Malcolm Green (chemist)
Malcolm Green | |
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| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Oxford University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | A study of some transitional metal hydrides and olefin complexes (1958) |
| Doctoral advisor | Geoffrey Wilkinson |
| Doctoral students | F. Geoffrey N. Cloke, Vernon C. Gibson,[1] Gerard Parkin, Luet Lok Wong, Dermot O'Hare, Philip Mountford, Andrea Sella |
| Website | research |
Malcolm Leslie Hodder Green Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford. He made many contributions to organometallic chemistry.[6][2]
Education
Born in
Imperial College of Science and Technology in 1959 for research carried out under the supervision of Geoffrey Wilkinson
.
Career
dmpe), highlighting an agostic interaction between the methyl group and the Ti centre.[7]
After his PhD, Green undertook a
Research Fellow in Oxford 1979–86. In 1989 he was appointed Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Head of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at Oxford and Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford. In 2004 he became an Emeritus Research Professor. He was a co-founder of the Oxford Catalysts Group plc in 2006.[8]
Green held many visiting positions including: Visiting Professor, Ecole de Chimie and Institute des Substances Naturelles, Paris (1972),
University of Munich
, Germany (1991).
Research
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Green's earliest publications described metal-hydride and metal-olefin complexes,C-H bond activation.[10]
With Rooney, he was an active proponent of various mechanisms to explain stereochemistry in
metal sandwich complexes. He and his students synthesised several examples of complexes exhibiting "agostic" bonds.[10] The word was suggested to him by Jasper Griffin, professor of Classics at Balliol, whom Green asked for an appropriate Greek word to describe the close bonding phenomenon. This work would later lead to the so-called "modified Green-Rooney mechanism" for Ziegler–Natta catalysis, wherein agostic interactions guide the stereochemistry of the alkene insertion step. This proposal found wide acceptance. His work on metal carbide catalysts led to the corporate spin-off company Oxford Catalysts plc, which became Velocys.[8]
Green along with
nucleophilic additions will occur on pi ligands known as the Green–Davies–Mingos rules.[3] His former doctoral students include Vernon C. Gibson.[1]
Green developed the covalent bond classification (CBC) method in 1995 to describe the ligands and bonding in coordination and organometallic complexes.[11][12]
Towards the end of his career Green's interests shifted to include studies of carbon nanotubes, developing methods to "uncap" (open) them,[13] and investigating their filling with metals and with salts.
Awards and honours
His numerous awards include:
- 1972: Awarded the Corday-Morgan medal in Inorganic Chemistry by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)[14]
- 1977: Medal in Transition Metal Chemistry from the RSC[15]
- 1982: Tilden Prize and Lectureship, RSC[16]
- 1984: American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry[17]
- 1985: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)[18]
- 1985: Medal in Organometallic Chemistry, RSC[19]
- 1988: Sir Edward Frankland Prize Lecturership, RSC[20]
- 1995: Awarded the Davy Medal by the Royal Society[18]
- 1997: Medal in Organometallic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society[21]
- 1992: From the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, the Karl-Ziegler Prize
- 2000: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Medal and Prize, RSC[22]
- Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)[when?]
- 2015: From the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences, the European Prize for Organometallic Chemistry[23]
See also
References
Scholia has an author profile for Malcolm Green (chemist).
- ^ EThOS uk.bl.ethos.348027.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.18020. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ ISSN 0040-4020.
- S2CID 231643578.
- ^ Professor Malcolm Green 1936-2020
- ^ "Professor M. L. H. Green". University of Oxford.
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- ^ Daily Telegraph. 21 September 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
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- ^ a b Brookhart, M.; Green, M. L. H.; Parkin, G., "Agostic Interactions in Transition Metal Compounds", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2007, 104, 6908–6914.
- ISSN 0022-328X.
- ISSN 0021-9584.
- S2CID 4348976. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
- ^ "Corday-Morgan Prize Previous Winners". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ "Chemistry of Transition Metals Award Previous Winners". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ "Tilden Prizes Previous Winners". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ "ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry". American Chemical Society. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ a b Anon (1985). "Professor Malcolm Green FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015.
- ^ "Organometallic Chemistry Award Previous Winners". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ "Frankland Award Previous Winners". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ "ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry". American Chemical Society. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ "Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Award Previous Winners". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ "Malcolm Green FRS: In celebration of his 80th Birthday". Royal Society of Chemistry. 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
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