Henri B. Kagan

Henri Boris Kagan (* December 15, 1930 in Boulogne -sur -Seine, Hauts -de -Seine, France ) is a French chemist.

Life and work

Henri Kagan was born the son of the engineer Alexandre Kagan and his wife Adeline Kagan, born Celniker. After attending school in Gueret, Sceaux and Paris, he studied at the Sorbonne. He received his degree in physics and engineering at the École nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris in 1954 as a researcher to the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS ) to go. In 1960 he was awarded his doctorate by J. Jacques, at the Collège de France, 1968 Lecturer at the University of Paris-Sud and director of the Laboratory for Stereoselective synthesis. From 1973 on he was professor of chemistry at the University of Paris-Sud, before he retired in 1999.

Kagan worked in the field of stereochemistry, organometallic chemistry and organic synthesis. He was involved in the development of stereoselective catalysis for the synthesis of chiral molecules. In 1971 he was able to start generating a large excess of a chiral product in alkene hydrogenation using a rhodium catalyst. The stereoselective catalysis is of great importance for the pharmaceutical industry and was honored in 2001 with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The fact that Kagan was not taken into account, provided for such great resentment among French scientists that the then French Minister of Science, Roger -Gérard Schwartzberg wrote a letter to the Nobel Foundation.

On 13 August 1960 he married Claude Vignon, with whom he has three children: Sylvie, Véronique, Anne.

Publications

Kagan since 1955 has published numerous articles in scientific journals.

  • With Dang Tuan Phat: Asymmetric catalytic reduction with transition metal complexes. I. Catalytic system of rhodium (I) with (-) -2,3-0 - isopropylidene -2 ,3- dihydroxy- 1 ,4-bis (diphenylphosphino) butane, A new chiral diphosphines. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. Volume 94 (18 ), 1972, pp. 6429-6433.
  • With P. Girard and JL Namy: Divalent lanthanide derivatives in organic synthesis. 1 Mild preparation of samarium iodide and ytterbium iodide and Their Use as reducing or coupling agents. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. Tape 102 (8 ), 1980, pp. 2693-2698.
  • With J. L. Namy: Lanthanides in organic synthesis. In: Tetrahedron. Volume 42 (24), 1986, pp. 6573-6614.
  • With Olivier Riant: Catalytic asymmetric Diels Alder reactions. In: Chemical Reviews. Belt 92 (5 ), 1992, pp. 1007-1019.
  • Organic stereochemistry. Thieme, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-13-532801-5 (French: Stéréochimie organique 1975. )
  • Editor of the book series Stereochemistry. Fundamentals and methods. Thieme, Stuttgart 1977, 4 volumes

Awards

Memberships

  • Société française de chimie
  • American Chemical Society
  • 1978 Corresponding Member and in 1991 a member of the Académie des sciences
  • 1994 Polska Akademia Nauk foreign member of the
  • 2000 Honorary Member of the Chemical Research Society of India
  • 2003 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
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