Thomas R. Hoye
Jacob T. Edwards Baran Group Meeting 7/1/17 Thomas R. Hoye
Education B.S. Bucknell University, 1972 M.S. Bucknell University, 1972 (Harold W. Heine) Ph.D. Harvard University, 1976 (Robert B. Woodward) Professional Career Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, 1976 Professor, University of Minnesota, 1988 Awards and Honors Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, 1985 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Post-baccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education, 1999 Academy of Distinguished Teachers, University of Minnesota, 1999 Merck Professor of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 2002–2007, 2009–2014 Morse-Alumni Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Minnesota, 2007 Minnesota Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Chemical Sciences, ACS Minnesota Section, 2014 Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Products, American Chemical Society, 2015 Royal Society of Chemistry Robert Robinson Award, 2016 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, American Chemical Society, 2017 College of Science and Engineering Distinguished Professor, University of Minnesota
Career Snapshot
- > 200 publications
- 14 patents
- > 150 undergraduates, 14 masters students, 81 Ph.D. students, and > 40 postdocs
- Trimethyl Phosphonoacetate (EROS Article)
- Academic offspring include Bongjin Moon (Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea), Paul R.
Hanson (University of Kansas), Mark J. Kurth (UC-Davis), Christopher S. Jeffrey (University of Nevada, Reno), Dawen Niu (Sichuan University)
- Collaborators include P. Sorensen (UMN Department of Fisheries), M. Hillmyer (UMN
Department of Chemistry), C. Macoscko (UMN Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science), K. Mayo (UMN College of Biological Sciences) Top Six Most Cited Works: Determination of absolute configuration of stereogenic carbinol centers in annonaceous cetogenins by proton and fluorine 19-NMR analysis of Mosher ester derivatives, J. Am. Chem
- Soc. 1992, 114, 10203 (263 citations)
Mosher ester analysis for the determination of absolute configuration of stereogenic (chiral) carbinol carbons, Nature Protocols 2007, 2, 2451 (242 citations) Some allylic substituent effects in ring-closing metathesis reactions: Allylic alcohol activation,
- Org. Lett. 1999, 1, 1123 (167 citations)
Mixture of new sulfated steroids functions as a migratory pheromone in the sea lamprey,
- Nat. Chem. Biol. 2005, 1, 324 (153 citations)
The hexadehydro-Diels-Alder reaction, Nature, 2012, 490, 208 (149 citations) Relay ring-closing meathesis (RRCM): A strategy for directing metal movement throughout
- lefin metathesis sequences, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 10210 (141 citations)
Research Interests
Total synthesis of complex natural products, organometallic chemistry, olefin metathesis (RRCM), stereochemistry determination via NMR, No-D NMR spectroscopy, polymer synthesis, natural product structure determination, hexadehydro-Diels- Alder reaction, and more