Abstract
Professor Philip P. Power turns 65 in 2018. His contributions to organometallic and inorganic chemistry over the last four decades are expansive, and he has been instrumental in the definition of several new subfields in the discipline. Professor Power has contributed over 500 publications to the literature. His lab remains an active source of exciting chemistry and has been a way point in numerous successful chemists’ careers. A focus on low-coordinate, low-valent and low-oxidation state compounds defines Power's career and molecules in this class generally feature a small energy difference between frontier orbitals.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 5529-5532 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Dalton Transactions |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue number | 16 |
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| Publication status | Published - 28 Apr 2018 |
Funding
Power was born in the Republic of Ireland and undertook a BA in Chemistry at Trinity College, Dublin, completed in 1974. He subsequently crossed the Irish Sea, completing a PhD at the University of Sussex in 1977. This was followed by a postdoctoral stay at Stanford University and his appointment to the University of California, Davis in 1981. During his career Power has been the recipient of awards too numerous to list here, perhaps most notably both the Ludwig Mond Medal of the RSC and F. A. Cotton Award of the ACS in 2005. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society in this same year. Power has been committed in the service of the chemical community, acting as an Associate Editor of Inorganic Chemistry, editor of volume 37 of Inorganic Syntheses, and having served on the advisory boards of twelve journals including Dalton Transactions.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Inorganic Chemistry