Malcolm Green (chemist)

Malcolm Green
Born
Malcolm Leslie Hodder Green

(1936-04-16)16 April 1936[2]
Died24 July 2020(2020-07-24) (aged 84)
EducationDenstone College
Alma materUniversity of London (BSc Hons)
University of Cambridge (MA)
University of Oxford (MA)
Imperial College London (PhD)
Known forAgostic interaction
Covalent bond classification method
Green–Davies–Mingos rules[3]
AwardsCorday-Morgan Prize (1972)
Tilden Prize (1982)
FRS (1985)
Stieglitz Lecture (1985)
Davy Medal (1995)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
University of Cambridge
ThesisA study of some transitional metal hydrides and olefin complexes (1958)
Doctoral advisorGeoffrey Wilkinson
Doctoral studentsF. Geoffrey N. Cloke, Vernon C. Gibson,[1] Gerard Parkin, Luet Lok Wong, Dermot O'Hare, Philip Mountford, Andrea Sella
Websiteresearch.chem.ox.ac.uk/malcolm-green.aspx

Malcolm Leslie Hodder Green FRS FRSC[4] (16 April 1936 – 24 July 2020)[5] was Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford. He made many contributions to organometallic chemistry.[6][2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference vern was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Anon (1986). "Green, Prof. Malcolm Leslie Hodder". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.18020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Davies, Stephen G.; Green, Malcolm L.H.; Mingos, D.Michael P. (1978). "Nucleophilic addition to organotransition metal cations containing unsaturated hydrocarbon ligands". Tetrahedron. 34 (20): 3047–3077. doi:10.1016/0040-4020(78)87001-X. ISSN 0040-4020.
  4. ^ Crabtree, Robert H. (2021). "Malcolm L. H. Green. 16 April 1936 — 24 July 2020". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 70: 175–188. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2020.0038. S2CID 231643578.
  5. ^ Professor Malcolm Green 1936-2020
  6. ^ "Professor M. L. H. Green". University of Oxford.