Barry M. Trost (born June 13, 1941, in Philadelphia) is an American chemist who is the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor Emeritus in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University.

[4] He then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate school, where he worked with Herbert O.

House on enolate anions, the Mannich reaction, and the Robinson annulation.

[4] As of 2021[update], Trost has an h-index of 161 according to Google Scholar[8] and of 140 (1040 documents) according to Scopus.

[10] Target molecules have potential applications as novel catalysts, as well as antibiotic and anti-tumor therapeutics.