Anthony J. Arduengo

Anthony J. Arduengo
A picture of A. J. Arduengo from June '09 working on his 2008 Saffron Yellow Lotus (California Edition) Elise. The rear of the Elise is pictured in the background and the car is raised on a hydraulic lift. Arduengo is standing in front of the car inside the lift structure. He has a wrench in his right hand and is resting against a lift cross-member. He is wearing a black and tan Hawaiian Shirt and smiling.
Born
Anthony Joseph Arduengo III

1952
Tampa, Florida, U.S.
Alma materGeorgia Institute of Technology
Known forUnusual Valency, Carbene Chemistry
AwardsAlexander von Humboldt Prize;
Fellow - American Association for the Advancement of Science;
ICMGC Gold Medal for Excellence in Main-Group Element Chemistry
Scientific career
FieldsInorganic chemistry, Organic chemistry, Unusual Valency
InstitutionsGeorgia Institute of Technology;
University of Alabama;
Technische Universität - Braunschweig;
DuPont Central Research;
University of Illinois
Doctoral advisorE.M. Burgess

Anthony Joseph Arduengo III is Professor of the Practice at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Saxon Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Alabama, adjunct professor at the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry of Braunschweig University of Technology in Germany, and co-founder of the StanCE coalition for sustainable chemistry based on woody biomass (Xylochemistry). He is notable for his work on chemical compounds with unusual valency, especially in the field of stable carbene research.