Professor
Robert Howard Crabtree
Yale University
Chemist; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Chemistry
Elected
2011
Advanced the science of carbon-hydrogen bond activation, discovered dihydrogen bonding, the widely used Crabtree's catalyst, and homogeneous water oxidation catalysts. Showed how molecular recognition catalysts afford diasteroselective C-H bond activation and functionalization. Discovered complexes of molecular hydrogen using new nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation time spectroscopic criteria. Current interest in artificial photosynthesis, nitrogen fixation and energy storage.
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