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Meet Adam S. Veige

V.T. and Louise Jackson Professor

University of Florida
Department of Chemistry
PO Box 11720
Gainesville, FL 32611-7200 USA
352-392-9844 (voice)
352-392-3255 (fax)
Office: CLB 412B

Faculty Member Adam S. Veige

Adam S. Veige

Director, Center of Catalysis

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  • 2002 – 2004 / Postdoctoral MIT, Cambridge, MA. Advisor: Professor Daniel G. Nocera
  • 1998 – 2003 / Ph. D. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Advisor: Professor Peter T. Wolczanski
  • 1993 – 1997 / Hons. B.Sc. University of Western Ontario. Advisor: Professor James F. King
  • 2015 – present / Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
  • 2021 – present / University of Florida Term Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
  • 2017 – 2020 / University of Florida Research Foundation Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
  • 2011 – 2015 / Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
  • 2010 – present / Director, Center for Catalysis, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
  • 2004 – 2011 / Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
  • 2010 – 2017 / Treasurer, Florida Section of the American Chemical Society
  • 2004 Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award.
  • 2008 1st Place Overall Teaching Exhibit at the UF Eng. & Science Fair
  • 2008 Special recognition for Creative Demonstrations, Innovative Design and Outstanding Performance at the UF Eng. & Science Fair
  • 2008 Award for Best Visual Presentation at the UF Eng. and Science Fair
  • 2008 NSF CAREER Award
  • 2010 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship Award
  • 2010 Student Invited Seminar, MIT
  • 2011 Heaton Family Faculty Award
  • 2012 Anderson Faculty Honoree
  • 2012 UF Outstanding Mentor of Undergraduate Research Award
  • 2012 Professor Paul Tarrant Fellowship
  • 2015 CLAS Mentor/Advisor of the Year
  • 2015 Inorganic Student Seminar Invite, UC Berkeley
  • 2017 University of Florida Research Foundation Professor Fellowship
  • 2017 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship
  • 2019 UF CLAS Doctoral Dissertation/Mentoring Award
  • 2021 University of Florida Term Professorship
  • Mandal, U.; Ghiviriga, I.; Abboud, K. A.; Veige, A. S.*; A double tethered metallacyclobutane REMP catalyst for cyclic polymer synthesis, Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, submitted.
  • Beto, C. E.; Yang, Y.; Schanze, K. S.; Veige, A. S. Metallopolymers and iClick Synthesis Thereof. US App. No. 63/231,849 (2021).
  • Veige, A. S.; Sumerlin, B. S.; Miao, Z. Removing acetylene from ethylene gas streams during polyethylene synthesis. U.S. Pat. Appl. Publ. (2021), US 20210094896 A1 20210401.
  • Gonsales, S.; Miao, Z.; Sumerlin, B. S.; Veige, A. S. Cyclic polyacetylene and methods of preparing the same. PCT Int. Appl. (2020), US21/17916.
  • Veige, A. S.; Jakhar, V. K.; Jan, M. J.; Compositions and methods for stereoregular ring expansion metathesis polymerization. PCT Int. Appl. (2019), WO 2019108969 A1 20190606.
  • Veige, A. S. Bifunctional Catalysts for Ring Expansion Metathesis Polymerization and Cyclic Polymers Prepared with Same. PCT Int. Appl. 62/822,514 (2019).
  • Veige, A. S. Functionalized cyclic polymers and methods of preparing same. PCT Int. Appl. (2020), WO 2020223672 A1 20201105.
  • Veige, A. S. Macrocyclic polyalkanes, macrocyclic polyalkane-alkenes, and related methods, PCT Int. Appl. (2019), WO 2019060090 A1 20190328.
  • Veige, A. S. Cyclic polyolefins derived from hexyne, octyne, nonyne, pentadecyne and their copolymers with acetylene. PCT Int. Appl. (2019), WO 2019058192 A1 20190328.
  • Jakhar, V. and Veige, A. S. Catalysts and Methods of Polymerizing. PCT Int. Appl. (2020), WO 2020223426 A1 20201105.
  • VenkatRamani, ; Veige, A. S. Tethered Alkylidyne Catalysts for the Synthesis of Cyclic Polymers, PCT App # 62/482,268, April 6, 2017.
  • Niu, W.; Garner, E.; Veige, A. S. Aptamer conjugates with N-heterocyclic carbene metal complexes for targeted drug delivery. PCT Int. Appl. (2017), WO 2017049270 A1 20170323. Issued Patent No. US 2017/0107516 A1
  • Veige, A. ; Gonsales, S. A. Catalyst for ring expansion metathesis polymerization of cyclic monomers. PCT/US2016/052437, WO 2017/049270 A1, March 23, 2017.
  • Roland, C. D.; Kuppuswamy, S.; McGowan, K. P.; Sarker, S.; Veige, A. S. Metallacycloalkylene complex and use for alkyne polymerization to cyclic polyactylenes. PCT Int. Appl. (2015), WO 2015191571 A1 20151217.
  • Veige, S.*; Falkowski, J. M.; O’Reilly, M. Trianionic Pincer Ligands, Cr(III)/Cr(V) catalytic system and its use for aerobic oxidation of organic substrates. U.S. (2014), US 8846950 B2 20140930. Issued Patent No. US 8,846,950 B2
  • Sarkar, ; Kuppuswamy, S.; McGowan, K. P.; Veige, A.S.* Tridentate pincer ligand supported metal-​alkylidyne and metallacycloalkylene complexes for alkyne polymerization. PCT Int. Appl. (2013), WO 2013085707 A1 20130613. Issued Patent No. US 2014/00309389 A1
  • O’Reilly, E.; Jan, M. T.; Veige, A. S. ONO pincer ligands and ONO pincer ligand comprising metal complexes. PCT Int. Appl. (2012), WO 2012154945 A2 20121115. Issued Patent No. US 2014/0073800 A1
  • Veige, S.*; Murray, J. L.; Del Castillo, T. J. Method for linking two or more metal metals for photo and electronic materials. PCT Int. Appl. (2012), WO 2012058285 A2 20120503.
  • Veige, A. S.*; McGowan K. P. NCN Trianionic Pincer Complexes as Catalysts for Olefin Polymerization and Isomerization. PCT Int. Appl. (2012), WO 2012047517 A2 20120412. Issued Patent No. US 2013/0289326 Al
  • Veige, S.; Sarkar, S. Method for transferring N-atoms from metal complexes to organic and inorganic substrates. U.S. Pat. Appl. Publ. (2009), US 20090281343 A1 20091112.
  • Veige, A. S.; Jeletic, M. S.; Lowry, R. J. Preparation of N-heterocyclic carbene catalysts for enantioselective catalysis. PCT Int. Appl. (2008), WO 2008101197 A1 20080821. Issued Patent No. US 8,455,661 B2
  • olyhedron Editorial Board Member (2013-present)
  • Organize an annual outreach event designed to communicate chemistry to the public entitled: “Center for Catalysis Chemistry Day at the Mall”
  • Faculty mentor in the Minority Mentoring Program at UF (2006 – 2007)
  • Participant in the UF University Scholars Program (2007, 2009, 2013)
  • Participant in the NSF research experience for undergraduates (2007 – 2014)
  • Participant in the Young Achievers Foundation outreach program targeting underprivileged children from East Gainesville (2009, 2010, 2011)
  • Treasurer, Florida Section of the American Chemical Society (2010-present)
  • University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, November 12, 2004.
  • College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, October 2005, 3. Rollins College, Winter Park, FL, February, 22, 2007.
  • Rollins College, Winter Park, FL, February, 22, 2007.v
  • Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA, Thursday, 6, 2007.
  • NSF Inorganic Workshop, Virginia Beach, VA, June 9-12, 2008.
  • Symposium Invitation: Activation of Dinitrogen: Past, Present and Future. ACS, Philadelphia, PA, August, 17, 2008.
  • John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH, November 5, 2008.
  • Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, November 6, 2008.
  • University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, November 26, 2008.
  • University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, November 27, 2008.
  • Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, January 15, 2009.
  • Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, February 5, 2009.
  • UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, March 4, 2009.
  • UC Irvine, Costa Mesa, CA, March 5, 2009.
  • California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, March 9, 2009.
  • UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, March 11, 2009.
  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, April 27, 2009.
  • Emory University, Atlanta, GA, April 28, 2009.
  • Florida Section of the ACS Conference, FAME, Orlando, FL, May 15, 2009.
  • North American-Greece-Cyprus Workshop on Paramagnetic Materials (NAGC), Protaras, Cyprus, June 15, 2009.
  • Organometallics Gordon Research Conference, Newport, RI, July 12, 2009.
  • MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 5th, 2010.
  • Current Trends in Molecular and Nanoscale Magnestism (CTMNM), Orlando, FL, June 20, 2010.
  • N-Heterocyclic Carbene Chemistry, Canadian Chemistry Conference, Toronto, CA, May 29, 2010
  • Cornell University, Sept. 30th
  • PACIFICHEM, Honolulu, HA, December 15, 2010.
  • Florida Section of the ACS Conference, Young Investigators of Florida Symposium, FAME, Innisbrook, FL, May 15, 2011.
  • University of Miami, FL, September 1, 2011.
  • Florida International University, September 2, 2011.
  • University of North Florida, March 2, 2012.
  • University of Ottawa, March 9, 2012.
  • Symposium Invitation: Symposium in Honor of Prof. Oleg Ozerov’s ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, San Diego, CA, March, 25-29, 2012.
  • Florida Section of the ACS Conference, Inorganic Session, FAME, Innisbrook, FL, May 18, 2012.
  • Challenges in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry (ISACS8), Toronto, Canada, July 19-22, 2012.
  • Exxon Mobil, Baytown, TX, February 22, 2013.
  • University of Oregon, April 16th, 2013.
  • University of California, Riverside, April 18th, 2013.
  • Invited Speaker: The 20th International Symposium on Olefin Metathesis and Related Chemistry (ISOM XX), July 14-19, 2013.
  • University of South Florida, Sept. 5th, 2013.
  • University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, Nov. 21st, 2013.
  • Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, Nov. 22nd, 2013.
  • Discussion Experiment Theory Inorganic Chemistry (DETIC), Tarragona, Spain, Nov. 25th, 2013.
  • University of Virginia, Jan. 31st, 2014.
  • Invited Speaker: Fusion Conference, Functional Polymeric Materials, Cancun, Mexico, February, 13, 2014.
  • Invited Speaker: Zing Conference, 4th Polymer Conference, Cancun, Mexico, December, 11, 2014.
  • University of Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, February 27, 2015.
  • Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, April 9th, 2015.
  • PPG Industries, Pittsburgh, PA, April 21, 2015.
  • Michigan State University, MI, September 21, 2015.
  • PACIFICHEM. American Chemical Society Meeting, Honolulu, HI, December 17, 2015, Metal Coordination Sphere Design for Challenging Bond Transformations.
  • PACIFICHEM. American Chemical Society Meeting, Honolulu, HI, December 19, 2015, Cyclic and Topological Polymers.
  • PACIFICHEM. American Chemical Society Meeting, Honolulu, HI, December 19, 2015, Activation of Small Molecules by Electropositive Metals Related to Chemical Energy Conversion.
  • University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, March 1, 2016.
  • Fusion, 2nd Small Molecules Activation Conference, May 20-23, 2016, Cancun, Mexico.
  • 99th Canadian Society for Chemistry National Meeting, Ligand Design In Metal Chemistry Symposium, June 5-9th, 2016, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  • Exxon Mobil, Baytown, TX, Aug. 26th, 2016.
  • Baylor University, Waco, TX, Sept. 9th, 2016.
  • Cyclic Polymer Symposium, Soochow University, Suzhou, China, Oct. 23rd, 2016.
  • Auburn University, Auburn, AL, Nov. 10th, 2016.
  • Manchester University, Manchester, England, Nov. 30th, 2016.
  • University of Newcastle, Newcastle, England, Dec. 6th, 2016.
  • University of Leeds, Leeds, England, Dec 7th, 2016.
  • University of Penn, Philadelphia, PA, January, 17th, 2016.
  • Denison University, Granville, OH, February 28th, 2017.
  • Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, April 13th, 2017.
  • Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, May 16th, 2016.
  • International Symposium on Olefin Metathesis and Related Chemistry (ISOM XXII), Zurich, Switzerland, July 9, 2017
  • Symposium Invitation: ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC, August 20-24th 2017.
  • Advances in Polyolefins, Santa Clara, CA, Sept 27th, 2017.
  • McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Oct 2nd, 2017.
  • Symposium on N-Heterocyclic Carbenes, SERMACS, Charlotte, NC, Nov. 10th, 2017
  • Zeon Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 5th, 2017.
  • Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oookayama, Japan, Dec. 6th, 2017.
  • Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan, Dec. 7th, 2017.
  • University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 8th, 2017.
  • Kyoto University, Kyoto Japan, Dec. 12th, 2017.
  • Tokyo Institute of Technology, Suzukake Japan, Dec. 14th , 2017.
  • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, January, 25th, 2018.
  • Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, Feb 8, 2018.
  • University of California Chemical Symposium (UCCS), UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference CenterMarch 26-28, 2018
  • ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, March 18th-27th, 2018.
  • Fusion Conference, 4th Functional Polymeric Materials Conference, Nassau, Bahamas, June 5th-8th, 2018.
  • Organometallics Gordon Research Conference, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, July 8th-July 13th, 2018.
  • Indiana University, Bloomington IN, October 5th, 2018.
  • University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, October, 15th, 2018.
  • Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, November 9th, 2018.
  • Zeon Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, January 29th, 2019.
  • Tokyo Institute of Technology, International Symposium: Polymers Meet Topology, January 31st, 2019.
  • University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, February 11th, 2019.
  • Nankai University, Tianjin, China, May 5th, 2019
  • Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, May 5th, 2019
  • Shanghai Jiotong University, Shanghai, China, May 7th, 2019
  • East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, May 8th, 2019
  • 5th Blue Sky Conference on Catalytic Olefin Polymerization, Naples, Italy, June 24th-June 28th, 2019.
  • Leiseburg Kolloquim, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, July 1st, 2019.
  • UC San Diego, Symposium on 0D-4D Materials. San Diego, August 23rd, 2019.
  • POLYPMSE Symposium, ACS National Meeting, San Diego, August 27th, 2019.
  • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, October, 22nd, 2019.
  • University of Florida, SMARTS Symposium, Gainesville, FL, January 31, 2020.
  • Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, February, 28, 2020.
  • NC State University, Virtual Seminar, October, 8th, 2020.
  • Albemarle Co. Virtual Seminar, November, 19th, 2020.
  • Rutgers University, New Jersey, Virtual Seminar, April 23, 2021.
  • Award Symposium: George Christou 2019 ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry, American Chemical Society Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 31 – April 4, 2019.
  • Symposium Co-organizer, Innovative Approaches in Bond-Cleavage and Bond-Forming Reactions at Late Transition-Metal Centres, PACIFICHEM. American Chemical Society Meeting, Honolulu, HI, December 15-16, 2015.
  • Symposium Co-organizer, New Catalysis through Ligand Design, ACS Division of Catalysis. American Chemical Society Meeting, Denver, CO, March 22-26, 2015.
  • Symposium Co-organizer, Catalysis Science: The Next Generation, ACS Division of Catalysis. American Chemical Society Meeting, Dallas, TX, March 15-18, 2013.
  • As Treasurer of the Florida Section of the American Chemical Society (FLACS), 88th Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition (FAME) of the ACS, Innisbrook, FL, May 9-12, 2013.
  • Co-organizer, “Symposium on C-H Bond Activation, ACS Division of Catalysis. American Chemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 7-10, 2013.
  • As Treasurer of the Florida Section of the American Chemical Society (FLACS), 88th Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition (FAME) of the ACS, Innisbrook, FL, May 1315, 2012.
  • As Treasurer of the Florida Section of the American Chemical Society (FLACS), 87th Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition (FAME) of the ACS, Innisbrook, FL, May 1315, 2011.
  • Co-organizer, “Third Workshop on Current Trends in Molecular and Nanoscale Magnetism” Orlando, FL, June 20-24, 2010.
  • Co-organizer, “Award Symposium: 2011 ACS Award in Organometallics, American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 26-31, 2011.
  • As Treasurer of the Florida Section of the American Chemical Society (FLACS), 86th Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition (FAME) of the ACS, Innisbrook, FL, May 1315, 2010.
  • Inorganic Symposium Organizer, Florida Section of the American Chemical Society (FLACS), 85th Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition (FAME) of the ACS, Kissimmee, FL, May 8-10, 2008.
  • Co-organizer, University of Florida, Center for Catalysis, “Frontiers in Catalysis Symposium” Gainesville, FL, April 2007.
  • Co-organizer, University of Florida, Center for Catalysis, “Frontiers in Catalysis Symposium” Gainesville, FL, May 2005.
  • 2004 Roxy J. Lowry: UF Alumni Award
  • 2005 Adam R. Carlson: UF Alumni Award
  • 2007 Matthew S. Jeletic: Department of Chemistry Teaching Award
  • 2007 Matthew S. Jeletic: 1st Place CrowStasch Award for Best Publication
  • 2007 Soumya Sarkar: Department of Chemistry Teaching Award
  • 2007 Joseph M. Falkowski: UF University Scholar Award
  • 2008 Roxy J. Lowry: Center for Enabling New Technologies through Catalysis, Organometallics Summer School.
  • 2008 Soumya Sarkar: 1st Place CrowStasch Award for Best Publication
  • 2008 Roxy J. Lowry: 2nd Place CrowStasch Award for Best Publication
  • 2008 Roxy J. Lowry: CLAS Student Travel Award
  • 2008 Roxy J. Lowry: Office of Graduate Research Travel Award
  • 2008 Roxy J. Lowry: UF Graduate Student Council Travel Award
  • 2008 Joseph M. Falkowski: 2nd Place Undergraduate Poster Award, FAME, Orlando, FL
  • 2008 Kevin P. McGowan: UF Alumni Award
  • 2009 Soumya Sarkar: UF Proctor & Gamble Graduate Research Award
  • 2009 Matthew S. Jeletic: UF Proctor & Gamble Graduate Research Award
  • 2009 Andrew R. Powers: UF Alumni Award
  • 2010 Trevor J. del Castillo: UF University Scholar Award
  • 2010 Claire Heifler: Dupont Summer Internship
  • 2011 Soumya Sarkar: University of Florida Graduate Student Teaching Award
  • 2011 Jorma L. Shores: Undergraduate Laitinen Scholar Award
  • 2011 Amrita Mullick: FAME Conference Poster Prize (3rd place)
  • 2011 Soumya Sarkar: ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Student Travel Award
  • 2011 Soumya Sarkar: Office of Graduate Research Travel Award
  • 2011 Soumya Sarkar: UF Graduate Student Council Travel Award
  • 2012 Matthew O’Reilly: ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Student Travel Award
  • 2012 Sean Meehan: UF University Scholar Award
  • 2012 Mary E. Garner: Undergraduate Laitinen Scholar Award
  • 2012 Mary E. Garner: UF-HHMI Science for Life intramural research awardee
  • 2012 Matthew E. O’Reilly: Eastman Chemical Summer Fellowship Award
  • 2012 Kevin P. McGowan: UF Proctor & Gamble Graduate Research Award
  • 2013 Sudarsan VenkatRamani: 1st Place, Graduate Student Poster Award, FAME.
  • 2013 Trevor J. Del Castillo: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
  • 2013 Mary E. Garner: accepted into NSF-UF US/France International REU Undergraduate Research Program
  • 2013 Mary E. Garner: University Scholars Program Award
  • 2013 Matthew E. O’Reilly: 63rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Awardee
  • 2013 Andrew R. Powers: Division of Inorganic Chemistry ACS Travel Award
  • 2013 Mary E. Garner: UF-HHMI Science for Life Extramural Research Awardee
  • 2013 Andrew R. Powers: Office of Graduate Research Travel Award
  • 2013 Matthew E. O’Reilly: UF Proctor & Gamble Graduate Research Award
  • 2013 Mary E. Garner: Undergraduate Award, American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry
  • 2014 Andrew R. Powers: Travel Award, UF Office of Research
  • 2014 Sudarsan VenkatRamani: 1st Place, Graduate Student Poster Award, FAME
  • 2014 Matias E. Pasculini: ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Student Travel Award
  • 2014 Mary E. Garner: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
  • 2015 Xi Yang: UF Graduate Student Council Travel Award
  • 2015 Xi Yang: Synfacts, 1st Place Graduate Student Poster Competition. FloHet Conference
  • 2015 Austin J. Ryan: University Undergraduate Travel Award.
  • 2016 Soufiane Nadif: UF Office of Research Travel Award
  • 2016 Soufiane Nadif: ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Travel Award
  • 2016 Sudarsan VenkatRamani: ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Travel Award
  • 2016 Sudarsan VenkatRamani: UF Office of Research Travel Award
  • 2017 Weijia Niu: ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Travel Award
  • 2018 Zhihui Miao: UF Office of Research Travel Award