BA Grinnell College 2007
MS, PhD University of Oregon 2009, 2012
Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry
Homogeneous catalysis, reaction mechanisms, green chemistry
S. M. M. Knapp, T. J. Sherbow, R. B. Yelle, L. N. Zakharov, J. J. Juliette, D. R. Tyler; “Mechanistic Investigations and Secondary Coordination Sphere Effects in the Hydration of Nitriles with [Ru(η6-arene)Cl2PR3] Complexes” Organometallics 2013, 32, 824-834. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/om301079u
S. M. M. Knapp, L. Zacharov, D. R. Tyler; “Dichlorido(![[eta]](http://scripts.iucr.org/logos/entities/eta_rmgif.gif)
6-p-cymene)(ethoxydiphenylphosphane)ruthenium(II)” Acta Cryst. 2012, E68, m1465
S. M. M. Knapp, T. J. Sherbow, J. J. Juliette, D. R. Tyler; “Cyanohydrin hydration with [Ru(η6-p-cymene)Cl2PR3] complexes” Organometallics 2012, 31, 2941-2944. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/om300047b
T. J. Ahmed, S. M. M. Knapp, D. R. Tyler; “Frontiers in catalytic nitrile hydration: Nitrile and cyanohydrin hydration catalyzed by homogeneous organometallic complexes” Coord. Chem. Rev. 2011, 255, 949-974. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2010.08.018
S. M. M. Knapp, L. Zacharov, D. R. Tyler; “2,2'-(Propane-2,2-diyl)dibenzothiazole” Acta Cryst. 2010, E66, o2520
T. J. Ahmed, B. R. Fox, S. M. M. Knapp, R. B. Yelle, J. J. Juliette, D. R. Tyler; ”Investigation of the reactivity of Pt phosphinito and molybdecene nitrile hydration catalysts with cyanohydrins” Inorg. Chem. 2009, 48, 7828–7837. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ic900734d
CHEM 101: General Chemistry I
CHEM 102: General Chemistry II
CHEM 415: Organometallic Chemistry
Investigation of Secondary Coordination Sphere Effects for Cyanohydrin Hydration with Transition Metal Catalysts
NSF Graduate STEM Fellow in K-12 Education, 2010 – 2012