Maurice Brookhart

Maurice Brookhart

Maurice S. Brookhart (born November 28, 1942 in Cumberland (Maryland) ) is an American chemist who deals with organic chemistry and especially organometallic chemistry .

Life

Brookhart received his bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1964 and received his PhD in organic chemistry with Saul Winstein in 1968 from the University of California, Los Angeles (“Direct observation of carbonium ions by NMR in strong acid media”). He was a post-doctoral student and NATO fellow at the University of Southampton . In 1969 he became an Associate Professor and in 1976 Professor at the University of North Carolina . From 1990 he was there William R. Kenan Jr. Professor .

Among other things, he was visiting professor at Oxford (1982/83), at the University of Wisconsin, in Rennes, Toulouse, Berkeley, Marburg, Seville and at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim (2003).

He deals with transition metal complexes in organic synthesis and catalysis. In particular with novel catalysts ( late transitional metal complexes ) for olefin polymerization, with which polymers with unusual structures can be built. He also works on CH and CC bond activation with transition metal complexes for the development of catalysts. He is a co-discoverer of Brookhart's acid, named after him .

With Malcolm LH Green he coined the term agostic interaction in 1983 .

In 1996 he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2001 of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . He is an honorary doctor in Rennes. In 2001 he was in Marburg with a Humboldt Research Prize . He received the ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry in 2003, the Willard Gibbs Medal in 2010 , was an Arthur C. Cope Scholar in 1994, was a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 1995 and received the American Chemical Society Award in Organometallic Chemistry in 1992 . In 2000 he was Centenary Lecturer at the Royal Society of Chemistry.

He was one of the editors of Organometallics.

Brookhart has been married since 1965 and has two children.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
2. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Maurice S. Brookhart at academictree.org, accessed on January 1, 2018.
3. ↑ M. Brookhart, B. Grant, AF Volpe: [(3,5- (CF3) 2C6H3) 4B] - [H (OEt2) 2] +: a convenient reagent for generation and stabilization of cationic, highly electrophilic organometallic complexes . In: Organometallics . tape 11 , no. November 11 , 1992, ISSN  0276-7333 , pp. 3920-3922 , doi : 10.1021 / om00059a071 .