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Professor Jim D. Atwood

Editor

Journal of Coordination chemistry

Professor Jim D. Atwood has been the Editor of the Journal of Coordination Chemistry for 16 years.

Professor Atwood received his B.S. from Missouri State University and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. A postdoctoral appointment was joint between Professor Earl Muetterties at Cornel University and Professor A. E. Shilov in Moscow, USSR. During the time at university of Buffalo, Professor Atwood was a Humboldt Fellow, spending nine months as a guest professor at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany with Professor W. A. Herrmann.

Professor Atwood has 130 publications in the areas of mechanistic organometallic chemistry, synthesis and homogenous catalysis. He has also published two editions of an advanced text book, Inorganic and Organometallic Reaction Mechanisms.

In addition to being Editor of the Journal of Coordination Chemistry, Professor Atwood was volume Editor of Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry, II, Editor of Volumes 14 and 17 of Inorganic Reactions and Method, Associate Editor of Inorganic Chemistry and has served on the Editorial Boards of Organometallics and Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms.

Professor Atwood has received recognition for his excellence in teaching, receiving the College of Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching. He was also honoured in the recent SUNY Recognition Dinner Honouring Innovation, Creation and Discovery for his part in developing novel chemistries to create thin films based on ruthenium.

Since Professor Atwood became the Chair of the Department of Chemistry in 1998, he has realised his ambition of making chemistry more popular among the students. With the introduction of major changes to the freshman chemistry courses, Professor Atwood has achieved a noticeable increase in enrolment in undergraduate Chemistry courses at the University of Buffalo. The department has seen a doubling of research expenditure, a 20% increase in Ph.D. students and a doubling of Chemistry degrees during his tenure as Chair.

To read more about the research carried out by Professor Atwood's research group at Buffalo, and see a list of some of his recent publications. Click here.