Vy Maria Dong
American chemist
Vy Maria Dong (born 1976 in Big Spring, Texas) is a Vietnamese-American Chancellor's Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Dong works on enantioselective catalysis and natural product synthesis. She received the Royal Society of Chemistry's Merck, Sharp & Dohme Award in 2020, the American Chemical Society's Elias James Corey Award in 2019, and the UCI's Distinguished Alumni Award in 2018.
Early life and education
Dong was born in Big Spring, Texas, in 1976, where she spent her early childhood, and moved with her family to Anaheim, California. The first in her family to attend college, she studied chemistry at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) as a Regents' Scholar. Dong decided to study chemistry during her sophomore year after taking a class with Larry E. Overman, whom she later conducted undergraduate research with. She graduated magna cum laude in 1998 from UCI.
For her graduate studies, Dong attended the University of California, Berkeley, joining David MacMillan's lab as one of his first graduate students. She moved with MacMillan to the California Institute of Technology, earning her PhD there in 2004. Her thesis featured work on variants of a zwitterionic-Claisen rearrangement, and their application towards a total synthesis of the natural product erythronolide B.
Dong then moved back to UC Berkeley, working on supramolecular chemistry with Robert G. Bergman and Ken Raymond as a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow. Her work with Bergman and Raymond focused on the development of a supramolecular host molecule that can stabilize reactive iminium ions in water.
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