Alexander E. Shilov (russian: Шилов, Александр Евгеньевич) (January 1, 1930 – June 6, 2014) was a Russian chemist.
Shilov was born in
Ivanovo
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,
Russia, studied chemistry in
Kiev
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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.
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
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of
alkane
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s, now known as the
Shilov system
The Shilov system is a classic example of catalytic C-H bond activation and oxidation which preferentially activates stronger C-H bonds over weaker C-H bonds for an overall partial oxidation.
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. Shilov and co-workers conducted extensive mechanistic investigations of this chemistry based on kinetic analysis.
In 1990 he received the Academian of Scienсes. 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.
[Shilov, A. E. Metal Complexes in Biomimetic Chemical Reactions: N2 Fixation in Solution, Activation and Oxidation of Alkanes, Chemical Models of Photosynthesis, 1997]
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.
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Russian chemists
Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1930 births
2014 deaths