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Year of election: | 1993 |
Section: | Chemie |
City: | Riverside, CA, USA |
Country: | USA |
François Mathey has mainly worked in the fields of phosphorus-carbon heterocyclic chemistry, low-coordinate phosphorus chemistry, transition metal chemistry and homogeneous catalysis. He is better known for the discovery of phosphametallocenes, of the carbene-like chemistry of terminal phosphinidene complexes and of the phospha-Wittig reaction.