Robert H. Crabtree

Robert Howard Crabtree (born 17 April 1948 in London) is a British chemist. He is presently serving as Whitehead Professor of Chemistry at Yale University in the United States. He is a naturalized citizen of the United States.^[1] He is known for the iridium-based Crabtree's catalyst for hydrogenations, and for his textbook on organometallic chemistry.

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 (1982)
• 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 an 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 (5 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)
• Chemistry of the Transition Metals (2009)
• Handbook of Green Chemistry - Green Catalysis (2009) (co-author)

References

External links

• Crabtree Lab Homepage