Robert H. Crabtree

Robert Howard Crabtree ( born April 17, 1948 in London ) is a British chemist. He is known for the iridium - based Crabtree catalyst used for hydrogenation and for his textbook on organometallic chemistry.

Life and work

Crabtree studied 1959-1966 Chemistry at Brighton College. He received a B. A. Degree from New College, Oxford in 1970, where he studied in the group of Malcolm Green. He earned his doctorate at the University of Sussex in 1973 in the group of Joseph Chatt. This was followed by postdoctoral stays at Hugh Felkin at the Institut de Chimie of Substances Naturelles in Gif- sur -Yvette near Paris. In 1977, Crabtree accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Yale University. Since 1985 he is full professor.

Crabtree has received numerous awards and honors. For 1981, he was a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In 1984 he received the Corday - Morgan Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2009 he received the Green Chemistry Award from the American Chemical Society.