William B. Tolman

William B. Tolman
Born
William Baker Tolman

(1961-05-20) May 20, 1961 (age 63)
Cleveland, Ohio
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley Ph.D. (1987)
Wesleyan University B.A. (1983)
Known forBioinorganic chemistry of copper and dioxygen
AwardsACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsBioinorganic chemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of St. Thomas (2022 - Current)

Washington University in St. Louis (2018-2022)
University of Minnesota (1990-2018)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1987-1990)
ThesisPhotochemistry and ligand substitution chemistry of (fulvalene) diruthenium (tetracarbonyl) (1987)
Doctoral advisorPeter C. Vollhardt
Other academic advisorsAlan R. Cutler, Stephen J. Lippard
Websitesites.wustl.edu/tolmangrouplaboratory/

William B. Tolman (born May 20, 1961, in Cleveland, Ohio) an American inorganic chemist focusing on the synthesis and characterization of model bioinorganic systems, and organometallic approaches towards polymer chemistry. He has served as Editor in Chief of the ACS journal Inorganic Chemistry,[1] and as a Senior Investigator at the NSF Center for Sustainable Polymers.[2] Tolman is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Chemical Society.[3]

  1. ^ Elwell, Courtney E.; Gagnon, Nicole L.; Neisen, Benjamin D.; Dhar, Debanjan; Spaeth, Andrew D.; Yee, Gereon M.; Tolman, William B. (2017-02-08). "Copper–Oxygen Complexes Revisited: Structures, Spectroscopy, and Reactivity". Chemical Reviews. 117 (3): 2059–2107. doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00636. ISSN 0009-2665. PMC 5963733. PMID 28103018.
  2. ^ "William Tolman". NSF Center for Sustainable Polymers (CSP).
  3. ^ "Editor-in-Chief". pubs.acs.org. Retrieved 2021-06-03.