个人简介

Born 1954; B.S. University of Texas (1977); Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (1982); NSF Exchange Postdoctoral Associate, California Institute of Technology and ETH, Zürich, Switzerland (1981-1983); Faculty of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego (1983-1994); Professor, University of California, Berkeley, and Faculty Senior Scientist, Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1994-present); Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1988-90); Union Carbide Innovation Recognition Awards (1991, 1992); Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow (1993); Visiting Professor, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland (1998); Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist (1998); Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1998); Visiting Professor, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France (1999-2000); ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry (2002); Chair of the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry (2003); Wacker Silicon Award (2003); Miller Research Professor (2004-05); Centenary Lectureship and Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry (2007); ACS Frederic Stanley Kipping Award in Silicon Chemistry (2008); Visiting Professor, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France (2010); Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2013); Edward Mack Jr. Memorial Award, Ohio State (2013); ACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry (2014); ACS Fellow (2014).

研究领域

Organometallic, Polymer and Materials Chemistry; Catalysis — Synthetic, structural, and reactivity studies on transition metal compounds are pursued in the search for new chemical transformations, polymers with novel properties, catalysts, and advanced solid state materials. Research projects in Professor Tilley's group involve exploratory synthetic, structural, and reactivity studies on novel inorganic and organometallic systems. Reactivity studies focus on compounds that exhibit unusual electronic and/or coordination environments for the metal center, and discovery of new chemical transformations. Reactivity studies are guided by mechanistic investigations that shed light on how reactions proceed. Metal-mediated routes to new polymers are being explored, and molecular, chemical approaches to the designed construction of advanced solid state materials and heterogeneous catalysts are being developed. Organometallic Chemistry and Homogeneous Catalysis Research in organometallic chemistry involves the synthesis of transition metal complexes that exhibit new chemical properties, often via the design and introduction of new ancillary ligands. Work with early transition metals and the f metals target coordinatively unsaturated complexes that activate small molecules via sigma-bond metathesis. In previous work with Zr, Hf, Sc, and Lu, catalytic transformations of Si-H and C-H bonds have been developed. In late transition metal systems, chelating, nitrogen-donor ligands are being explored in attempts to generate reactive metal centers. In particular, research with Rh, Ir, and Pt has led to discovery of new reactions for the hydroarylation and hydroamination of olefins. A further interest concerns the activation of bonds via 1,2-migrations between a metal and a donor atom. This reaction type, which produces a metal-ligand multiple bond, has been used to obtain silylene complexes of Pt, Ir, Ru, Os, and W. These investigations have led to discovery of a new mechanism for the hydrosilylation of olefins, mediated by a metal silylene complex. Organic Materials This program targets new electronic materials, and supramolecular structures constructed from labile C-C bonds. Polymer syntheses involve metal-mediated polymerizations of alkene, alkyne, silane, and/or stannane monomers. An emphasis is placed on development of electron-delocalized polymers, which show promise as advanced materials that function as conductors, semiconductors, photoconductors and light-emitting materials. Metal-catalyzed dehydropolymerizations have been used to obtain the first high molecular weight polystannanes. These low band-gap polymers are semiconducting when doped, and display interesting temperature-dependent optical properties. An approach to new pi-conjugated structures is based on the zirconocene-coupling of diynes to polymers with zirconacyclopentadiene units in the main chain. The metallacyclic monomer units provide versatile chemical pathways for placement of various conjugated groups (dienes, aromatic heterocycles) into a delocalized chain. Related methods are being used to obtain oligomeric and small-molecule organic materials that possess high electron affinities, n-type semiconducting properties, and high electron mobilities. These molecules are being constructed by zirconocene-coupling methods, and by nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions of fluorinated aromatic systems. A related topic is based on the discovery that zirconocene-coupling methods are useful in high-yield syntheses of macrocycles and cages, from readily available diynes. This method, which relies on the reversibility of C-C bond formation in the couplings, is being used to produce assemblies of controlled size, shape, and functionality. Applications in host-guest chemistry, catalysis, anion binding, and supramolecular chemistry are being developed. Materials Chemistry and Heterogeneous Catalysis A project on the molecular design and synthesis of solid-state materials is based on development of chemical routes to complex, 3-dimensional networks via molecular-level control. Primary targets are multi-component, oxygen-containing materials which are fabricated from tailored, oxygen-rich precursor molecules. This approach has been used to obtain new catalysts for selective hydrocarbon oxidations. Related molecular precursors are used to introduce isolated catalytic sites onto the surface of an oxide support. Advantages to the latter method include the increased potential for molecular-level control over structure, the generation of site-isolated catalytic centers, and the availability of good spectroscopic models for the catalytic site. Further efforts employ chemical modifications of the catalyst support surface to enhance binding and activation of substrates, and release of products. New efforts in the Tilley group are coordinated with the Solar Energy Research Center at LBNL (Helios), for development of efficient routes to renewable chemical fuels from solar energy. Primary objectives include identification of inexpensive, efficient catalysts that drive energetically uphill reactions in the conversion of stable feedstocks (e.g., water and CO2) to potential fuels (e.g., hydrogen and hydrocarbons). Current research is directed toward identification of soluble and surface-bound catalysts for water oxidation and proton reduction.

Organometallic, Polymer and Materials Chemistry; Catalysis — Synthetic, structural, and reactivity studies on transition metal compounds are pursued in the search for new chemical transformations, polymers with novel properties, catalysts, and advanced solid state materials. Research projects in Professor Tilley's group involve exploratory synthetic, structural, and reactivity studies on novel inorganic and organometallic systems. Reactivity studies focus on compounds that exhibit unusual electronic and/or coordination environments for the metal center, and discovery of new chemical transformations. Reactivity studies are guided by mechanistic investigations that shed light on how reactions proceed. Metal-mediated routes to new polymers are being explored, and molecular, chemical approaches to the designed construction of advanced solid state materials and heterogeneous catalysts are being developed.

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Electrophilic Activation of Silicon-Hydrogen bonds in Catalytic Hydrosilations. (review article) M. C. Lipke, A. Liberman-Martin and T. D. Tilley, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. . 2016, ASAP. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201605198 Evidence for the Existence of Group 3 Terminal Methylidene Complexes. D. S. Levine, T. D. Tilley and R. A. Andersen, Organometallics 2016, 2016, 35, ASAP. DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00394 Significant Cooperativity Between Ruthenium and Silicon in Catalytic Transformations of an Isocyanide. M. C. Lipke, A. Liberman-Martin and T. D. Tilley, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 9704–9713. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b05736 Ga[OSi(OtBu)3]3•THF, a thermolytic molecular precursor for high surface area gallium-containing silica materials of controlled dispersion and stoichiometry. J. P. Dombrowski, G. R. Johnson, A. T. Bell and T. D. Tilley, Dalton Trans. 2016, 45, 11025–11034. DOI: 10.1039/C6DT01676F Lewis acid-base interactions between platinum(II) diaryl complexes and bis(perfluorophenyl)zinc: strongly accelerated reductive elimination induced by a Z-type ligand. A. L. Liberman-Martin, D. S. Levine, M. S. Ziegler, R. G. Bergman and T. D. Tilley, Chem. Comm. 2016, 52, 7039-7042. DOI: 10.1039/c6cc02433e Functionalization of an Iridium–Diamidocarbene Complex by Ligand-Based Reactions with Titanocene and Zirconocene Sources. A. L. Liberman-Martin, M. S. Ziegler, A. G. DiPasquale, R. G. Bergman and T. D. Tilley, Polyhedron2016, 116, 111-115. (Special issue dedicated to Malcolm H. Green's 80th birthday). DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2016.03.044 Aryl Group Transfer from Tetraarylborato Anions to an Electrophilic Dicopper(I) Center and a Mixed-Valence µ-Aryl Dicopper(I,II) Complex. M. S. Ziegler, K. V. Lakshmi and T. D. Tilley, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 6484–6491. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b00802 Regioselective, Transition Metal-Free C–O Coupling Reactions involving Aryne Intermediates. Y. Dong, M. I. Lipschutz and T. D. Tilley, Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 1530–1533. DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.6b00183 Biaryl Reductive Elimination is Dramatically Accelerated by a Remote Lewis Acid Chemical Switch: Evidence for an Unusual Bidentate Ligand Dissociation Mechanism. A. L. Liberman-Martin, D. S. Levine, W. Liu, R. G. Bergman and T. D. Tilley, Organometallics 35, 1064–1069. DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.5b01003 Computational Characterization of Redox Non-Innocence in Cobalt-Bis(diaryldithiolene) Catalyzed Proton Reduction. J. A. Panetier, C. S. Letko, T. D. Tilley and M. Head-Gordon, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2016, 12, 223–230. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00968 Mechanistic Investigation of Water Oxidation by a Molecular Cobalt Oxide Analogue: Evidence for a Highly Oxidized Intermediate and Exclusive Terminal Oxo Participation. A. I. Nguyen, M. S. Ziegler, P. Oña-Burgos, M. Sturzbecher-Hohne, W. Kim, D. E. Bellone and T. D. Tilley, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 12865-12872. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b08396 An Electrochemical Study of the Energetics of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction at Nickel Iron (Oxy)hydroxide Catalysts. J. Swierk, S. Klaus, L. Trotochaud, A. Bell, T. D. Tilley, J. Phys. Chem. C 2015, 119, 19022-19029. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b05861 Donor-Promoted 1,2-Hydrogen Migration from Silicon to a Saturated Ruthenium Center and Access to Silaoxiranyl and Silaiminyl Complexes. H.-J. Liu, C. Landis, C. Raynaud, O. Eisenstein and T. D. Tilley, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 9186-9194. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b05571 C–H Bond Activations by Monoanionic, PNP-Supported Scandium Dialkyl Complexes. D. S. Levine, T. D. Tilley and R. A. Andersen, Organometallics 2015, 34, 4647-4655. DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.5b00213 Dinuclear First-Row Transition Metal Complexes with a Naphthyridine-Based Dinucleating Ligand. T. C. Davenport and T. D. Tilley, Dalton Trans. 2015, 44, 12244-12255. DOI: 10.1039/c4dt02727b. Silane-Allyl coupling Reactions of Cp*(iPr2MeP)Fe(η3-C3H5) and Synthetic Access to the Hydrido-Dinitrogen Complex Cp*(iPr2MeP)FeH(N2). P. W. Smith and T. D. Tilley, Organometallics 2015, 34, 2134-2138. DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.5b00184 Synthesis, Characterization and Alkyne Trimerization Catalysis of a Heteroleptic Two-Coordinate FeI Complex. M. I. Lipshcutz, T. Chantarojsiri, Y. Dong and T. D. Tilley, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 6366-6372. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b02504 The Ruthenostannylene Cp*(IXy)H2Ru–Sn–Trip Provides Access to Unusual Ru–Sn Bonded Stannaimine, Stannene and Ketenylstannylene Complexes. H.-J. Liu, M. S. Ziegler and T. D. Tilley, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 6622-6626. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201502156 Lewis Acidity of Bis(perfluorocatecholato)silane: Aldehyde Hydrosilylation Catalyzed by a Neutral Silicon Compound. A. L. Liberman-Martin, R. G. Bergman and T. D. Tilley, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 5328-5331. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b02807 Water Oxidation by Cobalt Centers on Various Oxide Surfaces: The Effects of Oxide Surface Acidity and Oxygen Atom Affinity on Catalysis. H. S. Ahn, J. Yano and T. D. Tilley, ACS Catal. 2015, 5, 2573-2576. DOI: 10.1021/cs502120f Oxygen-Atom Transfer Chemistry and Thermolytic Properties of a Di-tert-butylphosphate-Ligated Mn4O4 Cubane. K. M. Van Allsburg, E. Anzenberg, W. Drisdell, J. Yano and T. D. Tilley, Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 4646-4654. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201406114 Sterically Controlled Functionalization of Carbon Surfaces with –C6H4CH2X (X = OSO2Me or N3) Groups for Surface Attachment of Redox-Active Molecules. W. Liu and T. D. Tilley, Langmuir 2015, 31, 1189-1195. DOI: 10.1021/cla503796z. The influence of Mike Lappert on the chemistry landscape. J. Arnold, P. J. Brothers, P. Mountford, W. E. Piers, C. M. Thomas and T. D. Tilley, Dalton Trans., 2014, 43, 16553-16556. A Useful Method for the Preparation of Low-coordinate Ni(I) Complexes via Transformations of the Ni(I) Bis(amido) Complex K{Ni[N(SiMe3)(2,6-iPr2-C6H3)]2}. M. I. Lipschutz and T. D. Tilley, Organometallics, 2014, 33, 5566–5570. Hypercoordinate Ketone Adducts of Electrophilic η3-H2SiRR' Ligands on Ruthenium as Key Intermediates for Efficient and Robust Hydrosilation. M. C. Lipke and T. D. Tilley, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 16387-16398.