Venanzi, Luigi

Submitted by VADIM YU. KUKUSHKIN, VALENTINA M. TKACHUK/ and NIKOLAY V. VOROBIOV-DESI AlOVSKYf Checked by STANISLAV CHALOUPKA and LUIGI M. VENANZI ... 

In a historical account, Luigi Venanzi wrote I wonder how many readers have actually seen Kealy and Pauson s 1951 Nature article ... 

After this we embarked upon a comprehensive study of the infrared spectra of amine complexes of platinum and palladium. By we, I don t just mean Joe, the leader, and myself, but Alan Williams, George Gamlen, Bernard Shaw and last, but far from least, Luigi Venanzi who had the gift of being able to synthesise any compound you could think of which might have an interesting infrared spectrum. Incidentally I remember him not just for his chemical skills but as the most... 

Papers presented in the Joe Chatt Chemistry session illustrate the breadth of his contributions and their continuing legacy as well as the new directions, approaches and techniques, unanticipated by Chatt, but which would have excited his interest. Authors include many of Chatt s co-workers, collaborators and former students as well as those acknowledging a scientific debt to his pioneering work. It is sad to recall that we had hoped that Luigi Venanzi would have been among them but his illness and later passing prevented this. 

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