Josef Michl
Professor
Chemistry
josef.michl@colorado.edu
303-492-6519

Office: Cristol Chemistry 127
Lab: Cristol Chemistry 120 and Ekeley MB
Lab Phones: 303-492-5589 and 303-492-6947
 

Education

Ph.D.: Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, 1965

Areas of Expertise

Inorganic, Physical, Photochemistry, Organometallic Chemistry, Organic, Physical Organic

Awards and Honors

J. Phys. Chem. A 2021, 125, 1802-1808, https://pubs.acs.org/page/jpcafh/vsi/michl-festschrift, Chemistry 2021, 3, 440-443, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/chemistry/special_issues/for_Josef_Michl, Member, Sigma Xi, 2021, Symposium in honor of 80th birthday, IOCB, Czech Acad. Sci., Prague, Czech Rep., 2019, Medal of the Learned Soc. Czech Rep., 2019, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019, Fellow of the I-APS, 2017, Czechoslovak Society for Arts and Sciences, 2017, Neuron Foundation Award, Czech Republic, 2016, Hammond Award, I-APS, 2015, Boron in the Americas Award, 2014, American Chemical Society Fellow, 2010, Medal of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (Acad. Sci., Prague, Czech Republic), 2012 and 2004, Fulbright Fellowship, 2006, University of Colorado Faculty Fellowship, 2006, Patria Award, Government of the Czech Republic, Prague, 2005, Honorary Doctorate, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, 2004, Marinus Smith Award, University of Colorado, 2003, Porter Medal (I-APS, EPA, JPA), 2002, Best Journal Issue Award for Chemical Reviews (Association of American Publishers), 2002, ALA Achievement Award (Association for Laboratory Automation), 2002, Otto Wichterle Award (Czech Chemical Society), 2001, James Flack Norris Award (American Chemical Society), 2001, Auburn - G. M. Kosolapoff Award (ACS Auburn Section), 2000, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999, Japan Society for Promotion of Science Award, 1998, Honorary Doctorate, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic, 1996, World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists (WATOC) Fellow, 1996, Czech Learned Society, Honorary Member, 1995, Charles University Gold Medal, Prague, Czech Republic, 1995, J. Heyrovsky Gold Medal (Czech Academy of Sciences), 1994, IAPS Award (Inter-American Photochemical Society), 1994, Schrödinger Medal (World Association of Theoretical Organic Chemists), 1993, Arthur C. Cope Senior Scholar Award (American Chemical Society), 1993, Honorary Doctorate, Georgetown University, 1990, International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, 1988, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 1986, ACS Utah Section Award, 1986, John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 1984-85, The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (Member), Alexander von Humboldt Senior U.S. Scientist Award, 1980, Distinguished Research Award, University of Utah, 1978-79, Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1971-75

(i) Arrays of Molecular Dipolar Rotors; (ii) Singlet Fission; (iii) Electron Delocalization in Saturated Molecules; (iv) Highly Strained Hydrocarbons; (v) Fluorinated Carborane Anions and Radicals; (vi) Fully pi-Conjugated 2-D Organic Polymers

Kaleta, J.; Bastien, G.; Wen, J.; Dračínský, M.; Tortorici, E.; Císařová, I.; Beale, P. D.; Rogers, C. T.; Michl, J. “Bulk Inclusions of Double Pyridazine Molecular Rotors in Hexagonal Tris(o-phenylene)cyclotriphosphazene (TPP)”, J. Org. Chem. 2019, 84, 8449.

Kaleta, J.; Rončević, I.; Dračínský, M.; Šolínová, V.; Kašička, V.; Michl, J. “Bridge Chlorinated Bicyclo[1.1.1]pentane-1,3-dicarboxylic Acids”, J. Org. Chem. 2019, 84, 2448.

Buchanan, E. A.; Kaleta, J.; Wen, J.; Lapidus, S. H.; Císařová, I.; Havlas, Z.; Johnson, J. C.; Michl, J. “Molecular Packing and Singlet Fission: The Parent and Three Fluorinated 1,3-Diphenylisobenzofurans”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2019, 10, 1947.

Kaleta, J.; Šimková, L.; Liška, A.; Bím, D.; Madridejos, J. M. L.; Pohl, R.; Ludvík, J.; Rulíšek, L.; Michl, J. “Preparation and Redox Properties of Fluorinated 1,3-Diphenylisobenzofurans”, Electrochim. Acta 2019, 321, 134659.

Michl, J. “Unconventional Solar Energy: Singlet Fission”, Mol. Frontiers. J. 2019, 3, 84.

Jovanovic, M.; Michl, J. “Effect of Conformation on Electron Localization and Delocalization in Infinite Helical Chains [X(CH3)2]∞ (X = Si, Ge, Sn, and Pb)”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 13101.

Buchanan, E.; Michl, J. “Singlet Fission: The Role of Molecular Packing”, in Specialist Periodical Reports in Photochemistry, Vol. 47; Albini, A.; Protti, S., Eds.; Royal Society of Chemistry, Oxfordshire, UK, 2019, pp. 498-516.

Buchanan, E.; Michl, J. “Optimal Arrangements of 1,3-Diphenylisobenzofuran Molecule Pairs for Fast Singlet Fission”, Photoch. Photobio. Sci. 2019, 18, 2112.

Zaykov, A.; Felkel, P.; Buchanan, E. A.; Jovanovic, M.; Havenith, R. W. A.; Kathir, R. K.; Broer, R.; Havlas, Z.; Michl, J. “Singlet Fission Rate: Optimized Packing of a Molecular Pair.  Ethylene as a Model”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 17729.

Ryerson, J. L.; Zaykov, A.; Aguilar Suarez, L. E.; Havenith, R. W. A.; Stepp, B. R.; Dron, P. I.; Kaleta, J.; Akdag, A.; Teat, S. J.; Magnera, T. F.; Miller, J. R.; Havlas, Z.; Broer, R.; Faraji, S.; Michl, J.; Johnson, J. C. “Structure and Photophysics of Indigoids for Singlet Fission: Cibalackrot”, J. Chem. Phys. 2019, 151, 184903.

Buchanan, E. A.; Havlas, Z.; Michl, J. “Optimal Arrangements of Tetracene Molecule Pairs for Fast Singlet Fission”, Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2019, 92, 1960.

Michl, J. “Singlet Fission: Toward More Efficient Solar Cells”, Substantia 2019, 3, 45.

Miller, J. R.; Cook, A. R.; Šimková, L.; Pospíšil, L.; Ludvík, J.; Michl, J. “The Impact of Huge Structural Changes on Electron Transfer and Measurement of Redox Potentials: Reduction of ortho-12-Carborane”, J. Phys. Chem. B 2019, 123, 9668.

Plutnar, J.; Givelet, C.; Lemouchi, C.; Dytrtová-Jaklová, J.; Teat, S. J.; Michl, J. “Mechanical vs. Electronic Strain: Oval-Shaped Alkynyl-Pt(II)-Phosphine Macrocycles”, Organometallics 2019, 38, 4633.

Wen, J.; Turowski, M.; Dron, P. I.; Chalupský, J.; Grotjahn, R.; Maier, T. M.; Fatur, S. M.; Havlas, Z.; Johnson, J. C.; Kaupp, M.; Michl, J. “Electronic States of 2,3-Diamino-1,4-naphthoquinone and its N-Alkylated Derivatives”, J. Phys. Chem. C 2020, 124, 60.

Pecyna, J.;  Rončević, I.; Michl, J. “Insertion of Carbenes into Deprotonated nido-Undecaborane, B11H13(2-)”, Molecules 2019, 24, 3779.

Buchanan, E. A.; Michl, J. “Mechanical vs. Electronic Strain: Calculated Configurations of Alkynyl-Pt(II)-Phosphine Macrocycles”, Organometallics 2020, 39, 1195.

Rončević, I.; Bastien, G.; Cvačka, J.; Kaleta, J.; Michl, J. “CB11H10− and Related Carborenes,” Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 12453.

Rais, D.; Toman, P.; Pfleger, J.; Acharya, U.; Panthi, Y. R.; Menšík, M.; Zhigunov, A.; Thottappali, M. A.; Vala, M.; Marková, A.; Stříteský, S.; Weiter, M.; Cigánek, M; Krajčovič, J.; Pauk, K.; Imramovský, A.; Zaykov, A.; Michl, J. “Singlet Fission in Thin Solid Films of Bis(thienyl)diketopyrrolopyrroles”, ChemPlusChem 2020, 85, 2689.

Michl, J. “Autobiography of Josef Michl”, J. Phys. Chem. A 2021, 125, 1802.

Jovanovic, M.; Michl, J. “Alkanes versus Oligosilanes: Conformational Effects on σ-Electron Delocalization”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 463.

Buchanan, E. A.; Johnson, J. C.; Tan, M.; Kaleta, J.; Shtukenberg, A. G.; Bateman, G.; Benedict, J. B.; Kobayashi, S.; Wen, J.; Kahr, B.; Císařová, I.; Michl, J. “Competing Singlet Fission and Excimer Formation in Solid Fluorinated 1,3-Diphenylisobenzofurans”, J. Phys. Chem. C 2021, 125, 27058.