Gerard "Ged" F. R. Parkin (born February 15, 1959) is a professor of chemistry at
Columbia University.
Biography
Gerard Parkin attended the
English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College before working under
Malcolm Green during both his
undergraduate and
graduate studies at
Queens College
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of
Oxford University. His work involved exploring the
chemistry
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of
tungsten phosphine derivatives. He obtained a
post-doctoral position at the
California Institute of Technology working with Professor
John Bercaw on
tungstenocene reactivity. In 1988, Ged joined the faculty at Columbia University, where he currently investigates a myriad of problems in
main group
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and
transition metal chemistry, including:
*
Calixarene complexes
*
Retrodative bonding, especially related to
boratranes
*
Group 6 reactivity relating to X-H (X=H, C, O)
bond activation,
hydrodesulfurization
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and
hydrodenitrogenation
Hydrodenitrogenation (HDN) is an industrial process for the removal of nitrogen from petroleum. Organonitrogen compounds, even though they occur at low levels, are undesirable because they cause poisoning of downstream catalysts. Furthermore, up ...
* The Tris(mercaptoimidazolyl) borate
Tm ligand
* Terminal
chalcogen metal bonding
*
Zinc complexes as models for biological systems
*
Antimony alkoxide
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s and
aryloxide
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s
*
Cleaving the
mercury
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* Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun
* Mercury (element), a metallic chemical element with the symbol Hg
* Mercury (mythology), a Roman god
Mercury or The Mercury may also refer to:
Companies
* Merc ...
–
carbon bond.
Honors
Parkin received the 2008
ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry and the 1994
ACS Award in pure chemistry from the
American Chemical Society.
He also received the
Corday–Morgan Medal from the
Royal Society of Chemistry in 1995. In 2009 he received the
Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, an award that was presented at a White House ceremony.
Ged Parkin
''The Parkin Website''
References
External links
{{DEFAULTSORT:Parkin, Gerard
1959 births
Living people
People educated at English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College
Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford
California Institute of Technology people
21st-century American chemists
Columbia University faculty