Richard R. Schrock (1945)

American chemist, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 1975.

He prepared the first well-defined metal alkylidenes and, in 1990, the highly active molybdenum catalysts that bear his name, which confirmed the Chauvin mechanism and made it possible to control metathesis. He received the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Yves Chauvin and Robert H. Grubbs.

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