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Lauri Vaska was an Estonian-American chemist and professor emeritus at Cornell University. He was best known for his work on organometallic chemistry, which earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1973. Vaska was born in Rakvere, Estonia, on 7 May 1925. He studied at the University of Tartu, where he received his PhD in 1949. He then moved to the United States, where he worked at the University of Pennsylvania and then at Cornell University. At Cornell, Vaska worked on organometallic chemistry, which is the study of the chemical bonds between organic molecules and metal atoms. His work focused on the synthesis of organometallic compounds and their use in catalytic reactions. His research led to the development of the Vaska-Hoffmann reaction, which is used in the production of pharmaceuticals and other industrial chemicals. Vaska was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1973 for his work on organometallic chemistry. He was also the recipient of numerous other awards, including the National Medal of Science, the Priestley Medal, and the American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry. Vaska died on 28 April 2021 at the age of 95.

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Age 90 years old
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Born 7 May 1925
Birthday 7 May
Birthplace Rakvere, Estonia
Date of death (2015-11-15) Basking Ridge, New Jersey, U.S.
Died Place Basking Ridge, New Jersey, U.S.
Nationality Estonia

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1971

Among his awards are the Boris Pregel Award for Research in Chemical Physics (New York Academy of Sciences) in 1971 and election in 1981 as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for "pioneering work in transition metal organometallic chemistry and synthetic oxygen carriers".

1962

Vaska published ca. eighty journal articles on the coordination chemistry of transition metals, homogeneous catalysis, and both organometallic and bioinorganic chemistry. His years at Mellon were especially productive. With J.W. Di Luzio in 1962 he first described the iridium compound which became known as Vaska's complex, trans-IrCl(CO)[P(C6H5)3]2 Working with a series of coworkers, he demonstrated that this iridium(I) complex undergoes a variety of reactions with small molecules. For example, it oxidatively adds H2 to give a dihydride. He subsequently discovered that his complex reversibly bound O2, which was then a startling achievement. He discovered the main reactions of oxidative addition, a process that is central to homogeneous catalysis in organometallic chemistry. He demonstrated a number of important substituent effects on the oxidative addition, such as the greater reactivity of Ir(I) vs. Rh(I) and the stabilization of oxidative adducts by iodide vs. chloride.

1946

Vaska was educated at the Baltic University in Hamburg, Germany (1946) and subsequently at the University of Göttingen (1946–1949), where he received his Vordiplom (equivalent to the American B.S. degree). He pursued his Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry at the University of Texas in the United States (1952–1956). He was a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University (1956–1957) where he conducted research on magnetochemistry. In 1957 he took a position as Fellow at the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh, where he remained until 1964. During that time, the Mellon Institute housed a number of future chemists, including Paul Lauterbur and R. Bruce King. Vaska moved as an associate professor to Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, where, from 1990 to his death, he was professor emeritus of chemistry. His brother Vootele Vaska [et] is a philosopher. He died in Basking Ridge, New Jersey in 2015, aged 90.

1925

Lauri Vaska (May 7, 1925 Rakvere – November 15, 2015) was an Estonian-American chemist who has made noteworthy contributions to organometallic chemistry.

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