Biography
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Paul von Ragu¨¦ SCHLEYER was born in 1930 in Cleveland, Ohio. After education at Princeton University and at Harvard University (Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry with P. D. Bartlett) he returned to Princeton and was named Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry in 1969. In 1976, he joined the University of Erlangen, Germany, as Co-Director of the Organic Institute and was the founding Director of its Computer Chemistry Center (1993). Schleyer became Professor Emeritus at Erlangen in 1998, but is continuing his career as Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry at the University of Georgia, Athens. |
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He has received
honorary doctorates in Lyon, France, Munich, Germany, and Kiev, Ukraine
as well as awards in seven countries and in different areas: physical
organic, computational, boron, lithium and most recently
theoretical chemistry. He is past President of the World Association
of Theoretically-Oriented Chemists (WATOC), a Fellow of the Bavarian
and the International Academy of Quantum Chemical Science, Coeditor
emeritus of the Journal of Computational Chemistry, and the Editor-in-Chief
of the Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry. His 12 books deal
with carbonium ions, ab initio molecular orbital theory, lithium chemistry,
as well as ab initio structures and involve collaborations with Nobel
Laureates H. C. Brown, G. A. Olah, and J. A. Pople. A 1981-1997 survey identified him as being the third most cited chemist. He has
published over 1100 papers.
Schleyer's research contributions include the discovery of simple ways of synthesizing adamantane and other cage molecules by rearrangement, new types of hydrogen bonding, elucidation of solvolysis mechanisms and the nature of reactive intermediates, as well as a broad range of physical organic, organometallic, inorganic and theoretical topics. As a pioneer computational chemist, the discoveries of basically new molecular structures, particularly those involving lithium and electron deficient systems, are among his major achievements. Currently he is rejuvenating interest in aromaticity and exploring planar hypercoordination of carbon and other elements. |
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