Davison, Alan

Prof. Dr. Alan Davison Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA... 

We thank Prof. John Goodby and Dr Avtar Matharu of the University of York for discussions about the use of fluorine in liquid crystal devices, and Prof. Alan Davison of the University of Newcastle and Dr Archie McCulloch of Marbury Technical Consulting for helpful suggestions regarding fluorochemicals in the environment. 

Fig. 4.5 John Emmett Ellis (born in 1943), a native of California, received his Ph.D. in 1971 from MIT under the direction of Alan Davison who opened his eyes to the challenge and wonder of inorganic syntheses (J. E. E.). In 1971, John joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota, where he is Professor of Chemistry since 1984. His recent honors include a Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, spent in Wolfgang Beck s group in Miinchen, and the F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry for his studies on the synthesis and characterization of compounds containing d-block elements in their lowest known formal oxidation states. John s research also includes investigations on the reactions of polyarene radical anions with high-valent transition metal precursors as a route to new classes of homoleptic polyarene metal species, in particular anionic ones. Those species can function as highly reactive sources of naked metal anions which previously had only been detected in the gas phase (photo by courtesy of J. E. E.)...

Prof. Dr. Alan Davison Prof. Dr. Michael J. S. Dewar Prof Dr. Klaus Hafner Prof Dr. Edgar Heilbronner Prof Dr. Ulrich Hofmann Prof Dr. Jean-Marie Lchn... 

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