Educational Background:

PhD, Stanford University, 1994 BA, Wabash College, 1989

Awards:

• 2009 Carl S. Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award, American Chemical Society • 2009 Award for Affordable Green Chemistry, American Chemical Society • 2008 NYSTAR Faculty Development Award • 2008 R. C. Fuson Visiting Professor, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana • 2008 Rohm and Haas Lecturer, Stanford University • 2007 Wiberg Lecturer, Yale University • 2007 Dalton Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley • 2006 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow • 2006 Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award • 2005 NSF Special Creativity Award • 2005 Eli Lilly Lecturer, Harvard University • 2005 Leermaker Lecturer, Wesleyan University • 2004 Marcus Lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis • 2001 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award • 2001 Akron Section Award of the ACS • 2001 Rohm and Haas Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley • 2000 Carothers Lecturer, Dupont • 2000 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering • 2000 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award • 2000 Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, Young Investigator Award • 2000 Union Carbide Innovation Recognition Award • 1999 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow • 1999 A.K. Doolittle Award, American Chemical Society • 1999 CAREER Award, National Science Foundation • 1999 IBM Partnership Award • 1999 3M Untenured Faculty Grant • 1999 MIT Technology Review Award • 1998 Research Corporation Innovation Award • 1997 Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award

Research Description:

The research focus of the Coates Group is the development of new catalysts for producing small molecules and polymers of defined structure. Our research projects are interdisciplinary, addressing problems at the interface of organic, inorganic, organometallic, and polymer chemistry. For a more detailed research description, please see our group webpage at http://www.chem.cornell.edu/gc39/.

Selected Publications:

Hirahata, W.; Thomas, R. M.; Lobkovsky, E. B.; Coates, G. W. “Kinetic Resolution in the Polymerization of Epoxides: A Highly Active and Selective Catalyst for the Synthesis of Stereoregular Polyethers and Enantiopure Epoxides” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 17658-17659.

Edson, J. B.; Wang, Z.; Kramer, E. J.; Coates, G. W. “Fluorinated Bis(phenoxyketimine)titanium Complexes for the Living, Isoselective Polymerization of Propylene: Multiblock Isotactic Polypropylene Copolymers via Sequential Monomer Addition" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 4968 - 4977.

Jeske, R. C.; DiCiccio, A. M.; Coates, G. W. “Alternating Copolymerization of Epoxides and Cyclic Anhydrides: An Improved Route to Aliphatic Polyesters” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 11330-11331.

Cherian, A. E.; Sun, F. C.; Sheiko, S. S.; Coates, G. W. "Formation of Nanoparticles by Intramolecular Crosslinking: Following the Reaction Progress of Single Polymer Chains by Atomic Force Microscopy" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 11350-11351.

Church, T. L.; Byrne, C. M.; Lobkovsky, E. B.; Coates, G. W. “A New Multicomponent Reaction Catalyzed by a [Lewis Acid]⁺[Co(CO)₄]^- Catalyst: Stereospecific Synthesis of 1,3-Oxazinane-2,4-diones from Epoxides, Isocyanates, and CO” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 8156-8162.

Rowley, J. M.; Lobkovsky, E. B.; Coates, G. W. “Catalytic Double Carbonylation of Epoxides to Succinic Anhydrides: Catalyst Discovery, Reaction Scope, and Mechanism” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 4948-4960.

More publications can be found here http://www.chem.cornell.edu/faculty/coatespublications.htm