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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Inorganic Molecular Chemistry,Organic Molecular Chemistry,Kinetics and Catalysis |
| Keywords | C-H Activation, C-C Activation, C-S Activation, Mechanism, Dehydrogenation |
| Honours and awards | 2017: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award 2017: Organometallic Chemistry Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry 2010: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2010: Fellow of the American Chemical Society 2009: ACS Cope Scholar Award 2003: ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry 1988: Fulbright-Hays Scholar 1988: John Simon Guggenheim Fellow 1988: Royal Society Guest Research Fellowship |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Rochester |
| Institution | University of Rochester |
| Institute | Department of Chemistry |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Dr. habil. Jun Okuda | Institut für Anorganische Chemie (IAC), Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH), Aachen |
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| Prof. Dr. Christian Müller | Anorganische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/01/2018 |
Programme(s)
| 2017 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Jones is well known internationally for his fundamental investigations on bond activation reactions. His work on the cleavage of C-H, C-C, C-S and C-F bonds has paved the way for applications in synthetic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis. During his stay in Germany, he intends to work on N-H and O-H bond activation reactions with phosphorus heterocycles and on proteins as ligand backbones for transition metal catalysts. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2018 | Hongmei Yuan, William W. Brennessel and William D. Jones: The Effect of Carboxylate Ligands on Alkane Dehydrogenation with (dmPhebox)Ir Complexes. In: ACS Catalysis, 2018, 2326-2329 |
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