John T. Groves
Professor
Chemical Biology
Princeton University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. John T. Groves, Ph.D. Co-Founded HepatoChem Inc. in 2008 and serves as its Chairman of Advisory Board and Vice President. Dr. Groves serves as a Hugh Stott Taylor Professor of Chemistry at the Princeton University. He has worked in the fields of bioorganic, bioinorganic and biomimetic chemistry for 40 years, pioneering the study and application of oxometalloporphyrins in oxidative catalysis. Dr. Groves served as Member of Scientific Advisory Board of Inotek Pharmaceuticals Corporation. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received the Alfred Bader Award, the Cope Scholar Award and the Ira Remsen Award from the American Chemical Society. He has received the Frontiers in Biological Chemistry Award from the Max Planck Institute, the Grand Prix, Maison de la Chimie (Paris) and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2010, he received the Princeton University Keller Center Prize for Innovation for efforts leading to the development of HepatoChem. He received his BS degree in chemistry at MIT and a PhD in organic chemistry with Ronald Breslow at Columbia University
Research Interest
Organic, inorganic, and biological chemistry
Publications
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O Reilly,M. E., Pahls, D. R., Webb, J. R, Boaz, N. C., Majumdar, S., et al., Reductive functionalization of a rhodium(III)-methyl bond by electronic modification of the supporting ligand, Dalton Transactions 43, 8273-8281
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Pahls, D. R, Groves, J. T., Gunnoe, T. B., Cundari, T. R., 2014, Theoretical Study of Reductive Functionalization of Methyl Ligands of Group 9 Complexes Supported by Two Bipyridyl Ligands: A Key Step in Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalization, J.Organometallics, 33, 1936-1944
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Groves, J. T, 2014, Enzymatic C-H bond activation - Using push to get pull, J.Nature Chemistry, 6, 89-91.
