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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Chemistry Catalysis Inorganic Chemistry Materials Chemistry Organic Chemistry Organometallic Chemistry Polymer Chemistry

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Anthony J. Arduengo III earned his B.S. in Chemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1974 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the same institution in 1976. After a brief stint as a research scientist at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company from 1976 to 1977, he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as Assistant Professor of Chemistry, serving from 1977 to 1984. During this period, his research group achieved milestones in main group chemistry, including the creation of the first stable carbonyl ylide, the synthesis of the ADPO molecule exhibiting planar T-shaped phosphorus bonding, and the discovery of the edge inversion process at main group element centers. In 1984, Arduengo returned to DuPont, where he advanced to the position of Research Fellow by 1995, contributing to developments in low-VOC automotive coatings and polyimide films. In 1999, he entered academia full-time as the Saxon Professor of Chemistry at the University of Alabama, a position he held until 2018, after which he became Saxon Professor Emeritus. Currently, he is Professor of the Practice in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also serves as an adjunct professor at Braunschweig University of Technology in Germany.