American chemist
Devon Walter Meek (1936–1988) was an American chemist and professor at Ohio State University .[ 1] [ 2]
Background and career
Meek was born in Kentucky, and received his BS in chemistry from Berea College . His MS and Ph.D. were received at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign , where he studied sulfoxide complexes of transition metals under Professor Russell S. Drago .[ 3] Rare-earth elements and late metals[ 4] [ 5] [ 1] [ 6]
Meek's papers are held in a special collection of the OSU library.[ 7]
Books authored
With William Thomas Lipponcott and Frank H. Verhoek , Meek authored an undergraduate text in 1970, Experimental General Chemistry. [ 8]
Awards and honors
The Meek Lecture, given annually at OSU since 1989, has honored distinguished chemists including Dennis C. Liotta , Jay Keasling ,[ 10] Ralph F. Hirschmann , Alfred Bader , Allison A. Campbell ,[ 11] Edward J. J. Grabowski , and William Nugent .
References
^ a b "Devon Walter Meek Lecture" . chemistry.osu.edu . Retrieved 2020-07-24 .^ "Meek, Devon W. - Author details" . Scopus . Retrieved 2020-10-28 .^ Meek, Devon W.; Straub, Darel K.; Drago, Russell S. (December 1960). "Transition Metal Ion Complexes of Dimethyl Sulfoxide" . Journal of the American Chemical Society . 82 (23): 6013– 6016. doi :10.1021/ja01508a012 . ISSN 0002-7863 . ^ Springer, Charles S.; Meek, Devon W.; Sievers, Robert E. (June 1967). "Rare earth chelates of 1,1,1,2,2,3,3-heptafluoro-7,7-dimethyl-4,6-octanedione" . Inorganic Chemistry . 6 (6): 1105– 1110. doi :10.1021/ic50052a009 . ISSN 0020-1669 . ^ Green, Lisa M.; Meek, Devon W. (March 1989). "Synthesis, characterization and reactivity of alkoxide and hydroxide complexes of rhodium(I) and iridium(I)" . Organometallics . 8 (3): 659– 666. doi :10.1021/om00105a013 . ISSN 0276-7333 . ^ Meek, Devon W.; Mazanec, Terry J. (September 1981). "Determination of structural and dynamic aspects of organometallic and coordination chemistry by phosphorus-31 NMR spectroscopy" . Accounts of Chemical Research . 14 (9): 266– 274. doi :10.1021/ar00069a002 . ISSN 0001-4842 . ^ "Special Collections Registry" . library.osu.edu . Retrieved 2020-07-25 .^ LIPPINCOTT, William Thomas (1974). Experimental general chemistry. [By] W.T. Lippincott, Devon W. Meek, Frank H. Verhoek. 2nd ed ISBN 978-0-7216-5788-2 ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Devon W. Meek" . Retrieved 2020-07-24 .^ "Jay D Keasling | University of California, Berkeley - Academia.edu" . berkeley.academia.edu . Retrieved 2020-07-25 .^ "For President-Elect: Allison A. Campbell" . Chemical & Engineering News . Retrieved 2020-07-25 .
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