Michael P. Doyle, Ph.D.

• Professor and The Rita and John Feik Distinguished University Chair in Medicinal Chemistry

• Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
• 2003-2013: Department Chair
• 2010-2013: Member, Administrative Council for College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences
• 2003-2010: Member, Administrative Council for College of Chemical and Life Sciences

• Professor, Department of Chemistry
• 2002: Member, Executive Committee

• 2002: President
• 1997-2001: Vice President

• Dr. D. R. Semmes Distinguished Professor of Chemistry

• 1982-1984: Kenneth G. Herrick Professor of Chemistry
• 1976-1979: Chairman
• 1974: Professor
• 1971: Associate Professor
• 1968: Assistant Professor

• Member-at-Large, Chemistry Section (2015-2018)
• Fellow (1995)
• Nominating Committee for Chemistry Section (1999-2001)

• Member, Joint Board-Council Committee on Publications (2014-2016); Associate Member (2012)
• Editorial Board for C&E News (2014-2016)
• Member, Commission on Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences (2012)
• Associate Member, Budget and Finance Committee (2012-2013)
• General Chair, 2011 Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (May 21-24, 2011)
• Member, Executive Committee for the Division of Organic Chemistry (1988-1990, elected office); Councilor (1990-2011, elected office); Chairman-Elect (1992); Chairman (1993); Past-Chairman (1994)
• Chairman, Joint Board-Council Committee on Publications (1997-1999); consultant (2000-2001)
• Chair, Editorial Board for C&E News (1997-1999)
• Member, Committee on Science (1995-2003); Associate Member (1993-94)
• Member, Committee on Committees (1996-1998, elected by Council)
• Member, Committee on Nominations and Elections (1993; 2002-2007; elected by Council)
• Member, ACS Task Force to Monitor C&E News (1993)
• Member, Board Implementation Task Force on Minorities (1991-1992)
• Chairman, Membership Affairs Committee (1990-1992)
• Member, Board of Trustees, Group Insurance Plans (1990-1992)
• Member, Committee on Professional Training (1985-1990)
• Member, Joint COMSCI, CPT, SOCED Task Force on Research and Teaching (1989)
• Member, Ad Hoc Task Force to Monitor Chemical and Engineering News (1986)
• Chairman of the Task Force on Awards in Undergraduate Education, Division of Chemical Education (1983-1987)
• Member, Program Committee, Division of Chemical Education (1982-1988)
• Program Co-chairman for the Fall 1987 National ACS Meeting in New Orleans, Division of Chemical Education
• Program Co-chairman for the Joint Central and Great Lakes Regional ACS Meeting in Kalamazoo, MI (May 23-25, 1984)

• Foundation Advisor (1989-1997)

An NSF MRSEC, University of Texas at Austin

• Member, External Advisory Committee (2017-present)

• Member, Executive Committee (2009-2010)
• Member, Board of Directors (2008-2010)

• Councilor (1978-1990; 1991-1994); Chairman (1987-1989); President (1978-1983); Editor of the CUR Newsletter (1978-1993)
• Coordinator of Academic-Industrial Undergraduate Research Partnership Program (AIURP) (1987-1997)
• Organized the Spring Hill Conference on "Critical Issues Influencing Undergraduate Research at Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions" and obtained funding for conference participants (July 1983)

• Councilor (2013-2015); President-Elect (2010); President (2011); Past President (2012)
• Member, Board of Managers
• Chair or member of several committees

• Co-Chair, Scientific Committee for 2012 IChO at the University of Maryland

• Chairman of Chemistry Panel 2 for the evaluation of long-term grants to the Former Soviet Union (December 1993; July 1994)

• Titular Member and Secretary, Commission on Physical Organic Chemistry (III.2) (1987-1991)
• Associate Member, Commission on Physical Organic Chemistry (III.2) (1979-1987)

• Advisory Council (2016-present)
• Member, JIFSAN Working Group (joint with Food and Drug Administration) (2010-2014)

• Founding Member (2014-present)
• Principal Organizer for the Third International Symposium of the Metal Carbene Symposium: Symposium on Carbene and Nitrene Chemistry (2020)

• Member, National Advisory Board (1985-1988); Chairman, Executive Committee (1987-1988)
• Member, Governing Board (1989-1993)
• Chairman, Steering Committee for the Third National Conference at Trinity University (April 1989)

• Ad Hoc Member, Peer Review of Fellowship Applications - Oncology 1-Basic Translational (OBT) IRG (April 2013)
• Member, Medicinal Chemistry Study Section A (2003-2004); Synthetic and Biological Chemistry A Study Section (2005-2007)
• Ad Hoc Member, National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council (January 1992; January 2001)
• Ad Hoc Member, Medicinal Chemistry Study Section (June 1985; February 1987; October 1989; Chairman, November 1993)

• Member, BCST "Challenges in Graduate Education: A Workshop" (January 2012)
• Member, Chemical Sciences Roundtable (2000-2004) and Member of its Executive Committee
• Co-organizer, CSR Workshop and Report on "Preparing Chemists and Chemical Engineers for a Globally Oriented Workforce" (October 2003)
• Member, Committee on Career Paths for Graduates in the Physical Sciences and Mathematics (Planning Group, 1995)
• Member, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (1990-1994)
• Member, Committee on Undergraduate Science Education (1993-1996)
• Member, Workshop on "The Chemistry Department of the Future," Washington, D.C. (August 1987)

• Member of proposal review panels, Co-organizer, NSF Workshop on Undergraduate Research Centers (September 17, 2004)
• Member, Committee of Visitors, Division of Chemistry (March 1998; May 2010)
• Co-chairman, Workshop on Undergraduate Education in Chemistry, SEE Directorate/ Chemistry Division of MPS Directorate (May 1988)
• Member, Chemistry Division Advisory Committee (1982-1985)
• Member, NSF Panel for Research Facilities Awards (September 1990)
• Member, Chemistry Division Panel for Presidential Young Investigator Award proposals (January 1988; December 1988; February 1990)
• Member, Chemistry Division Panel for Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) awards (December 1988)
• Member, Chemistry Panel for Instructional Laboratory Improvement (ILI) Program (January 1989)
• Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Exploratory Research Grants (March 1989)
• Member, Committee on Evaluation of Macro-ROA Activities and Recommendations for Future Undergraduate Research Participation (December 1986)
• Member, Workshop on Undergraduate Science Education (June 1986)
• Member, Ad Hoc Review Group for Evaluation of the Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) Program (December 1984)
• Member, National Science Foundation Chemistry Division Advisory Committee (1982-1984)
• Member, Ad Hoc Panel for review of Proposals for the Regional Instrumentation Program (June 1978)

• Member, Advisory Board, Program Committee (2008-2010)

• Member, Board of Directors (1989-1997; 2000-2002)
• Member, Cottrell Program Advisory Committee (1978-1983)
• Invited participant to the Conference on Research at the Undergraduate Level, Callaway Gardens, GA (April 1975)

• Council Member (2015-2022)
• Universities Grants Committee, Research Assessment Exercise: Deputy Convenor, RAE for Physical Sciences (2005-2006 and 2013-2014)
• Research Assessment Exercise Group (2017-2021)
• Research Impact Fund: Convenor, Physical Sciences Panel (2018-2024)

• Member, Academic Advisory Committee (2012-2018)

• Member, Academic Advisory Committee (2015-2018)

• American Chemical Society
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry

• Frontiers in Chemistry (2021-present), Review Editor for Organic Chemistry
• Chinese Chemical Letters, Editorial Board Member (2013-present)
• The Chemical Record, International Advisory Board (2010-present)
• Chemical Communications, Associate Editor (2007-2010); Member of Editorial Board
• Chemical & Engineering News (Advisory Board, 2005-2011; Editorial Board, 1997-1999 (Chair), 2014-present)
• Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, Editorial Advisory Board (2000-2010)
• Organic Letters, Editorial Advisory Board (1999-2014)
• Accounts of Chemical Research, Editorial Advisory Board (1999-2013); Guest Editor for "C-H Functionalization" Issue (2012)
• Concepts in Magnetic Resonance, Editorial Board (1995-2000)
• Russian Chemical Bulletin, International Advisory Board (1995-present)
• CUR Newsletter Editor (1978-1993)

• Henry J. Albert Award sponsored by BASF Corporation, International Precious Metals Institute (2020)
• Certificate of Advancing Globalization, UTSA College of Sciences (2016)
• Hillebrand Award, Chemical Society of Washington (2014)
• 2011 NOBCChE Presidential Award for Outstanding Partner in Academia (2011)
• Faculty Minority Achievement Award, University of Maryland, President’s Commission on Ethnic Minority Issues (2010)
• Fellow, American Chemical Society (2009)
• Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor in Chemistry, University of Iowa (2009)
• Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (2009)
• Edward Leete Award from the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry (2007)
• Outstanding Chemistry Alumni Award, Iowa State University (2006)
• Arthur C. Cope Senior Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society (2006)
• Harry and Carol Moser Award from the Santa Clara Valley Section of the ACS (2005)
• Guest Professorship, Nankai University, Tianjin, PRC (2004)
• Merit Award, National Institutes of Health (2003)
• George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education of the American Chemical Society (2002)
• Gilman Research Award from the Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University (2001)
• Paul G. Gassman Distinguished Service Award from the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry (1998)
• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitation Fellowship (1996)
• James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Teaching of Chemistry, Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society (1995)
• Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Award for U.S. Scientists, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1995)
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1995)
• Doctor Honoris Causa of the Russian Academy of Sciences (election March 1994)
• American Chemical Society Award for Research at Undergraduate Institutions sponsored by the Research Corporation (1988)
• Chemical Manufacturers Association Catalyst Award (1982)
• Observer for IUPAC Assembly in Warsaw, Poland, National Research Council Selection (August 1977)
• Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award (1973)
• U.S. Public Health Service Fellow, Iowa State University (1966-67)

• Alkyl Nitrite Reactions with Diazo Compounds (2021-present)
• Strain-Induced Ring Opening (2019-present)
• Brønsted Acid Catalyzed Reactions (2019-present)
• Catalytic Free Radical Addition Reactions (2018-present)
• Gold-catalyzed Reactions (2013-present)
• Catalytic Enantioselective [3+3]-Cycloaddition Reactions (2011-present)
• Dirhodium(III,III) Organometallic Compounds (2007-present)
• Catalytic Oxidations (2004-present)
• Enantioselective Lewis Acid Catalyzed Reactions (2000-present)
• Macrocyclization via Metal Carbene Intermediates (1995-2006)
• Highly Enantioselective Dirhodium(II) Catalysts (1990-present)
• Catalytic Hydrosilylation, Silylcarbonylation, and Hydroformylation (1990-1994)
• Carbenes Generated From Diazirines (1984-1989)
• Selective Catalysts for Metal Carbene Transformations (1980-present)
• Nitrosyl Chemistry of Hemoproteins, including mechanism of nitrite oxidations (1980-1991)
• Nickel(II) Promoted Alcohol Oxidations (1979-1981)
• Lewis Acid Promoted Reactions of Diazocarbonyl Compounds (1978-1982)
• Alkyl Nitrite-Metal Halide Deamination Reactions (1976-1980)
• Organosilane Reductions in Acidic Media (1971-1978)
• Nitrosonium and Nitronium Ion Chemistry (1968-1979)

• Journal Publications: more than 400; 67 since 2014. ResearcherID h-index 76; more than 23,700 citations; 44+ average citations per article, more than 531 publications in Web of Science
• Patents: 11
• Book Chapters: 26; 5 since 2012
• Books: 12
• Invited Lectures: 49 since 2014
• Education: More than 160 undergraduate co-authors of research publications
• Research:
  • Developed direct conversion of arylamines for Sandmeyer, Merwein, and related reactions
  • Developed organosilane reductions of organic compounds
  • Provided current mechanistic understanding of nitrite oxidations of heme proteins and the role of nitric oxide; HNO chemistry
  • Chiral dirhodium carboxamidate catalysts (Doyle catalysts) and their applications in metal carbene and Lewis acid transformations
  • Ylide reactions through metal carbenes ("Doyle-Kirmse Reaction" – wikipedia)
  • Dirhodium catalyzed allylic oxidations ("Umera-Doyle reaction") – in "Organic Synthesis Based on Name Reactions" by C. Stumer and A. Hassner, Elsevier, 2012
  • Catalytic asymmetric [3+3]-cycloaddition reactions
• Education:
  • More than 160 undergraduate coauthors of research publications
  • First President of Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR)
  • First Chairman of the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research (NCUR)
  • General Chair, 2011 Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society
  • Co-Chair, Scientific Committee for the 2012 International Chemistry Olympiad