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Prof. Robert E. Maleczka,
Jr.
BS: 1984, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Research Chemist: 1984-1987, Abbot Labs
PhD: 1992, The Ohio State University
American Cancer Society Post Doctoral Fellow: 1992-1995,
University of Pennsylvania
MSU Professor of Chemistry: 1995-present.
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Professor Robert E.
Maleczka, Jr. was born and raised in Chicago,
Illinois. In 1984 he earned a B.S. in chemistry
from the University of Illinois, where he carried out
research with Professor Kenneth L. Rinehart. Upon
graduation, he accepted a position with the discovery
group at Abbott Labs, working on the development of
novel arylfluoroquinolone antibacterial agents. In
1987, he left Abbott and enrolled in graduate school at
The Ohio State University where he studied under
Professor Leo Paquette. In late 1992, he moved to the
University of Pennsylvania as an American Cancer Society
post-doctoral fellow in the laboratories of Professor
Amos B. Smith, III. In the fall of 1995, he began
his independent career at Michigan State University,
where he currently holds the rank of Professor.
The Maleczka group’s research interests include Green
Chemistry, the invention of organoborane,
organostannane, and organosilane reactions for organic
synthesis; developing new cross-coupling methods;
combining catalytic arene C-H activation/borylation with
other chemical events; Wittig rearrangements and related
chemistry, and the total synthesis of biologically
active natural products. Honors bestowed on Professor
Maleczka include being named an American Chemical
Society (ACS) Fellow in 2014, a Guest Professor of the
Zhengzhou Tobacco Research Institute of the CNTC, the
Merck Technology Collaboration Award, winning the EPA's
2008 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge, the
Astellas and Yamanouchi USA Foundation Faculty Award,
holding the Novartis Lecturer title at Yale University,
holding the Hess Lecturer title at Illinois Wesleyan
University, and the Sigma Xi (MSU Chapter)
Junior Meritorious Faculty Research Award. Chemical
and Engineering News named his collaborative
studies with Professor Milton Smith (MSU) to be among
the Chemistry Highlights of the Year in 2002.
Professor Maleczka’s teaching has been recognized with
an MSU College of Natural Science Teacher-Scholar Award,
the MSU College of Natural Science Alumni Association's
Meritorious Faculty Award, and by being named the 1998
Mentor of the Year by the MSU Chapter of Professional
Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers
(NOBCChE). Among his service and outreach
activities, Professor Maleczka has served as a Diversity
Scholar at the center for the Integration of Teaching
and Learning (Madison, WI) and has been an advisory
board member for the MSU Chapter of NOBCChE. He has a
long history of ACS service and currently serves as the
treasurer of the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry. In
2018 he was named to the National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering and Medicine Chemical Sciences Roundtable. In 2006,
Professor Maleczka co-founded BoroPharm, Inc. a company
dedicated to the preparation and commercialization of
novel aryl and heteroaryl building blocks for
organic/pharmaceutical synthesis. In late 2010,
Professor Maleczka became the Chair of the Department of
Chemistry, a position he held until June 2021.
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