Carnegie Mellon University

Dirk Schild

Dirk Schild

Postdoctoral Associate

Address
Carnegie Mellon University
4400 Fifth Avenue
Mellon Institute
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Education

2021, PhD, Chemistry, California Institute of Technology                                                                  

2016, MSc, Chemistry, Utrecht University                                      

2013, BSc, Chemistry, Hogeschool Utrecht,

Publications

1) Dadashi-Silab, S.; Kim, K.,Lorandi, F.; Schild, D. J.; Fantin, M.; Matyjaszewski, K.; “Effect of halogen and solvent on iron-catalyzed atom transfer radical polymerization” Polym. Chem., 2022,13, 1059-1066

2) Schild, D. J.; Drover, M. W.; Oyala, P. H.; Peters, J. C.; “Ligand-induced Fe-to-Cp* H-atom migration from Cp*FeIII-H generates a potent C-H PCET donor for azobenzene reduction” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142, 44, 18963–18970.

3) Fox, V. K.; Kupper, R. J.;  Ehlmann, B. J.;  Catalano, J. G.; Razzell-Hollis, J.; Abbey, W.; Schild, D. J.; Nickerson, R. D.; Peters, J. C.; Bhartia, H.; Synthesis and characterization of Fe(III)-Fe(II)- Mg- Al smectite solid solutions and implications for planetary science, American Mineralogist, 2021 106, 6, 964–982

4) Drover, M. W.; Schild, D. J.; Oyala, P. H.; Peters, J. C.; Snapshots of a Migrating H-Atom: Characterization of a Reactive Iron (III) Indenide Hydride and its Nearly Isoenergetic Ring-Protonated Iron(I) Isomer, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 15504-15511

5) Schild, D. J.; Peters, J. C. Light Enhanced Fe-Mediated Nitrogen Fixation: Mechanistic Insights Regarding H2 Elimination, HER, and NH3 Generation, ACS Catal., 2019, 9, 4286-4295.

6) van Ravensteijn B. G. P.; Schild D. J.; Kegel, W. K.; Klein Gebbink, R. J. M.  The Immobilization of a Transfer Hydrogenation Catalyst on Colloidal Particles, ChemCatChem 2017, 9, 440-450

Selected Awards and Fellowships

2019     Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion Summer School Poster Prize

2019     Center for Environmental Microbial Interactions" CEMI Travel Award

2018     CCE Seminar Day Poster Prize

2017      Resnick Institute 2nd year Fellow