Nick Greeves
Nick Greeves is a British chemist.
Greeves studied with Stuart Warren at Cambridge University , where he received his doctorate in 1986 with a dissertation on the Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction . He was a post-doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Stanford University with Barry Trost . From 1989 he was back in Liverpool, where he became a professor in 2015. There he is Director of Learning and Teaching in Chemistry and heads the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) working group.
He is co-author of a popular textbook on organic chemistry. He developed software for interactive three-dimensional representation of molecules (ChemTube3D).
Greeves deals with organic synthesis and the development of stereoselective methods for this, in particular for the synthesis of biologically active substances and natural products. Together with Helen Aspinall, he developed new organometallic reagents and catalysts for the formation of CC bonds and is concerned with green chemistry (extraction of useful chemicals from biomass).
In 2009 he received a HEA National Teaching Fellowship and in 2014 he became a Senior Fellow of the HEA. In 2015 he received the Nyholm Prize for Education from the Royal Society of Chemistry .
In 2002 he was visiting professor at Louvain-la-Neuve University.
Fonts
- with Jonathan Clayden , Stuart Warren : Organic Chemistry, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition 2012. ISBN 978-0-19-927029-3
- German edition: Organic Chemistry, Springer Spectrum 2013, ISBN 3642347150
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Greeves, Nick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |