Michael F. Lappert

Michael Franz Lappert (31 December 1928 – 28 March 2014)^[1] was an inorganic chemist. Mainly located at the University of Sussex, he was recognized for contributions to organometallic complexes.

He received his PhD in 1951 at the Northern Polytechnic, London.

His areas of research often included studies on low coordination numbers and metal amido complexes.^[2][3]

He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1971.

References

1. ↑ Professor Michael Franz Lappert FRS
2. ↑ Michael Lappert, Andrey Protchenko, Philip Power, Alexandra Seeber "Metal Amide Chemistry" Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2009. ISBN 0-470-72184-7
3. ↑ Bourget-Merle, L.; Lappert, M. F.; Severn, J. R. (2002). "The Chemistry of β-Diketiminatometal Complexes". Chem. Rev. 102: 3031–3066. doi:10.1021/cr010424r. 

• "Prof Michael Lappert, FRS's Biography". Debretts. Retrieved 2012-11-29.