Biography:Suzanne Blum

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Short description: American organometallic chemistry professor


Suzanne A. Blum
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.
University of Michigan B.S.
Scientific career
FieldsOrganic chemistry

Organometallic chemistry

Catalysis

Mechanistic chemistry

Fluorescence microscopy
Doctoral advisorRobert G. Bergman
Other academic advisorsChristopher T. Walsh
Edwin Vedejs
Websitehttps://blumgroupuci.squarespace.com

Suzanne A. Blum is an American professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. Blum works on mechanistic chemistry, most recently focusing on borylation reactions and the development of single-molecule and single-particle fluorescence microscopy to study organic chemistry and catalysis. She received the American Chemical Society's Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award in 2023.[1]

Education

Blum studied chemistry as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan. She participated in multiple teaching and research projects, winning outstanding American Chemical Society student chapter, the UM Alumni Leadership award, and a National Science Foundation fellowship to attend graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a PhD working with Robert G. Bergman.[2] Blum published multiple first-author papers and received teaching awards throughout her tenure at the University of California, Berkeley. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School in 2006.[3]

Research

Prof. Blum began her independent research career in 2006 at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Blum’s research focuses on the development and mechanistic study of reactions in organic, organometallic, catalytic, and materials chemistry, and on monitoring reaction intermediates by a combination of traditional spectroscopy and fluorescence microscopy methods. While many of her initial independent research publications were based on activated complexes of gold or palladium catalysts,[4] she has more recently focused on borylation reactions to make advanced oxygen-, nitrogen-, or sulfur-containing heterocycles,[5] amenable to pharmaceutical and agricultural derivation. Since starting her independent career, Blum developed single-molecule and single-particle techniques, often borrowed from biological or physical contexts, to study chemical processes, including to observe intermediates in "classical" reactions.[6][7][8] Blum was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2017 for distinguished contributions to molecular chemistry, particularly for the development of synthetic methods and of fluorescence microscopy tools to study chemical processes.[9]

Awards

  • 2023: Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (American Chemical Society)[1]
  • 2018: University of California, Irvine Physical Science Outstanding Contributions to the Undergraduate Education[3]
  • 2017: Fellow of the AAAS
  • 2013-2016: Humboldt Fellowship[10]
  • 2013: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship[11]
  • 2008: NSF CAREER Award
  • 2005-2006: National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "ACS 2023 National Award winners". https://cen.acs.org/people/awards/ACS-2023-National-Award-winners/100/i32. 
  2. ↑ Marino, J.P. (2000). "University of Michigan Chemistry Newsletter". https://lsa.umich.edu/content/dam/chem-assets/chem-docs/00newsletter.pdf. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Professor Blum" (in en-US). https://blumgroupuci.squarespace.com/professor-blum. 
  4. ↑ Hirner, Joshua J.; Shi, Yili; Blum, Suzanne A. (2011). "Organogold Reactivity with Palladium, Nickel, and Rhodium: Transmetalation, Cross-Coupling, and Dual Catalysis" (in en). Accounts of Chemical Research 44 (8): 603–613. doi:10.1021/ar200055y. ISSN 0001-4842. PMID 21644576. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ar200055y. 
  5. ↑ Issaian, Adena; Tu, Kim N.; Blum, Suzanne A. (2017). "Boron–Heteroatom Addition Reactions via Borylative Heterocyclization: Oxyboration, Aminoboration, and Thioboration" (in en). Accounts of Chemical Research 50 (10): 2598–2609. doi:10.1021/acs.accounts.7b00365. ISSN 0001-4842. PMID 28933550. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.accounts.7b00365. 
  6. ↑ Cordes, Thorben; Blum, Suzanne A. (2013). "Opportunities and challenges in single-molecule and single-particle fluorescence microscopy for mechanistic studies of chemical reactions" (in en). Nature Chemistry 5 (12): 993–999. doi:10.1038/nchem.1800. ISSN 1755-4349. PMID 24256861. https://www.nature.com/articles/nchem.1800. 
  7. ↑ Hanada, Erin M.; Tagawa, Tristen Kazumasa Soriano; Kawada, Masamu; Blum, Suzanne A. (2022-07-13). "Reactivity Differences of Rieke Zinc Arise Primarily from Salts in the Supernatant, Not in the Solids" (in en). Journal of the American Chemical Society 144 (27): 12081–12091. doi:10.1021/jacs.2c02471. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 35767838. PMC 9970556. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.2c02471. 
  8. ↑ Eivgi, Or; Blum, Suzanne A. (2022). "Real-Time Polymer Viscosity–Catalytic Activity Relationships on the Microscale" (in en). Journal of the American Chemical Society 144 (30): 13574–13585. doi:10.1021/jacs.2c03711. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 35866383. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.2c03711. 
  9. ↑ "10 faculty honored as AAAS fellows" (in en-US). 2017-11-20. https://provost.uci.edu/2017/11/20/10-faculty-honored-aaas-fellows/. 
  10. ↑ "Prof. Dr. Suzanne Blum" (in en). https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/vernetzen/recherche-im-humboldt-netzwerk/einzelansicht?tx_rsmavhsolr_solrview%5BpPersonId%5D=1153823&cHash=220af6898be9e00caf131b97eb00d361. 
  11. ↑ "Suzanne Blum named JSPS fellow | UCI Department of Chemistry". https://www.chem.uci.edu/news/9089. 



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