F. Dean Toste

F. Dean Toste (born 1971 in Terceira, Azores, Portugal) is the Gerald E. K. Branch Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a prominent figure in the field of organic chemistry and is best known for his contributions to gold chemistry and asymmetric ion-pairing catalysis.

F. Dean Toste
Born	Terceira, Azores, Portugal
Alma mater	University of Toronto Stanford University
Known for	Organogold chemistry asymmetric ion-pairing catalysis
Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	(1999)
Doctoral advisor	Barry Trost
Other academic advisors	Robert H. Grubbs Ian Still

Toste attended the University of Toronto for his undergraduate and masters studies in the group of Ian Still,[1] and attended graduate school at Stanford University, earning his PhD under the supervision of Barry Trost.[2] He subsequently was a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology with Robert H. Grubbs before joining the faculty at Berkeley in 2002.

Toste was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.[3]

References

1. Toste, Francisco Dinarco (1995). The total synthesis of varacin: novel applications of thiocyanate in organic synthesis (M.Sc. Thesis). University of Toronto. ISBN 0612075486.
2. Toste, Francisco Dean (2001). Part A : phenols in palladium catalyzed reactions. Enantioselective total syntheses of (--)-galanthamine, (--)-aflatoxin B₁ and (--)-calanolide A and B. Part B : ruthenium catalyzed carbon-carbon bond forming reactions (3 vols., Ph.D. Thesis). Stanford University.
3. http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2020-nas-election.html

External links

• Toste Group at Berkeley