The Michael Baird Lecture Series Was Established Zeitler, H
The Michael Baird SELECTED RECENT Lecture Series PUBLICATIONS The Michael Baird Lecture Series was established Zeitler, H. E.; Kaminsky, W. A.; Goldberg, K. in 2017, the Golden Anniversary of Mike’s arrival I. “Insertion of Molecular Oxygen into the Metal– at Queen’s, through generous donations from Methyl Bonds of Platinum(II) and Palladium(II) 1,3- former students. Bis(2-pyridylimino)isoindolate Complexes.” Organometallics 2018, 37, 3644-3648. Mike was raised in Dundas, Ontario, and obtained The Department of Chemistry, an Hon. B.Sc. in Chemistry from McMaster Stevens, T. E.; Smoll, K. A.; Goldberg, K. I. “Direct Queen’s University 3 University (where he also won several OUAA and Formation of Carbon(sp )-Heteroatom Bonds from CIS intercollegiate sprint championships). He RhIII to Produce Methyl Iodide, Thioethers, and is honoured to host the completed his Ph.D. within three years at the Alkylamines.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 7725- 2018 Baird Lecture: University of Toronto, and then spent two 7728. extremely productive postdoctoral years with Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (1973 Nobel Prize) at Imperial Gao, Y.; Guan, C.; Zhou, M.; Kumar, A.; Emge, T.; Wright, A. M.; Goldberg, K. I.; Krogh-Jespersen, Karen I. Goldberg College, London. He joined the faculty at Queen’s University of Pennsylvania in 1967. K; Goldman, A. S. “ β-Hydride Elimination and C-H Activation by an Iridium Acetate Complex, Mike has carried out research on many aspects of Catalyzed by Lewis Acids. Alkane “Molecular Oxygen as a organometallic chemistry and catalysis, publishing Dehydrogenation Co Catalyzed by Lewis Acids Reagent in Late Transition over 275 papers and ten patents.
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