Gerard "Ged" F. R. Parkin (born February 15, 1959) is a professor of chemistry at Columbia University.
Biography Gerard Parkin attended the English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College before working under Malcolm Green during both his undergraduate and graduate studies at The Queen's College, Oxford. His work involved exploring the chemistry of tungsten phosphine derivatives. He obtained a post-doctoral position at the California Institute of Technology working with Professor John Bercaw on tungstenocene reactivity. In 1988, Ged joined the faculty at Columbia University, where he currently investigates a myriad of problems in main group and transition metal chemistry, including:
Calixarene complexes Retrodative (i.e., metal-to-ligand) bonding, especially related to boratranes Group 6 reactivity relating to X-H (X=H, C, O) bond activation, hydrodesulfurization and hydrodenitrogenation The Tris(mercaptoimidazolyl) borate Tm ligand Terminal chalcogen metal bonding Zinc complexes as models for biological systems Antimony alkoxides and aryloxides Cleaving the mercury–carbon bond.
Honors Parkin received the 2008 ACS Award in Organometallic ChemistryACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry, American Chemical Society. Accessed September 20, 2011 and the 1994 ACS Award in pure chemistryACS Award in Pure Chemistry, American Chemical Society. Accessed September 20, 2011 from the American Chemical Society. He also received the Corday–Morgan Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1995.Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize Winners, Royal Society of Chemistry. Accessed September 20, 2011 In 2009 he received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, an award that was presented at a White House ceremony.Ged Parkin.The Parkin Website
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External links Parkin homepage The Parkin Website