The Miller Research Group
Publications

  1. Miller, S. A.; Waymouth, R. M. "Stereo- and Enantioselective Polymerization of Olefins with Homogeneous Ziegler-Natta Catalysts" in Ziegler Catalysts, Recent Scientific Innovations and Technological Improvements; Fink, G.; Mülhaupt, R.; Brintzinger, H.-H., Eds.; Springer:  Berlin, 1995, pp. 441-454.

  2. Mitchell, J. P.; Hajela, S.; Brookhart, S. K.; Gilchrist, J. H.; Herzog, T. A.; Miller, S. A.; Bercaw, J. E. Mechanisms of Stereocontrol for Isotactic and Syndiotactic Polymerizations of alpha-Olefins with Metallocene Catalysts, Polym. Prepr. (Am. Chem. Soc., Div. Polym. Chem.) 1996, 37(1), 247-248.

  3. Miller, S. A.; Bercaw, J. E. Aminofluorenyl-Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl and Bis(aminofluorenyl) Derivatives of Group 4 Metals, Organometallics 2000, 19, 5608-5613.

  4. Schrock, R. R.; Jamieson, J. Y.; Dolman, S. J.; Miller, S. A.; Bonitatebus, P. J.; Hoveyda, A. H. New Chiral Molybdenum Catalysts for Asymmetric Olefin Metathesis that Contain 3,3’-Disubstituted Octahydrobinaphtholate or 2,6-Dichlorophenylimido Ligands, Organometallics 2002, 21, 409-417.

  5. Miller, S. A.; Bercaw, J. E. Isotactic-Hemiisotactic Polypropylene from C1-Symmetric, ansa-Metallocene Catalysts:  A New Strategy for the Synthesis of Elastomeric Polypropylene, Organometallics 2002, 21, 934-945.

  6. Miller, S. A.; Bercaw, J. E. Catalyst System for the Polymerization of Alkenes to Polyolefins, U.S. Patent 6,469,188, 2002.

  7. Reich, B. J. E.; Justice, A. K.; Beckstead, B. T.; Reibenspies, J. H.; Miller, S. A. Cyanide-Catalyzed Cyclizations via Aldimine Coupling, J. Org. Chem. 2004, 69, 1357-1359.

  8. Miller, S. A.; Bercaw, J. E. Catalyst System for the Polymerization of Alkenes to Polyolefins, U.S. Patent 6,693,153 2004.

  9. Miller, S. A.; Bercaw, J. E. Highly Stereoregular Syndiotactic Polypropylene Formation with Metallocene Catalysts via Influence of Distal Ligand Substituents, Organometallics 2004, 23, 1777-1789.

  10. Miller, S. A. Isotactic Block Length Distribution in Polypropylene:  Bernoullian vs. Hemiisotactic, Macromolecules 2004, 37, 3983-3995.

  11. Irwin, L. J.; Reibenspies, J. H.; Miller, S. A. A Sterically Expanded “Constrained Geometry Catalyst” for Highly Active Olefin Polymerization and Copolymerization: An Unyielding Comonomer Effect, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 16716-16717.

  12. Grill, J. M.; Reibenspies, J. H.; Miller, S. A. Racemic and chiral expanded salen-type complexes derived from biphenol and binaphthol:  Salbip and salbin, J. Organomet. Chem. 2005, 690, 3009-3017.

  13. Irwin, L. J.; Miller, S. A. Unprecedented Syndioselectivity and Syndiotactic Polyolefin Melting Temperature:  Polypropylene and Poly(4-methyl-1-pentene) from a Highly Active, Sterically Expanded eta(1)-Fluorenyl-eta(1)-Amido Zirconium Complex, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 9972-9973.

  14. Irwin, L. J.; Reibenspies, J. H.; Miller, S. A. Synthesis and characterization of sterically expanded ansa-eta(1)-fluorenyl-amido complexes, Polyhedron 2005, 24, 1314-1324.  Special issue:  Ansa Metallocenes and Related Compounds.

  15. Greenwald, E. E.; Park, J.; Anderson, K. C.; Kim, H.; Reich, B. J. E.; Miller, S. A.; Zhang, R.; North, S. W. The OH-Initiated Oxidation of 1,3-Butadiene in the Presence of O2 and NO: A Photolytic Route To Study Isomeric Selective Reactivity, J. Phys. Chem. A 2005, 109, 7915-7922.

  16. Reich, B. J. E.; Greenwald, E. E.; Justice, A. K.; Beckstead, B. T.; Reibenspies, J. H.; North, S. W.; Miller, S. A. Ene-diamine versus Imine-amine Isomeric Preferences, J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 8409-8416.

  17. Miller, S. A. Application of the S2∞ and C∞ point groups for the prediction of polymer chirality, Chem. Commun. 2006, 70, 862-864.

  18. Price, C. J.; Reich, B. J. E.; Miller, S. A. Thermodynamic and Kinetic Considerations in the Copolymerization of Ethylene and Carbon Dioxide, Macromolecules 2006, 39, 2751-2756.

  19. Miller, S. A.; Bercaw, J. E. Mechanism of Isotactic Polypropylene Formation with C1-symmetric Metallocene Catalysts, Organometallics, 2006, 25, 3576-3592.

  20. Grill, J. M.; Ogle, J. W.; Miller, S. A.  An Efficient and Practical System for the Catalytic Oxidation of Alcohols, Aldehydes, and α,β-Unsaturated Carboxylic Acids, J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71, 9291-9296.

  21. Irwin, L. J.; Zeits, P. D.; Reibenspies, J. H.; Miller, S. A. Diffuse Diffraction from Parallel/Antiparallel Metallocene Pillars, Organometallics, 2007, 26, 1129-1133,

  22. Miller, S. A.; Irwin, L. J. Novel Catalyst Systems for High Activity and Stereoselectivity in the Homopolymerization and Copolymerization of Olefins, U. S. Patent 7,214,749, 2007 (Texas A&M University).

  23. Schwerdtfeger, E. D.; Miller, S. A. Intrinsic Branching Effects in Syndiotactic Copolymers of Propylene and Higher α-Olefins, Macromolecules 2007, 40, 5662-5668.

  24. Miller, S. A.  Insertion versus Site Epimerization with Singly-Bridged and Doubly-Bridged Metallocene Polymerization Catalysts, J. Organomet. Chem. 2007, 692, 4708-4716.

  25. Chen, H.-Y.; Zhang, J.; Lin, C.-C.; Reibenspies, J. H.; Miller, S. A. Efficient and controlled polymerization of lactide under mild conditions with a sodium-based catalyst, Green Chem. 2007, 9, 1038-1040.

  26. Ilg, A. D.; Price, C. J.; Miller, S. A. Linear Low Density Polyoxymethylene versus Linear Low Density Polyethylene, Macromolecules 2007, 40, 7739-7741.

  27. Price, C. J.; Irwin, L. J.; Aubry, D. A.; Miller, S. A. "Fluorenyl Containing Catalysts for Stereoselective Propylene Polymerization" in Stereoselective Polymerization with Single Site Catalysts; Canich, J. M.; Baugh, L. S., Eds.; CRC Press, 2007, ISBN:  1574445790.

  28. Schwerdtfeger, E. D.; Irwin, L. J.; Miller, S. A. Highly Branched Polyethylene from Ethylene Alone via a Single Zirconium-Based Catalyst, Macromolecules 2008, 41, 1080-1085.

  29. Price, C. J.; Zeits, P. D. Reibenspies, J. H.; Miller, S. A. Octamethyloctahydrodibenzofluorenyl:  Electronic Comparisons Between a Sterically Expanded Ligand and its Cyclopentadienyl Analogues, Organometallics 2008, 27, 3722-3727.

  30. Ogle, J. W.; Zhang, J.; Reibenspies, J. H.; Abboud, K. A.; Miller, S. A. Synthesis of Electronically Diverse Tetraarylimidazolylidene Carbenes via Catalytic Aldimine Coupling, Org. Lett. ASAP, August 6th, 2008.
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