John C. Bailar Jr.

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John Christian Bailar Jr. (born May 27, 1904 in Golden (Colorado) , † October 17, 1991 in Urbana (Illinois) ) was an American chemist who is considered one of the founders of complex chemistry in the United States. He was Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign .

Bailey received his bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado and received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1928 with Moses Gomberg . In 1928 he became an instructor, 1930 associate professor and 1943 professor at the University of Illinois.

He was President of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in 1959 and received its Priestley Medal in 1964 . He helped found the Inorganic Chemistry Department at ACS, the Inorganic Syntheses series (1939) and the Inorganic Chemistry journal (1962).

From 1934 to 1985 he published a 37-part essay series The Stereochemistry of Complex Compounds . In the first essay in the series with his student Robert W. Auten, he introduced the analogue of the Walden inversion in inorganic chemistry. In 1959 he published an article on octahedron complexes with Elias J. Corey . This was an early application of the force field method in inorganic chemistry. The transition between isomers in octahedral complexes can take place according to a Bailar twist described and named by Bailar (or after the Ray-Dutt twist).

One of his sons is the statistics professor at the University of Chicago and MacArthur Fellow John Christian Bailar (* 1932).

literature

  • GB Kauffman, GS Girolami, DH Busch: John C. Bailar, Jr. (1904-1991): Father of Coordination Chemistry in the United States, Coord. Chem. Rev., Volume 128, 1993, pp. 1ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of John Christian Bailar, Jr. at academictree.org, accessed on January 6, 2018.
  2. ↑ Bailar, Auten, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 56, 1934, p. 774
  3. ↑ Bailey, Corey, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 81, 1959, p. 2620
  4. ↑ Bailar and Ray-Dutt twist , Chemtube3d
personal data
SURNAME Bailar, John C. Junior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bailar, John Christian Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Golden (Colorado)
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 1991
Place of death Urbana (Illinois)