Chauvin, Yves

Chauvin, Yves. (1930- ). Bom in France, Chauvin won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2005 for his pioneering work concerning the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis. Chauvin received his degree from the Lyons School of Chemistry, Physics and Electronics in 1954. He is honorary research director at the Institut Francis du Petrole and a member of the French Academy of Science. 

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Since the first reports on olefin metathesis in the 1960s [88, 89], this elementary C-C bond forming reaction has sparked an enormous activity in organometalhc research, culminating in the award of the Nobel Prize to Yves Chauvin, Richard Schrock and Robert Grubbs in 2005. 

Schrock R. R. Murdzek, J. S. Bazan, G. C. Robbins, J. DiMare, M. O Regan, M. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1990, 112, 3875. Richard Schrock is a professor at MIT. He shared the 2005 Nohel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Gruhhs of Caltech and Yves Chauvin of Institnt Frangais dn Petrole in France for their contrihntions to metathesis. 

Yves Chauvin France development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis... 

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The 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Yves Chauvin (French Petroleum Institute), Robert Grubbs (Caltech), and Richard Schrock (MIT) for developing effective ways to induce alkenes to undergo metathesis. 

Several mechanisms were proposed to explain the catalytic metathesis reactions, but the mechanism published by Yves Chauvin in 1971 has come to be accepted as correct. We can think of an alkene as two alkylidene groups bonded together. Similarly, the Schrock and Grubbs catalysts are like a metal atom bonded to one alkylidene group. 

Yves Chauvin (Fig. 8.5) was born on the 10th of October 1930 in Menin in Western Flanders near to the border between Belgium and France. His father was an electrical engineer and both of his parents were French. He went first to the pre-school in Flanders and then to the primary school in France, which meant that he had to cross the border every day. He continued his higher education in various places but was - as he confessed in his autobiography - not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school [257]. The decision to choose chemistry as the main discipline occurred rather by chance following his belief that you can become passionately involved in your work whatever it is . In 1954, he received a... 

Fig. 8.5 Yves Chauvin at the time when he received the Nobel Prize (photo reproduced with permission of CPE Lyon, by courtesy of Professor Jean-Marie Basset)...

Yves Chauvin of the Institut Frangais du Petrole, and Richard Schrock of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for their work on olefin metathesis. 

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In 2005, Yves Chauvin, Robert Grubbs, and Richard Schrock were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their fundamental studies on the mechanism and applications of metathesis. We will encounter much of their work in the following sections. 

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