Guy Lloyd-Jones receives the 2024 Morris S. Kharasch Visiting Professorship at the University of Chicago

Guy Lloyd-Jones receives the 2024 Morris S. Kharasch Visiting Professorship at the University of Chicago 

This Visiting Professorship was established to enable the Department to host an extended visit by a distinguished chemist and provides an opportunity for a thorough exchange of ideas with faculty and students. The Professorship has been held by many renowned chemists over the years.

The Kharasch Lectureship is named after long-time Chicago professor Morris S. Kharasch (SB '17, Ph.D '19). Professor Kharasch was a pioneering organic chemist best known for his work with free radical additions and polymerizations, most notably the peroxide effect, which explained how an anti-Markovnikov-orientated addition could occur via free radical addition.

Guy gave three Kharasch Lectures over the period 15-19th April 2024; “Cats and Dogma”, “ Finger on the Pulse”, and “Reagent Provocateur”. He also had extensive meetings with faculty, postdocs, and students.