Maurice Brookhart, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Maurice Brookhart

American chemist

Date of Birth: 28-Nov-1942

Place of Birth: Cumberland, Maryland, United States

Profession: chemist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Maurice Brookhart

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  • Brookhart is a Professor of Chemistry (2015 to the present) in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Houston.
  • Brookhart received his Bachelor of Science from Johns Hopkins University in 1964.
  • He received his Ph.D.
  • in 1968 from the University of California, Los Angeles, in physical organic chemistry where his thesis advisor was Saul Winstein.
  • After an NSF postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1968 and a NATO postdoctoral fellowship at Southampton University, England.
  • In 1969, he joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina, where he stayed until 2015, when he joined the University of Houston as a professor of Chemistry. His research group is noted for its research in the general area of synthetic and mechanistic organometallic chemistry.
  • A recent major thrust has been the development of post-metallocene catalysts based upon late transition metal complexes for olefin coordination polymerization.
  • They carry out their mechanistic investigation of the polymerization reactions primarily by low temperature IR and NMR spectroscopies.
  • The work provides a detailed understanding of catalyst resting states and relative intermediates. A second major focus of Brookhart’s group concerns fundamental studies of C-H and C-C bond activations by transition metal complexes and the incorporation of these bond activation steps into catalytic cycles.
  • They have successfully demonstrated catalysis of the ortho-alkylation of aromatic ketones, alkyl aldehyde isomerization, hydroacylation, and the dehydrogenation of alkoxy silanes to generate silyl enol ethers.
  • Recent work on alkane metathesis has received attention.He has over 200 publications in the scientific literature and holds over 22 US patents.
  • He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

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