Jack Richard Norton (born May 5, 1945) is an American organometallic chemist and Professor at Columbia University.
His research has focused on the studying the reactivity and properties of transition metal hydrides.
from Harvard University in 1967 and was awarded his Ph.D. at Stanford in 1972 under the mentorship of James P. Collman.
From 1992-2003 he was an associate editor of Journal of the American Chemical Society His laboratory demonstrated the possibility of dinuclear reductive elimination from transition metal alkyls and hydrides by comparing the mechanisms of reductive elimination from (H)2Os(CO)4, (H)(CH3)Os(CO)4, and (CH3)2Os(CO)4.
[2] His group has also reported on the use of metal-hydride bonds as radical initiators of cyclization reactions.