Present Position
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Columbia University
Havemeyer Hall
MC 3102
3000 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
Telephone: (212) 854-7644
Fax: (212) 854-7660
E-mail: jrn11@columbia.edu
Personal Information
Birthdate: May 5, 1945
Birthplace: Dallas, Texas
Education
B.A. Chemistry, Harvard, Cambridge, Mass., 1967
Ph.D. Chemistry, (J.P. Collman) Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, 1972 Postdoctoral Chemistry, (J. Lewis) Univ. Chemical Lab., Cambridge, England, 1972
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
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
Major Research Interests
Mechanisms of organometallic and inorganic reactions; applications of organometallics to organic synthesis and catalysis; organometallic and bioinorganic proton transfer reactions; metal incorporation into, and activation of, metalloenzymes; use of metalloradicals to control free-radical polymerizations; one-electron chemistry of Lewis acids
Other Activities
Associate Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1992-2003
Textbook (co-author)
Principles and Applications of Organotransition Metal Chemistry (1987)
