Anthony J. Arduengo

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Anthony J. Arduengo

Anthony Joseph Arduengo III. (* 1952 in Tampa, Florida) is an American chemist ( organic chemistry ), known for his contributions to the chemistry of carbenes .

Arduengo studied at the Georgia Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1974 and his doctorate with Edward M. Burgess in 1976. He was then interrupted until 1998 at DuPont from a time as an assistant professor at the University of Illinois from 1977 to 1984. He was in 1988 Research Leader at DuPont and 1995 Research Fellow. In 1999 he became Saxon Professor of Chemistry at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.

Arduengo was already studying organic compounds with main group elements and unusual bonding relationships during his studies. In 1980, together with James Cullen Martin and Jay Kochi, he introduced the NXL notation for hypervalent compounds of main group elements (where N stands for the number of valence electrons, X for the central atom and L for the number of ligands).

Arduengo is known for the discovery (1991) of the N -heterocyclic carbenes (NHC), sometimes also called Arduengo carbenes. They form the first successful group of stable, isolatable carbenes. That heralded a great boom in carbene chemistry. Arduengo was later able to take up the work of Hans-Werner Wanzlick , who suspected the existence of stable carbenes (dihydroimidazol-2-ylidene) around 1960, and showed that the candidates he postulated could be stabilized and then isolated.

He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and received the Humboldt Research Prize , with which he was with Reinhard Schmutzler at the TU Braunschweig in 1996 , where he was also a visiting professor.

He is a passionate car maker.

Fonts

  • with Roland Krafczyk: In search of stable carbenes, Chemistry in Our Time, Volume 32, Issue 1, 1998, pp. 6-14

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CW Perkins, JC Martin, AJ Arduengo, W. Lau, A. Alegria, JK Kochi: An Electrically Neutral σ-Sulfuranyl Radical from the Homolysis of a Perester with Neighboring Sulfenyl Sulfur: 9-S-3 species, J.Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 102, 1980, pp. 7753-7759
  2. ↑ AJ Arduengo III., RL Harlow, MJ Kline: A stable crystalline carbene, J. of the Am. Chem. Soc. Volume 113, 1991, 113, pp. 361-363.
  3. ^ Website at the TU Braunschweig .
personal data
SURNAME Arduengo, Anthony J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arduengo, Anthony Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Chemist (Organic Chemistry)
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Tampa (Florida)