A random walk (run?) through the “Halpern Files” to the influential Pingree Park Organometallic Symposium headed by Bergman, Bercaw and Grubbs—amongst others.  A “Remember Chicago”, completely oversubscribed workshop in how to handle our fragile, electron-loaded organometallics, epitomized in the Ellis, ever lower valent, “treacherous” metal carbonyl anions.  An early sojourn to the Muetterties labs for introduction to the entire periodic table and onward to the mecca of triple decker sandwiches in the Klaus Jonas Labs at the MPI Muelheim.  The epiphany provided by the Parshall “Homogeneous Catalysis” book and the ultimate sighting of organometallic bioelectrocatalysts in biology—these are the personal sources for this short lecture.

Forest Gump-ian journey in  organometallic chemistry  (1970 – now)

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