Professor Vy M. Dong
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology M.S. University of California at Berkeley
B.Sc. University of California at Irvine
Contact Information
Location: Davenport Building 343Phone: 416-978-6484
E-mail: vdong@chem.utoronto.ca
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto:
July 2006 to present. Research in oganic synthesis (transition metal-catalyzed transformations, enantioselective catalysis, organometallic mechanisms, and the synthesis of biologically important natural products).
National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley:
December 2003 to May 2006. Organometallic and supramolecular chemistry with Robert Bergman and Kenneth Raymond. Synthesized novel cationic Ir(III) complexes for carbon-hydrogen bond activation and investigated the molecular recognition of reactive intermediates in aqueous solution by molecular encapsulation.
Graduate Student at UC Berkeley and the California Institute of Technology:
July 1998 to October 2003. Doctoral studies in organic synthesis with David MacMillan. Developed three novel variants of the zwitterionic-Claisen rearrangement. Achieved the total synthesis of erythronolide B (a structurally complex and biologically relevant natural product) via an asymmetric Claisen cascade sequence.
Undergraduate Research Assistant at the University of California at Irvine:
June 1998. Graduated with a B.Sc. in chemistry with high honors. Undergraduate thesis on the tethered Biginelli condensation with Larry Overman.
Honors and Awards
- ACS Petroleum Research New Directions Grant (2010-2011)
- Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2009-2011) link
- Inaugural Eli Lilly Young Investigator Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2009)
- CNC-IUPAC Travel Award (2009) link
- Boehringer Ingelheim Young Investigator Award for Organic Chemistry (2008-2011) link
- Ontario Research Fund (2008-2011) link
- Connaught New Staff Matching Grant (2007)
- NSERC Discovery Grant (2007)
- Merck Frosst Young Investigator Award (2007)
- Thieme Synlett/Synthesis Journal Award (2007)
- Ruth L. Kirschstein National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship (2004-06)
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (1999-2003)
- Anna Louise Hoffman Award for Graduate Research from Iota Sigma Pi (2002)
- American Chemical Society Poster Award Winner, Pacifichem ACS Conference (2000)
- Don L. Bunker Honor’s Thesis Prize, UC Irvine, (1998)
- Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, UC Irvine (1998)
- Phi Beta Kappa (1998)
- Pfizer Organic Chemistry Fellowship (1997)
- Brookhaven National Lab Nuclear and Radiochemistry Fellowship (1997)
Invited Lectures
- Plenary Lecture, 42nd National Organic Symposium, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, June 5 to June 9, 2011
- International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (Pacifichem), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 15-20, 2010
- 4th International Forum on Homogeneous Catalysis, Kunming, China, October 7-11, 2010
- 30th Gregynog Synthesis Symposium, University of Wales, United Kingdom, Sept 24-26, 2010
- Plenary Lecture, International Symposia on Advancing the Chemical Sciences (ISACS), San Francisco, California, USA, July 6-9, 2010
- High Throughput Chemistry and Chemical Biology Gordon Research Conference, Les Diablerets, Switzerland, June 20, 2010
- Johnson & Johnson PRD, San Diego, California, USA, June 7, 2010
- ACS North East Regional Meeting, Potsdam, New York, USA, June 4, 2010
- Merck, Rahway, New Jersey, USA, April 21, 2010
- Lexicon, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, April 20, 2010
- H. C. Brown Award Symposium for Larry Overman, 239th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, March 23, 2010
- GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA, January 21, 2010
- University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, January 15, 2010
- University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, January 13, 2010
- University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, January 8, 2010
- University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA, December 9, 2009
- Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, December 4, 2009
- Merck, Westpoint, Pennsylvania, USA, December 1, 2009
- University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, November 27, 2009
- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, November 23, 2009
- Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, November 16, 2009
- Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, November 10, 2009
- University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA October 29, 2009
- University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, USA October 28, 2009
- Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois, USA, August 26, 2009
- Eli Lilly and Company, ACC Summer Seminar Series, Indianapolis, IN, USA,, August 18, 2009
- Bristol-Myers Squibb, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, USA, August 11, 2009
- NSF 40th Annual Workshop on Organic Synthesis, Gold Lake, Colorado, USA, June 4-7, 2009
- University of Wisconsin–Madison, Eli Lilly Young Investigator Lecture, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, May 12, 2009
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, April 29, 2009
- Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Shanghai, China, April 21, 2009
- Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China, April 20, 2009
- University of Texas, Arlington, Texas, USA, February 6, 2009
- Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA, February 4, 2009
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA, February 3, 2009
- University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, January 7, 2009
- Merck Frosst, Montreal, Quebec, December 4, 2008
- Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, November 21, 2008
- Amgen, San Francisco, California, USA, November 13, 2008
- Foster Colloquia's Student-Invited Speaker, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA, October 31, 2008
- Pfizer Symposium at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, October 1, 2008
- Boehringer Ingelheim R&D, Laval, Quebec, September 18, 2008
- AstraZeneca R&D, Montreal, Quebec, September 2, 2008
- Catalytic Transformations at C-H Bonds Symposium, 91st CSC, Edmonton, Alberta, May 26, 2008
- Ninth Organic Workshop for Leading, Young Canadian Chemists, Hinton, Alberta, May 21-23, 2008
- Celebrating Bioinorganic, Supramolecular, Lanthanide and Actinide Chemistry with Ken Raymond, 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, April 7, 2008
- Physical Sciences Colloquium, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, November 2007
- Spring Reunion, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, June 2007
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