Professor of Chemistry
paulzim@umich.edu
Office Information:
2000E Chemistry
phone: 734.615.0191
Photochemistry;
Catalysis;
Theory & Computation;
Physical Chemistry;
Organic Chemistry;
Energy & Environmental Chemistry;
Chemistry;
Macromolecular Nanochemistry
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., Stanford University; PostDoc, University of California-Berkeley
About
The Zimmerman group specializes in developing predictive simulation techniques and their use to drive forward physical, synthetic, and materials chemistry research efforts. In this variety of application areas, the group has created and employed new quantum chemical tools to help design experiments and greatly speed up the development of new catalysts and solar active materials.
Representative Publications
- E. Shim, Z. Xu, J. A. Kammeraad, A. Tewari, T. Cernak, P. M. Zimmerman, “Predicting Reaction Conditions with Limited Data through Active Transfer Learning,” Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 6655–6668
- A. E. Rask, P. M. Zimmerman, “The Many-Body Electronic Interactions of Fe(II)-Porphyrin,” J. Chem. Phys. 2022, 156, 094110.
- B. Kanungo, P. M. Zimmerman, V. Gavini, “A comparison of exact and model exchange-correlation potentials for molecules,” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2021, 12, 12012-12019.
- P. T. Chazovachii, M. Somers, M. T. Robo, D. I. Collias, J. Martin, E. N. G. Marsh, P. M. Zimmerman, J. Alfaro, A. J. McNeil, “Giving Superabsorbent Polymers a Second Life as Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives,” Nature Commun. 2021, 12, 4524.
- G. Sati, J. Martin, Y. Xu, T. Malakar, P. M. Zimmerman, J. Montgomery, “Fluoride Migration Catalysis Enables Simple, Stereoselective, and Iterative Glycosylation,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 7235-7242.
Research Areas
- Computational/Theoretical Chemistry
- Organic Chemistry
- Physical Chemistry
- Materials Chemistry
Awards
- Henry Russel Award, 2018
- William R. Roush Award, 2018
- OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty, American Chemical Society 2016
- Sloan Research Fellowship 2016
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award 2016
- ACS Emerging Technologies in Computational Chemistry Award 2013
