ERIC TILLMAN

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Rooke Chemistry 307
(570) 577-3265, etillman@bucknell.edu

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, B.S. (Biochemistry) 1996
University of Southern California Ph.D. (Chemistry) 2001
Mentor: Thieo Hogen-Esch

California Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Scholar 2001-2002
Mentor: Nate Lewis


 
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Research Group

Joe Sokol, Chrissy Herforth, Patrick Lehr, Nicole Cohen, Nate Contrella, Eric Tillman, Josh Leasure, Nicole Marotta, Sona Thakur

Current Research Students

Sona Thakur M.S. '08 Silane Radicals in Polymer Synthesis: Chain Coupling, Elongation, and Block Copolymer Synthesis
Josh Leasure M.S. '09 End-functionalization of N-methyleneamine-initiated Cationic Polymerizations
Nicole Cohen B.S. '08 Controlling Polymerizations Initiated by N-methyleneamines / Ligand-effect in Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Using Anthracene Photodimers as Initiators / Block Copolymers by Silane Radical Chemistry Coupled with Nitroxide Mediated Polymerization
Nate Contrella B.S. '09 Anionic and Nitroxide Mediated Polymerization Initiated From a Single Carbon / Fluorene-labeling by Nitroxide Mediated Polymerization
Chrissy Herforth B.S. '09 Chromophore labeling of polymers using Silane Radical Atom Abstraction coupled with Nitroxide Mediated Polymerization
Nicole Marotta B.S. '09 Monitoring Nitroxide Mediated Polymerizations Using GC and/or NMR
Chelsea Brinkman B.S. '10 Synthesis of amine-labeled polymers and synthesis of cyclic polymers via controlled radical polymerization
Joe Sokol B.S./M.S. '08 Synthesis of Cyclic Alkoxyamines

 

Recent Group News

NSF award for $135,000 from 2008 - 2011. Title: "Synthesis of Amine-Terminated Polymers Using Lewis Acid-Induced N-methlyeneamines as Cationic Initiators"
Nicole Cohen's proposal was funded by Pfizer for $5000 for summer 2007.
Nate Contrella's proposal was funded by Accenture for $3300 for summer 2007.