Murray Raney

Murray Raney (born the October 14th 1885 with Carrollton in the Kentucky, dead the March 3rd 1966) is a American Engineer . He is mainly known to have developed a Catalyseur containing Nickel, known under the name of Nickel of Raney, very much used at the same time in laboratory and in industry for the Hydrogénation of covalent bonds multiple in the organic molecules.

Biography

Murray Raney was born with Carrollton in the Kentucky. He is the son of William Wallace and Katherine Raney. Although not having never attended the college, it obtains its Bachelor (equivalent with a license) in mechanical Ingénierie with the Université of Kentucky in 1909. It is then recruited as teacher by the Eastern Kentucky State Normal College, where it is also in charge with the heating and the lighting system, until 1910.

From 1910 to 1911, he works in the paper Industrie for the company Fort Orange Paper Company with Castleton-one-Hudson, in the state of New York. In 1911, he moves for Springfield, in Illinois, where he works in the field of the manufacture of steam engines for company A.L. Ide Engine Company until 1913. This same year, he moves again to settle in a final way with Chattanooga, in the Tennessee, where he works for the company Chattanooga Railway, Light & Power Co.

In 1915, it is recruited by the company Lookout Oil & Refining Company like managing assisting in the field of the production of Hydrogène used for the hydrogenation of the plant oils. It is at this period that it starts to work with the development of what will become the catalysts of Raney. It leaves Lookout Oil in 1925 to occupy a station to manage commercial within Gilman Paint and Varnish Co, before becoming president of this company. In 1950, it leaves Gilman Paint to found the company Raney Catalyst Company. It then devotes all its time to the manufacture of its catalysts. Its company is repurchased in 1963 by the company W.R. Grace and Company which always manufactures nickel of Raney nowadays.

See also: W.R. Grace and Company

Murray Raney was married twice, a first on June 12th, 1920 with Katherine Elizabeth Macrae (dead on June 13rd, 1935) with which it had a girl, and a second on March 31st, 1939 with Laura Ogden McClellan (dead on April 13rd, 1953). It received an honorary doctorate in sciences in 1951. He was member of the American Chemical Society and the American Oil Chemists Society. He deposited a total of 6 Brevet S American and of 5 European patents following the development of his catalysts and the processes necessary to their manufacture.

Development of the nickel of Raney

to see the detailed article Nickel of Raney .

Price Murray Raney

In 1992, the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society (ORCS) created the Price Murray Raney to reward for the contributions in the field of application of catalysts of metal the sponges type in organic synthesis. This price is decreed every two years during the congress of the ORCS. The prizes winner are:

  • 1992 – Stewart Montgomery

  • 1994 – Pierre Fouilloux
  • 1996 – Mark Wainwright
  • 1998 – Anatoly Fasman
  • 2000 – Jozsef Petró
  • 2002 – Akira Tai
  • 2004 – Jean Lessard
  • 2006 – Isamu Yamauchi

References

  • University off Kentucky Alumni Association (2005). The U.K. Alumni Association - Hall off Distinguished Alumni. Retrieved December 25th, 2005.
  • Who' S Who in the South and Southwest: Biographical Dictionary Noteworthy Men and Women off the Southern and Southwestern States has off. 6th ED. Chicago: Marquis - Who' S Who. 1959.
  • W.R. Grace & Co. (2004) History Murray Raney. Retrieved December 25th, 2005.
  • W.R. Grace & Co. (2004) ORCS. Retrieved December 25th, 2005.

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