Geoffrey W. Coates

Geoffrey (Geoff) Coates is an American chemist and the Tisch University Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University.[1][2]

Education

Coates received a B.A. degree in Chemistry from Wabash College in 1989. He entered graduate school at Stanford University where he worked with Robert M. Waymouth. His thesis work investigated the stereoselectivity of metallocene-based Ziegler-Natta catalysts.[3] He was awarded a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1994. Coates then was a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow with Robert H. Grubbs at the California Institute of Technology.[4] In 1997 Coates joined the faculty of Cornell University.[5]

Selected honors and professional activities

Coates is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has received numerous awards for his work in organometallic and polymer chemistry.[6]

Entrepreneurship and affiliations

Coates is the scientific cofounder of Novomer and Ecolectro and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of KensaGroup. Coates is an Associate Editor of Macromolecules.

References
  1. "Geoffrey W. Coates | Chemistry & Chemical Biology Cornell Arts & Sciences". chemistry.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
  2. "Geoffrey W. Coates - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
  3. Coates, Geoffrey W.; Waymouth, Robert M. (1993-01-01). "Enantioselective cyclopolymerization of 1,5-hexadiene catalyzed by chiral zirconocenes: a novel strategy for the synthesis of optically active polymers with chirality in the main chain". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 115 (1): 91–98. doi:10.1021/ja00054a014. ISSN 0002-7863.
  4. Coates, Geoffrey W.; Dunn, Alex R.; Henling, Lawrence M.; Ziller, Joseph W.; Lobkovsky, Emil B.; Grubbs, Robert H. (1998-04-01). "Phenyl−Perfluorophenyl Stacking Interactions: Topochemical [2+2] Photodimerization and Photopolymerization of Olefinic Compounds". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 120 (15): 3641–3649. doi:10.1021/ja974072a. ISSN 0002-7863.
  5. "Geoff Coates – The Coates Research Group". coates.chem.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
  6. "Geoffrey Coates". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
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