Jack R. Norton

Jack Richard Norton (born May 5, 1945) is an American organometallic chemist and Professor at Columbia University. His research has focused on the studying the reactivity and properties of transition metal hydrides. He coauthored the textbook "Principles and Applications of Organotransition Metal Chemistry."^[1]

Jack Richard Norton
Born	Dallas, Texas
Alma mater	Harvard (B.A.), Stanford (Ph.D.)
Known for	Transition-metal hydrides
Awards	ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry (2005) Cope Scholar Award (2012)
Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry (catalysis, mechanistic organometallic chemistry, physical organic chemistry, chemical kinetics)
Institutions	Columbia University
Doctoral advisor	James P. Collman (chemist)
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Education and career

Norton was born in Dallas, Texas in 1945. He received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1967 and was awarded his Ph.D. at Stanford in 1972 under the mentorship of James P. Collman. After a postdoctoral appointment with Jack Lewis, he was appointed assistant professor at Princeton University. He moved to Colorado State University in 1979, and again to Columbia University in 1997, where he remains Professor of Chemistry. From 1992-2003 he was an associate editor of Journal of the American Chemical Society

His laboratory demonstrated the possibility of dinuclear reductive elimination from transition metal alkyls and hydrides by comparing the mechanisms of reductive elimination from (H)₂Os(CO)₄, (H)(CH₃)Os(CO)₄, and (CH₃)₂Os(CO)₄. His group later reported some of the first detailed pK_a measurements of metal hydrides and demonstrated that the rates of protonation at transition metals can be quite slow.^[2] His group has also reported on the use of metal-hydride bonds as radical initiators of cyclization reactions.^[3]

In 2005 he received the ACS Award for Organometallic Chemistry^[4] and in 2013 the Cope Scholar Award ^[5]

External links

• Norton Research Group at Columbia

References

1. Collman, J. P., Hegedus, L. S., Norton, J. R., Finke, R. G., "Principles and Applications of Organotransition Metal Chemistry," University Science Books: Mill Valley, 1987. ISBN 9780935702514
2. Kramarz, K. W., Norton, J. R., "Slow Proton Transfer Reactions in Organometallic and Bioinorganic Chemistry", Prog. Inorg. Chem. 1994, volume 42, 1. doi:10.1002/9780470166437.ch1
3. Kuo, J.L., Hartung, J., Han, A., Norton, J.R., "Direct Generation of Oxygen-Stabilized Radicals by H· Transfer from Transition Metal Hydrides", JACS 2015, volume 137, 3. doi:10.1021/ja511883b
4. ACS Award in Organometallic chemistry
5. "News | Chemistry".