Liviu M Mirica
Prof. Liviu Mirica is the William H. and Janet G. Lycan Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Caltech in 1999, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University in 2005. After an NIH postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley, in 2008 he started his independent career at Washington University in St. Louis, and 2019 he moved to the University of Illinois. Prof. Mirica has made important contributions to chemistry, such as the design of flexible multidentate ligands that can stabilize transition metal ions such as Ni and Pd in uncommon oxidation states. He has also shown that these species are key intermediates in cross-coupling reactions and biomimetic oxidative and electrocatalytic transformations. Other contributions the development of novel therapeutic and diagnostic agents for Alzheimer’s disease, including Cu-64 PET imaging agents for the neurotoxic beta-amyloid peptide oligomers.
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