Background
Casey, Charles Philip was born on January 11, 1942 in St. Louis. Son of John Charles and Hildagarde Mary Casey.
Casey, Charles Philip was born on January 11, 1942 in St. Louis. Son of John Charles and Hildagarde Mary Casey.
Casey received his Bachelor of Surgery in Chemistry from Saint Louis University in 1963, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967 under the direction of George M. Whitesides. His thesis title was "Thermal decomposition of organocopper(I) compounds". He was then a postdoctoral fellow in organic chemistry at Harvard University from 1967-1968.
He is currently the Homer Adkins Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1993. Casey"s research program focuses on the mechanisms of homogeneously catalyzed reactions, and creating new reagents for organic synthesis including heterobimetallic catalysts.
More recently, his research has included studies of diruthenium hydrogenation catalysts, which contain both a protic and a hydridic hydrogen, and hydroformylation reaction catalyzed by chelating diphosphines with large P-M-P angles.
Named positions he has held at Wisconsin include the Romnes Faculty Fellowship (1977), the Evan P. Helfaer Professorship (1985-1991), and the Homer B. Adkins Professorship (2004-present). Casey"s advisees include Steven H. Bertz, Joseph M. O"Connor, R. Morris Bullock, Seth R. Marder, Ross A. Widenhoefer, William Doctorate. Jones, Richard F. Jordan, Robert East. Colborn, L. Keith Woo, and Jon A. Tunge.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member National Academy of Sciences, American Chemical Society (Cope scholar 1988, award in organometallic chemistry 1991), Royal Chemical Society.
Son of John Charles and Hildagarde Mary C. M. Martha Tanya Link, July 20, 1968. 1 daughter, Jennifer Martha.