At the tender age of 18, Private Litz was a member of the United States Army. He was promoted to Sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division before he left the armed services to continue his education. Starting at Plano Community College (2 years) he later transfered to the University of Texas at Dallas. Kyle was the first graduate student to begin research on germylene complexes in the group, making a series of new discoveries his first week in the lab.
 



 


Kyle doesn't spend all his time in the glovebox. Here he his exploring the reaction of sun and spiced rum in  the Virgin Islands.
 

Kyle graduated with his PhD in the summer of 1998 and was a post-doctoral associate for a year at BF Goodrich.  He now works for GE central R&D in Schenectady, NY.  Below there is a picture of Kyle running a 22L Reactor for developmental work on a project.

 

Synthesis and Reactivity of a Novel Palladium Germylene System.  Z. T. Cygan, J. E. Bender, K.E. Litz, J. W. Kampf, M. M. Banaszak Holl  Organometallics  2002, 21, 5373-5381.

 Photochemistry of Organometallic Germylenes and Metallacycles.  K. E. Litz, J. E. Bender, R. D. Sweeder, M. M. Banaszak Holl, J. W. Kampf.   Organometallics  2000, 19, 1186-1189.

Nucleation of chemical vapor deposited silicon nitride on silicon dioxide.            M. Copel, P. R. Varekamp, D. W. Kisker, F. R. McFeely, K. E. Litz, M. M. Banaszak Holl.   Appl. Phys. Lett.  1999, 74, 1830-1832

 X-ray Crystallographic and Theoretical Comparison of Ge[2,4,6-(CF3)3C6H2]2 and Ge[N(SiMe3)2]2 as Ligands in (Ph3P)2NiGeX2 Complexes.  J. E. Bender, A. J. Shusterman, K. E. Litz, M. M. Banaszak Holl, J. W. Kampf.  Organometallics  1999, 18, 1547-1552.

 The Active Role of  a Germylene Ligand in Promoting Reactions of Pt Complexes with Oxygen and Sulfur Dioxide.  K. E. Litz, M. M. Banaszak Holl, J. W. Kampf,  Inorg. Chem.  1998, 37, 6461

 Activation of Arylnitroso Substrates on a Platinum Germylene Complex  Facilitating the Formation of New N-C and N-S bonds.  K. E. Litz, J. W. Kampf,  M. M. Banaszak Holl.    J. Am. Chem. Soc.  1998, 120, 7484.

 The Role of Second-Neighbor Effects in Photoemission:  Are Silicon Surfaces and Interfaces Special?  K. Z. Zhang, K. E. Litz, M. M. Banaszak Holl, F. R. McFeely,  Appl.  Phys.  Lett.   1998, 72, 46.

 Intermediates in the Catalytic Dehydrogenative Coupling of Aryl Germanes.   J. E. Bender, K. E. Litz, D. Giarikos, N. J. Wells, M. M. Banaszak Holl, J. W. Kampf.   Chem.  Eur.  J.   1997, 3, 1793.

 Transition Metal Germylene Complexes as Hydrogenation Catalysts:  the Synthesis of a Rare Bisamidegermane.  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.  1997, 36, 496.  K. E. Litz, J. E. Bender, M. M. Banaszak Holl.

 Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity of a Platinum Germylene Complex. Organometallics  1995, 14, 5008.  K. E. Litz,  K. Henderson, R. K. Gourley, M. M. Banaszak Holl