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British chemist and crystallographer
Philip George Owston
[1] (January 1921 – September 2001) was a British
chemist and
crystallographer for whom the
Owston Islands (
66°22′59″S 66°6′0″W / 66.38306°S 66.10000°W / -66.38306; -66.10000 )
[2] in
Antarctica are named.
[3] The Owston Islands lie within the region claimed by the
United Kingdom (
British Antarctic Territory ),
Argentina (
Argentine Antarctica ), and
Chile (the
Antártica commune in
Antártica Chilena Province ).
[4] They are a group of small islands lying 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) west of
Darbel Islands in
Crystal Sound , and they were named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee .
[3] Owston was born in
Saltburn-by-the-Sea ,
Yorkshire , England during January 1921 as the son of Edward Owston and Margaret Smith. He died in
Watford ,
Hertfordshire , England in September 2001.
[1]
Space-filling model of [(η2 -C2 H4 )PtCl3 − , the
anion of Zeise's salt, based on X-ray crystallographic data
[5]
[6]
Owston's crystallography work included the determination of the structure of
Zeise's salt ,
[5]
[6] the anion of which is shown at right. Zeise's salt, K[PtCl3 (η2 -C2 H4 )]·H2 O, was reported in 1831
[7] and was one of the first
organometallic compounds ever discovered. However, the nature of the
platinum to
ethylene bond in the compound was not understood until the development of the
Dewar–Chatt–Duncanson model in the 1950s.
[8]
[9]
[10] The
space-filling model from the Owston crystal structure clearly shows that it is an organometallic species as there is direct bonding between the platinum metal centre (in blue) and the two carbon atoms of the ethylene
ligand (in black).
In 1964, Owston wrote an article in
New Scientist
[11] on the use of
electron spin resonance spectroscopy in chemistry.
References
^
a
b Ouston, Roger J. (2003). "Entries 1769-1771". A Directory of Ouston and Owston Families . Roger J. Ouston.
^
"Place-Name Listing" .
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee . Archived from
the original on 7 May 2008. Retrieved 9 January 2011 .
^
a
b
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency .
"Owston Islands: Antarctica" . Geographical Names (geographic.org). Retrieved 9 January 2011 .
^ Beck, Peter J. (1986).
The International Politics of Antarctica .
Routledge . pp. 119–120.
ISBN
978-0-7099-3239-0 .
^
a
b Black, M; Mais, R. H. B.;
Owston, P. G. (1969). "The crystal and molecular structure of Zeise's salt, KPtCl3 .C2 H4 .H2 O".
Acta Crystallogr. B . 25 (9): 1753–1759.
doi :
10.1107/S0567740869004699 .
^
a
b Jarvis, J. A. J.; Kilbourn, B. T.;
Owston, P. G. (1971). "A Re-determination of the Crystal and Molecular Structure of Zeise's salt, KPtCl3 .C2 H4 .H2 O".
Acta Crystallogr. B . 27 (2): 366–372.
doi :
10.1107/S0567740871002231 .
^
Zeise, W. C. (1831).
"Von der Wirkung zwischen Platinchlorid und Alkohol, und von den dabei entstehenden neuen Substanzen" .
Annalen der Physik (in German). 97 (4): 497–541.
Bibcode :
1831AnP....97..497Z .
doi :
10.1002/andp.18310970402 .
^
Mingos, D. Michael P. (2001). "A Historical Perspective on Dewar's Landmark Contribution to Organometallic Chemistry".
J. Organomet. Chem. 635 (1–2): 1–8.
doi :
10.1016/S0022-328X(01)01155-X .
^ Winterton, N. (2002).
"Some Notes on the Early Development of Models of Bonding in Olefin-Metal Complexes" . In Leigh, G. J.; Winterton, N. (eds.). Modern Coordination Chemistry: The Legacy of Joseph Chatt .
RSC Publishing . pp. 103–110.
ISBN
978-0-85404-469-6 .
^
Astruc, Didier (2007).
Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis .
Springer . pp. 41–43.
ISBN
978-3-540-46128-9 .
^
Owston, P. G. (5 November 1964).
"Electron Spin Resonance" .
New Scientist . 24 (416): 373–377.