Kenneth Berle Wiberg (born September 22, 1927) is an American
Professor Emeritus
''Emeritus'' (; female: ''emerita'') is an adjective used to designate a retired chair, professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, rabbi, emperor, or other person who has been "permitted to retain as an honorary title ...
of
organic chemistry
Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds and organic materials, i.e., matter in its various forms that contain carbon atoms.Clayden, J.; ...
at
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
. He contributed to many aspects of organic chemistry including physical and synthetic aspects.
Scholarship
In the area of synthetic organic chemistry, Wiberg and his students reported the preparation of highly strained organic compounds
bicyclobutane
Bicyclobutane is an organic compound with the formula C4H6. It is a bicyclic molecule consisting of two ''cis''-fused cyclopropane rings, and is a colorless and easily condensed gas. Bicyclobutane is noted for being one of the most strained co ...
and
ropellane">.1.1ropellane:
:
Recognition
* He is a member of the
National Academy of Sciences and the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, a ...
and an
American Association of Arts and Sciences fellow.
* In 1988, he won the
Arthur C. Cope Award
The Arthur C. Cope Award is a prize awarded for achievement in the field of organic chemistry research. It is sponsored by the Arthur C. Cope Fund, and has been awarded annually since 1973 by the American Chemical Society. It consists of $25,000, ...
.
* Asteroid
27267 Wiberg
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube.
As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, ...
, discovered by American astronomer
John V. McClusky at Fair Oaks Ranch Observatory in 1999, was named in his honor.
The official was published by the
Minor Planet Center on 7 January 2004 ().
References
External links
Homepageat Yale
1927 births
Living people
21st-century American chemists
Yale University faculty
{{US-chemist-stub