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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Inorganic Molecular Chemistry |
| Keywords | Main Group Chemistry, low valent metals, Group 13 complexes, guanidinate ligands, phosphaalkyne ligands |
Current contact address
| Country | Australia |
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| City | Melbourne |
| Institution | Monash University |
| Institute | School of Chemistry |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Matthias Driess | Arbeitsgruppe Anorganische Chemie/ Metallorganische Chemie und Anorganische Materialien, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin |
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| Prof. Dr. Ingo Krossing | Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg |
| Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Manfred Scheer | Arbeitsgruppe Anorganische Chemie/ Metallorganische Chemie und Anorganische Materialien, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/06/2009 |
Programme(s)
| 2008 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Jones is a truly outstanding contributor to the fields of inorganic and organometallic chemistry. He is highly recognized not only in counties where e has done research, namely Australia and the UK, but also worldwide. He continues to play a pioneering and widely recognized role in the field of hydride chemistry and the low oxidation state chemistry of the main group metals semimetals. The culmination of his work has been the synthesis of the first stable compound with a magnesium-magnesium stigma bond which was recently published in Science. In Germany he intends to develop novel homogenous catalysts based on heterobimetallic complexes with metals in unusual low oxidation state which may play a role in water-splitting processes. |