EDUCATION
B.S. in chemistry, Ithaca College, 1994
Ph.D. in chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000 Research Advisor: Robert West
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Wisconsin-Baraboo, 1997-1999.
Elizabethtown College, 2000-2002.
Selected Publications
* denotes IC students
Poli, T.; Haaf, M. P.; Piccirillo, A.; Craig, R. L.; Costa, A. P.*; Pozzi, F. “First Insights into the Formation of Metal Soaps in Alkyd-Based Paints: A Proof-of-Concept Investigation Using FTIR Spectroscopy,” Molecules , 2024 , 29, 5940. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules29245840
Haaf, M. P., Piemonte, K. M.,* McQuade D. T., Cotton, L., Blackburn, R. S. "In situ fabric coloration with indigo synthesized in flow," Journal of Coloration Technology, 2018 .
Miller, Z. L.; Hrudka, J. J.; Naro, Y.* Haaf, M.; Shatruk, M. McQuade, D. T. “Rapid-Flow Synthesis of Zn-Qn Complexes: Teaching Old Ligands New Tricks with Reactive Na2(HZnEt2)2.” Journal of Flow Chemistry , 2015 , 5 , 139.
Haaf, M.; Wells, G. “Collaborative Student Research Projects in an Undergraduate Chemistry and Art Course,” Journal of Chemical Education, 2013 , 90 , 1616.
Cole, K. E.; Inada, M.; Smith, A.; Haaf, M. "A Grant Proposal Writing Exercise for Undergraduate Science Courses," Journal of Chemical Education, 2013 , 90, 1316.
C. Bakewell; R, H. Platel; S. C. Cary*; S. M. Hubbard*; J. M. Roaf*; A. C. Levine*; White, A. J. P.; N. J. Long; M. Haaf; C. K. Williams, “Bis(8-quinolinolato)aluminum ethyl complexes: Iso-Selective Initiators for rac-Lactide Polymerization,” Organometallics, 2012, 31, 4729.
J. Shares*; J. Yehl*; A. Kowalsick*; P. Byers*; Haaf, M. P. “An Efficient Synthesis of Tertiary Amines from Nitriles in Aprotic Solvents,” Tetrahedron Letters, 2012, 53, 4426.
Steinbacher, Jeremy L.; Moy, Rebecca W. Y.; Price, Price, Kristin E.; Cummings, Meredith A.*; Roychowdhury, Chandrani; Buffy, Jarrod, J.; Olbricht, William L.; Haaf, Michael, McQuade, D. Tyler, "Rapid Self-Assembly of Core-Shell Organosilicon Microcapsule within a Microfluidic Device" Journal of the American Chemical Society , 2006 , 128 , 9442- 9447.
Poe, Sarah L.; Cummings, Meredith A.*; Haaf, Michael P.; McQuade, D. Tyler. "Solving the clogging problem: precipitate-forming reactions in flow." Angewandte Chemie, International Edition, 2006, 45, 1544-1548.
X. Zhang, M. Haaf, E. Grosstephan*, Henry Schierembergg*, B. Todorich, J. R. Connor, “Cytokine Toxicity to Oligodendrocyte Precursors is Mediated by Iron,” Glia 2005, 52, 199.
Amoroso, Dino; Haaf, Michael; Yap, Glenn P. A.; West, Robert; Fogg, Deryn E. "A Stable Silylene in a Reactive Environment: Synthesis, Reactivity, and Silicon Extrusion Chemistry of a Coordinatively Unsaturated Ruthenium Silylene Complex Containing Chloride and h 3-P-C-P Ligands." Organometallics, 2002, 21 (3), 534-540.
Haaf, Michael; Schmedake, Thomas A.; Paradise, Bryan J.; West, Robert. "Synthesis and reactivity of the stable silylene N,N'-di-tert-butyl-1,3-diaza-2-sila-2-ylidene." Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 2000, 78 1526-1533.
Haaf, Michael; Schmedake, Thomas A.; West, Robert. "Stable Silylenes." Accounts of Chemical Research , 2000, 33, 704-714.
Haaf, Michael; Schmiedl, Andreas; Schmedake, Thomas A.; Powell, Douglas R.; Millevolte, Anthony J.; Denk, Michael; West, Robert. Synthesis and Reactivity of a Stable Silylene. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1998, 120, 12714-12719.