"Apicophilicity" Earl Muetterties Hand Signed FDC Dated 1946 Todd Mueller COA

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"Apicophilicity" Earl Muetterties Hand Signed FDC Dated 1946. This item is authenticated by Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their certificate of authenticity.
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Earl Muetterties
(June 23, 1927 – January 12, 1984), was an
American
inorganic chemist born in
Illinois
, who is known for his experimental work with
boranes
,
homogeneous catalysis
,
heterogeneous catalysis
,
fluxional processes
in
organometallic complexes
and
apicophilicity
.
Muetterties earned a
bachelor's degree
in
chemistry
at
Northwestern University
in 1949 and received his doctoral thesis in boron-nitrogen
chemistry
under Charles Brown
and
Eugene G. Rochow
at
Harvard
in 1952. Earl Muetterties joined
DuPont Central Research
Department and was promoted to research supervisor in 1955. His early contributions were on the inorganic fluorine compounds, especially of sulfur and phosphorus.
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In collaboration with
William D. Phillips
he exploited
NMR
for study of dynamic processes in
inorganic
fluoride compounds. Muetterties's work on boron hydride clusters led to the work on several polyhedral borane anions such as . Muetterties was an inventor on some basic findings with the polyhedral borate anions. In addition to the polyhedral boranes, the program explored pi-allyl, fluoroalkyl, and boron hydride complexes of the
transition metals
. Research also extended to stereochemically-non-rigid complexes. In 1965, he became Associate Director in the
DuPont Central Research
. In addition to groups in homogeneous and heterogeneous
catalysis
, groups were established in the synthesis and
spectroscopy
of
organometallic
compounds. He was also a prolific inventor. Muetterties's academic ties started with an adjunct professorship in chemistry at
Princeton University
(1967–1969) and then at the
University of Pennsylvania
(1969–1973). With the
Monell Chemical Senses Center
, his research interests extended to mammalian
pheromones
. After a two-month lectureship at
Cambridge University
in 1972, he assumed a professorship at
Cornell University
in 1973, conducting research on organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis, sometimes in collaboration with
Roald Hoffman
. In 1979, he moved to the
University of California, Berkeley
, where he continued research in
homogeneous catalysis
and
cluster chemistry
.
At Berkeley he also worked on
surface science
, and he maintained a research facility at the
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
.
Muetterties helped establish the
American Chemical Society
journals
Inorganic Chemistry
and
Organometallics
. He was on the
editorial board
of
Inorganic Syntheses
and edited Volume 10. He also edited books on boron chemistry and transition-metal hydrides and wrote reviews on complexes with unusual coordination numbers. A tribute to Muetterties has also been published.