Michael W. McKittrick Assistant Professor 614 Furnas Hall (716) 645-2911 ext. 2217 Fax: (716) 645-3822 mm355@buffalo.edu

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Research

Publications

Teaching

Chapters in Books

• "A Strategy for the Preparation of Isolated Organometallic Catalysts on Silica Supports - Towards Single-Site Solid Catalysts," M.W. McKittrick, S.D. McClendon, C.W. Jones, in Catalysis of Organic Reactions, J. Sowa, Ed., CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2005.

Refereed Journal Publications

• M.W. McKittrick, C.W. Jones, "Toward Single-Site Functional Materials-Preparation of Amine-Functionalized Surfaces Exhibiting Site-Isolated Behavior," Chemistry of Materials, 15, 1132-1139, 2003.
• M.W. McKittrick, C.W. Jones, "Towards Single-Site, Immobilized Molecular Catalysts:  Site-Isolated Ti Ethylene Polymerization Catalysts Supported on Porous Silica," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 3052-3053, 2004.
• M.W. McKittrick, C.W. Jones, "Effect of Site-Isolation on the Preparation and Performance of Silica-Immobilized Ti CGC-Inspired Ethylene Polymerization Catalysts," J. Catal., 227, 186-201, 2004.
• K. Yu, M.W. McMittrick, C.W. Jones, "Role of Amine Structure and Site-Isolation on the Performance of Aminosilica-Immobilized Zr CGC-Inspired Ethylene Polymerization Catalysts," Organometallics, 23, 4089-4096, 2004.
• C.W. Jones, M.W. McKittrick, J.V. Nguyen, K. Yu, "Design of Silica-Tethered Metal Complex Catalyts," Topics in Catalysis, 34(1-4), 67-76, 2005.
• M.W. McKittrick, K. Yu, C.W. Jones, "Effect of Metallation Protocol on the Preparation and Performance of Silica-Immobilized Ti CGC-Inspired Ethylene Polymerization Catalysts," J. Mol. Catal. A., 237(1-2), 26-35, 2005.
• M.W. McKittrick, C.W. Jones, "Modulating the Reactivity of an Organometallic Catalyst via Immobilization on a Spatially Patterned Silica Surface," Chemistry of Materials, 17, 4758-4761, 2005.

Last Updated: January 2007