Abstract:
<p align="justify"> On January 4, 2000, Professor Clifford A. Bunton will celebrate his 80th birthday, over fifty years of contributions to mechanistic organic chemistry and more than thirty years of work on the structure and reactivity of micelles and other associations colloids. He obtained the B.So. Degree in Chemistry from University College, London in 1941 and the Ph.D. Degree in mechanistic organic chemistry from the same institution in 1944. He remained there as Lecturer and Reader until 1963 when he joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is at the present an Emeritus Professor. Professor C.A. Buntons research work centers on the physical organic chemistry of carboxylate and phosphate ester hydrolysis, micellar catalysis, kinetic isotope effects, and reactions of ferrocenyl carbocations. He had a large number of students and collaborators from all continents and all corners of the globe and published hundreds of scientific works. </p>