Michael F. Lappert

Michael Lappert
FRS
Born (1928-12-31)31 December 1928
Died 28 March 2014(2014-03-28) (aged 85)[1]
Fields inorganic chemistry
Alma mater Northern Polytechnic
Thesis Interaction of boron trichloride with alcohols and ethers (1951)

Michael Franz Lappert FRS[1](31 December 1928 – 28 March 2014)[2] was an inorganic chemist. Mainly located at the University of Sussex, he was recognized for contributions to organometallic complexes.[3]

Education

He received his PhD in 1951 at the Northern Polytechnic, London.

Career and research

His areas of research often included studies on low coordination numbers and metal amido complexes.[4][5]

Awards and honours

Lappert was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1979.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Leigh, G. Jeffery; Nixon, John F. (2016). "Michael Franz Lappert. 31 December 1928 — 28 March 2014". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. London: Royal Society. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2016.0014.
  2. ↑ "Professor Michael Franz Lappert FRS". Archived from the original on 2014-10-23.
  3. ↑ "Prof Michael Lappert, FRS's Biography". Debretts. Retrieved 2012-11-29.
  4. ↑ Michael Lappert, Andrey Protchenko, Philip Power, Alexandra Seeber "Metal Amide Chemistry" Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2009. ISBN 0-470-72184-7
  5. ↑ Bourget-Merle, L.; Lappert, M. F.; Severn, J. R. (2002). "The Chemistry of β-Diketiminatometal Complexes". Chem. Rev. 102: 3031–3066. doi:10.1021/cr010424r.
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