Alexander Shilov (chemist)

In 1952-1955 he began working with Nobel Laureate Nikolay Semyonov toward his Ph.D. at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

In 1952 he moved to Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences in Chernogolovka (Moscow district), where he became the Head of Laboratory.

[1] In 1990 he was elected to the Academy of Scienсes of the USSR, which was in someway equivalent to getting a financial endowment for his research.

[5] Shilov and co-workers conducted extensive mechanistic investigations of this chemistry based on kinetic analysis.

[6][7][8][9] In addition to his pioneering work in the activation and functionalization of hydrocarbons, his interests encompassed dinitrogen reduction to ammonia in aqueous media with the use of organometallic complexes.

**Shilov cycle** Catalytic cycle for the oxidation of methane to methanol (where R=H) by a Pt(II) complex in the presence of stoichiometric Pt(IV) species as oxidant.