Robert H. Crabtree
| Robert Crabtree FRS | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Robert Howard Crabtree 17 April 1948 London, England, UK |
| Nationality | British/United States |
| Education | Brighton College |
| Alma mater |
University of Oxford (BA) University of Sussex (PhD) |
| Known for | Crabtree's catalyst |
| Awards |
Corday-Morgan Prize (1982) Centenary Prize (2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Organometallic chemistry |
| Institutions |
Yale University Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles |
| Thesis | Transition Metal Dinitrogen Complexes Adduct Formation and Base Character (1973) |
| Doctoral advisor | Joseph Chatt |
| Other academic advisors |
Malcolm Green Hugh Felkin |
| Website |
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Robert Howard Crabtree FRS[1] (born 17 April 1948) is a British-American chemist. He is serving as Whitehead Professor of Chemistry at Yale University in the United States. He is a naturalized citizen of the United States.[2] Crabtree is particularly known for his work on "Crabtree's catalyst" for hydrogenations, and his textbook on organometallic chemistry.[3]
Education
Robert Howard Crabtree studied at Brighton College (1959-1966), and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Oxford where he was a student at New College, Oxford in 1970, studying under Malcolm Green. He received his Ph.D from the University of Sussex in 1973, supervised by Joseph Chatt.[4]
Career and research
After his PhD, he was a postdoctoral researcher with Hugh Felkin at the Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles at Gif-sur-Yvette, near Paris. He was a postdoctoral fellow (1973-1975) and then attaché de recherche (1975-1977). At the end of that time he was chargé de recherche. In 1977 Crabtree took an assistant professorship in Inorganic Chemistry at Yale University. He served as associate professor from 1982-1985, and as full professor from 1985 until the present.
Editorial positions and published works
- The Organometallic Chemistry of the Transition Metals (5 editions)( ISBN 0-471-66256-9)
- Inorganic Chemistry Section (editor) Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry (1992-1994)
- Associate Editor of New Journal of Chemistry (1998-2003)
- Editor-in-chief of Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III (2004-present)
- Editor-in-chief of Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry (2004-present)
- Board of regional editors of Science (2006-present)
- Chemistry of the Transition Metals (2009)
- Handbook of Green Chemistry - Green Catalysis (2009) (co-author)
Awards and honors
- named Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1981)
- named Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar (1982)
- received the Corday-Morgan Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry (1982)
- delivered the Esso Lectureship series (Toronto) (1986)
- named Albright and Wilson Visiting Professor at University of Warwick (1986)
- appointed to editorial board of Chemical Reviews (1990)
- received the Organometallic Chemistry Prize from American Chemical Society (1991)
- named Vice Chair of Organometallic Subdivision of ACS (1991)
- named Chair of Organometallic Subdivision of ACS (1992)
- received the Organometallic Chemistry Prize of ACS (1993)
- received the Mack Award from Ohio State University (1994)
- named H.C. Brown Lecturer at Purdue University (1996)
- named Vice Chair of Inorganic Chemistry Division of ACS (1997)
- named Chair of Inorganic Chemistry Division of ACS (1998)
- named Dow Lecturer at University of Ottawa (1999)
- received the ISI Highly Cited Author Award (2000)
- received the Bailar Medal at University of Illinois (2001)
- delivered Organometallic lecture at University of Richmond (2003)
- named Dow Lecturer at University of California, Berkeley (2004)
- delivered the Williams Lecture at University of Oxford (2004)
- delivered the Sabatier Lecture at University of Toulouse (2006)
- delivered the Brewster Lecture at Kansas State University (2006)
- received the Karcher Medal at Oklahoma State University (2007)
- delivered the Pedersen Lecture at DuPont (2008)
- named John Osborn Lecturer at University of Strasbourg (2009)
- named Mond Lecturer by the Royal Society of Chemistry (2009[5]
- received an ACS Green Chemistry Award (2009)[6]
- Member National Academy of Sciences (2017)
- elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018[1]
References
- 1 2 "Robert Crabtree". royalsociety.org.
- ↑ Yale Faculty webpage; accessed 21 September 2014
- ↑ Crabtree Lab Homepage, ursula.chem.yale.edu; accessed 21 September 2014.
- ↑ Crabtree, Robert Howard (1973). Transition Metal Dinitrogen Complexes Adduct Formation and Base Character (PhD thesis). University of Sussex. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.452454.
- ↑ http://ursula.chem.yale.edu/~crabtree/CV_May_08.pdf%5Bpermanent+dead+link%5D Yale Faculty webpage
- ↑ Chemical & Engineering News, 23 February 2009, "2009 ACS National Award Winners", p. 68
