Malcolm LH Green
Malcolm LH Green , often cited MLH Green , (born April 16, 1936 in Eastleigh , Hampshire , † July 24, 2020 ) was a British chemist .
Green received his bachelor's degree from Acton Technical College, London in 1956 and received his PhD from Imperial College in 1959 under Geoffrey Wilkinson . In 1960 he became an assistant lecturer at Cambridge University and in 1961 a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In 1963 he became a Septcentennary Fellow in Inorganic Chemistry at Balliol College at Oxford University , in 1965 he became a Lecturer at Oxford and from 1979 to 1986 he was a Royal Society Research Fellow there. In 1989 he became Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Oxford and Director of the Laboratory for Inorganic Chemistry at Oxford and a Fellow of St. Catherine's College. In 2004 he retired, but continued his research in Oxford.
In 2006 he was one of the founders of the Oxford Catalysts Group , which resulted from his development of selective catalysts made from metal carbides for the partial oxidation of methane .
He has been visiting professor in Paris (École de Chimie, Institute des Substances Naturelles), Sherman Fairchild Scholar at Caltech (1981), visiting professor at Harvard University (1975) and at the Technical University of Munich (1991).
Green made important contributions to organometallic chemistry with transition metals. He was the first to demonstrate CH activation, the insertion of transition metals into CH bonds. Here he coined the term agostic interaction with Maurice Brookhart . From the 1990s onwards, he dealt with heterogeneous catalysis and carbon nanotechnology, for example carbon nanotubes.
Honors
- 1972 Corday Morgan Medal in Inorganic Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry
- 1978 Medal in Transition Metal Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry
- 1982 Tilden Lecture and Prize
- 1984 American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry
- 1986 Medal in Organometallic Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry
- 1989 Sir Edward Frankland Prize and Lecture
- 1992 Karl Ziegler Prize
- 1995 Davy Medal
- 1997 ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry
- 2015 European Prize for Organometallic Chemistry
In 1985 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Professor Malcolm Green 1936-2020 accessed on 25 August 2020
- ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Malcolm LH Green in academictree.org, accessed on 7 February 2018th
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Green, Malcolm LH |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Green, MLH |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eastleigh |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 2020 |