Bernard L. Shaw


Bernard Leslie Shaw, FRS is an English chemist who has made notable contributions to organometallic chemistry. He is Emeritus Professor of Inorganic and Structural Chemistry at the University of Leeds.

Scientific contributions

Together with his longtime collaborator Joseph Chatt, Shaw contributed to the development of organoplatinum chemistry. They reported the first platinum hydride, PtHCl2. This colourless, volatile solid was the first non-organometallic hydride.
With an interest in cyclometallation, he discovered one of the first pincer complexes via the orthometalation of 1,3-C6H42.
prepared by Shaw et al.

Honours and awards