Alexander E. Shilov (Russian: Шилов, Александр Евгеньевич) (January 1, 1930 – June 6, 2014) was a Russian chemist, one of the leading figures in Physical Organic Chemistry and Catalysis.
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Shilov was born in Ivanovo, Russia, studied chemistry in Kiev and received his diploma degree in 1952 from Kiev State University. In 1952-1955 he began working with Nobel Laureate Nikolay Semyonov toward his Ph.D. at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow. After postdoctoral studies with Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood at Oxford University in London, he returned to the Institute of Biochemical Physics (Moscow), where he became Director and Professor at Moscow State University. In 1952 he moved to Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences in Chernogolovka (Moscow district), where he became the Head of Laboratory.[1] In 1990 he was elected to the Academy of Scienсes of the USSR, which was in someway equivalent to getting a financial endowment for his research.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he discovered what are considered to be the first reported examples of alkane reactions catalyzed by a homogeneous (solution-phase) system, the Pt-catalyzed CH activation of alkanes,[2][3][4] now known as the Shilov system.[5] Shilov and co-workers conducted extensive mechanistic investigations of this chemistry based on kinetic analysis.[6][7][8][9] In addition to his pioneering work in the activation and functionalization of hydrocarbons, his interests encompassed dinitrogen reduction to ammonia in aqueous media with the use of organometallic complexes.[10]
His work has been published in more than 300 papers which cover research in chemical kinetics and catalysis, mechanisms of chemical reactions, and chemical modeling of enzyme systems.
References
edit- ^ A. E. Shilov, G. B. Shul'pin, "Activation of C−H Bonds by Metal Complexes", Chemical Reviews, 1997, 97 (8), pp 2879–2932 https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr9411886
- ^ Gol'dshleger, N. F.; Tyabin, M. B.; Shilov, A. E.; Shteinman, A. A. "Activation of saturated hydrocarbons. Deuterium-hydrogen exchange in solutions of transition metal complexes" Zhurnal Fizicheskoi Khimii 1969, 43, 2174-2175
- ^ Gol'dshleger, N. F.; Es'kova, V. V.; Shilov, A. E.; Shteinman, A. A. "Reactions of alkanes in solutions of platinum chloride complexes" Zh. Fiz. Khim. 1972, 46, 1353-13544
- ^ Gol'dshleger, N. F.; Khidekel, M. L.; Shilov, A. E.; Shteinman, A. A. "Oxidative dehydrogenation of saturated hydrocarbons in palladium(II) complex solutions" Kinet. Katal. 1974, 15, 261
- ^ Shilov, A. E.; Shteinman, A. A. "Activation of saturated hydrocarbons by metal complexes in solution" Coord. Chem. Rev. 1977, 24, 97-143 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-8545(00)80336-7
- ^ Tyabin, M. B.; Shilov, A. E.; Shteinman, A. A. "Mechanism of platinum-complex catalyzed deuterium-hydrogen exchange involving saturated hydrocarbons and solvent protons" Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 1971, 198, 380-383
- ^ Gol'dshleger, N. F.; Es'kova, V. V.; Shilov, A. E.; Shteinman, A. A. "Reactions of alkanes in solutions of platinum chloride complexes" Zh. Fiz. Khim. 1972, 46, 1353-13544
- ^ Muradov, N. Z.; Shilov, A. E.; Shteinman, A. A. "Partial oxidation of simple alkanes" Kinetika i Kataliz 1972, 13, 1357-1358
- ^ Gol'dshleger, N. F.; Khidekel, M. L.; Shilov, A. E.; Shteinman, A. A. "Oxidative dehydrogenation of saturated hydrocarbons in palladium(II) complex solutions" Kinet. Katal. 1974, 15, 261
- ^ Shilov, A. E. Metal Complexes in Biomimetic Chemical Reactions: N2 Fixation in Solution, Activation and Oxidation of Alkanes, Chemical Models of Photosynthesis, 1997