Stanford Professor Barry M. Trost Visits WuXi PharmaTech and Gives Tw...( SHANGHAI China May 21 /Xinhua-- W...),Health

SHANGHAI, China, May 21 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- WuXi PharmaTech (NYSE: WX), a leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device research and development outsourcing company with operations in China and the United States, is proud to announce that the distinguished Stanford University Professor Barry M. Trost ( http://www.stanford.edu/group/bmtrost/ ) has visited WuXi PharmaTech and given two seminars on May 19 and 20.

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Dr. Barry M. Trost, Tamaki Professor of Humanities and Sciences in the chemistry department at Stanford University, is a world renowned organic chemist and a fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Professor Barry M. Trost's professional interests include asymmetric allylic alkylation and efficient enantioselective synthesis. He has made great contributions to the modern synthetic organic chemistry and green chemistry. Many widely used chemistry reactions, such as the Trost asymmetric allylic alkylation, Tsuji-Trost reaction and the Trost ligand, are named after him.

Professor Trost studied at the University of Pennsylvania and received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1965 until his appointment to Stanford University in 1987. Professor Trost has more than 820 scientific publications, over 320 lectures at various national and international meetings, and over 40 worldwide awards and honors.

As another luminary speaker of WuXi PharmaTech Science Seminar Series, Professor Trost gave the WuXi scientists two lectures titled "New Synthetic Strategies to Bioactive Products" and "On Inventing Reactions for Atom Economy." Professor Trost captivated the audience from beginning to end during the lectures and
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