UD’s Mary Watson earns national award for groundbreaking work in catalysis
Mary P. Watson, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Delaware, has been selected as the 2023 recipient of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Catalysis Lectureship for the Advancement of Catalytic Science, a prestigious honor that recognizes her research accomplishments in developing new methods to construct organic molecules.
Since 2017, when Watson’s research group published a groundbreaking discovery with a chemical tool known as deaminative cross-coupling reactions, interest in those reactions has surged worldwide, particularly among chemists working with pharmaceuticals. Before that discovery, deaminative reactions were rare and limited in use.
