David Milstein

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David Milstein (born June 4, 1947 in Ulm ) is an Israeli chemist ( organometallic chemistry ). He is a professor emeritus at the Weizmann Institute .

Life

Milstein came to Israel with his family in 1949. He studied at the Hebrew University with a bachelor's degree in 1968, a master's degree in 1969 and received his doctorate with Jochanan Blum in 1976. As a post-doctoral student he was at the University of Iowa and Colorado State University with John Kenneth Stille . There he was co-author of the publication on the Stille coupling in 1978. From 1979 to 1986 he was a chemist at DuPont in Wilmington (Delaware) , most recently as group leader for homogeneous catalysis. In 1987 he became associate professor and in 1992 professor at the Weizmann Institute. From 1996 to 2005 he was head of the organic chemistry department (since 1996 as Israel Matz Professor ) and from 2000 he was head of the Kimmel Center for Molecular Design.

Among other things, he was visiting professor at the École normal supérieure , at the ETH Zurich , at the University of Heidelberg , Miller-Professor in Berkeley, visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai, in Spain, Taiwan, Toulouse and at the Hungarian Academy of Science.

He has been married since 1971 and has three children.

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He deals with organometallic chemistry and the development of transition metal catalysts and reactions for green chemistry , for example for hydrolysis and hydrogen production from renewable resources. Milstein developed various reactions with transition metal complexes to activate strong CC, CH, CF, NH and OH bonds such as the aforementioned Stille coupling (CC bond). He used ruthenium catalysts of the pincer type to strengthen NH and OH bonds and used them for a new method for the preparation of amides from the coupling of alcohols and amines . The procedure was named one of the breakthroughs of the year by Science magazine in 2007 . The only waste produced is hydrogen gas. In 2009, he described a process of gentle water splitting with sunlight using a ruthenium complex.

Honors and memberships

  • 1982 to 1985 DuPont Chemical Excellence Award
  • 1999 - Paolo Chini Memorial Award from the Italian Chemical Society
  • 2002 - Kolthoff Prize of the Technion
  • 2006 - Prize of the Israel Chemical Society
  • 2007 - ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry
  • 2010 - Geoffrey Wilkinson Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry
  • 2011 - Meitner Humboldt Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
  • 2012 - Israel Prize
  • 2019 - Blaise Pascal Medal
  • 2020 - Ziegler lecture by the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research

He has been a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences since 2012 , is a member of the Miller Institute of Basic Research in Berkeley and, since 2006, of the Leopoldina . In 2010 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and in 2018 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences . Milstein has been a member of the Royal Society since 2019 .

In 2009 he received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council.

Fonts

Except for the works cited in the footnotes

  • M. Gozin, A. Weisman, Y. Ben-David, D. Milstein: Activation of a carbon-carbon bond in solution by transition-metal insertion, Nature 364, 699-701 (1993).
  • M. Gozin, M. Aizenberg, S.-Y. Liou, A. Weisman, Y. Ben-David, D. Milstein: Transfer of methylene groups promoted by metal complexation, Nature 370, 42-44 (1994).
  • M. Aizenberg, D. Milstein: Catalytic activation of carbon-fluorine bonds by a soluble transition metal complex, Science 265, 359-361 (1994).
  • K. Tollner, R. Popovitz-Biro, M. Lahav, D. Milstein: Impact of molecular order in Langmuir-Blodgett films on catalysis, Science, 278, 2100-2102 (1997).
  • J. Zhang, G. Leitus, Y. Ben-David, D. Milstein: Facile conversion of alcohols into esters and dihydrogen catalyzed by new ruthenium complexes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 10840-10841 (2005).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of David Milstein at academictree.org, accessed on January 3 of 2019.
  2. ↑ Milstein, Stille: A general, selective, and facile method for ketone synthesis from acid chlorides and organotin compounds catalyzed by palladium, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 100 (11), 3636-3638 (1978)
  3. ↑ C. Gunanathan, Y. Ben-David, D. Milstein: Direct synthesis of amides from alcohols and amines with liberation of H2, Science 2007, 317, 790 - 792 (2007)
  4. ^ SW Kohl, L. Weiner, L. Schwartsburd, L. Konstantinovski, LJW Shimon, Y. Ben-David, MA Iron, D. Milstein: Consecutive thermal H2 and light-induced O2 evolution from water promoted by a metal complex, Science , 324, 74-77 (2009), abstract
  5. ^ Blavatnik Young Scientist Award for Emmanuel Levy / EuChemS Award for Service for Ehud Keinan / Karl Ziegler Lectureship for David Milstein . In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition . April 20, 2020, p. 8755 , doi : 10.1002 / anie.202004625 .
  6. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. David Milstein (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 19, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Milstein, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli chemist
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm