Wilkinson, Geoffrey organometallic chemistry

Fig. 2.21 Ernst Otto Fischer and Geoffrey Wilkinson dancing at the final reception of the Conference on Organometallic Chemistry at Ettal, Germany, in July 1974 (photo by courtesy of Professor Wolfgang Beck)...

In 1980, at age 35, Schrock (Fig. 8.6) was promoted to full professor at MIT and named the Frederick G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry in 1989. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science and the National Academy of Science. Apart from the Nobel Prize, he received inter alia the ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry, the ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry, an ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, and the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Medal. In the concluding remarks of his Nobel Lecture [78], he emphasized that he and others have come an enormous distance in the last 30 years, from... 

Wilkinson, Geoffrey. (1921-1996). A British organic chemist who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1973 with Fischer. Their work involved research on organometallic compounds. He was a professor at the University of California and Harvard before returning to University of London as professor of inorganic chemistry. 

Abel, Edward F. Stone, F. Gordon A. and Wilkinson, Geoffrey, eds. (1995). Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry II A Review of the Literature 1982-1994, Cumulative Indexes, Vol. 14. New York Pergamon. 

Geoffrey Wilkinson (Imperial College, London) shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Ernst 0. Fischer (Munich) for their achievements in organometallic chemistry. In addition to his work on catalysts for homogeneous hydrogenation, Wilkinson collaborated on determining the structure of ferrocene as well as numerous other aspects of organometallic compounds. 

Ernst Otto Fischer and Geoffrey Wilkinson Nobel Chemistry Prize for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic so-called sandwich compounds... 

The generally accepted mechanism for olefin cross-metathesis is outlined for the case of propene in Mechanism 14.4. The catalyst belongs to a class of organometallics known as a metallocarbene, carbene complex, or alkylidene complex. Its structure is characterized by a carbon-metal double bond. In olefin metathesis the metal is typically ruthenium (Ru), tungsten (W), or molybdenum (Mo). Transition-metal carbene complexes were first prepared by Ernst O. Fischer (Munich) who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Geoffrey Wilkinson. 

Wilkinson, Sir Geoffrey (1921-96) British chemist whose main work was in the investigation of the organometallic compounds. His study of ferrocene showed that its molecule consisted of an atom of iron sandwiched between two five-sided rings of carbons and hydrogens. Thousands of substances with this kind of structure have since been synthesized and found to be of great chemical importance. He was awarded the 1973 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Ernst Fischer. 

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