Richard R. Schrock

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Richard R. Schrock

Richard Royce Schrock (born January 4, 1945 in Berne , Indiana ) is an American chemist and Nobel Prize winner .

Life

Schrock attended high school in San Diego and studied at the University of California at Riverside , where he got his Bachelor of Science in 1967 . In 1971 he received his PhD from Harvard University under the direction of John A. Osborn . He then spent a year at the University of Cambridge and three years at the chemical company DuPont .

He has worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1975 and has been a professor since 1980. Since 1989 he has held the Frederick G Keyes Chair at MIT. Schrock is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1989), the National Academy of Sciences (1992) and the Royal Society (2008). In 1976 he became a Sloan Research Fellow .

Schrock is a co-founder and member of the supervisory board of XiMo AG, a Switzerland-based company that focuses on the development and application of its own metathesis catalysts.

He is married and has two children.

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Schrock conducts research in the field of organometallic chemistry , synthetic chemistry, inorganic chemistry , catalysts and polymers . In particular, he researches catalysts for olefin metathesis and ring-opening metathesis polymerizations . In 1990 he succeeded in developing a very reactive catalyst for olefin metathesis that is compatible with some functional groups . The metathesis catalysts from Robert Grubbs' work group , the so-called Grubbs catalysts , are less reactive, but compatible with almost all functional groups. That is why they are used more often in organic synthesis .

In October 2005, together with Yves Chauvin and Robert Grubbs , he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to the “development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis” . In 2013 he received an honorary doctorate from RWTH Aachen University .

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  1. ↑ RWTH Aachen: RWTH honorary doctorate for Nobel Prize winners
personal data
SURNAME Schrock, Richard R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schrock, Richard Royce (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Berne , Indiana