Michael Franz Lappert (31 December 1928 – 28 March 2014) was a Czech-born British

inorganic chemist Inorganic chemistry deals with synthesis and behavior of inorganic and organometallic compounds. This field covers chemical compounds that are not carbon-based, which are the subjects of organic chemistry. The distinction between the two discipl ...

. Mainly located at the University of Sussex, he was recognized for contributions to

organometallic complex Organometallic chemistry is the study of organometallic compounds, chemical compounds containing at least one chemical bond between a carbon atom of an organic molecule and a metal, including alkali, alkaline earth, and transition metals, and s ...

es.

Early life and education

Lappert was born in

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and came to the UK as a ''

Kindertransport The ''Kindertransport'' (German for "children's transport") was an organised rescue effort of children (but not their parents) from Nazi-controlled territory that took place during the nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World ...

'' refugee. He received his

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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 Metal amides (systematic name metal azanides) are a class of coordination compounds composed of a metal center with amide ligands of the form NR2−. Amide ligands have two electron pairs available for bonding. In principle, they can be terminal or ...

Awards and honours

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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lappert, Michael Franz 1928 births 2014 deaths Inorganic chemists British chemists Fellows of the Royal Society