Cathleen Crudden
{{short description|Canadian chemist}}
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| workplaces = Queen's University
Nagoya University (ITbM)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
| alma_mater = University of Toronto
| doctoral_advisor = Howard Alper
| academic_advisors = Mark Lautens
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Chiral materials
Organometallic chemistry
Hydroboration
Materials
N-Heterocyclic Carbenes
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Cathleen M. Crudden is a Canadian chemist. She is a Canada Research Chair in Metal Organic Chemistry at Queen's University at Kingston. In February 2021, she took up the role of Editor-in-chief at ACS Catalysis.{{cite web |title=Cathleen Crudden to lead ACS Catalysis as editor-in-chief |url=https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2021/february/cathleen-crudden-to-lead-acs-catalysis-as-editor-in-chief.html |website=acs.org |access-date=16 March 2022}}
Education
Crudden earned a Bachelors of Science at the University of Toronto in 1989, working with Mark Lautens, with whom she went on to complete her master's degree.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cruddengroup.com/the-boss/curriculum-vitae/|title=Curriculum Vitae {{!}} The Crudden Group|website=www.cruddengroup.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-21}} She moved to University of Ottawa for her PhD, working under the supervision of Howard Alper, which she completed in 1995.{{Cite journal|last1=Crudden|first1=Cathleen M.|last2=Alper|first2=Howard|date=1994-06-01|title=The regioselective hydroformylation of vinylsilanes. A remarkable difference in the selectivity and reactivity of cobalt, rhodium, and iridium catalysts|journal=The Journal of Organic Chemistry|volume=59|issue=11|pages=3091–3097|doi=10.1021/jo00090a029|issn=0022-3263}}
Research and career
Crudden was appointed a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council postdoctoral fellow at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign working with Scott E. Denmark in 1995. She moved to University of New Brunswick in 1996 where she started her own research group.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cruddengroup.com/the-boss/biography/|title=Biography {{!}} The Crudden Group|website=www.cruddengroup.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-21}} In 2002, she was appointed a Queen's National Scholar and moved her research lab to Kingston, Ontario.
Crudden was the first to identify an enantiospecific Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction of chiral boranes.{{Cite journal|last1=Imao|first1=Daisuke|last2=Glasspoole|first2=Ben W.|last3=Laberge|first3=Véronique S.|last4=Crudden|first4=Cathleen M.|date=2009-04-15|title=Cross Coupling Reactions of Chiral Secondary Organoboronic Esters With Retention of Configuration|journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society|volume=131|issue=14|pages=5024–5025|doi=10.1021/ja8094075|pmid=19301820|bibcode=2009JAChS.131.5024I |issn=0002-7863}} In 2014 she designed more stable nitrogen-based self-assembled monolayer treatments for metal surfaces.{{Cite news|url=https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/carbenes-beat-thiols-for-robust-monolayers/7211.article|title=Carbenes beat thiols for robust monolayers|work=Chemistry World|access-date=2018-03-22}}{{Cite web|url=https://cen.acs.org/articles/92/i13/Self-Assembled-Makeover.html|title=Self-Assembled Makeover {{!}} March 31, 2014 Issue - Vol. 92 Issue 13 {{!}} Chemical & Engineering News|last=Ritter|first=Stephen K.|website=cen.acs.org|access-date=2018-03-22}} The N-heterocyclic carbene self-assembled monolayers can be used in a range of applications, including biosensors.{{Cite journal|last1=Crudden|first1=Cathleen M.|last2=Horton|first2=J. Hugh|last3=Ebralidze|first3=Iraklii I.|last4=Zenkina|first4=Olena V.|last5=McLean|first5=Alastair B.|last6=Drevniok|first6=Benedict|last7=She|first7=Zhe|last8=Kraatz|first8=Heinz-Bernhard|last9=Mosey|first9=Nicholas J.|date=May 2014|title=Ultra stable self-assembled monolayers of N-heterocyclic carbenes on gold|journal=Nature Chemistry|volume=6|issue=5|pages=409–414|doi=10.1038/nchem.1891|pmid=24755592 |bibcode=2014NatCh...6..409C |issn=1755-4349}} Her interests lie in hydroboration, organometallic chemistry, chiral materials and persistent carbenes.{{Cite web|url=https://www.chem.queensu.ca/crudden-cathleen|title=Crudden, Cathleen {{!}} Department of Chemistry|website=www.chem.queensu.ca|access-date=2018-03-22}} In 2010 Crudden became head of a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council CREATE award in chiral materials, worth $1.6 million.{{Cite web|url=http://faculty.chem.queensu.ca/create/people.html|title=CREATE Chiral Materials|website=faculty.chem.queensu.ca|access-date=2018-03-22}} She became President of the Canadian Society of Chemistry.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cheminst.ca/awards/catalysis-award/cathleen-crudden-fcic|title=Cathleen Crudden, FCIC {{!}} The Chemical Institute of Canada|website=www.cheminst.ca|access-date=2018-03-22}}
In 2015, as Principal Investigator of a group of ten collaborators, Crudden was awarded $8.8 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation for major infrastructure purchases.{{Cite web|url=https://www.queensu.ca/gazette/stories/province-injects-16-million-queen-s-research|title=Province injects $16 million into Queen's research|website=www.queensu.ca|access-date=2018-03-22}} She won the Queen's University Research Opportunities Fund, which she used to create inexpensive, sensitive biosensors.{{Cite web|url=http://www.queensu.ca/vpr/queens-research-opportunities-funds/2016-qrof-recipients|title=2016 QROF Recipients {{!}} Office of the Vice-Principal (Research)|website=www.queensu.ca|access-date=2018-03-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321135451/http://www.queensu.ca/vpr/queens-research-opportunities-funds/2016-qrof-recipients|archive-date=2018-03-21|url-status=dead}} Her group prepares carbon-based ligands for metal surfaces, which can be used as sensing systems based on surface plasmon resonance. In 2016, she and Dr. Suning Wang held a trilateral Canada-Japan-Germany symposium at Queen's looking at Elements Functions for Transformative Catalysis and Materials.{{Cite web|url=http://www.queensu.ca/vpr/canada-japan-germany-joint-symposium|title=Canada-Japan-Germany joint symposium {{!}} Office of the Vice-Principal (Research)|website=www.queensu.ca|access-date=2018-03-22}} Crudden is a joint Professor at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, based out of Nagoya University in Japan, where she runs a satellite lab. She is one of only four international collaborators at this Institute.{{Cite web|url=http://www.itbm.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/members/c-crudden/|title=Cathleen M. Crudden {{!}} WPI World Premier International Research Center Initiative: Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, Nagoya University|website=www.itbm.nagoya-u.ac.jp|access-date=2018-03-22}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.cheminst.ca/awards/cic-awards/catalysis-award|title=Catalysis Award {{!}} The Chemical Institute of Canada|website=www.cheminst.ca|access-date=2018-03-22}} She was recognised as having made the most distinguished contribution to the field of catalysis by the Chemical Institute of Canada in 2018, when they awarded her the Catalysis Award. Crudden also often comments on developments in the field of organic chemistry in various media outlets.{{Cite journal|last=Owens|first=Brian|date=2019-10-22|title=Canadian scientists relieved as Trudeau ekes out election win|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=574|pages=606| issue=7780| doi=10.1038/d41586-019-03208-w|pmid=31664199 |doi-access=free|bibcode=2019Natur.574..606O }}{{Cite web|url=https://cen.acs.org/synthesis/Automating-synthesis-planning-execution/97/i32|title=Automating synthesis from planning to execution|website=Chemical & Engineering News|language=en|access-date=2020-02-09}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/earth-abundant-metal-catalyst-activation-made-simple/2500239.article|title=Earth-abundant metal catalyst activation made simple|last=Wogan2017-01-11T12:10:00+00:00|first=Tim|website=Chemistry World|language=en|access-date=2020-02-09}}{{Cite web|url=https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i11/Foreign-students-postdocs-US-worry-about-the-future.html|title=Foreign students and postdocs in U.S. worry about the future {{!}} March 7, 2017 Issue - Vol. 95 Issue 11 {{!}} Chemical & Engineering News|last=Linda Wang|website=cen.acs.org|access-date=2020-02-09}}{{Cite web|url=https://cen.acs.org/articles/96/i2/Sulfones-expand-reach-radical-cross.html|title=Sulfones expand the reach of radical cross-couplings {{!}} January 8, 2018 Issue - Vol. 96 Issue 2 {{!}} Chemical & Engineering News|last=Tien Nguyen|website=cen.acs.org|access-date=2020-02-09}}
= Awards =
- 2022 Alfred Bader Award{{Cite web |title=Alfred Bader Award |url=https://www.cheminst.ca/awards/csc/bader/ |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=The Chemical Institute of Canada |language=en-CA}}
- 2020 Royal Society of Canada{{Cite web|date=2020-09-08|title=Four professors receive one of the highest Canadian academic honours|url=https://www.queensu.ca/gazette/stories/four-professors-receive-one-highest-canadian-academic-honours|access-date=2020-09-10|website=Queen's Gazette {{!}} Queen's University|language=en}}
- 2019 Montreal Medal{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/Peter_Loock/status/1095072935889510400|title=Congratulations to Cathy Crudden (@cathleencrudden) for winning the 2019 Montréal Medal! "The Montréal Medal is presented as a mark of distinction and honour to a resident of Canada for an outstanding contribution to the profession of chemistry or chemical engineering in Canada."|last=Loock|first=Peter|date=2019-02-11|website=@Peter_Loock|language=en|access-date=2019-02-12}}
- 2019 American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award{{Cite web|url=https://cen.acs.org/acs-news/programs/ACS-2019-national-award-winners/96/i37|title=ACS 2019 Award Winners|website=cen.acs.org|access-date=2018-09-17}}
- 2018 Queen's University prize for Excellence in Research{{Cite web|url=http://www.queensu.ca/vpr/conversation-prizes-excellence-research-recipients-april-3|title=In Conversation with the Prizes for Excellence in Research Recipients, April 3 {{!}} Office of the Vice-Principal (Research)|website=www.queensu.ca|access-date=2018-03-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323092407/http://www.queensu.ca/vpr/conversation-prizes-excellence-research-recipients-april-3|archive-date=2018-03-23|url-status=dead}}
- 2018 Chemical Institute of Canada Catalysis Award
- 2018 Precious Metal Institute Carol Tyler Award{{Cite web|url=https://www.ipmi.org/?page=AwardPrograms|title=IPMI Scholarship and Awards Programs - International Precious Metals Institute (IPMI)|website=www.ipmi.org|access-date=2018-03-22}}
- 2017 Canadian Society for Chemistry R.U. Lemieux Award{{Cite web|url=https://www.chem.queensu.ca/dr-cathleen-crudden-received-2017-ru-lemieux-award-csc|title=Dr. Cathleen Crudden received the 2017 R.U. Lemieux Award of the CSC {{!}} Department of Chemistry|website=www.chem.queensu.ca|access-date=2018-03-22}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.cscorgdiv.ca/award-winners/r-u-lemieux-award.html|title=R. U. Lemieux Award|website=www.cscorgdiv.ca|access-date=2018-03-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323031004/http://www.cscorgdiv.ca/award-winners/r-u-lemieux-award.html|archive-date=2018-03-23|url-status=dead}}
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