Edwin Constable

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Edwin C. Constable (* 1955 in Edinburgh ) is a British chemist and professor.

Life

1974 Constable chemistry at started St. Catherine's College of the University of Oxford to study, where he earned his BA in 1978 in chemistry. It was in 1980 at Linacre College of the same university - supervised by Kenneth Seddon - PhD . During this time he became interested in ruthenium chemistry and photochemistry . He was a post-doctoral student at the University of Cambridge , where he became a University Lecturer and Fellow of Robinson College in 1984 . He stayed in Cambridge until 1993 when he became a full professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Basel . In the meantime he was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham from 2000 to 2002 , but then returned to the University of Basel. In 2007 he became dean of research at the Faculty of Science and in 2011 he was vice-rector for research and the promotion of young talent.

He deals with complex chemistry , recently a. a. Transition metal complexes with poly- pyridine ligands, their assembly and functionalization, for example with photosensitive components, with water splitting inspired by nature (photosynthesis) in monolayers of poly-oxo metal clusters and photosensitive ruthenium complexes, development of complex compounds for light-emitting electrochemical cells (LEC) and of dyes for dye-sensitive solar cells (DSC).

Constable is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a member of the American Chemical Society . He is on the editorial board of numerous journals including Chemical Communications , Chemical Reviews , Chemical Society Reviews , Coordination Chemistry Reviews , New Journal of Chemistry , Polyhedron, and Supramolecular Chemistry .

He is married to the chemist Catherine Housecroft (* 1955), who is also a professor in Basel and works with him in a research group.

Fonts

  • with Catherine Housecroft: Chemistry: an introduction to organic, inorganic, and physical chemistry. Pearson / Prentice Hall, 3rd edition 2006.
  • Coordination chemistry of macrocyclic compounds. Oxford University Press 1999
  • Metals and ligand reactivity: an introduction to the organic chemistry of metal complexes. Ellis Horwood 1990, 2nd edition, Weinheim: VCH 1996.
  • with Jeremy KM Sanders, Brian K. Hunter: Modern NMR spectroscopy: a workbook of chemical problems. Oxford UP 1989, 1992.
  • Editor with Jon McCleverty, Thomas J. Meyer: Transition metal groups 7 and 8. in McCleverty (Ed.): Comprehensive coordination chemistry II: from biology to nanotechnology. Volume 5, Elsevier / Pergamon 2004.
  • with Malcolm Gerloch: Transition metal chemistry: the valence shell in d-block chemistry. VCH, Weinheim 1994.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Edwin C. Constable at academictree.org, accessed on January 28, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Short biography on the University of Basel website
  3. ↑ Idw online
  4. ^ Homepage of Prof. Housecroft
personal data
SURNAME Constable, Edwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Constable, Edwin C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh