| Jennifer Schomaker | |
| Birth Place: | Michigan |
| Workplaces: | University of Wisconsin–Madison University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma Mater: | Michigan State University Central Michigan University Saginaw Valley State University |
| Thesis Title: | Oxidative lactonization and its application to the total synthesis of (+)-tanikolide, the ylide-mediated homologative ring expansion of epoxides and aziridines in the synthesis of heterocycles and the total syntheses of haterumalide NA and haterumalide NC via a chromium-mediated coupling reaction |
| Thesis Url: | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/212105454 |
| Thesis Year: | 2006 |
Jennifer Schomaker is an American chemist who is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research considers the total synthesis of natural and unnatural products. She was selected as an American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awardee in 2021.
Schomaker grew up in Michigan.[1] She was an undergraduate student in chemistry at Saginaw Valley State University. During her studies she worked at the Dow Chemical Company, where she developed biocatalytic methods.[2] She moved to Central Michigan University, where she completed a master's degree under the supervision of Thomas Delia. Her master's research involved the synthesis of aniline derivatives of trihalopyrimidines.[3] She completed her master's research whilst raising two young daughters. After graduating, Schomaker moved to Michigan State University, where she joined the research group of Babak Borhan. For her doctorate she studied the synthesis of (+)-tanikolide and haterumalide NA.[4]
Schomaker moved to the University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral researcher with Robert G. Bergman. Her postdoctoral research identified new modes of reactivity in cobalt dinitrosoalkane complexes.
In 2009, Schomaker joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her initial research involved densely functionalized, stereochemically complex amine-containing natural products.[5] At UW–Madison, Schomaker focused on the synthesis of natural and unnatural products, as well as the design of catalysts for tunable, chemo-, regio-, and enantioselective C-H amination reactions.[6]