Robert H. Crabtree

Robert Howard Crabtree (born 17 April 1948) is a British-American chemist. He is serving as Conkey P. Whitehead Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Yale University in the United States. He is a naturalized citizen of the United States. Crabtree is particularly known for his work on "Crabtree's catalyst" for hydrogenations, and his textbook on organometallic chemistry.

Education

Robert Howard Crabtree studied at Brighton College (1959–1966), and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Oxford where he was a student at New College, Oxford in 1970, studying under Malcolm Green. He received his PhD from the University of Sussex in 1973, supervised by Joseph Chatt.

Career and research

After his PhD, he was a postdoctoral researcher with Hugh Felkin at the Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles at Gif-sur-Yvette, near Paris. He was a postdoctoral fellow (1973–1975) and then attaché de recherche (1975–1977). At the end of that time he was chargé de recherche. In 1977 Crabtree took an assistant professorship in Inorganic Chemistry at Yale University. He served as associate professor from 1982 to 1985, and as full professor from 1985 to 2021. In retirement, he now serves as an emeritus professor of chemistry.

Editorial positions and published works

*''The Organometallic Chemistry of the Transition Metals'' (7 editions) ()
*Inorganic Chemistry Section (editor) ''Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry'' (1992–1994)
*Associate Editor of ''New Journal of Chemistry'' (1998–2003)
*Editor-in-chief of ''Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III (2004–present)
*Editor-in-chief of ''Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry'' (2004–present)
*Board of regional editors of ''Science'' (2006–present)
*''Chemistry of the Transition Metals'' (2009)
*''Handbook of Green Chemistry – Green Catalysis'' (2009) (co-author)

Awards and honours

*named Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1981)
*named ''Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar'' (1982)
*received the Corday-Morgan Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry (1982)
*delivered the ''Esso Lectureship'' series (Toronto) (1986)
*named ''Albright and Wilson Visiting Professor'' at University of Warwick (1986)
*appointed to editorial board of Chemical Reviews (1990)
*received the ''Organometallic Chemistry Prize'' from American Chemical Society (1991)
*named ''Vice Chair of Organometallic Subdivision'' of ACS (1991)
*named ''Chair of Organometallic Subdivision'' of ACS (1992)
*received the ''Organometallic Chemistry Prize'' of ACS (1993)
*received the ''Mack Award'' from Ohio State University (1994)
*named ''H.C. Brown Lecturer'' at Purdue University (1996)
*named ''Vice Chair of Inorganic Chemistry Division'' of ACS (1997)
*named ''Chair of Inorganic Chemistry Division'' of ACS (1998)
*named ''Dow Lecturer'' at University of Ottawa (1999)
*received the ''ISI Highly Cited Author Award'' (2000)
*received the ''Bailar Medal'' at University of Illinois (2001)
*delivered ''Organometallic'' lecture at University of Richmond (2003)
*named ''Dow Lecturer'' at University of California, Berkeley (2004)
*delivered the ''Williams Lecture'' at University of Oxford (2004)
*delivered the ''Sabatier Lecture'' at University of Toulouse (2006)
*delivered the ''Brewster Lecture'' at Kansas State University (2006)
*received the ''Karcher Medal'' at Oklahoma State University (2007)
*delivered the ''Pedersen Lecture'' at DuPont (2008)
*named ''John Osborn Lecturer'' at University of Strasbourg (2009)
*named ''Mond Lecturer'' by the Royal Society of Chemistry (2009
*received an ACS ''Green Chemistry Award'' (2009)Chemical & Engineering News

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