| RefNo | EC/1989/35 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XXII, 179 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Wade, Kenneth: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 1988 |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Distinguished for his seminal contributions to cluster chemistry, organometallic chemistry, and the chemistry of main-group element compounds. His deep understanding of the factors influencing the shapes of polyhedral boranes and carbaboranes led in 1971 to the formulation of a set of rules which have since become the basis for almost all treatments of cluster bonding. Now generally known as 'Wade's Rules', they are frequently referred to in original research papers, monographs, and undergraduate textbooks. By use of what is now called the isolobal analogy Wade was able to establish relationships between borane clusters, carbocations, transition metal carbonyls, and naked metal clusters, thereby providing a fertile source of ideas for imaginative preparative procedures, e.g. his recent synthesis of a cluster incorporating an unprecedented mu5-CO group. Wade has also made substantial contributions to ketimine chemistry in which the RR'C=N- residue with bulky R groups is attached to an electropositive main-group element; this culminated latterly in the evolution of novel ring-stacking and -laddering approaches to organolithium oligomers. He has held visiting professorships in Warsaw, Amsterdam, Canada, and USA, received the RSC's Main Group Element Award in 1982 and the Tilden Lectureship in 1987. Wade is the author or co-author of several influential textbooks and monographs and some 120 research papers. |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA3975 | Wade; Kenneth (1932 - 2014) | 1932 - 2014 |