Fred Basolo

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Fred Basolo (born February 11, 1920 in Coello, Illinois ; † February 27, 2007 ) was an American chemist ( inorganic chemistry , complex chemistry ).

Life

Basolo graduated from Southern Illinois Normal University with a bachelor's degree in 1942 and received his PhD in 1943 under John C. Bailar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . From 1943 to 1946 he was a research chemist at Rohm and Haas. From 1946 he was an instructor and from 1959 professor at Northwestern University , where he became a Morrison professor in 1980. From 1969 to 1972 he headed the chemistry department. In 1990 he retired.

In 1954/55 he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby, 1961/62 at the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Rome, 1969 NATO visiting professor in Germany and 1992 visiting professor at Ohio State University . He held honorary professorships at the Chinese universities of Lanzhou and Zhongshan.

He had been married since 1947 and had four children.

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The focus of his scientific work was in the field of coordination chemistry , organometallic chemistry and bioinorganic chemistry , where he published a total of 400 articles.

With his colleague Ralph Pearson , he published the monograph Mechanisms of Inorganic Reactions , which shed light on the importance of coordination compounds in reaction mechanisms. This work, which integrated concepts of ligand field theory and physical-organic chemistry, triggered a change from a purely descriptive character of coordination chemistry to a quantitative science. Basolo has published works on the indenyl effect, the reaction of coordinated ligands, and synthetic models for myoglobin .

honors and awards

He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and served on the Council of the National Academies of Science and the National Research Council for Chemistry and Chemical Technology from 1981 to 1986. He has received the Priestley Medal , the James Flack Norris Award , the Chemical Pioneer Award , the Bailar and Dwyer Medal, the American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry (1964), the American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal , and the Willard Gibbs Medal , the Medal of the Chinese Chemical Society (1991), the Research Prize in Inorganic Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society (1988), and the George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education . He was President of the American Chemical Society in 1983. In the same year he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , whose chemistry section he chaired in 1979, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

His autobiography was published by Springer in 2002. In 1995/96 he was Chatt Lecturer (Joseph Chatt Award) of the Royal Society of Chemistry .

He was an honorary doctor of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (D.Sc., 1984).

Fonts

  • with RG Pearson: Mechanisms of Inorganic Reactions , Wiley 1967
  • From Coello to Inorganic Chemistry: A Lifetime of Reactions , Springer 2002

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career dates for American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Fred Basolo at academictree.org, accessed on January 6, 2018th
  3. ↑ Basolo, F .; Pearson, RG: Mechanisms of Inorganic Reactions. , John Wiley and Son: New York: 1967. ISBN 0-471-05545-X
  4. ^ Harry Gray, John S. Magyar: Obituary Fred Basolo (1920-2007) . In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition . 46, No. 16, 2007, pp. 2746-2747. doi : 10.1002 / anie.200701155 .
  5. ↑ George B. Kauffman , Laurie M. Kauffman and Harry B. Gray: Fred Basolo (1920-2007): A tribute from students, colleagues, and family . In: Polyhedron . 26, No. 17, 2007, pp. 4779-4785. doi : 10.1016 / j.poly.2007.07.046 .
  6. ↑ R. Petkewich, "Fred Basolo this at 87," Chemical & Engineering News , 5 March 2007, page 13, published by the American Chemical Society
  7. ↑ Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B (PDF; 1.1 MB) American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 20, 2011.

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personal data
SURNAME Basolo, Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Coello (Illinois)
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 2007