Yves Chauvin

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Yves Chauvin (2005)

Yves Chauvin (born  October 10, 1930 in Menen , Belgium , † January 28, 2015 in Tours , France ) was a French chemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2005.

Life

Yves Chauvin completed his studies at the École Supérieure de Chimie Industrielle de Lyon (now CPE Lyon ), where he graduated in 1954. He spent almost his entire scientific life at the Institut Français du Pétrole (IFP) in Rueil-Malmaison near Paris . He retired in the mid-1990s and was Director of Research Honoraire (honorary research director) until the end . Since 1996 he has been a member of the Académie des Sciences .

Little is known about Chauvin's life; the scientist lived in seclusion in Tours . He was married, his wife died in 2004. Chauvin died on January 28, 2015 at the age of 84 in Tours.

plant

In 1970, Chauvin first described in detail olefin metathesis , in which olefins ( alkenes ) are synthesized from other olefins. It was not until 1990 that Richard R. Schrock succeeded in developing a chemically defined catalyst for this process. After Robert Grubbs developed the air-stable Grubbs catalyst two years later , it is now used in the chemical industry.

In December 2005, Chauvin received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Schrock and Grubbs for these findings.

In a first statement, Chauvin described the awarding of the Nobel Prize to him as "extremely embarrassing" and announced that he would not attend the award ceremony on December 10, 2005 in Stockholm . However, he later attended the award ceremony and previously held his Nobel Lecture on December 8, 2005 at Stockholm University.

Publications

  • A. Martinato, Y. Chauvin and G. Lefebvre: Kinetic aspects of the "period of adjustment" during polymerization (of propylene) with titanium trichloride-triethylaluminium . In: Compt. Rend. Volume 258, No. 17, 1964, pp. 4271-4273.
  • M. Uchino, Y. Chauvin and G. Lefebvre: Dimerization of propylene by nickel complexes . In: Compt. Rend. C . Volume 265, No. 2, 1967, pp. 103-106.
  • JL Herisson and Y. Chauvin: Catalysis of olefin transformations by tungsten complexes. II. Telomerization of cyclic olefins in the presence of acyclic olefins . In: The Macromolecular Chemistry . Volume 141, 1971, pp. 161-176. (This article is occasionally cited as 1970 as the year of publication due to a typographical error in the original publication.)
  • Y. Chauvin, B. Gilbert and I. Guibard: Catalytic dimerization of alkenes by nickel complexes in organochloroaluminate molten salts . In: Chem. Comm. Volume 23, 1990, pp. 1715-1716.
  • L. Magna, GP Niccolai, Y. Chauvin and J.-M. Basset: The importance of imidazolium substitutes in the use of imidazolium based room temperature ionic liquids as solvents for palladium catalyzed telomerization of butadiene with methanol . In: Organometallics . Volume 22, No. 22, 2003, pp. 4418-4425.

literature

Web links

Commons : Yves Chauvin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ rp-online.de: Nobel laureate in chemistry Yves Chauvin is dead
  2. ↑ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Yves Chauvin at academictree.org, accessed on January 28, 2018.
  3. ^ Addio a Yves Chauvin, Nobel per la chimica 2005. In: La Repubblica of January 29, 2015 (Italian, accessed January 29, 2015).
  4. ^ Spiegel Online : Nobel laureate finds award embarrassing from October 5, 2005
personal data
SURNAME Chauvin, Yves
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French chemist and Nobel laureate in chemistry (2005)
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Menen , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 2015
Place of death Tours , France