Karl O. Christe
2016; Wiley; Volume: 56; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Alemão
10.1002/anie.201608225
ISSN1521-3773
Tópico(s)Philosophy, Science, and History
ResumoAngewandte Chemie International EditionVolume 56, Issue 1 p. 34-35 Author ProfileFree Access Karl O. Christe First published: 14 September 2016 https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201608225AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Graphical Abstract “When I was eighteen I wanted to be an Olympic fencing champion. My favorite painter is Hieronymus Bosch ...” This and more about Karl O. Christe can be found on page 38. Karl O. Christe The author presented on this page has published more than 25 articles since 2000 in Angewandte Chemie, most recently: “The Molybdenum(V) and Tungsten(VI) Oxoazides [MoO(N3)3], [MoO(N3)3⋅2 CH3CN], [(bipy)MoO(N3)3], [MoO(N3)5]2−, [WO(N3)4], and [WO(N3)4⋅CH3CN]”: R. Haiges, J. Skotnitzki, Z. Fang, D. A. Dixon, K. O. Christe, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 15550; Angew. Chem. 2016, 127, 15771. The work of K. Christe has been featured on the back cover of Angewandte Chemie: “Nitryl Cyanide, NCNO2”: M. Rahm, G. Bélanger-Chabot, R. Haiges, K. O. Christe, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 55, 6893; Angew. Chem. 2014, 126, 7013. Date of birth: July 24, 1936 Position: Research Professor, University of Southern California (USC) E-mail: kchriste@usc.edu Homepage: http://chem.usc.edu/faculty/Christe.html Education: 1957 Vordiplom, Technische Hochschule Stuttgart 1960 Diplom, Technische Hochschule Stuttgart 1961 PhD with Prof. J. Goubeau, Technische Hochschule Stuttgart Awards: 1969 Apollo Achievement Award (NASA); 1986 American Chemical Society (ACS) Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry; 2000 Prix Moissan, Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie; 2003 ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry; 2006 Alfred Stock Memorial Prize (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker); 2009 Inaugural Neil Bartlett Memorial Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley; 2009 Fellow of European Academy of Sciences; 2010 Fellow of European Academy of Sciences and Arts; 2011 Tolman Award, Southern California ACS Section; 2015 ACS Award for Creative Research & Applications of Iodine Chemistry Research: Energetic materials, explosives, propellants, compounds with high nitrogen content, fluorine chemistry Hobbies: Fencing, tennis, swimming, traveling, scuba diving When I was eighteen I wanted to be an Olympic fencing champion. My favorite painter is Hieronymus Bosch. My favorite author (science) is Carl Djerassi. My favorite composer is Ludwig van Beethoven. My favorite book is Cantor's Dilemma (Carl Djerassi). What I appreciate most about my friends is their loyalty. The most significant event of the past 100 years was the landing of a man on the moon. I am waiting for the day when someone will discover cures for cancer and Alzheimer's disease. The natural talent I would like to be gifted with is the ability to love and to forgive. My motto is “if you do a job, do it right and do it right the first time”. Young people should study chemistry because we already have too many lawyers. The principal aspect of my personality is I treat other people the same way as I would like to be treated. If I were a car I would like to be a 2013 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Gullwing. My first experiment was to make 20 g of nitroglycerine in high school. In a spare hour, I go fencing or play tennis. My favorite saying is “onwards and upwards”. My favorite molecule is N5+. My science heroes are Leonardo da Vinci and Albert Einstein. I advise my students to never say no to a challenge. The secret of being a successful scientist is being able to think outside of the box and being willing to challenge dogmas. Has your approach to chemistry research changed since the start of your career? My philosophy has not changed. If you do work, try to do significant work. Let other people do the routine work. There are too many followers, be a leader and take charge. What advice would you give to up-and-coming scientists? My advice is do what you love to do. Then your job is no longer work but a paid hobby. If you enjoy what you are doing you will automatically excel at it and you do not have to worry about job stability. My 5 top papers: References 1“Chemical Synthesis of Elemental Fluorine”: K. O. Christe, Inorg. Chem. 1986, 25, 3721. Prior to my chemical synthesis of elemental fluorine, each major textbook had stated that it is impossible to prepare elemental fluorine by purely chemical means because fluorine is the most electronegative element. This dogma was destroyed in a three-day tour de force using compounds which had already been known in the days of Moissan. 2“The Tetrafluoronitronium(V) Cation, NF4+”: K. O. Christe, J. P. Guertin, A. E. Pavlath, Inorg. Nucl. Chem. Lett. 1966, 2, 83. The synthesis of the NF4+ cation was sensational. It had been predicted to be nonexistent and the standard synthesis of cations, that is, abstraction of a fluoride ion from the corresponding parent molecule, could not be applied because NF5 does not exist. 3“The Pentafluoroxenate(IV) Anion, XeF5−: The First Example of a Pentagonal Planar AX5 Species”: K. O. Christe, E. C. Curtis, D. A. Dixon, H. P. Mercier, J. C. P. Sanders, G. J. Schrobilgen, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1991, 113, 3351. The XeF5− anion was the first example of a pentagonal planar molecule and presently only two molecules with such an unusual structure are known, both prepared in my laboratory. 4“N5+: A Novel Homoleptic Polynitrogen Ion as a High Energy Density Material”: K. O. Christe, W. W. Wilson, J. A. Sheehy, J. A. Boatz, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 1999, 38, 2004; Angew. Chem. 1999, 111, 2112. The highly energetic N5+ cation was only the second stable homonuclear polynitrogen compound prepared in more than a century and attracted worldwide attention. 5“On a quantitative scale for Lewis acidity and recent progress in polynitrogen chemistry”: K. O. Christe, D. A. Dixon, D. McLemore, W. W. Wilson, J. A. Sheehy, J. A. Boatz, J. Fluor. Chem. 2000, 101, 151. Although the Brønsted pH scale is a household name, a quantitative scale for the equally important Lewis acidity previously did not exist. Volume56, Issue1January 2, 2017Pages 34-35 ReferencesRelatedInformation
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