Michael P. Doyle

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Michael P. (Mike) Doyle is Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his BS degree from the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN, and obtained his Ph.D. degree from Iowa State University. Following a postdoctoral engagement at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, he joined the faculty at Hope College in 1968 and was appointed the first Kenneth Herrick Professor in 1982. In 1984, he moved to Trinity University in San Antonio, TX, as the Dr. D. R. Semmes Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, and in 1997 he came to Tucson, AZ, as Vice President, then President, of Research Corporation and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Arizona. He moved to the University of Maryland in 2003. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the George C. Pimentel Award for Chemical Education in 2002 and the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award in 2006. He has written or coauthored ten books, including Basic Organic Stereochemistry, 20 book chapters, and he is the co-author of more than 270 journal publications. The inventor of chiral dirhodium carboxamidate catalysts known as "Doyle catalysts," his research is focused on applications with metal carbene transformations, Lewis acid catalyzed reactions, and selective catalytic oxidations.