| 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 |
| 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 |