Christopher "Kit" Colin Cummins (born February 28, 1966) is an American chemist, currently the Henry Dreyfus Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[5] At Cornell, Cummins conducted research on the reactivity of low-coordinate zirconium and titanium complexes bearing bulky silanamide ligands (tBu3SiNH−), with small molecules such as methane, benzene, and carbon monoxide.
[6][7][8] After graduating from Cornell with an AB degree in 1989, Cummins went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to obtain his PhD in chemistry in 1993 under the direction of Richard R.
[9] Cummins conducted doctoral research on the synthesis of low-coordinate transition metal complexes bearing trialkylsilated variants of the tris(2-aminoethyl)amine ligand.
[23] In the same year, the American Chemical Society awarded Cummins the 2017 Linus Pauling Medal in recognition of his synthetic and mechanistic studies of early-transition metal complexes.