Galen D. Stucky

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Galen D. Stucky
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Born (1936-12-17) December 17, 1936 (age 87)
Alma mater Iowa State University Ph.D. (1962)
Scientific career
Institutions University of California, Santa Barbara

DuPont Central Research and Development
Sandia National Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis Molecular Configurations of Some of the Solvated Compounds of the Grignard System ProQuest   288095659  (1962)
Doctoral advisor Robert E. Rundle
Other academic advisors Clifford G. Shull
Doctoral students
Other notable students
Website www.chem.ucsb.edu/people/galen-stucky

Galen D. Stucky (born 17 December 1936) is an American inorganic materials chemist who is a Distinguished Professor and the Essam Khashoggi Chair In Materials Chemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara. [1] He is noted for his work with porous ordered mesoporous materials such as SBA-15. He won the Prince of Asturias Award in 2014, in the Scientific and Technological Research area. Stucky was elected a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1994, [2] a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005, [3] and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2013. [4] [5]

Early life and education

Stucky was born on December 17, 1936, in McPherson, Kansas. [6] [7] He graduated with a Bachelor's of Science degree at McPherson College in 1957. [6] Stucky pursued graduate studies at Iowa State University, where he worked under Prof. Robert E. Rundle on the synthesis and characterization of the diethyl ether-solvated phenylmagnesium bromide Grignard reagent, [8] [9] and an oxidation product formed from its exposure to oxygen. [10] Stucky received his PhD in physical chemistry in 1962. [1] From 1962 to 1963, he was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Prof. Clifford G. Shull. [6]

Career

Stucky began his independent academic career in 1964 as an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and was promoted to full professor in 1972. [6] In 1980, he left UIUC to work at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he led the Solid State Materials Group there. [6] [11] From 1981 to 1985, he worked at the Central Research and Development Laboratory of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. in Wilmington, Delaware, where he was a group and research leader. [6] [11]

In 1985, Stucky joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the E. Khashoggi Industries, LLC Professor in Letters and Science, Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (College of Letters and Science), Professor in the Materials Department (College of Engineering), and a member of the Interdepartmental Program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. [12]

Notability

Stucky has been ranked in the top five most-cited materials scientists in the world, according to Thomson Scientific's in-cites publication (more than 80 publications with over 60 citations). [13] According to another publication by Thomson in late 2006, his work involving SBA was the most-cited paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. [14] In 2007 his Hirsch index rating ranked in the top 40 among living chemists, [15] and he was ranked in the top 30 most-cited scientists in chemistry by in-cites in late 2007. [16] In June 2008, Sciencewatch.com featured "Mesoporous Materials" as a Special Topics analysis publication. [17]

He is also the co-chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), A*STAR, Singapore [18] which is headed by Jackie Y. Ying (Executive Director of IBN [19] and adjunct professor of chemical engineering at MIT [20] ).

Research group

Alumni of Stucky's research group include Angela Belcher of MIT, Peidong Yang at UC Berkeley,Dongyuan Zhao at Fudan University, Yiying Wu at Ohio State, Kyong-Shin Choi at Wisconsin and Shannon Boettcher at the University of Oregon among many other notable scientists. [21] In late 2006, former and current group members and colleagues gathered for a Symposium on Recent Advances in Nanoscale Materials Research at UCSB to celebrate Stucky's 70th birthday. [22] The event was hosted by CNSI (Elings Hall [23] ) at UCSB. [24]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Grignard reaction</span> Organometallic coupling reaction

The Grignard reaction is an organometallic chemical reaction in which, according to the classical definition, carbon alkyl, allyl, vinyl, or aryl magnesium halides are added to the carbonyl groups of either an aldehyde or ketone under anhydrous conditions. This reaction is important for the formation of carbon–carbon bonds.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Triphenylmethanol</span> Chemical compound

Triphenylmethanol is an organic compound. It is a white crystalline solid that is insoluble in water and petroleum ether, but well soluble in ethanol, diethyl ether, and benzene. In strongly acidic solutions, it produces an intensely yellow color, due to the formation of a stable "trityl" carbocation. Many derivatives of triphenylmethanol are important dyes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Grignard reagent</span> Organometallic compounds used in organic synthesis

Grignard reagents or Grignard compounds are chemical compounds with the general formula R−Mg−X, where X is a halogen and R is an organic group, normally an alkyl or aryl. Two typical examples are methylmagnesium chloride Cl−Mg−CH3 and phenylmagnesium bromide (C6H5)−Mg−Br. They are a subclass of the organomagnesium compounds.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Organocadmium chemistry</span>

Organocadmium chemistry describes the physical properties, synthesis, reactions, and use of organocadmium compounds, which are organometallic compounds containing a carbon to cadmium chemical bond. Cadmium shares group 12 with zinc and mercury and their corresponding chemistries have much in common. The synthetic utility of organocadmium compounds is limited.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rieke metal</span> Group specially prepared, highly reactive metal powder

A Rieke metal is a highly reactive metal powder generated by reduction of a metal salt with an alkali metal. These materials are named after Reuben D. Rieke, who first described the recipes for their preparation. Among the many metals that have been generated by this method are Mg, Ca, Ti, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, and In, which in turn are called Rieke-magnesium, Rieke-calcium, etc.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Phenylmagnesium bromide</span> Chemical compound

Phenylmagnesium bromide, with the simplified formula C
6
H
5
MgBr
, is a magnesium-containing organometallic compound. It is commercially available as a solution in diethyl ether or tetrahydrofuran (THF). Phenylmagnesium bromide is a Grignard reagent. It is often used as a synthetic equivalent for the phenyl "Ph" synthon.

A carbometallation is any reaction where a carbon-metal bond reacts with a carbon-carbon π-bond to produce a new carbon-carbon σ-bond and a carbon-metal σ-bond. The resulting carbon-metal bond can undergo further carbometallation reactions or it can be reacted with a variety of electrophiles including halogenating reagents, carbonyls, oxygen, and inorganic salts to produce different organometallic reagents. Carbometallations can be performed on alkynes and alkenes to form products with high geometric purity or enantioselectivity, respectively. Some metals prefer to give the anti-addition product with high selectivity and some yield the syn-addition product. The outcome of syn and anti- addition products is determined by the mechanism of the carbometallation.

The Kulinkovich reaction describes the organic synthesis of substituted cyclopropanols through reaction of esters with dialkyl­dialkoxy­titanium reagents, which are generated in situ from Grignard reagents containing a hydrogen in beta-position and titanium(IV) alkoxides such as titanium isopropoxide. This reaction was first reported by Oleg Kulinkovich and coworkers in 1989.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Group 2 organometallic chemistry</span>

Group 2 organometallic chemistry refers to the chemistry of compounds containing carbon bonded to any group 2 element. By far the most common group 2 organometallic compounds are the magnesium-containing Grignard reagents which are widely used in organic chemistry. Other organometallic group 2 compounds are rare and are typically limited to academic interests.

In organic chemistry, the Kumada coupling is a type of cross coupling reaction, useful for generating carbon–carbon bonds by the reaction of a Grignard reagent and an organic halide. The procedure uses transition metal catalysts, typically nickel or palladium, to couple a combination of two alkyl, aryl or vinyl groups. The groups of Robert Corriu and Makoto Kumada reported the reaction independently in 1972.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mesoporous silica</span> Nano-scale porous silica compound

Mesoporous silica is a form of silica that is characterised by its mesoporous structure, that is, having pores that range from 2 nm to 50 nm in diameter. According to IUPAC's terminology, mesoporosity sits between microporous (<2 nm) and macroporous (>50 nm). Mesoporous silica is a relatively recent development in nanotechnology. The most common types of mesoporous nanoparticles are MCM-41 and SBA-15. Research continues on the particles, which have applications in catalysis, drug delivery and imaging. Mesoporous ordered silica films have been also obtained with different pore topologies.

Methylmagnesium chloride is an organometallic compound with the general formula CH3MgCl. This highly flammable, colorless, and moisture sensitive material is the simplest Grignard reagent and is commercially available, usually as a solution in tetrahydrofuran.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Triphenylborane</span> Chemical compound

Triphenylborane, often abbreviated to BPh3 where Ph is the phenyl group C6H5-, is a chemical compound with the formula B(C6H5)3. It is a white crystalline solid and is both air and moisture sensitive, slowly forming benzene and triphenylboroxine. It is soluble in aromatic solvents.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Diphenylmercury</span> Chemical compound

Diphenylmercury is the organomercury compound with the formula Hg(C6H5)2. It is a white solid. The compound is of historic interest as a particularly stable organometallic compound but it finds few uses because of its high toxicity.

<i>tert</i>-Butanesulfinamide Chemical compound

tert-Butanesulfinamide is an organosulfur compound and a member of the class of sulfinamides. Both enantiomeric forms are commercially available and are used in asymmetric synthesis as chiral auxiliaries, often as chiral ammonia equivalents for the synthesis of amines. tert-Butanesulfinamide and the associated synthetic methodology was introduced in 1997 by Jonathan A. Ellman et al.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1,3-Diphenylisobenzofuran</span> Chemical compound

1,3-Diphenylisobenzofuran is a highly reactive diene that can scavenge unstable and short-lived dienophiles in a Diels-Alder reaction. It is furthermore used as a standard reagent for the determination of singlet oxygen, even in biological systems. Cycloadditions with 1,3-diphenylisobenzofuran and subsequent oxygen cleavage provide access to a variety of polyaromatics.

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