报告题目：Metal Catalyzed Copolymerization of Olefins with Polar Vinyl Monomers
报 告 人：Richard Jordan 教授
报告时间：2010年11月9日（周二） 上午9:30
报告地点：高分子大楼228室 学术报告厅
邀 请 人：傅智盛 副教授
Richard Jordan 教授简介：
Richard Jordan is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Chicago. He received his training in chemistry at Rutgers University (BA, 1975) and Princeton University (PhD, 1981)。
Jordan's research focuses on organometallic chemistry, catalysis and polymers. He was among the first to recognize that the active species in metallocene-catalyzed olefin polymerizations are cationic d-zero metal alkyls. He prepared stable cationic d-zero zirconocene alkyl complexes and demonstrated that these species polymerize olefins. His studies of the synthesis and reactivity of d-zero metal alkyl and olefin complexes provided a deep understanding of how metallocene catalysts operate. He showed that these principles extend broadly to other classes of catalysts. This work was a significant achievement in the development of modern single-site olefin polymerization catalysis.
Jordan has developed stereoselective syntheses of chiral metallocenes that are widely used. He discovered that cationic zirconocenes activate the C-H bonds of heterocycles and developed catalytic heterocycle/olefin coupling reactions based on this chemistry. He has also explored the chemistry of low-coordinate cationic main-group alkyls that are designed to exhibit maximum Lewis acidity, and neutral olefin polymerization catalysts based on carborane ligands. Jordan's current efforts are focused on the "polar monomer problem," i.e. the challenge of developing insertion polymerization catalysts that can incorporate functionalized monomers in olefin polymerization, enabling the direct synthesis of functionalized polyolefin plastics.
Jordan has authored or co-authored approximately 184 publications (including 51 JACS, H-index > 50) and 14 patents. He has given over 325 invited lectures at conferences, universities and companies. He has served on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Organometallics and the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry and on the Board of Directors of the University of Iowa Research Foundation. He organized several symposia at National ACS meetings, was the Chair of the Organometallic Subdivision of the ACS (1998), and is Chairman of the 2010 Gordon Research Conference on Organometallic Chemistry. He was a Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, a Union Carbide Research Innovation Awardee, and a visiting professor at the University of Rennes. Jordan has served as a consultant for and participated in research collaborations with numerous industrial organizations.
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