Dionicio Martinez Solorio
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
Drexel University
United States of America
Biography
Dionicio Martinez Solorio was born in Delano and raised in Wasco, California, the agricultural heartland of the Southern Central Valley. He earned a BA in Chemistry from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2004 and a PhD in 2011 from the University of Alabama under the guidance of Professor Michael P. Jennings. His graduate research focused on the total synthesis of natural products. In 2011, Dionicio moved to Philadelphia to pursue post-doctoral studies in the laboratory of Professor Amos B. Smith, III at the University of Pennsylvania where he developed reusable silicon-based reagents for palladium-catalyzed carbon-carbon bond formation. In June 2016, Dionicio joined the faculty at Drexel where he is an assistant professor in the department of chemistry.
Research Interest
Total synthesis of complex biologically active natural products serving as inspirational platforms for the discovery and development of new reactions and synthetic methods
Publications
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Smith, A. B., III; Hoye, A. T.; Martinez-Solorio, D.; Kim, W.−S.; Tong, R. “Unification of Anion Relay Chemistry (ARC) with the Takeda and Hiyama Cross-Coupling Reactions: Identification of an Effective Silicon-Based Transfer Agent.†J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 4533
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Martinez-Solorio, D.; Hoye, A. T.; Nguyen, M. H.; Smith, A. B., III “The Design, Synthesis and Validation of Recoverable and Readily Reusable Siloxane Transfer Agents for Pd-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions.â€Â Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 2454.
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Martinez-Solorio, D.; Melillo, B.; Sanchez, L.; Liang, Y.; Lam, E.; Houk, K. N.; Smith, A. B., III “Design, Synthesis, and Validation of an Effective, Reusable Silicon Based Transfer Agent for Room Temperature Pd- Catalyzed Cross Coupling Reactions of Aryl and Heteroaryl Chlorides with Readily Available Aryl Lithium Reagents†J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 1836.
