Professor Vy M Dong
Vy M. Dong was born in Big Spring, Texas in 1976. She obtained a bachelor's degree in chemistry from UC Irvine where she completed an honor's thesis with Larry E. Overman. She then pursued doctoral studies in macrolide total synthesis with David W.C. MacMillan at UC Berkeley and Caltech. As an NIH postdoctoral fellow, she received training in organometallics and supramolecular chemistry with Robert G. Bergman and Kenneth N. Raymond at UC Berkeley. In July 2006, Vy began her independent career at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada. The Dong group focuses on finding new organometallic pathways to overcome challenges in synthesis and catalysis, including C-H bond functionalization, CO2 activation, and olefin elaboration. Professor Dong is a recent recipient of the Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Award for Organic Synthesis and Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.
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An Enantioselective Approach to Lactones: Design, Mechanism, and Scope
