Matthew Mills (S 2016)
(he/him)
About
Matthew Mills received his doctorate in Chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University. His PhD work in the Collins group included applying TAML catalysis to water treatment, synthesis of novel catalysts, and fundamental studies into how ligand structure affects oxidation state and stability. Upon graduation in 2016 Matt joined Wes Bernskoetter’s group at the University of Missouri as a postdoc and worked on using transition metal catalysts for hydrogen transfer reactions for energy applications. In 2017 he joined Phillips 66 working as a research chemist in the Remediation Science group in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. In September 2020 Matt renewed his partnership with Terry Collins and joined the CMU spinoff Sudoc as the Director of Research and Development. In that role he has developed both R&D and catalyst production capabilities of the company while developing products containing TAML catalysts that enable high performance with much less chemical than current market-leading products.
Publications during PhD
Beresford, N., Baynes, A., Kanda, R., Mills, M.R., Arias-Salazar, K., Collins, T.J., & Jobling, S. (2016). Use of a battery of chemical and ecotoxicological methods for the assessment of the efficacy of wastewater treatment processes to remove estrogenic potency. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 115. https://doi.org/10.3791/54243
Kundu, S., Thompson, J.V., Shen, L.Q., Mills, M.R., Bominaar, E.L., Ryabov, A.D., & Collins, T.J. (2014). Activation parameters as mechanistic probes in the TAML iron(v)-oxo oxidations of hydrocarbons. Chemistry - A European Journal, 21(4), 1803–1810. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201405024
Mills, M.R., Arias-Salazar, K., Baynes, A. et al. (2015). Removal of ecotoxicity of 17α-ethinylestradiol using TAML/peroxide water treatment. Sci Rep, 5, 10511. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep10511
Mills, M.R., Burton, A.E., Mori, D.I., Ryabov, A.D., & Collins, T.J. (2015). Iron(IV) or iron(v)? Heterolytic or free radical? oxidation pathways of a TAML activator in acetonitrile at −40°C. Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 68(17-18), 3046–3057. https://doi.org/10.1080/00958972.2015.1073270
Mills, M.R., Shen, L.Q., Zhang, D.Z., Ryabov, A.D., & Collins, T.J. (2017). Iron(III) Ejection from a “Beheaded” TAML Activator: Catalytically Relevant Mechanistic Insight into the Deceleration of Electrophilic Processes by Electron Donors. Inorganic Chemistry, 56(17), 10226-10234. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b00921
Mills, M.R., Weitz, A.C., Hendrich, M.P., Ryabov, A.D., & Collins, T.J. (2016). NaClO-Generated Iron(IV)oxo and Iron(V)oxo TAMLs in Pure Water. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138(42), 13866-13869. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b09572
Mills, M.R., Weitz, A.C., Zhang, D.Z., Hendrich, M.P., Ryabov, A.D., & Collins, T.J. (2016). A “Beheaded” TAML Activator: A Compromised Catalyst that Emphasizes the Linearity between Catalytic Activity and pKa. Inorganic Chemistry, 55(23), 12263-12269. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b01988
Onundi, Y., Drake, B.A., Malecky, R.T., DeNardo, M.A., Mills, M.R., Kundu, S., Ryabov, A.D., Beach, E.S., Horwitz, C.P., Simonich, M.T., Truong, L., Tanguay, R.L., Wright, L.J., Singhal, N., & Collins, T.J. (2017). A multidisciplinary investigation of the technical and environmental performances of TAML/peroxide elimination of bisphenol A compounds from water. Green Chemistry, 19(18), 4234–4262. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7gc01415e
Ren, Q., Guo, Y., Mills, M.R., Ryabov, A.D., & Collins, T.J. (2015). On the iron(v) reactivity of an aggressive tail‐fluorinated tetraamido macrocyclic ligand (TAML) activator. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2015(8), 1445–1452. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201500001
Somasundar, Y., Burton, A.E., Mills, M.R., Zhang, D.Z., Ryabov, A.D., & Collins, T.J. (2021). Quantifying evolving toxicity in the TAML/peroxide mineralization of propranolol. IScience, 24(1), 101897. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101897
Somasundar, Y., Lu, I.C., Mills, M.R., Qian, L.Y., Olivares, X., Ryabov, A.D., & Collins, T.J. (2020). Oxidative catalysis by tamls: Obtaining rate constants for non‐absorbing targets by UV‐Vis Spectroscopy. ChemPhysChem, 21(11), 1083–1086. https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.202000222
Somasundar, Y., Shen, L.Q., Hoane, A.G., Tang, L.L., Mills, M.R., Burton, A.E., Ryabov, A.D., & Collins, T.J. (2018). Structural, mechanistic, and Ultradilute catalysis portrayal of substrate inhibition in the TAML–hydrogen peroxide catalytic oxidation of the persistent drug and micropollutant, propranolol. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140(38), 12280–12289. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b08108
Warner, G.R., Mills, M.R., Enslin, C., Pattanayak, S., Panda, C., Panda, T.K., Gupta, S.S., Ryabov, A.D., & Collins, T.J. (2015). Reactivity and operational stability of n-tailed tamls through kinetic studies of the catalyzed oxidation of Orange II by H2O2: Synthesis and X-ray structure of ann-phenyl TAML. Chemistry - A European Journal, 21(16), 6226–6233. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201406061
Warner, G.R., Somasundar, Y., Jansen, K.C., Kaaret, E.Z., Weng, C., Burton, A.E., Mills, M.R., Shen, L.Q., Ryabov, A.D., Pros, G., Pintauer, T., Biswas, S., Hendrich, M.P., Taylor, J.A., Vom Saal, F.S., & Collins, T.J. (2019). Bioinspired, multidisciplinary, iterative catalyst design creates the highest performance peroxidase mimics and the field of sustainable Ultradilute oxidation catalysis (SUDOC). ACS Catalysis, 9(8), 7023–7037. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.9b01409
Weitz, A.C., Mills, M.R., Ryabov, A.D., Collins, T.J., Guo, Y., Bominaar, E.L., & Hendrich, M.P. (2019). A synthetically generated LFEivohn complex. Inorganic Chemistry, 58(3), 2099–2108. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b03200