Charles Rees

Charles Rees

Charles Wayne Rees CBE (born October 15, 1927 in Egypt , † September 21, 2006 in London ) was a British chemist ( organic chemistry ).

Rees went to school in Farnham, Surrey and was a laboratory technician at the Royal Aircraft Establishment for three years . He then studied chemistry at the University of Southampton, graduating in 1950. He received his doctorate in Southampton, was a post-doctoral student at the Australian National University (which also initially had an outpost in London) with Adrien Albert (1907-1989) and was from 1955 Assistant Lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London. In 1957 he became a lecturer and then reader at King's College, University of London, where he worked with Donald Hey on the chemistry of heterocycles . In 1965 he became a professor at the University of Leicester and in 1969 at the University of Liverpool . In 1977 he became Heath Harrison Professor of Organic Chemistry there, succeeding George Wallace Kenner, and in 1978 Hofmann Professor of Organic Chemistry at Imperial College London . In 1993 he retired.

He dealt with mechanisms of organic chemistry and synthesis, especially the chemistry of heterocycles (generation and properties of new rings, especially aromatics and anti- aromatics , reactive intermediates, heterocycles with many nitrogen and sulfur atoms). He has produced over 450 scientific publications.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1974) and the Royal Society of Chemistry and CBE (1995). In 1994 he received an honorary doctorate from Leicester. In 1974 he was a Tilden Lecturer and in 1984 a Pedler Lecturer of the Royal Society of Chemistry, whose prize in Heterocyclic Chemistry he was the first to receive in 1980. 1992 to 1994 he was President of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was also president of their Perkin Division from 1981 to 1983 and headed their publishing division for four years. In 1994 he received the Senior Award from the International Society for Heterocyclic Chemistry.

He was with Alan Katritzky for a time editor of Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry and Comprehensive Organic Functional Group Transformations .

Fonts

• with TL Gilchrist: Carbenes, nitrenes and arynes, London: Nelson 1969

literature

• Christopher J. Moody, Biographical Memoirs Fellows Royal Society 2015

Web links

• Obituary at the Royal Society of Chemistry