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  • 2016 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Alexander J. M. Miller is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a strong focus on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Catalysis.

The main topics addressed in their work include Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts, Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis, Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction, Carbon Dioxide Utilization in Catalysis, and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion.

Alexander J. M. Miller has published extensively, with frequent contributions to several scientific venues. These include The Cambridge Structural Database, Journal of the American Chemical Society, UNC Libraries, ACS Catalysis, and Inorganic Chemistry.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Miller are:

  • Quinton J. Bruch
  • Chun-Hsing Chen
  • Faraj Hasanayn
  • Henry M. Dodge
  • Patrick L. Holland

Some recent publications exemplify the range and depth of their research efforts:

  • Potential Economic Feasibility of Direct Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction as a Route to Ammonia, 2020, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • Thermodynamic and kinetic hydricity of transition metal hydrides, 2020, Chemical Society Reviews
  • Considering Electrocatalytic Ammonia Synthesis via Bimetallic Dinitrogen Cleavage, 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • Selecting Double Bond Positions with a Single Cation-Responsive Iridium Olefin Isomerization Catalyst, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Determining the Overpotential of Electrochemical Fuel Synthesis Mediated by Molecular Catalysts: Recommended Practices, Standard Reduction Potentials, and Challenges, 2021, ChemElectroChem

Alexander J. M. Miller is also recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, an award received in 2016.

Best Publications

  • NMR Chemical Shifts of Trace Impurities: Common Laboratory Solvents, Organics, and Gases in Deuterated Solvents Relevant to the Organometallic Chemist

    Gregory R. Fulmer;Alexander J. M. Miller;Nathaniel H. Sherden;Hugo E. Gottlieb

  • E-Type Delayed Fluorescence of a Phosphine-Supported Cu2(μ-NAr2)2 Diamond Core: Harvesting Singlet and Triplet Excitons in OLEDs∥

    Joseph C. Deaton;Steven C. Switalski;Denis Y. Kondakov;Ralph H. Young

  • Thermodynamic Hydricity of Transition Metal Hydrides

    Eric S. Wiedner;Matthew B. Chambers;Catherine L. Pitman;R. Morris Bullock

  • Kinetic and structural studies, origins of selectivity, and interfacial charge transfer in the artificial photosynthesis of CO

    Jonathan M. Smieja;Eric E. Benson;Bhupendra Kumar;Kyle A. Grice

  • Cyclopentadiene-mediated hydride transfer from rhodium complexes

    C. L. Pitman;O. N. L. Finster;A. J. M. Miller

  • A two-coordinate nickel imido complex that effects C-H amination

    Carl A. Laskowski;Alexander J. M. Miller;Gregory L. Hillhouse;Thomas R. Cundari

  • Reductive Coupling of Carbon Monoxide in a Rhenium Carbonyl Complex with Pendant Lewis Acids

    Alexander J. M. Miller;Jay A. Labinger;John E. Bercaw

  • Homogeneous syngas conversion

    Nathan M. West;Alexander James Minden Miller;Jay A. Labinger;John E. Bercaw

  • Synthesis and C−C Coupling Reactivity of a Dinuclear Ni^I−Ni^I Complex Supported by a Terphenyl Diphosphine

    Alexandra Velian;Sibo Lin;Alexander J. M. Miller;Michael W. Day

  • Mechanism of Chemical and Electrochemical N2 Splitting by a Rhenium Pincer Complex

    Brian M. Lindley;Richt S. van Alten;Markus Finger;Florian Schendzielorz

  • Evaluating the Thermodynamics of Electrocatalytic N2 Reduction in Acetonitrile

    Brian M. Lindley;Aaron M. Appel;Karsten Krogh-Jespersen;James M. Mayer

  • Hydrogenation of carboxylic acids catalyzed by half-sandwich complexes of iridium and rhodium.

    Timothy P. Brewster;Alexander James Minden Miller;D. Michael Heinekey;Karen I. Goldberg

  • Dehydrogenation of amine-boranes with a frustrated Lewis pair.

    Alexander J. M. Miller;John E. Bercaw

  • Homogeneous CO hydrogenation: dihydrogen activation involves a frustrated Lewis pair instead of a platinum complex.

    Alexander J. M. Miller;Jay A. Labinger;John E. Bercaw

  • Synthesis and characterization of three-coordinate Ni(III)-imide complexes.

    Vlad M. Iluc;Alexander J. M. Miller;John S. Anderson;Marisa J. Monreal

  • Long-lived and efficient emission from mononuclear amidophosphine complexes of copper.

    Alexander J. M. Miller;Jillian L. Dempsey;Jonas C. Peters

  • Potential Economic Feasibility of Direct Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction as a Route to Ammonia

    Gal Hochman;Alan S. Goldman;Frank A. Felder;James M. Mayer

  • Catalytic Disproportionation of Formic Acid to Generate Methanol

    Alexander J. M. Miller;D. Michael Heinekey;James M. Mayer;Karen I. Goldberg

  • Using combinations of oxidants and bases as PCET reactants: thermochemical and practical considerations

    Christopher R. Waidmann;Alexander J M Miller;Cheuk Wa Angela Ng;Margaret L. Scheuermann

  • Probing the Electronic Structures of [Cu2(μ-XR2)]n+ Diamond Cores as a Function of the Bridging X Atom (X = N or P) and Charge (n = 0,1, 2)

    Seth B. Harkins;Neal P. Mankad;Alexander J M Miller;Robert K. Szilagyi

  • Cation-modulated reactivity of iridium hydride pincer-crown ether complexes.

    Matthew R. Kita;Alexander J. M. Miller

Frequent Co-Authors

John E. Bercaw
John E. Bercaw California Institute of Technology
James M. Mayer
James M. Mayer Yale University
Jay A. Labinger
Jay A. Labinger California Institute of Technology
Alan S. Goldman
Alan S. Goldman Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jonas C. Peters
Jonas C. Peters California Institute of Technology
Peter S. White
Peter S. White University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Patrick L. Holland
Patrick L. Holland Yale University
Karen I. Goldberg
Karen I. Goldberg University of Pennsylvania
Thomas J. Meyer
Thomas J. Meyer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Heinrich Waelsch
Heinrich Waelsch Columbia University

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