Winner of the IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists – 2012

Alexander Spokoyny wins one of the six IUPAC Prizes for Young Chemists for his Ph.D. thesis work entitled “Synthetic Investigations Featuring Boron-Rich and Multidentate Chalcoether-Containing Ligands.”

E-mail: spokoyny@mit.edu

Academic Degrees:

  • Northwestern University, 2011, Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry

  • University of California, Los Angeles, 2005, B.S. in Chemistry

Ph.D. Thesis Title:

Synthetic Investigations Featuring Boron-Rich and Multidentate Chalcoether-Containing Ligands

Advisor:

Prof. Chad A. Mirkin

Thesis Essay: [link to full text; pdf file – 1.8MB]