Eric V. Anslyn

Eric V. Anslyn is Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry and Distinguished Teaching Professor at University of Texas at Austin. Anslyn's research utilizes physical organic chemistry principles to create chemical sensors and to address long-standing mechanistic questions. He pioneered the technique called "differential sensing", which combines supramolecular chemical design with chemometric analysis. Using the method, his group has analyzed complex mixtures of kinases, glycoproteins and glycerides, as well as wine and dialysis effluent. Further, his group is creating a new paradigm for measuring enantiomeric excess, moving away from serial chiral chromatography to rapid and parallel optical analysis. He has solved mechanistic questions in phosphodiester and glyceride hydrolysis, in addition to reversible covalent bonding of boronic acids with diols. Anslyn holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from California Institute of Technology.