Robert G. Bergman

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Robert George Bergman (born May 23, 1942 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American chemist .

Life

Robert G. Bergman was born to Joseph J. and Stella Bergman, b. Horowitz, born. In 1963 he received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Carleton College . Under the supervision of Jerome Berson he was in 1966 at the University of Wisconsin for Ph. D. doctorate . Robert G. Bergman was a postdoctoral fellow in Ronald Breslow's laboratory at Columbia University , New York City , from 1966 to 1967 . He then moved to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , where he was Arthur Research Instructor (1967–1969), Assistant Professor (1969–1971), Associate Professor (1971–1973) and Full Professor (1973–1977). In 1970 he became a Sloan Research Fellow . From 1977 to 2002 he was Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and since 1978 he has also been a researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory . He has been the Gerald EK Branch Professor of Chemistry since 2002.

Bergman works in the field of organic chemistry . He first investigated the reaction mechanisms of organic reactions at Caltech . He developed methods for the representation of very reactive molecules , for example 1,3-di radicals and vinyl cations . In 1972 he discovered the thermal cyclization of cis-1,5-Hexadiyne-3-enes to 1,4-dehydro benzene -Diradikalen that than today Bergman cyclization is known. This reaction played a major role in understanding how enediyne antibiotics worked in the 1980s . Bergman has also been working in the field of organometallic chemistry since the mid-1970s . He made contributions to the synthesis and reaction of organometallic complexes and investigated organometallic compounds with metal-oxygen and metal-nitrogen bonds. He also discovered the first soluble organometallic complex of transition metals to which the addition of a saturated hydrocarbon (CH activation, CH insertion) was successful.

Bergman has been married to Wendy L. Street since June 17, 1965. They have two sons, David R. and Michael S. Bergman.

Publications

Bergman has published more than 400 articles in scientific journals. Since 2017, Clarivate Analytics has counted him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize in Chemistry ( Clarivate Citation Laureates , formerly Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ) due to the number of his citations .

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  1. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Robert G. Bergman at academictree.org, accessed on January 6, 2018th
  2. ^ Richard R. Jones, Robert G. Bergman: p-Benzyne. Generation as an intermediate in a thermal isomerization reaction and trapping evidence for the 1,4-benzenediyl structure . In: Journal of the American Chemical Society . Volume 94, No. 2, 1972, pp. 660-661.
  3. ↑ AH Janowicz and RG Bergman: CH activation in completely saturated hydrocarbons. Direct observation of M + RH right arrow M (R) (H). In: Journal of the American Chemical Society . Volume 104, 1982, pp. 352-354; almost simultaneously with JK Hoyano and WAG Graham: Oxidative addition of the carbon hydrogen bonds of neopentane and cyclohexane to a photochemically generated iridium (I) complex. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society . Volume 104, 1982, pp. 3723-3725.
  4. ↑ The 2017 Clarivate Citation Laureates - Clarivate. In: clarivate.com. Retrieved September 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Bergman, Robert G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bergman, Robert George (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois