Michael F. Lappert

Michael Franz Lappert FRS[1](31 December 1928 – 28 March 2014)[2] was an inorganic chemist. Mainly located at the University of Sussex, he was recognized for contributions to organometallic complexes.[3]

Michael Lappert

Born(1928-12-31)31 December 1928
Died28 March 2014(2014-03-28) (aged 85)[1]
Alma materNorthern Polytechnic
Scientific career
Fieldsinorganic chemistry
ThesisInteraction of boron trichloride with alcohols and ethers (1951)

Education

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

Career and research

His areas of research often included studies on low coordination numbers and metal amido complexes.[4][5]

Awards and honours

Lappert was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1979.[1]

References

  1. Leigh, G. Jeffery; Nixon, John F. (2016). "Michael Franz Lappert. 31 December 1928 — 28 March 2014". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. London: Royal Society. 62: 277–298. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2016.0014.
  2. "Professor Michael Franz Lappert FRS". Archived from the original on 2014-10-23.
  3. "Prof Michael Lappert, FRS's Biography". Debretts. Retrieved 2012-11-29.
  4. Michael Lappert, Andrey Protchenko, Philip Power, Alexandra Seeber "Metal Amide Chemistry" Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2009. ISBN 0-470-72184-7
  5. Bourget-Merle, L.; Lappert, M. F.; Severn, J. R. (2002). "The Chemistry of β-Diketiminatometal Complexes". Chem. Rev. 102 (9): 3031–3066. doi:10.1021/cr010424r. PMID 12222981.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.