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Authorised form of name	Green; Malcolm Leslie Hodder (1936 - 2020)
Dates	1936 - 2020
Nationality	British
Place of birth	Eastleigh, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Date of birth	16/04/1936
Date of death	24/07/2020
Occupation	Chemist
Research field	Chemistry
Research field	Organometallic chemistry
Activity	Education: Denstone College; Acton Technical College, BSc (1956); Imperial College of Science and Technology, PhD (1959) Career: Postdoctoral researcher with Geoffrey Wilkinson, Imperial College of Science and Technology (1959-1960); Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, Assistant Lecturer (1960), Fellow (1961); University of Oxford, Septcentenary Fellow of Inorganic Chemistry at Balliol College (1963), Demonstrator (1963), Lecturer (1965), Royal Society Senior Research Fellow (1979-1986), Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Head of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory (1989), Fellow of St Catherine's College (1989); Emeritus Research Professor (2004); co-founder of the Oxford Catalysts Group plc (2006) Memberships: FRSC Medals/Awards: Corday-Morgan medal in Inorganic Chemistry of the Royal Society of Chemistry 1972; Medal in Transition Metal Chemistry from the RSC 1977; Tilden Prize and Lectureship, RSC 1982; American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry 1984; Medal in Organometallic Chemistry, RSC 1985; Sir Edward Frankland Prize Lecturership, RSC 1988; Karl-Ziegler Prize of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker 1992; Medal in Organometallic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society 1997; Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Medal and Prize, RSC 2000; European Prize for Organometallic Chemistry 2015
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	21/03/1985
Age at election	48
RSActivity	Medals and prizes: Davy Medal 1995 Grants and fellowships: Royal Society Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford, 19791986
PublishedWorks	https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85238527/
OtherInfo	Malcolm Green was distinguished for his novel contributions to general organo-transition metal chemistry. His main tenor concerned the reactions, interactions and rearrangements of hydride, alkyl, allyl, olefin and such ligands mainly on the arenemolybdenum or bis(cyclopentadienyl)molybdenum or tungsten entities, but his forte was the sheer novelty of the compounds he has discovered. These are numerous, the most notable being the 'inorgano-Grignard reagents' and related lithium and aluminium compounds, complex molecular species containing covalent Mo-Mg and such bonds. The isolation of such highly air-sensitive materials crystallised suitably for X-ray structure determination is evidence of the very high standard of experimental skill typically displayed throughout his work. Professor Malcolm Green FRS died on 24 July 2020.
Source	Sources: Wikipedia; https://royalsociety.org/people/malcolm-green-11535/ References: 'Address of the President, Sir Michael Atiyah, OM, Given at the Anniversary Meeting on 30 November 1995' in NR 1996 vol 50 pp 101-113
Virtual International Authority File	http://viaf.org/viaf/66726086
Code	NA2193

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
EC/1985/17	Green, Malcolm Leslie Hodder: certificate of election to the Royal Society	1978
IM/001766	Green, Malcolm Leslie Hodder	1995
IM/001810	Green, Malcolm Leslie Hodder	January 2002

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