David Crich
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21 July 1959
David Crich | |
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| Born | David Crich 21 July 1959 Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England |
| Alma mater | University of Surrey Paris-Sud University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions | |
| Doctoral advisor | Derek Barton |
David Crich (born July 21, 1959) is a British American organic chemist and a professor at the University of Georgia.[1]
He is widely known for his involvement in the development of mechanistic and synthetic organic chemistry, carbohydrate chemistry and medicinal chemistry. He has supervised over 75 doctoral students and has published over 450 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals.[2] The Crich beta-mannosylation reaction is named after him. He has made seminal contributions to understanding chemical glycosylation mechanisms.
Born in the town of Chesterfield England, Crich received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Surrey in 1981 before joining the group of Sir Derek Barton, Nobel Laureate, at the Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (ICSN) in France.[3] Under Barton, he learned free radical chemistry and was responsible for the development of the Barton decarboxylation reaction,[4][5][6] for which he was awarded the degree of Docteur es Sciences by the Université de Paris XI Paris-Sud University (Orsay) in 1984. Crich stayed at the ICSN as a postdoctoral fellow with Derek Barton and Pierre Potier from 1984 to 1985.
