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Robert H. Crabtree

Professor, Inorganic Chemistry; Organic Chemistry
E-mail: robert.crabtree@yale.edu
Web site: http://www.chem.yale.edu/~crabtree

Biographical Sketch

B.A. New College, Oxford 1970
Ph.D. Sussex University 1973
Postdoc CNRS, Gif-s-Yvette, France, 1973-75
Attaché de Recherche Gif, 1975-77
Joined Yale Faculty 1977
DuPont Young Faculty Fellow, 1977
A.P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1981
Junior Faculty Fellow, Yale, 1981
Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, 1982
Corday-Morgan Medal, 1984
Esso Lectureship, Toronto, 1986
Albright and Wilson Visiting Prof., Warwick, 1986
Editorial Board, Chemical Reviews, 1990-
Organometallic Chemistry Prize of RSC, 1991
Organometallic Chemistry Prize of ACS, 1993
Mack Award, Ohio State Univ., 1994
Editorial Board, J. Mol. Catal., 1995-
Chair, Div. of Inorg. Chem., ACS., 1998
Ed. Board, Comptes Rendues (Paris), 1998
Assoc. Ed., Americas, New J. Chem., 1998
Dow Lecturer, Univ. of Ottowa, 1999
ISI Highly Cited Author Award, 2000
Bailar Medal, Univ. of Illinois, 2001
Rh Bicentennial Award; Ed. Board, Coor. Chem. Rev., 2002
Dow Lecturer, Berkeley, 2004

Research Description

Inorganic, Organometallic and Bioinorganic Chemistry. Design and synthesis of inorganic, coordination or organometallic molecules with unusual structures, useful catalytic properties or bioinorganic relevance. Molecular recognition in homogeneous catalysis. Computational and physicochemical insights from collaborative work.

Selected References

• Macchioni A, Zuccaccia C, Clot E, Gruet K, Crabtree RH, Selective ion pairing in [Ir(bipy)H₂(PRPh₂)₂]A (A = PF₆, BF₄, CF₃SO₃, BPh₄, R = Me, Ph): Experimental identification and theoretical understanding. Organometallics 2001, 20, 2367-2373.
• Gründemann, S., Kovacevic, A., Albrecht, M., Faller, J. W., Crabtree, R. H., Abnormal Ligand Binding and Reversible Ring Hydrogenation in the Reaction of imidazolium salts with IrH₅(PPh₃)₂, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2002, 124, 10473 - 10481.
• Li, X, Incarvito, CD, Crabtree, RH, A Rare η²-Butadienyl Complex from an Alkyne Double Insertion with Double Vinylidene Rearrangement, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 3698-3699.
• Clot E, Chen J, Lee D-H, Sung SY, Appelhans LN, Faller JW, Crabtree RH, Eisenstein O, Double Geminal C-H Activation and Reversible α-Elimination in 2-Aminopyridine Iridium(III) Complexes: the Role of Hydrides and Solvent in Flattening the Free Energy Surface. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, ASAP.
• Chen H, Faller JW, Crabtree RH, Brudvig, GW, Dimer-of-Dimers Model for the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II. Synthesis and Properties of [Mn^IV₄O₅(terpy)₄(H₂O)₂](ClO₄)₆ , J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, ASAP

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