Citation | Professor Bosnich is distinguished for his many important contributions to inorganic and organometallic chemistry. A central theme of much of his research has been the stereochemistry of inorganic and organometallic complexes and of reactions mediated by such complexes. His design, synthesis and studies of the ligands, CHIRAPHOS and PROPHOS, represent a major accomplishment and have contributed enormously to our understanding of the mechanisms of chiral recognition and asymmetric catalysis. His recent research interests have expanded to encompass the mechanistic aspects of a wide range of reactions including allylic alkylations, metal catalyzed Claisen rearrangements, hydroacylation and hydrosilation, as well as co-operative phenomena in binuclear metal complexes |