Dr. Toutov is the Founder and Chief Science Officer of Fuzionaire, Inc., a Los Angeles-based science and technology start-up company spun out of the Grubbs lab at Caltech in 2016. Dr. Toutov’s research led to the discovery of Earth-abundant alkali metal catalysts and reagents for a number of organic chemical transformations. This work has led to technologies that are being used across industries, including in diagnostic medicine, drug discovery, and emissions control.
Experience
2018–present
Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University
2016–present
Founder and Chief Science Officer, Fuzionaire, Inc.
2017–present
Founder and Chief Science Officer , Fuzionaire Diagnostics, Inc.
2017–present
Affiliated Research Scholar of Chemistry , University of Richmond
Publications
2017
Alkali Metal-Hydroxide-Catalyzed C(sp)–H Bond silylation, Journal of the American Chemical Society
2017
A potassium tert-butoxide and hydrosilane system for ultra-deep desulfurization of fuels, Nature Energy
2017
Potassium tert-Butoxide-Catalyzed Dehydrogenative C–H Silylation of Heteroaromatics: A Combined Experimental and Computational Mechanistic Study, Journal of the American Chemical Society
2017
Ionic and Neutral Mechanisms for C–H Bond Silylation of Aromatic Heterocycles Catalyzed by Potassium tert-Butoxide, Journal of the American Chemical Society
2016
Sodium Hydroxide Catalyzed Dehydrocoupling of Alcohols with Hydrosilanes, Organic Letters
2015
Potassium tert‐Butoxide–Catalyzed Dehydrogenative Cross‐Coupling of Heteroarenes with Hydrosilanes, Organic Syntheses
2015
Catalytic C–H bond silylation of aromatic heterocycles, Nature Protocols
2015
Silylation of C–H bonds in aromatic heterocycles by an Earth-abundant metal catalyst, Nature
2013
Lewis-base silane activation: from reductive cleavage of aryl ethers to selective ortho-silylation, Chemical Science
2012
In Situ Anionic Shielding for Regioselective Metalation: Directed peri and Iterative Metalation Routes to Polyfunctionalized 7‐Azaindoles, Angewandte Chemie International Edition