Robert H. Crabtree
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'''Robert H. Crabtree''' (born [[1948]] in [[London]]) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[chemist]]. He studied at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]], where he worked for a year with Malcolm Green, and then took his D.Phil with Joseph Chatt at the Unit for Nitrogen Fixation, [[Sussex University]]. With [[Hugh Felkin]], at the [[Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles]] at [[Gif-sur-Yvette]], near Paris, he was first a postdoctoral fellow, and then Attaché de Recherche. In 1977, he took up an assistant professorship in Inorganic Chemistry at [[Yale University]].
He is known, among other things, for his work in [[iridium]]-catalyzed hydrogenation reactions, and particularly for his work on the so-called [[Crabtree's catalyst]], and for writing the textbook ''The Organometallic Chemistry of the Transition Metals'' (ISBN 0-471-66256-9).
==External links==
* [http://ursula.chem.yale.edu/~crabtree/ Crabtree Lab Homepage]
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[[Category:British chemists]]
[[Category:1948 births]]
[[Category:Yale University faculty]]
[[Category:Living people]]