Jack Richard Norton (born May 5, 1945) is an American

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chemist and Professor at

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. His research has focused on the studying the reactivity and properties of transition metal hydrides. He coauthored the textbook "Principles and Applications of Organotransition Metal Chemistry."

Education and career

Norton was born in

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in 1945. He received his B.A. from

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in 1967 and was awarded his Ph.D. at

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in 1972 under the mentorship of

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. After a postdoctoral appointment with Jack Lewis, he was appointed assistant professor at

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. He moved to

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in 1979, and again to

in 1997, where he remains Professor of Chemistry. From 1992-2003 he was an associate editor of

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His laboratory demonstrated the possibility of dinuclear reductive elimination from transition metal alkyls and hydrides by comparing the mechanisms of reductive elimination from (H)₂Os(CO)₄, (H)(CH₃)Os(CO)₄, and (CH₃)₂Os(CO)₄. His group later reported some of the first detailed pK_a measurements of metal hydrides and demonstrated that the rates of protonation at transition metals can be quite slow. His group has also reported on the use of metal-hydride bonds as radical initiators of cyclization reactions. In 2005 he received the ACS Award for Organometallic Chemistry and in 2013 the Cope Scholar Award

External links

Norton Research Group at Columbia

References

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