Robert H. Crabtree
Robert H. Crabtree (born 17 April 1948 in London) is a British chemist. He is presently serving as a professor of Chemistry at Yale University in the United States. He is a naturalized citizen of the United States.[1]
Dr. Crabtree is not to be confused with Robert H. Crabtree, founder and chief scientist of the Yellowstone Ecological Research Center.
Career
Crabtree studied at Brighton College (1959-1966). He received a B.A. degree from New College, Oxford in 1970, studying under Malcolm Green. He received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Sussex in 1973, studying under Joseph Chatt. He performed postdoctoral research under Hugh Felkin at the Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles at Gif-sur-Yvette, near Paris. He was a postdoctoral fellow (1973-1975) and then attaché de recherche (1975-1977). At the end of that time he was chargé de recherche.
In 1977 Crabtree took an assistant professorship in Inorganic Chemistry at Yale University. He served as associate professor from 1982-1985, and as full professor from 1985 until the present.
Awards and honors
- named Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1981)
- named Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar (1982)
- received the Corday-Morgan Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry (1984)
- delivered the Esso Lectureship series (Toronto) (1986)
- named Albright and Wilson Visiting Professor at University of Warwick (1986)
- appointed to editorial board of Chemical Reviews (1990)
- received the Organometallic Chemistry Prize from American Chemical Society (1991)
- named Vice Chair of Organometallic Subdivision of ACS (1991)
- named Chair of Organometallic Subdivision of ACS (1992)
- received the Organometallic Chemistry Prize of ACS (1993)
- received the Mack Award from Ohio State University (1994)
- named H.C. Brown Lecturer at Purdue University (1996)
- named Vice Chair of Inorganic Chemistry Division of ACS (1997)
- named Chair of Inorganic Chemistry Division of ACS (1998)
- named Dow Lecturer at University of Ottawa (1999)
- received the ISI Highly Cited Author Award (2000)
- received the Bailar Medal at University of Illinois (2001)
- delivered Organometallic lecture at University of Richmond (2003)[2]
- named Dow Lecturer at University of California, Berkeley (2004)
- delivered the Williams Lecture at University of Oxford (2004)
- delivered the Sabatier Lecture at University of Toulouse (2006)
- delivered the Brewster Lecture at Kansas State University (2006)
- received the Karcher Medal at Oklahoma State University (2007)
- delivered the Pedersen Lecture at DuPont (2008)
- named John Osborn Lecturer at University of Strasbourg (2009)
- named Mond Lecturer by the Royal Society of Chemistry (2009[3]
- received the ACS Green Chemistry Award (2009)[4]
Crabtree is noted for his work in iridium-catalyzed hydrogenation reactions, and particularly for his work on the so-called Crabtree's catalyst.
Editorial Positions and Published works
- The Organometallic Chemistry of the Transition Metals (4 editions)(ISBN 0-471-66256-9)
- Inorganic Chemistry Section (editor) Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry (1992-1994)
- Associate Editor of New Journal of Chemistry (1998-2003)
- Editor-in-chief of Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III (2004-present)
- Editor-in-chief of Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry (2004-present)
- Board of regional editors of Science (2006-present)
- The Organometallic Chemistry of the Main Group Metals (2002) (co-author)
- Chemistry of the Transition Metals (2009)
- Handbook of Green Chemistry - Green Catalysis (2009) (co-author)
References
- ^ Yale Faculty webpage
- ^ http://blog.richmond.edu/chemistry/seminar/2003
- ^ http://ursula.chem.yale.edu/~crabtree/CV_May_08.pdf Yale Faculty webpage
- ^ Chemical & Engineering News, 23 February 2009, "2009 ACS National Award Winners", p. 68