Donna Blackmond was born on April 19,1958 and is an American chemical engineer and the John C Martin Endowed Chair in Chemistry at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California.
11 Facts About Donna Blackmond
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Donna Blackmond's research focuses on prebiotic chemistry, the origin of biological homochirality, and kinetics and mechanisms of asymmetric catalytic reactions.
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Donna Blackmond is known for her development of Reaction Progress Kinetic Analysis, analysis of non-linear effects of catalyst enantiopurity, biological homochirality, and amino acid behavior.
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Donna Blackmond attended the University of Pittsburgh and received her undergraduate and master's degrees in chemical engineering in 1980 and 1981 respectively.
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Donna Blackmond became a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Pittsburgh shortly after graduating and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 1989.
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Donna Blackmond was a research group leader at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Kohlenforschung in Mulheim an-der-Ruhr, Germany, professor and chair of physical chemistry at the University of Hull in Kingston-upon-Hull, UK, and professor of chemistry and chemical engineering and chair in Catalysis at Imperial College London, UK.
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Donna Blackmond has pioneered the methodology of Reaction Progress Kinetic Analysis, which is used for rapid determination of concentration dependences of reactants.
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Donna Blackmond has performed studies that have led to an understanding of reaction rate and its relationship to catalyst ee.
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Donna Blackmond was the first to use Kagan's ML2 model to study the non-linear effects of this reaction.
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Donna Blackmond was the first to conclude that a homochiral dimer was the active catalyst in promoting homochirality for the Soai reaction.
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Donna Blackmond has shown solutions of mostly enantiopure amino acids can be produced from nearly racemic mixtures via solution-solid partitioning of the enantiomers.