Richard R. Schrock

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in United States Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in United States Leader Award
• 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 2008 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
• 2005 - Nobel Prize for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis
• 1992 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1990 - Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
• 1989 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1976 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Best Publications

• Beyond fossil fuel-driven nitrogen transformations.

  Jingguang G. Chen;Jingguang G. Chen;Richard M. Crooks;Lance C. Seefeldt;Kara L. Bren

  2227
  Citations

• Catalytic Reduction of Dinitrogen to Ammonia at a Single Molybdenum Center

  Dmitry V. Yandulov;Richard R. Schrock

  1840
  Citations

• Molybdenum and tungsten imido alkylidene complexes as efficient olefin-metathesis catalysts.

  Richard R. Schrock;Amir H. Hoveyda

  1653
  Citations

• Synthesis of molybdenum imido alkylidene complexes and some reactions involving acyclic olefins

  Richard R. Schrock;John S. Murdzek;Gui C. Bazan;Jennifer Robbins

  1457
  Citations

• High oxidation state multiple metal-carbon bonds.

  Richard R. Schrock

  1209
  Citations

• Multiple Metal–Carbon Bonds for Catalytic Metathesis Reactions (Nobel Lecture)

  Richard R. Schrock

  1204
  Citations

• Living ring-opening metathesis polymerization catalyzed by well-characterized transition-metal alkylidene complexes

  Richard R. Schrock

  1116
  Citations

• Catalytic Reduction of Dinitrogen to Ammonia at a Single Molybdenum Center

  Richard R. Schrock

  661
  Citations

• Alkylidene complexes of niobium and tantalum

  Richard R. Schrock

  601
  Citations

• Recent advances in high oxidation state Mo and W imido alkylidene chemistry.

  Richard R. Schrock

  585
  Citations

• Preparation and properties of some cationic complexes of rhodium(I) and rhodium(III)

  John A. Osborn;Richard R. Schrock

  560
  Citations

• Catalytic Z -selective olefin cross-metathesis for natural product synthesis

  Simon J. Meek;Robert V. O’Brien;Josep Llaveria;Richard R. Schrock

  518
  Citations

• Synthesis of Titanium and Zirconium Complexes That Contain the Tridentate Diamido Ligand, [((t-Bu-d6)N-o-C6H4)2O]2- ([NON]2-) and the Living Polymerization of 1-Hexene by Activated [NON]ZrMe2

  Robert Baumann;William M. Davis;Richard R. Schrock

  506
  Citations

• .pi.-Bonded complexes of the tetraphenylborate ion with rhodium(I) and iridium(I)

  Richard R. Schrock;John A. Osborn

  488
  Citations

• Catalytic hydrogenation using cationic rhodium complexes. I. Evolution of the catalytic system and the hydrogenation of olefins

  Richard R. Schrock;John A. Osborn

  487
  Citations

• Living ring-opening metathesis polymerization of 2,3-difunctionalized norbornadienes by Mo(:CHBu-tert)(:NC6H3Pr-iso2-2,6)(OBu-tert)2

  G. C. Bazan;E. Khosravi;Richard R. Schrock;W. J. Feast

  444
  Citations

• Catalytic Reduction of Dinitrogen to Ammonia by Molybdenum: Theory versus Experiment

  Richard R. Schrock

  443
  Citations

• Preparation and reactivity of several alkylidene complexes of the type W(CHR')(N-2,6-C6H3-iso-Pr2)(OR)2 and related tungstacyclobutane complexes. Controlling metathesis activity through the choice of alkoxide ligand

  Richard R. Schrock;R. T. DePue;J. Feldman;C. J. Schaverien

  442
  Citations

• Alkylcarbene complex of tantalum by intramolecular .alpha.-hydrogen abstraction

  Richard R. Schrock

  428
  Citations

• Living Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of 2,3-Difunctionalized- Norbornadienes by Mo(CH-t-Bu)(N-2,6-C(6)H(3)-i-Pr(2)(O-t-Bu)(2)

  G. C. Bazan;E. Khosravi;R. R. Schrock;W. J. Feast

  418
  Citations