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Robert Howard Grubbs (born February 27, 1942 in Possum Trot, Kentucky) is an American chemist and Nobel laureate.
As he noted in his official Nobel Prize autobiography, "In some places, my birthplace is listed as Calvert City and in others Possum Trot [NB: both in Marshall County]. I was actually born between the two, so either one really is correct." He spent his early childhood in Marshall County and attended public school at McKinley Elementary, Franklin Junior High and Paducah Tilghman High School in Paducah, Kentucky. Grubbs studied chemistry at the University of Florida (B.S. and M.S.), where he worked with Merle Battiste, and Columbia University, where he obtained his Ph.D. under Ronald Breslow in 1968.
He next spent a year with James Collman at Stanford University. He was then appointed to the faculty of Michigan State University. In 1978 he moved to California Institute of Technology where he is the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry.
His main interests in organometallic chemistry and synthetic chemistry are catalysts, notably Grubbs' catalyst for olefin metathesis and ring-opening metathesis polymerization with cyclic olefins such as norbornene. He also contributed to the development of so-called "living polymerization".
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Dr. Richard R. Schrock, a faculty researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Yves Chauvin and Robert H. Grubbs, for the development of the "metathesis method." The three pioneered a new way to make plastics, medicines and other products with a “green” approach that reduces the production of potentially hazardous waste. The lecture, “From San Diego to Stockholm — My Path to Winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry,” highlights his life experiences and underscores the importance of the basic research that Schrock was able to do as an undergraduate student. About Schrock's research
Mike Giardello is the CEO and Co-Founder of Materia, a company which has successfully commercialized the Nobel Prize-winning olefin metathesis catalyst technology discovered at Caltech by Professor Robert H. Grubbs. The transformative Materia catalysts and resins are poised to help a broad range of industries create and manufacture novel materials that are more efficient, cleaner and less expensive than ever before. Mike is also the Co-Chair of Innovate Pasadena.
For a lot more videos, worksheets, problem sessions and 3D models on chemistry check out Epistemeo. It's FREE. http://www.epistemeo.com In this tutorial we go over the organometallic catalysed olefin metathesis reaction with particular emphasis on the Chauvin mechanism. In the example I use Grubbs' catalyst but the mechanisms can equally be applied to Schrock's or Hoveyda-Grubbs' catalysts etc.
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Occasion: Investiture ceremony of Nobel laureate Prof. Rudolph A. Marcus Date: Novermber 11, 2012 Venue: University of Hyderabad, India Speaker: Prof. Rudolph A. Marcus, California Institute of Technology, U.S.A. Topic: Electron Transfer Reactions, H Transfers in Enzymes, and "On-Water" Reactions. About the speaker: Prof. Rudolph A. Marcus is a Canadian-American chemist who has worked extensively and contributed majorly to the theory of electron-transfer. His theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems, known as "Marcus Theory" won him Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1992. The photo documentation of the lecture can be found at: http://uohdistinguishedlectures.blogspot.in/#!/2012/12/prof-rudolph-marcus-nobel-laureate-in.html Copyrights@2012, University of Hyderabad. Visu...
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