Prof. Dr. Christopher Colin Cummins

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsInorganic Molecular Chemistry
KeywordsOrganometallchemie, Übergangsmetalle, biologisch aktive Metalle

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityCambridge
InstitutionMassachusetts Institute of Technology
InstituteDepartment of Chemistry

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Herbert RoeskyInstitut für Anorganische Chemie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Manfred ScheerInstitut für Anorganische Chemie, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/07/2002

Programme(s)

2001Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Cummins is one of the leading figures in the design and syntheses of reactive metal complexes and the study of the reactivity of these complexes with small molecules including dinitrogen, dihydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and the nitrogen oxides.

Publications (partial selection)

2005Tetsuro Murahashi, Christopher R. Clough, Joshua S. Figueroa, Christopher C. Cummins: A Ligand Composed of Dinitrogen and Methyldiphenylphosphane in a Cationic Molybdenum Complex. In: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2005, 2560-2563