John E. Bercaw
John E. Bercaw (born December 3, 1944 in Cincinnati ) is an American chemist who deals with organometallic chemistry .
Bercaw received his bachelor's degree from North Carolina State University in 1967 and received his doctorate on titanocene (Titanocene as a Reactive Intermediate in the Reduction of Molecular Hydrogen and Nitrogen) at the University of Michigan in 1971 under Hans-Herbert Brintzinger . As a post-doctoral student , he was with Jack Halpern at the University of Chicago . From 1972 he was Arthur Amos Noyes Research Fellow at Caltech , where he became Assistant Professor in 1974, Associate Professor in 1977 and Professor in 1979. From 1993 he was a Centennial Professor there .
He deals with the synthesis, structure and mechanics of transition metal complexes in organic chemistry, their transformations and thermodynamics. He is also concerned with catalysts for the partial oxidation of hydrocarbons, for olefin trimerization and polymerization, especially catalysts of the pincer ligand type. He develops organometallic catalysts for CH bond activation and conversion of synthesis gas .
In 1989 he was visiting professor in Konstanz and visiting scholar at the Royal Society of Chemistry in Oxford and in 1990 Miller Professor in Berkeley.
Since 2017, Clarivate Analytics has counted him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize in Chemistry ( Clarivate Citation Laureates , formerly Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ) due to the number of his citations .
Honors and memberships
- 1980 American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry
- 1990 American Chemical Society Award in Organometallic Chemistry
- 1990 member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 1991 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1992 Edward Franklin Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 1997 ACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry
- 1999 Chemical Pioneer Award
- 1999 George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon and Petrochemistry from ACS,
- 2000 Arthur C. Cope Scholar
- 2001 honorary doctorate in Chicago
- 2012 Tolman Award
- 2014 Willard Gibbs Medal
From 1976 to 1978 he was a Sloan Research Fellow .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of John E. Bercaw at academictree.org, accessed on January 6, 2018.
- ^ Chemistry Tree
- ↑ This resulted in the publication: Brintzinger, Bercaw The Nature of So-Called Titanocene, (C10H10Ti) 2 , J. Am. Chem. Soc., 92, 6182 (1970)
- ↑ JA Labinger, Bercaw Understanding and exploiting CH bond activation , Nature, 417, 2002, 507-514
- ↑ The 2017 Clarivate Citation Laureates - Clarivate. (No longer available online.) In: clarivate.com. Archived from the original on September 20, 2017 ; accessed on September 21, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bercaw, John E. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cincinnati |