| RefNo | EC/1988/45 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XXII, 142 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Taube, Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 1984 |
| Description | Certificate of Candidate for Election to Foreign Membership. Citation typed |
| Citation | Professor Taube has been the outstanding contributor to the study of the reactions of metal complex ions in solution. His early work, on substitution and acid/base reactions, demonstrated the importance of the electronic states of the central cation of the complex. The results have been widely used in the discussion of mechanisms of the transition metal ion ligand-displacement reactions. Later Taube turned his attention to redox reactions of metal complexes designing with great skill particular structures such as those with bridging ligands between metal atoms in order to understand electron transfer pathways. Taube's ideas concerning inner and outer sphere reactivities have been amply demonstrated and form the basis of present views on catalysed redox changes. In addition, Taube has made significant contributions to the reactions of O2,O3,H2O, oxoanions, etc. as well as to the synthetic chemistry of transition metal complexes. Especially in recent years of ruthenium. Taube pioneered the remarkable chemistry of the [(NH3)5RuL]2+ system which includes some of the earliest work on bound N2 and also the synthesis of the mixed valence Creutz-Taube complex which is of great importance in electron transfer studies.
Tuabe is without question the most distinguished inorganic chemist in the United States. In 1983 he was warded the Welch Foundation Prize and the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA4740 | Taube; Henry (1915 - 2005) | 1915 - 2005 |