Michael Krische

Professor Michael J. Krische obtained a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley (1989), where he performed research with Professor Henry Rapoport. After a year abroad as a Fulbright Fellow, he initiated doctoral studies at Stanford University with Professor Barry Trost as a Veatch Graduate Fellow. Following receipt of his Ph.D. degree (1996), he joined the laboratory of Professor Jean-Marie Lehn at the Université Louis Pasteur as an NIH Post-Doctoral Fellow. In 1999, he joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. He was promoted directly to the rank of full professor (2004) and shortly thereafter appointed the Robert A. Welch Chair in Science (2007). Professor Krische has pioneered the use of hydrogenation and transfer hydrogenation in catalytic C-C bond formation, enabling a departure from the use of premetalated reagents in chemical synthesis.

Professor Krische has pioneered the use of hydrogenation and transfer hydrogenation in catalytic C-C bond formation, enabling a departure from the use of premetalated reagents in chemical synthesis. Additionally, he has developed hydrogen auto-transfer reactions that affect direct stereo- and site-selective conversion of lower alcohols to higher alcohols. Training in Krische laboratory encompasses enantioselective catalysis, organometallic and synthetic chemistry, including natural product total synthesis.