Bernard L. Shaw

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Bernard L. Shaw, BSc, PhD, FRS is an English chemist who has made notable contributions to organometallic chemistry. He is Emeritus Professor of Inorganic and Structural Chemistry at the University of Leeds.

Scientific contributions

Together with his longtime collaborator Joseph Chatt, Shaw contributed to the development of organoplatinum chemistry. They reported the first platinum hydride, PtHCl(PEt3)2. This colourless, volatile solid was the first non-organometallic hydride (i.e., lacking a metal-carbon bond).[1]

With an interest in cyclometallation,[2] he discovered one of the first pincer complexes via the orthometalation of 1,3-C6H4(CH2PBut2)2.[3]

Pincer complex prepared by Shaw et al.

References

  1. ↑ J. Chatt, L. A. Duncanson, B. L. Shaw "A Volatile Chlorohydride of Platinum" Proc. Chem. Soc., 1957, 329-368. doi:10.1039/PS9570000329
  2. ↑ Najeeb A. Al-Salem, H. David Empsall, Richard Markham, Bernard L. Shaw, Brian Weeks "Formation of large chelate rings and cyclometallated products from diphosphines of type But2P(CH2)nPBut2 (n= 5–8) and Ph2P(CH2)5PPh2 with palladium and platinum chlorides: factors affecting the stability and conformation of large chelate rings" J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1979, 1972-1982. doi:10.1039/DT9790001972
  3. ↑ Christopher J. Moulton, Bernard L. Shaw "Transition metal–carbon bonds. Part XLII. Complexes of nickel, palladium, platinum, rhodium and iridium with the tridentate ligand 2,6-bis[(di-t-butylphosphino)methyl]phenyl" J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1976, 1020-1024. doi:10.1039/DT9760001020
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