Logan R. Beck

Logan R. Beck, PhD

(he/him/his)
Technology Specialist | Pharmaceutical
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Education

  • BA, Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder 
  • MA, Organic Chemistry, Columbia University 
  • MPhil, Organic Chemistry, Columbia University 
  • PhD, Organic Chemistry, Columbia University 

Key Technologies

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Small Molecule Therapeutics
  • Photochemical Methods
  • Photophysics 

Practice Groups

Admitted to Practice

  • Not yet admitted to practice

Location

  • Boston

Overview

Logan Beck assists the firm with pharmaceutical patent prosecution, utilizing his extensive knowledge in the areas of organic chemistry, materials science, and chemical biology to support the firm’s clients. 

Logan received his PhD in organic chemistry from Columbia University, where his research focused on the development of photochemical methods, with subthemes of polymerizations, photophysics, catalyst design, photo-reactor engineering, and synthesis of medicinally relevant molecules. 

Prior to joining Wolf Greenfield, Logan was a graduate research assistant at Columbia University. In this role, he developed synthetic methods that replace high energy blue/UV light with low energy red/near-IR light to improve drug discovery and large-scale drug synthesis. 


Recognition

  • American Chemical Society Young Organic Chemist Award (2019)

Publications

  • Nickel/Photoredox-Catalyzed Aryl Etherification Enabled by an Oxidative Near-Infrared-to-Blue Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Upconversion System Leveraging Spin-Forbidden Excitation. ACS Catal. 2024, 14, 24, 18515–18522.
  • Red-shifting blue light photoredox catalysis for organic synthesis: a graphical review. SynOpen 2023, 07 (1), 76-87.  
  • Tuning the electrochemical and photophysical properties of osmium-based photoredox catalysts. Synlett 2022, 33, 03, 247-258. 
  • Synthesis of star polymers using organocatalyzed atom transfer radical polymerization through a core-first approach. Polymer Chemistry 2018, 9, 1658-1665. 
  • Photoinduced organocatalyzed atom transfer radical polymerization using continuous flow. Macromolecules 2017, 50, 7, 2668-2674.