Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Professor Richard Robson FAA
- In
- Australian journal of chemistry
- Imprint
- vol. 72, no. 10, CSIRO Publishing, Canberra, 17 October 2019, pp. 729-30
- Url
- https://doi.org/10.1071/CHv72n10_FO
- Subject
- Chronological Classification 1901- Natural Sciences Physical Sciences
- Format
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- Description
The foreword to this special issue of the Journal dedicated to Professor Richard Robson provides an account of his distinguished career and his pioneering work in the field of coordination polymers and metal-organic frameworks.
- Abstract
Richard Robson grew up in a small village in Yorkshire before attending the University ofOxfordwhereheundertookB.A.and D.Phil. degrees (1955-1962). Following post-doctoral stints at California Institute of Technology and Stanford University (with Professor Henry Taube), he arrived, by cargo ship, in Australia in 1966 and commenced an academic position within the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Melbourne.Inthe60s,70sand80s,Robson's research largely focussed on the design and synthesis of binucleating and tetranucleating ligands with the aim of bringing metal centres into close proximity. The third paper in this series is still in the all-time top 10 cited papers in the Australian Journal of Chemistry. These ligands are now known in the scientific literature as Robson-type ligands.
- Source
- cohn 2020