Geoffrey "Geoff" William Coates (born 1966) is an American chemist and the Tisch University Professor in the department of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell University.[1][2]
In 1997, Coates joined the faculty of Cornell University.[3] He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2001, and to Professor in 2002. He was appointed to the first Tisch University Professorship in 2008.
Selected honors and professional activities
Coates has received numerous awards for his work in organometallic and polymer chemistry.[11]
Coates is the scientific cofounder of Novomer,[22] Ecolectro,[23] Intermix Performance Materials,[24] and Imperion Coatings. Novomer was acquired by Danimer Scientific in 2021.[25] Coates is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of KensaGroup[26] and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Welch Foundation.[27] He is a Director of the Board of the Mitsubishi Chemical Group.[28] Coates was an associate editor of the journal Macromolecules from 2008 to 2021, and is now an associate editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.[29]
^"Geoffrey Coates". Fannie and John Hertz Foundation | Empowering Limitless Progress. Retrieved 2021-05-25.
^Coates, Geoffrey W.; Waymouth, Robert M. (1993-01-01). "Enantioselective cyclopolymerization of 1,5-hexadiene catalyzed by chiral zirconocenes: a novel strategy for the synthesis of optically active polymers with chirality in the main chain". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 115 (1): 91–98. Bibcode:1993JAChS.115...91C. doi:10.1021/ja00054a014. ISSN0002-7863.
^Coates, Geoffrey W.; Dunn, Alex R.; Henling, Lawrence M.; Ziller, Joseph W.; Lobkovsky, Emil B.; Grubbs, Robert H. (1998-04-01). "Phenyl−Perfluorophenyl Stacking Interactions: Topochemical [2+2] Photodimerization and Photopolymerization of Olefinic Compounds". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 120 (15): 3641–3649. Bibcode:1998JAChS.120.3641C. doi:10.1021/ja974072a. ISSN0002-7863.
