Alan Sargeson
{{Short description|Australian chemist (1930–2008)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
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| name = Alan Sargeson|honorific_suffix=FAA FRS
| birth_date = {{birth date|1930|10|30|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
| death_date = {{death date and age |2008|12|29 |1930|10|13|df=yes}}
|fields=chemistry
| thesis_title = The metal oxygen band in inorganic complexes
| thesis_url = http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/26566978
| thesis_year = 1957
| doctoral_advisor = Francis Patrick Dwyer
| doctoral_student =
| website =
}}Alan McLeod Sargeson FAA FRS{{Cite journal | last1 = Bosnich | first1 = Brice |author-link1=Brice Bosnich| doi = 10.1098/rsbm.2011.0017 | title = Alan McLeod Sargeson FAA. 13 October 1930 – 29 December 2008 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 58 | pages = 265–282 | year = 2011 | doi-access = free }} (30 October 1930 – 29 December 2008) was an Australian inorganic chemist.
Education and early life
Sargeson was born at Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. He was educated at the University of Sydney and received his Ph.D. supervised by Francis Patrick Dwyer also at Sydney in 1956.
Career and research
His first academic appointment was at the University of Adelaide and then in 1958 he rejoined Dwyer at the Australian National University.Leonard F. Lindoy "Celebration of inorganic lives: Interview with Alan M. Sargeson" Coordination Chemistry Reviews 2005, volume 249, pp. 2731–2739.{{doi|10.1016/j.ccr.2005.04.015}}
Sargeson was best known as a coordination chemist with an interest in bioinorganic chemistry. In early work with Dwyer and throughout his career, he studied stereochemistry. His research group investigated the reactions of amine ligands, culminating in the synthesis of the clathrochelates called "sepulchrates".{{cite book |author1=J. Macb. Harrowfield |title=Inorganic Syntheses |author2=A. J. Herlt |author3=A. M. Sargeson |date=2007 |isbn=9780470132517 |series=Inorg. Synth. |volume=20 |pages=85–86 |chapter=Caged Metal Ions: Cobalt Sepulchrates |doi=10.1002/9780470132517.ch24}}
Awards and honours
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1983 and the Australian Academy of Science,{{when|date=June 2016}} and a corresponding member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.{{when|date=June 2016}}
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Category:Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science
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