Thomas B. Rauchfuss

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Thomas B. Rauchfuss (born September 11, 1949 in Baltimore ) is professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Illinois .

life and work

Rauchfuss studied chemistry at the University of Puget Sound in North Tacoma , which he graduated in 1971 with a bachelor's degree. In 1976 he received his PhD from Washington State University . This was followed by a postdoc with David Buckingham at the Australian National University . He then moved to the University of Illinois as Lycan Professor of Chemistry . During this time, Rauchfuss held visiting professorships in Auckland , Strasbourg and Karlsruhe . In 1983 he became a Sloan Research Fellow . Rauchfuss' field of work is the synthesis and reactivity of inorganic, organometallic and main group compounds. Among other things, he investigated metal carbonyl compounds , which serve as model substances of the active center for naturally occurring enzymes such as hydrogenase .

Prizes and awards

  • 2001 American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry
  • 2018 ACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TB Rauchfuss et al .: Bimetallic Carbonyl Thiolates as Functional Models for Fe-Only Hydrogenases , in: Inorganic Chemistry , 2002 , 41 (25), pp. 6573-6582, doi : 10.1021 / ic025838x .
  2. ↑ 2018 National Award Recipients .

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personal data
SURNAME Rauchfuss, Thomas B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore