Curriculum Vita

Dr. Colin P. Horwitz
Department of Chemistry
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
Tel: (412) 268-3439
e-mail: horwitz@andrew.cmu.edu

Education

1985–1987

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Research Associate
Research Preceptor: Royce W. Murray

1981–1985

Northwestern University
M.S. in Inorganic Chemistry, May 1982
Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry, June 1986
Research Advisor: Duward F. Shriver

1977–1981

Case Western Reserve University, B.S. in Chemistry, May 1981
Research Advisor: Malcolm E. Kenney

Honors and Awards

1999

Co-Recipient Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award

1989

Recipient of the first Siegfried and Jaqueline Bart Faculty Fellowship (RPI)

1981–1984

Northwestern University Fellowship

1981–1982

E. I. du Pont de Nemours Fellowship

1981

Graduation with honors, Case Institute of Technology

Academic Employment

2000–present

Deputy Director, Institute for Green Science, Carnegie Mellon

1995–present

Associate Research Professor, Carnegie Mellon

1994–1995

Special Faculty, Research Chemist, Carnegie Mellon

1993–1994

Visiting Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon

1993–1994

Associate Professor of Chemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

1987–1993

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

1985–1987

Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, UNC - Chapel Hill

1981–1985

Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University

Publications since 1995

  1. K. G. Wingate, T. R. Stuthridge, L. J. Wright, C. P. Horwitz, T. J. Collins, “Application of TAML Catalysts to Remove Colour from Pulp and Paper Mill Effluents” Water Science and Technology 2004, 49, 255–260.
  2. A. Ghosh, A. D. Ryabov, S. M. Mayer, D. C. Horner, D. Prasuhn, S. Sen Gupta, L. Vuocolo, C. Culver, M. P. Hendrich, C. E. F. Rickard, R. E. Norman, C. P. Horwitz, T. J. Collins “Understanding the Mechanism of H+−Induced Demetalation as a Design Strategy for Robust Iron(III) Peroxide-Activating Catalysts” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 12378–12379.
  3. Horwitz, C. P. and Ghosh, A. "Method For Making Macrocyclic Tetraamido Compounds" 2003 US 10/371,484.
  4. Horwitz, C. P. and Ghosh, A. "Improved Synthesis of Macrocyclic Tetraamido Compounds and New Metal Insertion Process" 2003 US 10/371,591.
  5. Collins, T. J., Horwitz, C. P., Ryabov, A. D., Vuocolo, L. D., Gupta, S. S., Ghosh, A., Fattaleh, N. L., Hangun, Y., Steinhoff, B., Noser, C. A., Beach, E., Prasuhn, D., Jr., Stuthridge, T., Wingate, K. G., Hall, J., Wright, L. J., Suckling, I. and Allison, R. W. "Tetraamido macrocyclic ligand catalytic oxidant activators in the pulp and paper industry," ACS Symposium Series 2002, 823, 47–60.
  6. Glatzel, P., Bergmann, U., Gu, W., Wang, H., Stepanov, S., Mandimutsira, B. S., Riordan, C., Horwitz, C. P., Collins, T. and Cramer, S. P. "Electronic Structure of Ni Complexes by X-ray Resonance Raman Spectroscopy (Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering)," Journal of the American Chemical Society 2002, 124, 9668–9669.
  7. Gordon-Wylie, S. W., Blanton, W. B., Claus, B. L., Horwitz, C. P., Collins, T. J., Boskovic, C. and Christou, G. "Syntheses of selected supramolecules. Toward magnetic building blocks: Synthesis of a planar Co(III)-cation radical-cobalt(III) complex of the binucleating ligand 1,2,4,5-tetrakisbenzene," Inorganic Syntheses 2002, 33, 1–10.
  8. Sen Gupta, S., Stadler, M., Noser, C. A., Ghosh, A., Steinhoff, B., Lenoir, D., Horwitz, C. P., Schramm, K.-W. and Collins, T. J. "Rapid total destruction of chlorophenols by activated hydrogen peroxide," Science (Washington, DC, United States) 2002, 296, 326–328.
  9. Collins, T. J. and Horwitz, C. P. "Metal Ligand Containing Bleaching Compositions" 2001 US 6,241,779.
  10. Ghosh, A., Gupta, S. S., Bartos, M. J., Hangun, Y., Vuocolo, L. D., Steinhoff, B. A., Noser, C. A., Horner, D., Mayer, S., Inderhees, K., Horwitz, C. P., Spatz, J., Ryabov, A. D., Mondal, S. and Collins, T. J. "Green chemistry. Sustaining a high-technology civilization," Pure and Applied Chemistry 2001, 73, 113–118.
  11. Horwitz, C. P., Gordon-Wylie, S. W., Leychkis, Y., Flynn, D. M., Weintraub, S. T., Clark, G. R. and Collins, T. J. "Modifying the Chemistry of a Macrocyclic Cobalt Complex by Remote Site Manipulation," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2001, 105, 8821–8828.
  12. Matyjaszewski, K., Goebelt, B., Paik, H.-j. and Horwitz, C. P. "Tridentate Nitrogen-Based Ligands in Cu-Based ATRP: A Structure-Activity Study," Macromolecules 2001, 34, 430–440.
  13. Collins, T. J., Gordon-Wylie, S. W. and Horwitz, C. P. "Long-lived Homogenous Amide Containing Macrocyclic Compounds" 2000 US 6,054,580.
  14. Collins, T. J. and Horwitz, C. P. "Metal Ligand Containing Bleaching Compositions" 2000 US 6,136,223.
  15. Collins, T. J. and Horwitz, C. P. "Catalysis is a key to a better future for the pulp and paper industry," TAPPI Pulping Conference, Orlando, Fla., Oct. 31–Nov. 4, 1999 1999, 2, 703–710.
  16. Collins, T. J. and Horwitz, C. P. "Metal Ligand Containing Bleaching Compositions" 1999 US 5,876,625.
  17. Hall, J. A., Vuocolo, L. D., Suckling, I. D., Horwitz, C. P., Allison, R. W., Wright, L. J. and Collins, T. J. "Development of the PFe process: a new catalyzed hydrogen peroxide bleaching process," Appita Annual General Conference Proceedings 1999, 53rd, 455–461.
  18. Horwitz, C. P., Ciringh, Y. and Weintraub, S. T. "Formation pathway of a Mn(IV),Mn(IV) bis(m-oxo) dimer that incorporates alkali and alkaline earth cations and electron transfer properties of the dimer," Inorganica Chimica Acta 1999, 294, 133–139.
  19. Collins, T. J., Fattaleh, N. L., Vuocolo, L. D., Horwitz, C. P., Hall, J. A., Wright, L. J., Suckling, I. D., Allison, R. W. and Fullerton, T. J. "New efficient selective TCF wood pulp bleaching," Pulping Conference, Montreal, Oct. 25–29, 1998 1998, 3, 1291–1300.
  20. Collins, T. J., Gordon-Wylie, S. W., Bartos, M. J., Horwitz, C. P., Woomer, C. G., Williams, S. A., Patterson, R. E., Vuocolo, L. D., Paterno, S. A., Strazisar, S. A., Peraino, D. K. and Dudash, C. A. "The design of green oxidants," Green Chemistry 1998, 46–71.
  21. Collins, T. J. and Horwitz, C. P. "Metal Ligand Containing Bleaching Compositions" 1998 US 5,853,428.
  22. Gordon-Wylie, S. W., Claus, B. L., Horwitz, C. P., Leychkis, Y., Workman, J. M., Marzec, A. J., Clark, G. R., Rickard, C. E. F., Conklin, B. J., Sellers, S., Yee, G. T. and Collins, T. J. "New magnetically coupled bimetallic complexes as potential building blocks for magnetic materials," Chemistry—A European Journal 1998, 4, 2173–2181.
  23. Horwitz, C. P., Fooksman, D. R., Vuocolo, L. D., Gordon-Wylie, S. W., Cox, N. J. and Collins, T. J. "Ligand design approach for securing robust oxidation catalysts," Journal of the American Chemical Society 1998, 120, 4867–4868.
  24. Miller, C. G., Gordon-Wylie, S. W., Horwitz, C. P., Strazisar, S. A., Peraino, D. K., Clark, G. R., Weintraub, S. T. and Collins, T. J. "A Method for Driving O-Atom Transfer: Secondary Ion Binding to a Tetraamide Macrocyclic Ligand," Journal of the American Chemical Society 1998, 120, 11540–11541.
  25. Patterson, R. E., Gordon-Wylie, S. W., Woomer, C. G., Norman, R. E., Weintraub, S. T., Horwitz, C. P. and Collins, T. J. "Electron-Transfer Oxidation by Phase-Separating Reagents," Inorganic Chemistry 1998, 37, 4748–4750.
  26. Ciringh, Y., Gordon-Wylie, S. W., Norman, R. E., Clark, G. R., Weintraub, S. T. and Horwitz, C. P. "Multinuclear Paramagnetic NMR Spectra and Solid State X-ray Crystallographic Characterization of Manganese(III) Schiff-Base Complexes," Inorganic Chemistry 1997, 36, 4968–4982.
  27. Turconi, S., Horwitz, C. P., Ciringh, Y., Weintraub, S. T., Warden, J. T., Nugent, J. H. A. and Evans, M. C. W. "An extended x-ray absorption fine structure study of bis(µ-oxo) bridged dinuclear manganese co-ordination compounds containing alkali- and alkaline-earth-metal cations in a crown ether moiety," Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions: Inorganic Chemistry 1997, 4075–4082.
  28. Turconi, S., Horwitz, C. P., Ciringh, Y., Weintraub, S. T., Warden, J. T., Nugent, J. H. A. and Evans, M. C. W. "An EXAFS study of bis(µ-oxo) bridged dinuclear manganese coordination compounds as models for the manganese complex of Photosystem II," Journal de Physique IV 1997, 7, 603–606.
  29. Collins, T. J., Gordon-Wylie, S. W., Bominaar, E. L., Horwitz, C. P. and Yee, G. "Ligand design approaches for controlling exchange coupling and fabricating molecular magnetic materials," NATO ASI Series, Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences 1996, 484, 509–529.
  30. Horwitz, C. P., Warden, J. T. and Weintraub, S. T. "Electron spin resonance and electrospray ionization mass spectroscopic studies of the interaction of alkali and alkaline earth cations with manganese bis(µ-oxo) dimers," Inorganica Chimica Acta 1996, 246, 311–320.
  31. Horwitz, C. P., Dailey, G. C. and Tham, F. S. "Aquachloro[bis(5-chlorosalicylidene)ethylenediaminato]manganese(III)," Acta Crystallogr., Sect. C: Cryst. Struct. Commun. 1995, C51, 815–17.
  32. Turconi, S., Horwitz, C. P., Weintraub, S. T., Warden, J. T., Nugent, J. H. A. and Evans, M. C. W. "X-ray absorption spectroscopy of the water oxidation complex of PS II," Photosynthesis: From Light to Biosphere, Proceedings of the International Photosynthesis Congress, 10th, Montpellier, Fr., Aug. 20–25, 1995 1995, 2, 301–304.
  33. Turconi, S., Horwitz, C. P., Weintraub, S. T., Warden, J. T., Nugent, J. H. A. and Evans, M. C. W. "X-ray absorption spectroscopy of the water oxidation complex of PS II," Photosynth.: Light Biosphere, Proc. Int. Photosynth. Congr., 10th 1995, 2, 301–304.