Arnold L. Rheingold (born October 6, 1940, died March 3, 2024) was an American chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the

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Early life

Rheingold was born in

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on October 6, 1940. He completed his B.S. in Chemistry in 1962 and M.S. in Inorganic Chemistry in 1963 from

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. From 1963 to 1965, he was a Project Manager at the Glidden Paint Company. He completed his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the

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in 1969.

Academic career

After completing his Ph.D. Rheingold became Research Associate Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He also worked on the faculty of State University of New York, Plattsburgh and State University of New York, Buffalo before joining the faculty at the

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in 1981. He left Delaware in 2003 and joined the faculty at the

Research

Rheingold's fields of expertise and research interest were main-group and transition-metal organometallic chemistry, gas-phase cluster synthesis, thermoelectric materials and single-crystal structural determinations. His research explores ways of using X-ray crystallography to provide rapid and accurate structural characterizations of new compounds in collaboration with several chemists from many other departments worldwide. He is one of the most cited researchers in Chemistry in the world, having authored a record 7,665 crystal structures in the Cambridge Structural Database.

References

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External links

Personal webpage of Arnold L. Rheingold
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