The Ritter Group

Tobias Ritter was born in 1975 in Lubeck, Germany.  He received his master of science from Braunschweig University, Germany in 1999 after studying in Braunschweig, Bordeaux, and Lausanne and a one year tenure at Stanford University with Professor Barry M. Trost. At Stanford Tobias’ research dealt with palladium-catalyzed allylic alkylations and the synthesis of iridium and rhodium catalysts for olefin-isomerization.  Subsequently, he moved to ETH Zurich for his doctoral studies in the group of Professor Erick M. Carreira on the total synthesis of the natural product Resiniferatoxin and new cholesterol absorption inhibitors. After obtaining his Ph.D. in 2004 Tobias started as a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology with Professor Robert H. Grubbs.  The focus of his work was the design, synthesis, and evaluation of new ruthenium-based olefin metathesis catalyst. Tobias began as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University in July 2006. His research program is based on synthetic organometallic and organic chemistry.

Invited Lectures:

• Gordon Research Conference–Heterocycles, 2008
• Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, 2008
• University of Puerto Rico, 2009
• University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth, 2009
• Sepracor, 2009
• Bristol-Myers Squibb, 2009
• NSF workshop on Organic Synthesis and Natural Products Chemistry, 2009
• Rising Organic Chemists in Catalysis (ROCCAT), 2009
• Amgen, Cambridge, 2009
• Eli Lilly and Company, 2009
• Abbott Labs, 2009
• University of Pennsylvania, 2009
• Princeton University, 2009
• ETH, Lausanne, 2009
• University of California–Irvine, 2010
• University of California–Los Angeles, 2010
• Boston University, Novartis Lecture, 2010
• ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, 2010
• University of California–San Diego, 2010
• The Scripps Research Institute, 2010
• Amgen, San Francisco, 2010
• Merck, West Point, 2010
• Merck, Rahway, 2010
• Northeastern Regional Meeting, American Chemical Society, 2010
• ICIQ Summer School, Tarragona, 2010
• Gordon Research Conference, Stereochemistry, 2010
• ORGCHEM–Weimar, 2010
• Pacifichem, 2010