David Milstein
David Milstein ( born June 4, 1947 in Ulm) is an Israeli chemist ( Organometallic Chemistry ). He is Emeritus Professor at the Weizmann Institute.
Life
Milstein came with his family to Israel in 1949. He studied at the Hebrew University with a bachelor 's degree in 1968, her Master's degree in 1969 and his doctorate at J. Bum 1976. As a post-doctoral researcher, he was at the University of Iowa and Colorado State University with John Kenneth silence. He was co- author of the publication of the Stille coupling 1978. Between 1979 and 1986 he was a chemist at DuPont in Wilmington (Delaware), most recently as group leader for homogeneous catalysis. In 1987 he became associate professor in 1992 and professor at the Weizmann Institute. 1996 to 2005 he headed the Department of Organic Chemistry (since 1996 when Israel Matz Professor ) and from 2000 he was director of the Kimmel Center for Molecular Design.
He has been a visiting professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure, at the ETH Zurich, the University of Heidelberg, Miller Professor at Berkeley, Visiting Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai, Spain, Taiwan, Toulouse and at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
He has been married since 1971 and has three children.
Work
It deals with The organometallic chemistry and the development of transition metal catalysts and reactions for green chemistry, for example, hydrolysis and hydrogen production from renewable resources. He developed various reactions with transition metal complexes to activate strong CC, CH, CF, NH and OH bonds, such as the above-mentioned Stille coupling (CC bond). He used ruthenium catalysts Pincer - type for the reinforcement of NH and OH bonds and used these for a new method for the preparation of amides from the coupling of alcohols and amines. The procedure was counted by the journal Science in 2007 to the openings of the year. As the only waste it creates hydrogen gas .. In 2009 he described a method of conserving water splitting by sunlight with the help of a ruthenium complex ..
Honors and Memberships
He is since 2012 member of the Israel Academy of Sciences, is a member of the Miller Institute of Basic Research in Berkeley, and since 2006 the Leopoldina. In 2010 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
In 2009 he received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council.
Writings
In addition to the references cited in the footnotes work
- M. Gozin, A. Weisman, Y. Ben- David, D. Milstein: Activation of a carbon-carbon bond in solution by transition -metal insertion, Nature 364, 699-701 (1993).
- M. Gozin, M. Aizenberg, S.-Y. Liou, A. Weisman, Y. Ben- David, D. Milstein: transfer of methylene groups promoted by metal complexation, Nature 370, 42-44 (1994).
- M. Aizenberg, D. Milstein: Catalytic activation of carbon- fluorine bonds by a soluble transition metal complex, Science 265, 359-361 (1994).
- K. Tollner, R. Popovitz -Biro, M. Lahav, D. Milstein,: Impact of molecular order in Langmuir -Blodgett films on catalysis, Science, 278, 2100-2102 (1997).
- J. Zhang, G. Leitus, Y. Ben- David, D. Milstein: Facile conversion of alcohols into esters and dihydrogen catalyzed by new ruthenium complexes, J. Am. Chem Soc. 127, 10840-10841 ( 2005).