T. Don Tilley (born in Norman, Oklahoma, November 22, 1954) is a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley.
[1] In 1982, he earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley for his research on organolanthanide chemistry with Professor Richard A.
[4][5] Afterwards, he conducted post-doctoral research with Prof. Robert H. Grubbs and Prof. John E. Bercaw at the California Institute of Technology and with Luigi Venanzi and Piero Pino at ETH in Switzerland, during which he developed the chemistry of the (pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)ruthenium fragment ([Cp*Ru]).
[2][7] Throughout his career, he has published over 430 papers on various subjects in organometallic and inorganic chemistry, as well as materials science.
[9] Tilley's research group conducts exploratory synthetic, structural, and reactivity studies of inorganic and organometallic systems.