Grant Frost

Time in the Lab

Summer 2012–Fall 2018

Education & Experience

Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2018)

Thesis: Organic Reaction Selectivity via Metal-Catalysis: Discovery, Development, and Mechanistic Analysis of Nitrile, Ester, Arene, Azide, and Alkene Transformations 

B.S. Chemistry, University of Saint Thomas (2011)

Advisor: J. Thomas Ippoliti

Douglas Group Publications

Chemoselectivity for Alkene Cleavage by Palladium‐Catalyzed Intramolecular Diazo Group Transfer from Azide to Alkene. Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 1727–1732.

Integrating Metal-Catalyzed C–H and C–O Functionalization To Achieve Sterically Controlled Regioselectivity in Arene Acylation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 10025–10033.

Mechanistic Model for Enantioselective Intramolecular Alkene Cyanoamidation via Palladium-Catalyzed C–CN Bond Activation. J. Org. Chem. 2017, 82, 3721–3726.