Robert G. Bergman

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Robert George Bergman
Born (1942-05-23) May 23, 1942 (age 80)[ citation needed ]
Alma mater University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D. (1966)
Carleton College B.S. (1963)
Awards Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2017)
Scientific career
Fields Organic Chemistry, Organometallic Chemistry
Thesis Reactions of Methylnorbornyl Cations and Reactions of the 3-Nortricyclyl-3-carbinyl Cation  (1966)
Doctoral advisor Jerome A. Berson
Other academic advisors Ronald Breslow
Doctoral students
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Website rgbgrp.cchem.berkeley.edu

Robert George Bergman is an American chemist. He is Professor of the Graduate School and Gerald E. K. Branch Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. [1]

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Early life and education

Born in Chicago, Robert Bergman was the son of Joseph J. and Stella Bergman, née Horowitz.[ citation needed ] In 1963 he graduated from Carleton College with a degree in chemistry. Under the supervision of Jerome A. Berson, he received a PhD in 1966 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 1966 to 1967 he was a NATO postdoctoral fellow at Ronald Breslow's laboratory at Columbia University, New York City. [1]

Career

Bergman began his independent career at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena where he was an Arthur Noyes Research Instructor (1967–1969), assistant professor (1969–1971), associate professor (1971–1973), and full professor (1973–1977). [2] From 1977 to 2002, he was a chemistry professor at the University of California, Berkeley and since 1978 has also been a researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 2002 he was appointed Gerald E. K. Branch Distinguished Professor of Chemistry. Bergman transitioned to Emeritus status in 2016 and now holds to the titles of Professor of the Graduate School and Gerald E. K. Branch Distinguished Professor Emeritus. [1]

Research

Bergman works in the field of organic chemistry. He first investigated the reaction mechanisms of organic reactions at Caltech. He developed methods for the representation of very reactive molecules, for example 1,3-diradicals and vinyl cations. In 1972, he discovered the thermal cyclization of cis-1,5-hexadiyne-3-ene to 1,4-dehydrobenzene-diradicals, now known as the Bergman cyclization. [3] [4] This reaction later played a major role in understanding the mode of action of enediyne antitumor antibiotics. [5] [6] Since the mid-1970s, Bergman has also been working in the field of organometallic chemistry. [7] He contributed to the synthesis and reaction of organometallic complexes and investigated organometallic compounds with metal-oxygen and metal-nitrogen bonds. He also discovered the first soluble organometallic complexes of the transition metals, to which the addition of a saturated hydrocarbon (C-H activation, C-H insertion) succeeded. [8] [9]

Personal life

Since June 17, 1965, Bergman has been married. The Bergmans have two sons.[ citation needed ]

Awards and honours

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Literature

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References

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  3. ↑ Jones, Richard R.; Bergman, Robert G. (1972). "p-Benzyne. Generation as an intermediate in a thermal isomerization reaction and trapping evidence for the 1,4-benzenediyl structure". Journal of the American Chemical Society . 94 (2): 660–661. doi:10.1021/ja00757a071.
  4. ↑ Bergman, Robert G. (1973-01-01). "Reactive 1,4-dehydroaromatics". Accounts of Chemical Research. 6 (1): 25–31. doi:10.1021/ar50061a004. ISSN   0001-4842.
  5. ↑ Lee, May D.; Ellestad, George A.; Borders, Donald B. (1991-08-01). "Calicheamicins: discovery, structure, chemistry, and interaction with DNA". Accounts of Chemical Research. 24 (8): 235–243. doi:10.1021/ar00008a003. ISSN   0001-4842.
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  7. ↑ Chirik, Paul J. (2017-03-13). "Introduction to the Virtual Issue Honoring Robert Bergman's 2017 Wolf Prize in Chemistry". Organometallics. 36 (5): 957–959. doi: 10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00134 . ISSN   0276-7333.
  8. ↑ Janowicz, Andrew H.; Bergman, Robert G. (1982). "Carbon-hydrogen activation in completely saturated hydrocarbons: direct observation of M + R-H .fwdarw. M(R)(H)". Journal of the American Chemical Society . 104 (1): 352–354. doi:10.1021/ja00365a091.
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