Philip P. Power

Philip Patrick Power (born April 1953 ) is an American chemist who is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Davis. He has contributed to the synthesis, structure, and physical and chemical characterization of inorganic and organometallic compounds. His research focuses on low-coordinate main group and transition metal compounds. Much of this work hinges on the use of sterically crowded ligands to stabilize unusual geometries.

Education Philip Power obtained a B.A. from Trinity College Dublin in 1974 and a Ph.D. from University of Sussex in 1977 (under Michael F. Lappert). He was a postdoctoral coworker under Richard H. Holm at Stanford University (1978–1980). In 1981 he was appointed to the faculty of UC Davis, where he is Distinguished Professor.

Structure of the quasi-two-coordinate ferrous dithiolate Fe[SC6H3-2,6-(C6H2-2,4,6-(iPr)3)2]2. A weak Fe-C(ipso) bond is indicated by the Fe---C distance of 2.427(1) Å. The structure illustrates the low coordination numbers enabled by bulky ligands.

Awards Alexander von Humboldt Award, 1992 Faculty Research Lecturer, University of Iowa, 1993 Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 1993 Reilly Lectureship, University of Notre Dame, 1995 Werner Lectureship, Trinity College Dublin, 1996 Membership of Editorial Advisory Board of Organometallics, Inorganic Chemistry, Dalton Transactions, Canadian Journal of Chemistry, Heteroatom Chemistry, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Polyhedron Ludwig Mond Award Royal Society of Chemistry, 2004 Associate editor, Inorganic Chemistry, 2004 Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1985–1989 F. A. Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 2005 Fellow of the Royal Society, 2005 ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry, 2011 Honorary Doctorate of Science, University of Bath, 2016