Principal Investigator
Education
B.A. Chemistry - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1967
Ph.D. Chemistry - (J.P. Collman) Stanford University, Stanford, CA 1972
Postdoctoral Chemistry - (J. Lewis) Univ. Chemical Lab., Cambridge, England, 1972
Research Interests
Mechanisms of organometallic and inorganic reactions; applications of organometallics to organic synthesis and catalysis; organometallic and bioinorganic proton transfer reactions; use of metalloradicals to control free-radical polymerizations; one-electron chemistry of Lewis acids.
Professional Experience
- 1973-1979 Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University
- 1979-1981 Associate Professor of Chemistry, Colorado State University
- 1981-1997 Professor of Chemistry, Colorado State University
- 1997-Present Professor of Chemistry, Columbia University
Honors and Lectureships
- NSF Graduate Fellow, 1967-1971
- NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, 1972
- Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher - Scholar, 1976
- Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1977-1981
- Innovation Recognition Award, Union Carbide, 1985
- Esso Distinguished Lecturer, U. of Toronto, March 1987
- Guggenheim Fellow, 1989
- Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists, 1993
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship for 1997
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, 1999
- Lee Lecturer, University of Chicago, 2001
- Frontiers Lectures, Texas A&M, 2002
- ACS Organometallic Chemistry Award, 2005
- Sierra Nevada Distinguished Chemist, Sierra Nevada ACS, 2006
- Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, 2013
Consultantships
- FMC Corporation, 1976-1979
- Union Carbide, 1979, 1990-2000
- Tennessee Eastman, 1979-1990
Memberships
- External Review Committee, Chemistry Dept., U. of Colorado (Boulder), 1984
- External Review Committee, Solar Energy Research Institute, 1985
- Committee for ACS Inorganic Chemistry Examination, 1985
- Editorial Advisory Board, Inorganica Chimica Acta, 1986-88
- Executive Committee (Treasurer), Division of Inorganic Chemistry, ACS, 1988-1991
- Special Reviewer, Metallobiochemistry Study Section, NIH, January 1989
- Member, Review Committee for the Chemical Sciences Program at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, March 1990
- Editorial Advisory Board, Organometallics, 1990-1994
- AFOSR Chemical Sciences Review Panel, National Research Council, 1991
- Canvassing Committee for the ACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry, 1990-1993
- Canvassing Committee for the Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry, 1994-1997
- Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Enviornmentally Beneficial Catalysis in Lawrence, Kansas (member since 2008)
Other Activities
- Associate Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1992-2003