Michael Campbell
Michael G. Campbell was born in 1986 in Pennsylvania. He earned his B.S. in Chemistry in 2008 from Loyola University Maryland, graduating summa cum laude. While at Loyola he conducted research in organic synthesis as a Hauber Research Fellow, under Prof. Jesse D. More. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2014 under Prof. Tobias Ritter, where he worked mainly on the chemistry of palladium in unusual oxidation states. From 2014–2016 he was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT with Prof. Mircea Dincă, working in the area of electrically conductive metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). In July 2016, he joined the Department of Chemistry at Barnard College as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2023.
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advisor: Mircea Dincă
Ph.D. Chemistry, Harvard University
Advisor: Tobias Ritter
M.A. Chemistry, Harvard University
B.S. Chemistry, Loyola University Maryland
The Campbell Group at Barnard uses the tools of synthetic organometallic and inorganic chemistry to address diverse challenges in catalysis and materials science. A primary focus of our work is developing new reactivity with silver, which has historically been an underappreciated and poorly understood element.
Research in the Campbell Group is currently supported by grant awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Dreyfus Foundation, as well as a Barnard College Presidential Research Award.
CHEM BC3271 Inorganic Chemistry
CHEM BC3272 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry
CHEM BC3280 Advanced Organic Chemistry
CHEM BC2001 General Chemistry
CHEM BC2012 General Chemistry Laboratory
CHEM BC3328 Introductory Organic Chemistry Laboratory
CHEM BC3901 Senior Thesis Seminar
FYSB BC1474 Think Like a Scientist: From Plato to Hawking
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Asterisks(*) Indicate Barnard Student Co-Authors
Determination of Arsenic Content in Water Using a Silver Coordination Polymer
N.D. Reich*, A.A. Nghiem, S. Nicholas, B.C. Bostick, M.G. Campbell
ACS Environ. Au 2022, 2, 150–155.
Dinuclear Silver Complexes in Catalysis
T. Elkoush*, N.D. Reich*, M.G. Campbell
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 22614–22622.
Visible Light Absorption and Long-Lived Excited States in Dinuclear Silver(I) Complexes with Redox-Active Ligands
D.J. Shields, T. Elkoush*, E. Miura-Stempel*, C.L. Mak*, G.-H. Niu, A.D. Gudmundsdottir, M.G. Campbell
Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 18338–18344.
Silver(II) and Silver(III) Intermediates in Alkene Aziridination with a Dinuclear Silver(I) Nitrene Transfer Catalyst
T. Elkoush*, C.L. Mak*, D.W. Paley, M.G. Campbell
ACS Catal. 2020, 10, 4820–4826.
Switchable Electrical Conductivity in a Three-Dimensional Metal–Organic Framework via Reversible Ligand n-Doping
H.C. Wentz*, G. Skorupskii, A.B. Bonfim*, J.L. Mancuso, C.H. Hendon, E.H. Oriel, G.T. Sazama, M.G. Campbell
Chem. Sci. 2020, 11, 1342–1346.
Argentophilic Interactions in Solution: An EXAFS Study of Silver(I) Nitrene Transfer Catalysts
C.L. Mak*, B.C. Bostick, N.M. Yassin*, M.G. Campbell
Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 5720.
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This summer, faculty in Barnard’s Chemistry Department were awarded major federal grants that will support them, individually and collaboratively, as they research a variety of topics.