Organophosphorus Chemistry: A Themed Issue in Honor of Prof. Koop Lammertsma
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Organic Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 13018
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Throughout his rich career, Prof. Koop Lammertsma contributed to organophosphorus chemistry with a focus on low-valent reagents, P,N-ligands, frustrated Lewis pairs, and the conversion of white phosphorus using an integrated synthetic-computational chemistry approach. This physical organic chemistry approach is also evident from his contributions in applied theoretical chemistry, carbocations, organometallics, and silicates.
He was born in Makkum, the Netherlands, and obtained his B.S. and M.Sc. at Groningen University and his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam. Subsequently, he joined as a PD Prof. F. Sondheimer at University College London, Prof. P. v. R. Schleyer at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, and Prof. G. A. Olah (Nobel Laureate, 1994) at the University of Southern California. In 1983, he moved to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, and rose through the academic ranks to Professor. In 1996, he moved to the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Since 2015, he has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He has served for both the US (NSF) and Dutch (NWO) science foundations.
Prof. Lammertsma’s many accomplishments include (i) the generation, reactivity, and organometallic chemistry of organophosphorus compounds; (ii) computational chemistry on high energy compounds (rocket propellants and explosives), carbo(di)cations, metalloenzymes, and light-harvesting organic antennae, and (iii) chiral organosilicates.
Molecules is pleased to host a Special Issue honoring Prof. Koop Lammertsma for his outstanding achievements to advance organophosphorus chemistry and his efforts to incorporate theoretical chemistry in basic science.
Prof. Dr. Prasad V. Bharatam
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- organophosphorus chemistry
- computational chemistry
- coordination chemistry
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