Speaker: Marvin Parasram, Assistant Professor, New York University
Title: Anaerobic Heteroatom Transfer Reactions Promoted by Photoexcited 1,3-Dipoles
Host: David Nagib
Marvin Parasram was born and raised in The Bronx, New York. He received his B.S. in Chemistry in 2010 from Stony Brook University. Later that year, he joined Prof. Vladimir Gevorgyan’s group at the University of Illinois at Chicago for his doctoral studies, where he was involved in developing novel Pd-catalyzed synthetic methodologies. In 2017, he joined Prof. Abigail G. Doyle’s Group at Princeton University as an NIH Postdoctoral Scholar, where he worked on Ni/Photoredox catalyzed methods. In Fall 2020, he began his independent career as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at New York University.