Vernon C. Gibson

Vernon C. Gibson

Vernon Gibson (born November 15, 1958) is an English chemist and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Early life

He was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, the son of Dennis and Pamela Gibson. He attended the King’s School in Grantham (where Isaac Newton preceded him), then studied [http://www.shef.ac.uk/chemistry Chemistry] at Sheffield where he graduated in 1980. After gaining a D.Phil. in Malcolm Green's group at Oxford, he went to the California Institute of Technology on a NATO postdoctoral fellowship where he further developed his interest in organometallic chemistry and catalysis with John Bercaw.

Chemistry career

In 1986 he returned to the UK to a lectureship in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Durham, where he was appointed to a chair in 1993. At Durham he developed his interest in the use of organometallic and coordination compounds for the synthesis of polymers. In 1995 he moved to Imperial College London where, in collaboration with BP Chemicals, he established a Discovery Programme to research novel catalysts for the polymerisation of alkenes. He became the first holder of the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Chair in 1998, and became the Sir Edward Frankland BP Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Head of Catalysis & Advanced Materials in 2001. Among his various catalyst discoveries in this period were the first highly active ethene polymerization systems based on iron, and new catalysts for the production of biodegradable materials. He was elected to the Royal Society in 2004. His curiosity has led him to explore right across the periodic table and to seek an understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of catalysis which influence the properties of materials produced.

Research interests

* Olefin polymerization
* Ligand-orientated catalyst design
* Polylactic acid
* Ring opening metathesis polymerisation

References

#V. C. Gibson, E. L. Marshall, H. S. Rzepa, " A computational study on the ring-opening polymerization of lactide initiated by β-diketiminate metal alkoxides: The origin of heterotactic stereocontrol", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, "127", 6048-6051. DOI: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja043819b 10.1021/ja043819b ]

External links

* [http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/vgibson Imperial College]
* [http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/research/sections/catalysis Catalysis and Advanced Materials Group]


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