Yitzhak Apeloig is a pioneer in the computational chemistry field of the Ab initio quantum chemistry methods for predicting and preparing the physical and chemical properties of materials.
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Distinguished Professor
Expertise: Organic, organosilicon and computational chemistry
Yitzhak Apeloig, Distinguished Professor
Joseph Israel Freund Chair in Chemistry
Born in Uzbekistan 1944; in Israel since 1947
Ph.D. 1974, The Hebrew University
On Technion faculty since 1976
Chairman, Department of Chemistry, 1995-1998
President of the Technion, 2001-2009
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Prof. Yitzhak Apeloig
Department of Chemistry
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa 32000, Israel
Yitzhak Apeloig, Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
Address and Telephone:
Department of Chemistry, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,
Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel
Tel. and Fax: (972-4) 8293721
Fax: (972-4) 8233735
E-Mail:
apeloig@technion.ac.il
Place and Date of Birth: Buchara, Russia - 1.9.1944
Immigration to Israel: 1.9.1947
Family Status: Married to Zipora Zaltzberg + 2 children: Shai (1971) and Noa (1975).
Present Employment
President of the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology 2001-
Professor of Chemistry and incumbent of a Chair in Chemistry, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Co-Director, Lise Meitner - Minerva Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry.
At the Technion since 1976, Professor of Chemistry since 1988, Chair in Chemistry since 1993.
Chairman of the Faculty of Chemistry 1995 - 1999.
Professor Yitzhak Apeloig (Technion) and Professor Dany Kost (BGU) at a Shabu-Shabu table in Kyoto
Education
| B.Sc. - | Chemistry and Physics (Summa Cum Laude),
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel | 1964-1967 |
| M.Sc. - | Chemistry (Summa Cum Laude), Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Mentor: Zvi Rappoport | 1967-1969 |
| Ph.D. - | Chemistry (Summa Cum Laude), Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Mentor: Zvi Rappoport | 1969-1974 |
| Post Doctoral - With Paul v. Ragu? Schleyer, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, Close collaboration with John A. Pople, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA | 1974-1976 |
| Sabbatical - With Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA | 1983-1984 |
Academic Appointments
| Research Associate, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel | 1967-1973 |
| Instructor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel | 1973-1974 |
| Research Fellow, Technion, Haifa, Israel | 1976-1977 |
| Lecturer, Technion, Haifa, Israel | 1977-1979 |
| Senior Lecturer, Technion, Haifa, Israel | 1979-1983 |
| Associate Professor, Technion, Haifa, Israel | 1983-1988 |
| Visiting Professor, Tel Aviv University, Israel | 1986 |
| Professor, Technion, Haifa, Israel | 1988-present |
| Chair in Chemistry, Technion, Haifa, Israel | 1993-present |
Visiting Academic Appointments
| Research Fellow, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA | 1974-1976 |
| Visiting DAAD Fellow Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg, Erlangen, W. Germany | Summers 1979, 1985, 1992 |
| Visiting Lecturer, Tel Aviv University, Israel | Spring 1983 |
| Visiting Professor, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA | 1983-1984 |
| Visiting DAAD Professor, Technische Universit?t Berlin | Summers 1985, 1991 |
| Visiting JSPS Professor, Kyushu University, Japan | Summer 1991 |
| Visiting Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Technische Universit?t Berlin | 3-9/1994, Summer 1997 |
| Visiting Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Universit?t Ulm | Summer 1997 |
| Visiting JSPS Professor, Sendai University, Japan | Spring 1999 |
| Visiting Professor, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA | Summer 2000 |
Prizes, Awards, Honors and Research Fellowships
| Annual Prize for Distinction in Chemistry Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel | 1965-1967 |
| The Prize for Distinguished Student of the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel | 1971 |
| The Yashinski Prize for Distinguished Ph.D. Thesis | 1974 |
| Bat-Sheba de Rothschild Fellow | 1977-1978 |
| DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Fellowship | 1979 |
| DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Visiting Professor | 1985, 1991 |
| The Louis Klein Visiting Professorship in Australian Universities | 1986 |
| Distinguished Teacher Award by the Technion Student Association | 1986, 1993, 1997 |
| Technion Award for Academic Excellence, Technion (The New England Prize) | 1988 |
| The Henri Gutwirth Prize for Excellence in Research,Technion | 1991, 1993 |
| Included in "Who's Who in Science and Engineering", Beginning Second Edition | 1993 |
| Included in the "International Who's Who of Contemporary Achievement", Beginning Third Edition | 1993 |
| Incumbent of a Chair in Chemistry | 1993 |
| Israel-Italy National Council for Research and Development, Senior Scientist Exchange Fellow | 1993 |
| Alexander von Humboldt - Lise Meitner Senior Research Award | 1994-1999 |
| Granted a Minerva Center in Computational Quantum Chemistry | 1996 |
| Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Senior Visiting Professor Award | 1991, 1999 |
| C. A Coulson Lecturer, University of Georgia, Athens, USA | 2002 |
| The Israel Chemical Society Prize | 2002 |
| Honorary Doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany | 2006 |
| The Wacker Prize | 2007 |
| Honorary Member, Academia de Ciencias, Mexico | 2008 |
| Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science | 2009 |
| American Chemical Society Fredric Stanely Kipping Award in Silicon Chemistry | 2010 |
| Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences | 2010 |
Plenary and Invited Lectures in International Conferences
| 1. | 170th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Chicago, Illinois, August 25-29, 1975. |
| 2. | International Symposium on "Organic Reaction Mechanisms. New Concepts and Prospects", Fukuoka, Japan, August 18-21, 1982. |
| 3. | The 8th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Tokyo, Japan, August 24-29, 1986. |
| 4. | Kyushu Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry, "Zen" on Organic Reaction Mechanisms, Kyushu University, Japan, September 1-3, 1986. |
| 5. | The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan,October 28-29, 1986. |
| 6. | Swedish-Israeli Symposium on "New Trends in Organic Chemistry", The Weizmann Institute of Science, March 15-19, 1987. |
| 7. | 5th European Symposium on Organic Chemistry, Jerusalem, Israel, August 30-September 3, 1987. |
| 8. | 1st Joint Italo-Israeli Meeting on "Influence of Steric and Electronic Effects on Molecular Crystalline Structure," Florence, Italy, October 21-23, 1987. |
| 9. | Workshop on "The Structure of Small Molecules and Ions", Jerusalem, Israel, December 13-18, 1987. |
| 10. | 53rd Annual Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva,February 9-10, 1988. |
| 11. | Symposium on "Carbocations and Other Reactive Intermediates", T?bingen, Federal Republic of Germany, August 17-19, 1988. |
| 12. | Symposium on "Strain and its Implications in Organic Chemistry", Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany, August 28 - September 2, 1988. |
| 13. | Second International Conference on Heteroatom Chemistry, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, July 17-22, 1989. |
| 14. | Second European Symposium on Organic Reactivity (ESOR II), Padova, Italy, August 27 - September 1, 1989. |
| 15. | Symposium in Memory of Professor David Ginsburg, Haifa, Israel, September 19-20, 1989. |
| 16. | Symposium Honoring the 60th Birthday of Professor Paul v. Ragu? Schleyer, April 25-27, 1990. |
| 17. | The annual meeting of the Japanese Chemical Society, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan,September 22-25, 1991. |
| 18. | Symposium on "Interfacing theory and experiment in the study of organic processes", Okazaki, Japan, September 30-October 2, 1991. |
| 19. | Kyushu International Symposium on "Physical Organic Chemistry (KISPOC-4)", Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan, October 4-8, 1991. |
| 20. | 2nd Joint Italo-Israeli Meeting on "Electronic Effects on Molecular Structure", Herzelia, Israel, February 3-4, 1992. |
| 21. | The 57th Annual Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, Technion, Haifa, February 12-13, 1992. |
| 22. | Special Symposium organized by the Israel Chemical Society honoring John A. Pople, 1992 Laureate of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, 18 May 1992. |
Plenary and Invited Lectures in International Conferences (cont'd)
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| 23. | Toronto International Conference on Organic Reactive Intermediates, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, August 2-7, 1992. |
| 24. | The 11th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, USA, August 2-7, 1992. |
| 25. | The 5th Conference on Carbene and Carbene Analogues Chemistry, University of Moscow, Moscow, Russia, September 16-18, 1992. |
| 26. | The Third World Congress of Theoretical Organic Chemists (WATOC '93), Toyohashi, Japan, July 18-24, 1993. |
| 27. | The 10th International Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry, Poznan, Poland,August 15-20, 1993. |
| 28. | Organosilicon Polymers, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lodz, Poland, August 22-24, 1993. |
| 29. | Kyushu International Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry (KISPOC), Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan, October 4-7, 1993. |
| 30. | The 59th Annual Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, January 31 - February 1, 1994 |
| 31. | 1st Joint Italo-Israeli Meeting on Physical Organic Chemistry, Algehro, Sardinia, Italy,June 26-30, 1994. |
| 32. | The 3rd Munich Silicondays Conference, Munich, Germany, August 1-2, 1994. |
| 33. | The 2nd Swedish-Israeli Symposium on New Trends in Organic Chemistry, Stockholm, Sweden, August 14-18, 1994. |
| 34. | The 12th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Padova, Italy, August 28 - September 2, 1994. |
| 35. | The 60th Annual Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, February 7-8, 1995. |
| 36. | Kyushu International Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry (KISPOC-VI), Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan, July 25-28, 1995. |
| 37. | The Tsukuba Conference on New Aspects in the Chemistry of Reactive Intermediates, Tsukuba University, Japan, August 21-23, 1996. |
| 38. | The 13th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Inchon, Korea, August 25-29, 1996. |
| 39. | The 11th International Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France, September 1-6, 1996. |
| 40. | The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, February 3-5, 1997. |
| 41. | The 30th Organosilicon Symposium, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada,May 30-31, 1997. |
| 42. | The 9th International Congress of Quantum Chemistry, Emory University Conference Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 9-14, 1997. |
| 43. | The 2nd Israeli-Czech Meeting on Molecular Dynamics, Jerusalem, Israel, May 3-5, 1998. |
Plenary and Invited Lectures in International Conferences (cont'd)
| 44. | Symposium on the Interplay Between Theory and Experiment, Louvain-le-Neuve, Belgium, June 5-6, 1998. |
| 45. | Symposium on Synergism of Experimental and Theoretical Chemistry, Mexico City, Mexico, August 13-14, 1998. |
| 46. | The 1999 Frontiers in Biomedical Research Symposium, Palm Springs, California, USA, February 7-10, 1999. |
| 47. | The 1999 Annual Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan, Yokahama, Japan, March 28 - April 1, 1999. |
| 48. | The 12th International Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry, Sendai, Japan, May 23-28, 1999. |
| 49. | The 12th International Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry, Post-Symposium in Kyoto, Japan, May 29-31, 1999. |
| 50. | The 11th European Symposium on Organic Chemistry (ESOC 11), G?teborg, Sweden, July 23-28, 1999. |
| 51. | The 7th European Symposium on Organic Reactivity (ESOR), University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, August 22-27, 1999. |
| 52. | The 65th Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, February 8-9, 2000. |
| 53. | 15th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, G?teborg, Sweden, July 8-13, 2000. |
| 54. | International Symposium on Reactive Intermediates and Unusual Molecules (ISRIUM), Nara, Japan, September 8-13, 2001. |
| 55. | The Coulson Lecture, University of Georgia, Athens, USA, February, 26, 2002. |
| 56. | The 16th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (ICPOC 16), San Diego, USA, August 4-9, 2002. |
| 57. | XIII International Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry (ISOS XIII), Guanajuato, Mexico, August 25-30, 2002 |
| 58. | Minerva School on Computational Quantum Chemistry, Blankensee, Germany, September 25-28, 2002 |
| 59. | The 68th meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, Tel Aviv, Israel. |
| 60. | European Symposium on Organic Reactivity, Oslo, Norway. |
| 61. | Theory and Application of Computational Chemistry (TACC), Gyeongju, Korea. |
| 62. | Heron Island Conference on Reactive Intermediates and Unusual Molecules (Heron 3), Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. |
| 63. | The 70th Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, Tel Aviv, Israel. |
| 64. | Symposium honoring Paul Schleyer's 75th Birthday, University of Georgia, USA. |
| 65. | American Chemical Society 229th National Meeting, John Pople Memorial Symposium, San Diego, CA, USA. |
| 66. | The 14th International Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry, W?rzburg, Germany. |
| 67. | International Symposium on Dynamic Complexes, Sendai, Japan. |
| 68. | Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Silicon Chemistry, Hiroshima, Japan. |
In addition more than 100 invited seminars worldwide in universities, research institutes and industry.
Professional Activities (including Committees and Administrative Duties)
a. International
| Member of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Commission on "Guidelines for the Presentation of Quantum Mechanical and Computation Data in Organic Chemistry" | 1986 - 1990 |
| Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the 10th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, held at the Technion, Haifa, Israel, | August 1990 |
| Member of the Organizing Committee of the Joint Meeting of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Israel Chemical Society, Durham, England. | 1991 - 1992 |
| Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Selected New Trends of Theoretical Organic Chemistry, Anapa, USSR | 1991 - 1992 |
| Member of the International Committee of the European Symposia on Organic Chemistry (ESOC) | 1988 - 2000 |
| Member of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Commission on "Terminology for Theoretical Organic Chemistry" | 1991 - 1998 |
| Program and Conference Chairman of the 5th International Conference of the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists, (WATOC), 7-12 July, 1996, Jerusalem, Israel 1996 |
| Member, Scientific Evaluation Committee of the Austrian Academy of Sciences | 1996 - 1998 |
| Member of the organizing committee of the Italian-Israeli Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Mahale Hachamisha, Israel | June 1998 |
| Chairman of the Symposium on Frontiers in Electronic Structure Calculations, 13-14 December, 1998, held at the Technion, Haifa, Israel. | 1998 |
| Member of the International Advisory Board of the International Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry | 1992 - present |
| Member of the International Scientific Committee of the Federation of the European Chemical Societies (FECS) on Computational Chemistry | 1996 - present |
| Member of the Scientific Board of the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists (WATOC) | 1996 - present |
| Co-Director, Lise Meitner - Minerva Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry | 1996 - present |
| Member of the International Advisory Board of the European Silicon Days Conference | 1999 - present |
Regular referee for international journals such as: JACS, JOC, JPC, Angew. Chemie, J. Computational Chemistry, Tetrahedron, Tetrahedron Letters, European Journal of Chemistry, etc. Regular referee of grant applications of various national and international agencies.
b. National
| Member of the organizing committee of several meetings of the Israel Chemical Society | |
| Member of the Commission on "Hebrew Terms in Technology and Science"of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities | 1986 - 1996 |
| Executive Committee, Israel Chemical Society | 1986 - 2001 |
| Member of the Grants Committee of Israel Science Foundation | 1992 - 1994 |
| Member of an advisory committee to the Israel Ministry of Science | 1998 - 2000 |
| Member of the Grants Committee of US-Israel Binational Science Foundation | 1999 - 2001 |
c. Technion
| Chairman of the Organic Chemistry seminar in the Department of Chemistry, Technion. | 1977 - 1978
1980 - 1981 |
| Member of the Computer Committee of the Technion | 1979 - 1983 |
| Academic Supervisor (Chemistry), The Unit for Preacademic Studies, Technion | 1979 - 1983 |
| Representative of the Chemistry Department in the Technion's Senate | 1984 - 1988 |
| Head of the Organic Chemistry Laboratory | 1986 - 1990 |
| Member of the Committee for Evaluation of the Technion's Administrative and Technical Staff | 1988 - 1991 |
| Chairman of a Senate Committee aimed at examining the Senate Structure and Mode of Operation | 1989 - 1990 |
| Member of the Technion Committee for the Absorption of the Aliyah from the Soviet Union | 1990 - 1991 |
| Chairman of a Special Meeting of the Technion's Senate on the topic: "Where is the Technion Heading To?", held on 22 March 1992 | 1992 |
| Chairman of the Chemistry Department Colloquium, Technion | 1984 - 1985 &
1992 - 1994 |
| Member of the Preparatory Committee of the Senate for the Academic Appointments of Senior Faculty and for Tenure Decisions | 1992 - 1994 |
| Member of a Senate Committee for Examining the Possibility of Establishing an Academic School of Nursing (Chairman: Prof. A. Marmur) | 1993 |
| Member of the Committee for "Preparing Guidelines for the Development of the Technion in the Year 2000 and Beyond" (Chairman: Prof. P. Singer, Vice-President) | 1993 |
| Member, Committee on Prizes for Academic Staff | 1995 - 1996 |
| Member, Committee on Guidelines for the Technion Internet Site | 1996 |
| Member, Committee for Harvey Prize | 1996 |
| Member, Committee on New Guidelines for Academic Promotion and Tenure Decision | 1997 |
| Member, Committee for the the selection of the first Technion Provost | 1998 |
| Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry, Technion | 1995 - 1999 |
| Ad-Hoc Committee for defining the authority of the Vice-President and Vice-Provost for Research | 1998 |
| Member, Committee for the Selection of Research Professors | 1998 - 2000 |
| Chairman of the 2000 Harvey Prize Committee | 2000 |
| Member, Stirring Committee for the Technion Research Authority | 1996 - present |
| Member, Steering Committee of the Senate | 1999 - present |
| President of the Technion | 2001- present |
Editorship
a. Books
| Editor, Israel Journal of Chemistry, Special Issue on: "Application of Theory to Organic and Organometallic Molecules" (jointly with S.S. Shaik) | 1983 |
| Editor, Israel Journal of Chemistry, Special Issue honoring J.A. Pople, 1992 Laureate of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry (jointly with S.S. Shaik) | 1993 |
| Editor of a special Issue on “Theory and Modelling in Chemistry” Journal of Molecular Structure, (jointly with M. Karni), Theochem., Vol. 398-399 (582 pp). | 1997 |
| Editor, "The Chemistry of Organic Silicon Compounds. Vol.2", John Wiley, (3 books, 2758 pages, jointly with Z. Rappoport). | 1998 |
| Editor, "The Chemistry of Organic Silicon Compounds, Vol.3", John Wiley (jointly with Z. Rappoport). | due out August 2001 |
| Editor, “The Chemistry of Organic Germanium, Tin and Lead Compounds”, Vol. 2, John Wiley (jointly with Z. Rappoport). | Due out March 2002 |
b. Editorial Boards
| Israel Journal of Chemistry | 1986 - 1990 |
| Journal of the Chemical Society - Perkin Transaction 2. | 1993 - present |
| Progress in Physical Organic Chemistry | 1997 - present |
| Journal of Computational Chemistry | 1998 - present |
| Molecules | 1999 - present |
| Theoretical Chemical Accounts | 2001 - present |
| Silicon Chemistry | 2001 - present |
Membership in Professional Associations
Israel Chemical Society
American Chemical Society
Royal Society of Chemistry
World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists (WATOC).
Research Interests
Organosilicon chemistry: multiple bonds to silicon; reactive intermediates such as: silylenes, silyl anions, silyl cations; polysilanes; reaction mechanisms.
Computational quantum chemistry: application of theory to organic and bio-organic chemistry; molecular modeling.
Physical organic chemistry: organic reaction mechanisms; reactive intermediates, in particular carbenium ions; strained molecules.
Current Research Funding
| 1. | Lise Meitner Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry (continuous support for the next 6 years) - about $30,000 / year. |
| 2. | Israel Science Foundation (2005-2009) - $4000 / year. |
| 3. | US-Israel Binational Science Foundations (2006-2009) - $30,000 / year |
Average research funding over the last 10 years about $120,000 / year.
February 24, 2003
Volume 81, Number 8 CENEAR 81 8 pp. 48-49 ISSN 0009-2347
Yitzhak Apeloig, professor in the faculty of chemistry at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and president of the Technion, has received the 2002 Israel Chemical Society Prize. Apeloig is recognized "for his imaginative implementation of quantum mechanical calculations, providing elegant examples of the germination of ideas for experiments that have led to the discovery of new chemistry." His work has played a pivotal role in developing a fundamental understanding of organosilicon chemistry.
Prof. Yitzhak Apeloig, from the Technion is awarded the Israel Chemical Society Prize for the year 2002.
Yitzhak Apeloig is a Professor in the Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and is currently the President of the Technion.He did his Ph.D. with Professor Zvi Rappoport of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the field of solvolytic generation of vinyl cations. He pursued his postdoctoral studies with Prof. P.v.R. Schleyer at Princeton University in Collaboration with Prof. J.A. Pople of Carnegie Mellon. In 1976 he joined the Technion faculty.
Professor Apeloig was one of the first experimentalists to recognize the vast potential of ab initio quantum mechanical calculations for organic chemistry. Soon after joining the Technion he succeeded in bringing together a unique combination of experimental techniques and theoretical prowess to solve challenging problems in the area of reactive species in silicon chemistry. These species included: doubly- and triply-bonded silicon compounds, divalent silicon compounds (silylenes), silyl cations and anions. Apeloig's theoretical and experimental work has played a pivotal role in developing a fundamental understanding of organosilicon chemistry. Based on his own theoretical predictions, he was the first to detect experimentally (in cooperation with Prof. Helmut Schwarz of Berlin), molecules containing carbon-silicon triple bonds – one of the "Holy Grails" of silicon chemistry. He edited (with Z. Rappoport) four volumes on organosilicon compounds,which are the authoritative books in the field. Apeloig is also renowned for his seminal discoveries in hydrocarbon chemistry, dealing with small ring compounds and reactive intermediates such as carbocations, carbenes and free radicals.
Yitzhak Apeloig is being honored with the Israel Chemical Society Award 2002 for his Imaginative implementation of quantum mechanical calculation, providing elegant examples of the germination of ideas for experiments that have lead to the discovery of new chemistry. His research has convincingly exemplified the synergistic use of theory and experiment as an effective way to discover and explore chemistry, setting an example to many others. His work has played a pivotal role in developing a fundamental understading of organosilicon chemistry. He is a role model for modern physical organic chemists.
Yitzhak Apeloig (born September 1, 1944 in
Uzbekistan[2]) is a pioneer in the
computational chemistry field of the
Ab initio quantum chemistry methods for predicting and preparing the physical and chemical properties of materials.
[3] He was the president of the
Technion from 2001 until 2009 where the position was handed off to
Peretz Lavie. Distinguished Prof. Apeloig currently holds the Joseph Israel Freund Chair in Chemistry and is the co-director of the Lise Meitner Minerva Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the
Technion. He served as dean of the
Faculty of Chemistry from 1995 to 1999, where he was named Teacher of the Year at three occasions.
During his Technion presidency, Prof. Apeloig actively recruited of more than 150 elite scholars and scientists worldwide to the Technion.
[4] He also established a number of interdisciplinary research centers such as the
Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute. He also established the Lorry I. Lokey Interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences and Engineering.
Biography
Yitzhak was born in Uzbekistan
[2] after his family fled from the Nazis after the
invasion of Poland in September 1939. In 1947 the family immigrated to
Israel. He served in the
Nahal Brigade and the
paratroopers between 1962 and 1964. He received his BA in physics and chemistry in 1967. In 1969 he completed his Masters in Chemistry, and in 1974 his doctorate in chemistry.
Yitzhak joined the faculty of the Technion in 1976 and in 1983 he was appointed professor. He became the dean of the Faculty of Chemistry in 1995 until 1998 when he became the president of the Technion.
Awards
- 2011 - Received the Order of Merit (First Degree) of the Federal Republic of Germany from Bundespräsident Christian Wulff[6][7]
- 2010 - Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2010 - American Chemical Society Fredric Stanely Kipping Award in Silicon Chemistry[8]
- 2010 - Alexander von Humboldt - Lise Meitner Senior Research Award
- 2009 - Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2008 - Honorary Member, Mexican Academy of Sciences
- 2007 - Wacker Silicone Award
- 2006 - Honorary Doctorate of Science from the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
- 2002 - C. A Coulson Lecturer, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
- 2002 - The Israel Chemical Society Prize
- 1997 - Distinguished Teacher Award by the Technion Student Association
- 1996 - Granted a Minerva Center in Computational Quantum Chemistry
- 1994-1999 - Alexander von Humboldt - Lise Meitner Senior Research Award
- 1993 - Distinguished Teacher Award by the Technion Student Association
- 1993 - Senior Scientist Exchange Fellow, Israel-Italy National Council for Research and Development
- 1991, 1993 - The Henri Gutwirth Prize for Excellence in Research by the Technion
- 1991, 1999, 2010 - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Senior Visiting Professor Award
- 1988 - Technion Award for Academic Excellence, Technion (The New England Prize)
- 1986 - Distinguished Teacher Award by the Technion Student Association
- 1986 - The Louis Klein Visiting Professorship in Australian Universities
- 1985, 1991 - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Visiting Professor
- 1979 - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Fellowship
- 1977-1978 - Bat-Sheba de Rothschild Fellow
- 1974 - The Yashinski Prize for Distinguished Ph.D. Thesis
- 1971 - The Prize for Distinguished Student of the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, Hebrew University
- 1965-1967 - Annual Prize for Distinction in Chemistry Studies, Hebrew University
PublicationReferences
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Formation of Three New Bonds and Two Stereocenters in Acyclic Systems by Zinc-Mediated Enantioselective Alkynylation of Acylsilanes, Brook Rearrangement, and Ene-Allene Carbocyclization ReactionsPolina Smirnov, Einat Katan, Jomon Mathew, Arseni Kostenko, Miriam Karni, Anne Nijs, Carsten Bolm, Yitzhak Apeloig, and Ilan Marek
Formation of Three New Bonds and Two Stereocenters in Acyclic Systems by Zinc-Mediated Enantioselective Alkynylation of Acylsilanes, Brook Rearrangement, and Ene-Allene Carbocyclization Reactions
† The Mallat Family Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Schulich Faculty of Chemistry and The Lise Meitner-Minerva Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa 32000,Israel
‡ Institut für Organische Chemie der RWTH Aachen University, Landoltweg 1, 52056 Aachen, Germany
J. Org. Chem., 2014, 79 (24), pp 12122–12135
DOI: 10.1021/jo501977r
Publication Date (Web): October 01, 2014
Copyright © 2014 American Chemical Society
Abstract
Diastereoisomerically pure (
dr > 99:1) and enantiomerically enriched (
er up to 98:2) substituted propargyl diols possessing a tertiary hydroxyl group were synthesized in a single-pot operation from simple acylsilanes through a combined catalytic enantioselective alkynylation of acylsilanes, followed by an allenyl-Zn-Brook rearrangement and Zn-ene-allene (or Zn-yne-allene) cyclization reaction. Two remarkable features of these reactions are the near complete transfer of chirality in the allenyl-Zn-Brook rearrangement and the highly organized six-membered transition state of the Zn-ene-allene carbocyclization found by DFT calculations. In this process,
three new bonds and two new stereogenic centers are created in a single-pot operation in excellent diastereo- and enantiomeric ratios. DFT calculations show that the allenyl-Zn-Brook rearrangement occurs in preference to the classic [1,2]-Zn-Brook rearrangement owing to its significantly lower activation barrier.,,,,,
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo501977r
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