Philip Eaton
Philip Eugene Eaton (born June 2, 1936 in Brooklyn ) is an American chemist ( organic chemistry ).
Eaton studied at Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in 1957 and at Harvard University with a master's degree in 1960 as well as his doctorate in 1961 under Peter Yates with the subject isomerization in the dicyclopentadiene series; Acceleration of the Diels-Alder reaction by aluminum chloride; Studies in the chemistry of perchloro compounds . In 1960 he became an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley and in 1962 at the University of Chicago , where he received a full professorship in 1972.
Eaton was one of the group who synthesized the exotic cubane molecule , a carbon cube , in 1964 . In 1999, together with Mao-Xi Zhang, he synthesized octanitrocubane , a cubane with nitro groups on every corner, which is a high-explosive.
In 1986 he received the Humboldt Research Award and he is an Arthur C. Cope Scholar . From 1963 to 1969 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . He was a consultant at DuPont from 1965 to 1972 and from 1983 at Dow Chemical . Since 1981 he has also been doing research for the US Army.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ Biographical data, publications and academic pedigree of Philip E. Eaton at academictree.org, accessed on January 31, 2018.
- ↑ M.-X. Zhang, PE Eaton, R. Gilardi: Hepta- and Octanitrocubane , in: Angew. Chem. 2000, 112, 422-426; doi : 10.1002 / (SICI) 1521-3757 (20000117) 112: 2 <422 :: AID-ANGE422> 3.0.CO; 2-2 .
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| SURNAME | Eaton, Philip |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eaton, Philip Eugene (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Chemist (Organic Chemistry) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York |