Barry Trost

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name = Barry Trost


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birth_date = 13 June 1941
birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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residence = Stanford
nationality = American
field = Chemist
work_institution = University of Wisconsin-Madison Stanford University
alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
doctoral_advisor = House H.O.
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known_for = Trost ligand
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Barry M. Trost (born June 13, 1941 in Philadelphia) is an American chemist, Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University.

He studied at the University of Pennsylvania. His Ph.D. thesis research on "The Structure and Reactivity of Enolate Anions" was conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1965 until his appointment to Stanford University in 1987.

The Trost asymmetric allylic alkylation, Tsuji Trost reaction, and the Trost ligand are named after him.

References

* [http://www.stanford.edu/group/bmtrost/bmtcv.html Biographical Data at Trost's Home Page]