com. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
  2. Crudden, Cathleen M.; Alper, Howard (1994-06-01). "The regioselective hydroformylation of vinylsilanes. A remarkable difference in the selectivity and reactivity of cobalt, rhodium, and iridium catalysts". The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 59 (11): 3091–3097. doi:10.1021/jo00090a029. ISSN 0022-3263.
  3. "Biography | The Crudden Group". www.cruddengroup.com. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
  4. Imao, Daisuke; Glasspoole, Ben W.; Laberge, Véronique S.; Crudden, Cathleen M. (2009-04-15). "Cross Coupling Reactions of Chiral Secondary Organoboronic Esters With Retention of Configuration". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131 (14): 5024–5025. doi:10.1021/ja8094075. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 19301820.
  5. "Carbenes beat thiols for robust monolayers". Chemistry World. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  6. Ritter, Stephen K. "Self-Assembled Makeover | March 31, 2014 Issue - Vol. 92 Issue 13 | Chemical & Engineering News". cen.acs.org. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  7. Crudden, Cathleen M.; Horton, J. Hugh; Ebralidze, Iraklii I.; Zenkina, Olena V.; McLean, Alastair B.; Drevniok, Benedict; She, Zhe; Kraatz, Heinz-Bernhard; Mosey, Nicholas J. (May 2014). "Ultra stable self-assembled monolayers of N-heterocyclic carbenes on gold". Nature Chemistry. 6 (5): 409–414. doi:10.1038/nchem.1891. ISSN 1755-4349.
  8. "Crudden, Cathleen | Department of Chemistry". www.chem.queensu.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  9. "CREATE Chiral Materials". faculty.chem.queensu.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  10. "Cathleen Crudden, FCIC | The Chemical Institute of Canada". www.cheminst.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  11. "Province injects $16 million into Queen's research". www.queensu.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  12. "2016 QROF Recipients | Office of the Vice-Principal (Research)". www.queensu.ca. Archived from the original on 2018-03-21. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  13. "Canada-Japan-Germany joint symposium | Office of the Vice-Principal (Research)". www.queensu.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  14. "Cathleen M. Crudden | WPI World Premier International Research Center Initiative: Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, Nagoya University". www.itbm.nagoya-u.ac.jp. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  15. "Catalysis Award | The Chemical Institute of Canada". www.cheminst.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  16. Owens, Brian (2019-10-22). "Canadian scientists relieved as Trudeau ekes out election win". Nature. 574: 606–606. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-03208-w.
  17. "Automating synthesis from planning to execution". Chemical & Engineering News. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
  18. Wogan2017-01-11T12:10:00+00:00, Tim. "Earth-abundant metal catalyst activation made simple". Chemistry World. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
  19. Linda Wang. "Foreign students and postdocs in U.S. worry about the future | March 7, 2017 Issue - Vol. 95 Issue 11 | Chemical & Engineering News". cen.acs.org. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
  20. Tien Nguyen. "Sulfones expand the reach of radical cross-couplings | January 8, 2018 Issue - Vol. 96 Issue 2 | Chemical & Engineering News". cen.acs.org. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
  21. "Four professors receive one of the highest Canadian academic honours". Queen's Gazette | Queen's University. 2020-09-08. Retrieved 2020-09-10.
  22. Loock, Peter (2019-02-11). "Congratulations to Cathy Crudden (@cathleencrudden) for winning the 2019 Montréal Medal! "The Montréal Medal is presented as a mark of distinction and honour to a resident of Canada for an outstanding contribution to the profession of chemistry or chemical engineering in Canada."". @Peter_Loock. Retrieved 2019-02-12.
  23. "ACS 2019 Award Winners". cen.acs.org. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  24. "In Conversation with the Prizes for Excellence in Research Recipients, April 3 | Office of the Vice-Principal (Research)". www.queensu.ca. Archived from the original on 2018-03-23. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  25. "IPMI Scholarship and Awards Programs - International Precious Metals Institute (IPMI)". www.ipmi.org. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  26. "Dr. Cathleen Crudden received the 2017 R.U. Lemieux Award of the CSC | Department of Chemistry". www.chem.queensu.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  27. "R. U. Lemieux Award". www.cscorgdiv.ca. Archived from the original on 2018-03-23. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
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