Cathleen Crudden
Cathleen Crudden | |
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| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto Osaka University |
| Known for | N-Heterocyclic Carbenes Catalysis Materials Chemistry |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions | Queen's University Nagoya University (ITbM) |
| Doctoral advisor | Howard Alper |
| Other academic advisors | Mark Lautens Shinji Murai |
| Website | https://www.cruddengroup.com/ https://www.carbon-2-metal-institute.queensu.ca/ |
Cathleen M. Crudden is a Canadian chemist. She is a Canada Research Chair in Metal Organic Chemistry at Queen's University at Kingston, as well as an Allie Vi Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Queen's University at Kingston and a research professor at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) at Nagoya University in Japan. She is the scientific director of the Carbon to Metal Coating Institute (C2MCI) at Queen’s University.
Crudden is a world class scientist whose research on the use of organic coatings to modify metal surfaces has garnered international recognition. Specifically, her work related to developing organic ligands for metal surfaces has been transformative not only in her field of chemistry, but also in physics and materials science, with potential applications in biology and medicine.
Crudden’s research interests lie in persistent carbenes, materials chemistry, hydroboration, organometallic chemistry, and chirality. She is known for her leading work on the formation of monolayers on a gold surfaces and clusters with N-heterocyclic carbenes and for ground-breaking work in palladium-catalyzed cross coupling reactions with enantioenriched organoboranes.
In February 2021, Crudden took up the role of editor-in-chief at ACS Catalysis, the leading general catalysis journal world-wide. She has also served as founder and Chair of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Chemistry Liaison Committee, Chair of the Chemical Institute of Canada and president of the Chemical Society of Canada.
As a result of her research excellence, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, an elected international member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada, Fellow of the American Chemical Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK). As a highly sought-after mentor, she has supervised over 200 students. In June 2023, the Canadian Journal of Chemistry dedicated a special issue to Crudden in honour of her scientific achievements, featuring research conducted by students she has mentored.