Professor Mary Watson grew up in Tampa Bay, Florida and completed her A.B. in Chemistry at Harvard University. She received undergraduate research experience with Prof. Kenneth Wagener and Prof. David Evans. After her undergrad, she moved to UC Irvine for graduate school and her advisor was Prof. Larry Overman, working on the development of Pd(II)-catalyzed asymmetric allylic imidate rearrangement. Following her postdoctoral work with Prof. Eric Jabobsen on Ni-catalyzed olefin arylcyanation via C-CN bond activation at Harvard, she is now a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Delaware. Her group researches stereospecific cross-couplings of amine- and alcohol-derived electrophiles and enantioselective, copper-catalyzed additions to cationic intermediate ions. She is also a co-organizer of the annual Empowering Women in Organic Chemistry conference (EWOC).

For more about Prof. Watson and her group: https://sites.udel.edu/mpwatson-lab/

Twitter: @MPWatsonLab

To stay up-to-date with EWOC (and their 2023 national conference coming in June 2023):

https://ewochem.org/

Houston EWOC Chapter Contact: EWOCTX@ewochem.org

Twitter: @EWOC8

Houston Twitter: @SpaceCityEWOC

Article about women in Process Chem:

Ruck, Rebecca T.; Faul, Margaret M. (2019-02-15). "Gender Diversity in Process Chemistry". Organic Process Research & Development. 23 (2): 109–113. doi:10.1021/acs.oprd.8b00378

Article about women in Med Chem:

Medicinal Chemistry: Where are all the women? D.M. Huryn, M.L. Bolognesi, W.B. Young, ACS Med Chem. Lett. 2017, 8, 900-902

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