Stereoselective Organic Reactions in Water

Ulf Lindström was born in 1971 in Malmö, Sweden. He studied Chemistry and Biology at Lund University to receive his B.Sc. degree in 1996. After earning a licentiate degree in Engineering at Lund Institute of Technology in 1998, he moved to Stockholm University to complete his doctoral thesis in 2000 under the supervision of Professor Peter Somfai. His Ph.D. work mainly concerned the development of new methods of preparing optically active nitrogen heterocycles. He then moved to California and Stanford University for postdoctoral research with Professor Eric T. Kool. There he was exposed to different aspects of nucleic acid chemistry, for example, the synthesis and molecular recognition of circular DNA. He joined the Department of Bioorganic Chemistry at Lund University as Assistant Professor in the spring of 2002. His research interest, in general, is molecular recognition and reactivity in water and, in particular, the development of chiral ligands for aqueous asymmetric synthesis.