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Professor Maurice Brookhart of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill presented the 31st William H. Rauscher Memorial Lecture at Rensselaer on Oct. 28, 2003. Held at the Troy campus, Brookhart lectured on"Olefin Polymerizations Catalyzed by Late Transition Metal Complexes: Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies."
The annual lecture series honors the memory of William Rauscher who spent more than 30 years at Rensselaer as student, mentor, and colleague. Following his death in 1972, friends and faculty established the William H. Rauscher Lectureships to honor his devotion to both the program and his areas of special interest.
Brookhart is the W.R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include the areas of mechanistic, synthetic, and structural organometallic chemistry with a focus on the development and mechanistic understanding of late transition metal complexes for olefin polymerizations and employing carbon-hydrogen bond activation processes in catalytic transformations of small molecules.
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