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THIS IS AN EDIT O CLAIRE JARVIS ARTICLE ON SARAH REISMAN

Sarah E Reisman is a Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. Reisman's research focuses on the synthesis of complex natural products.

Undergraduate Studies
Reisman received a BA in Chemistry from Connecticut College in 2001 and conducted research in the lab of Timo V Ovaska on the synthesis of tetracyclic natural products, including phorbol.

Graduate Studies
Reisman obtained a PhD from Yale University in 2006, working in the lab of John Wood on the total synthesis of (±)-Welwitindolinone A Isonitrile.

Postdoctoral Studies
From 2006-2008 Reisman was an NIH postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Eric N Jacobsen at Harvard University and worked with Abigail Doyle to develop an enantioselective substitution of silyl ketenes onto an alkoxy chloride via an oxacarbenium ion, using a novel thiourea organocatalyst. The paper describing their discovery has been cited over 230 times.

Research
Reisman accepted an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Caltech in 2006 and was directly promoted to Full Professor in 2014.

The Reisman lab focusses on the synthesis of natural products and development of new chemical reactions. They were the first research group to complete the total syntheses of (–)-acetylaranotin (40 years after the natural product was first isolated), (–)-Maoecrystal Z, and the first enantioselective total syntheses of (–)-8-Demethoxyrunanine and (–)-Cepharatines A, C and D. Their total synthesis of (+)-ryanodol was completed in 15 synthetic steps, a significant improvement on the previous shortest synthetic route of 35 steps developed by Masayuki Inoue of the University of Tokyo. Some of their other completed total syntheses include natural products (+)-Naseseazines A and B, (+)-Salvileucalin B and (+)-Psiguadial B

Awards and Honours
Reisman was awarded the Boehringer Ingelheim New Faculty Grant, the Alfred P Sloan Foundation Fellowship and a 5-year NSF CAREER Award in 2011. Reisman was the winner of the Novartis Early Career Award and the Cottrell Scholar Award in 2012. Reisman received the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society in 2013 and the Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award for Organic Synthesis in 2014. Reisman was one of the ten inaugural American Chemical Society WCC's Rising Star Award winners, chosen “for excellence in the development of catalytic asymmetric methodologies for natural product synthesis.” In 2015 Reisman was identified in a survey of 30 Nobel Prize winners as one of ten "early-career scientists on their way to critical acclaim".