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  • HLO
    Honors Lectures in Organic Chemistry

  • LOC
    Lectures in Organic Chemistry

  • PC
    Polymer Chemistry

  • SMO
    Synthetic and Mechanistic Organic Chemistry

Student Thesis/Dissertation
  • Pyrenes and Phthalocyanines: Synthesis, Photophysical Properties and Applications

    2023

    doctoral
  • Investigating Light Induced Charge Transfer in Interfacial Molecular Assemblies

    2022

    doctoral
  • Synthesis and Computational Analysis of Rigid, Side-Strapped Phthalocyanines for Organic Photovoltaics

    2021

    doctoral
  • Synthesis, Spectroscopic Studies, and Computational Analysis of a Solvatochromic Phthalocyanine Derivative

    2016

    masters
  • Molecular Engineering of Phthalocyanine Derivatives as Materials for Organic Photovoltaics

    2016

    doctoral
  • Synthesis of Phthalocyanine Derivatives as Materials for Organic Photovoltaic Cells

    2016

    doctoral
  • Synthesis Of Porphyrin Containing Molecular Dyads For Radical-Cation Generation

    2015

    doctoral
  • Modification of Indium Tin Oxide Surfaces with Phosphonic Acid Functionalized Phthalocyanines

    2015

    doctoral
  • Synthesis of Perylenediimide Derivatives for Multi-Chromophoric Surface Bound Molecular Heterojunctions

    2015

    doctoral
  • Synthesis and Evaluation of Asymmetric Zinc and Phosphorous Pc Photosensitizers for Mitochondrial Targeted Photodynamic Therapy

    2015

    doctoral
  • Synthesis of Asymmetric Phthalocyanine Derivatives

    2014

    doctoral
Grants
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    Collaborative Research: Tailoring Electron and Spin Transport in Single Molecule Junctions

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2023

    $165.4K
    Active
    Opportunity
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    Electronic Structure in Single Molecule Transport

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2017

    $507.5K
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    New Solution-Processable Phthalocyanine Derivatives with Near-Infrared Absorbing Condensed Phase Morphologies: Application to Organic Solar Cells

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2015

    $325.5K
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    Active Assembly of Nanomaterials: Artificial Microtubules

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2014

    $40.0K
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    Active Assembly of Nanomaterials: Artificial Microtubules

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2012

    $155.0K
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    Active Assembly of Nanomaterials: Artificial Microtubules

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2011

    $75.0K
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    Center for Interface Science, Hybrid Solar- Electric Materials (CIS:HSEM)

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2009

    $13.0M
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    Acquisition of a Cyber-Enabled 400 MHz NMR Spectrometer for Researched Education and Outreach at the University of Arizona

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2009

    $471.2K
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    Dendritic Hydrogel Actuators for a Liquid Drug Delivery Patch

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2009

    $300.0K
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    REU Site: Collaborative Research in the Chemical Sciences at the University Of Arizona

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2009

    $226.8K
Technologies / Patents
      News
      • Science Foundation Arizona Awards Small Business Catalytic Grants to Four UA Projects

        2007

      • Homeland Security Grants Awarded

        2002

      Publications (99)
      Recent
      • Dual Defect-Passivation Using Phthalocyanine for Enhanced Efficiency and Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells.

        2021

      • Correlated Energy-Level Alignment Effects Determine Substituent-Tuned Single-Molecule Conductance.

        2021

      • Sterically driven metal-free oxidation of 2,7-di-tert-butylpyrene

        2020

      • Unsupervised Segmentation-Based Machine Learning as an Advanced Analysis Tool for Single Molecule Break Junction Data

        2020

      • Zinc Phthalocyanine–Phosphonic Acid Monolayers on ITO: Influence of Molecular Orientation, Aggregation, and Tunneling Distance on Charge-Transfer Kinetics

        2019

      • Molecular Design Strategy in Developing Titanyl Phthalocyanines as Dopant-Free Hole-Transporting Materials for Perovskite Solar Cells: Peripheral or Nonperipheral Substituents?

        2019

      • Axially Bound Ruthenium Phthalocyanine Monolayers on Indium Tin Oxide: Structure, Energetics, and Charge Transfer Properties

        2017

      • 2-Photon Characterization of Optical Proteolytic Beacons for Imaging Changes in Matrix-Metalloprotease Activity in a Mouse Model of Aneurysm

        2016

      • Modification of alkyne-functionalized asymmetric phthalocyanines by CuI-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition

        2015

      • Influence of Molecular Orientation on Charge Transfer Processes at Phthalocyanine/Metal Oxide Interfaces and Relationshito Organic Photovoltaic Performance

        2015

      • Solution Processed Titanyl Phthalocyanines as Donors in Solar Cells: Photoresponse to 1000 nm

        2015

      • Asymmetric ZnPc-TEG photosensitizers: the effect of Pc substitution on phototoxicity

        2015

      • Dendritic near-IR absorbing zinc phthalocyanines for antimicrobial photodynamic therapy

        2015

      • Asymmetric ZnPc–rhodamine B conjugates for mitochondrial targeted photodynamic therapy

        2014

      • Modeling the microstructurally dependent mechanical properties of poly(ester-urethane-urea)s

        2013

      • An efficient reverse Diels-Alder approach for the synthesis of N-alkyl bismaleimides

        2013

      • Molecular engineering of polymer actuators for biomedical and industrial use

        2012

      • Vanillin and o-vanillin oligomers as models for dendrimer disassembly

        2012

      • Electron Transfer Processes in Zinc Phthalocyanine-Phosphonic Acid Monolayers on ITO: Characterization of Orientation and Charge Transfer Kinetics By Waveguide Spectroelectrochemistry

        2012

      • Study of a smart polymer medical device, product development obstacles and innovative solutions

        2012

      • Peripheral substitution of a near-IR-absorbing soluble phthalocyanine using click chemistry

        2011

      • Polymeric endoaortic paving: Mechanical, thermoforming, and degradation properties of polycaprolactoneolyurethane blends for cardiovascular applications.

        2011

      • Phosphonic acid functionalized asymmetric phthalocyanines: synthesis, modification of indium tin oxide, and charge transfer

        2011

      • Thermally reversible dendronized linear ab step-polymers via click chemistry

        2011

      • Convergent synthesis of geometrically disassembling dendrimers using Cu(I)catalyzed C-O bond formation

        2010

      • Improved iterative synthesis of linearly disassembling dendrons

        2010

      • Polymeric Endoaortic Paving PEAP) Thermomechanical and Degradation Properties of Polycaprolactone/Polyurethane Blends for Cardiovascular Applications, Ashton, J.H. Mertz, J.A. Harper, J.L. Slepian, M.J. Mills, J.L. McGrath, D.V. Vande Geest,† J.P.

        2010

      • Solvent-free synthesis of soluble, near-IR absorbing titanyl phthalocyanine derivatives

        2010

      • Effect of Crosslinker Length and Composition on the Hydrophobicity and Thermomechanical Response of Acrylate-Based Shape-Memory Polymers

        2010

      • Frustration of condensed phase aggregation of naphthalocyanine by dendritic site-isolation

        2010

      • Thermally reversible dendronized step-polymers based on sequential Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition and diels-alder click reactions

        2010

      • Chiral amine-imine ligands based on trans-2,5-disubstituted pyrrolidines and their application in the palladium-catalyzed allylic alkylation

        2009

      • Site-isolated, intermolecularly photocrosslinkable and patternable dendritic quinacridones

        2009

      • Solution and thin-film aggregation studies of octasubstituted dendritic phthalocyanines

        2009

      • Asymmetric Phthalocyanine Synthesis by ROMP-Capture-Release

        2009

      • Modification of symmetrically substituted phthalocyanines using click chemistry: Phthalocyanine nanostructures by nanoimprint lithography

        2009

      • Impact of click chemistry strategies on the synthesis of dendritic systems: Chromophore modification and disassembling systems

        2008

      • EAP hydrogels for Pulse Actuated Cell System PACS) architectures in drug delivery infusion pumps

        2008

      • Dendrimers based on thermally reversible furan-maleimide Diels-Alder adducts

        2007

      • Energy Harvesting in Synthetic Dendrimer Materials

        2007

      • EAP hydrogels for pulse-actuated cell system PACS) architectures

        2007

      • Synthesis and degradation of photolabile dendrimers based on o-nitrobenzyl ether photolabile cores

        2007

      • Langmuir and grafted monolayers of photochromic amphiphilic monodendrons of low generations

        2005

      • Dendritic incorporation of quinacridone: solubility, aggregation, electrochemistry, and solid-state luminescence

        2005

      • Dendrimer disassembly as a new paradigm for the application of dendritic structures

        2005

      • Synthesis and characterization of BHT-derived tert-butyl dendrons

        2005

      • Langmuir monolayers from functionalized amphiphiles with epoxy terminal groups

        2005

      • Vinyl sulfoxide: A versatile trigger for dendrimer disassembly

        2004

      • Photoswitchable Flexible and Shape-Persistent Dendrimers: Comparison of the Interplay between a Photochromic Azobenzene Core and Dendrimer Structure

        2004

      • Phototriggering of geometric dendrimer disassembly: An improved synthesis of 2,4-bis(hydroxymethyl)phenol based dendrimers

        2004

      • Dendrimer disassembly by benzyl ether depolymerization

        2003

      • Langmuir Special Issue in Memory of David F. O Brien

        2003

      • Geometric Disassembly of Dendrimers: Dendritic Amplification

        2003

      • Non-aggregating octasubstituted dendritic phthalocyanines

        2003

      • Low generation photochromic monodendrons on a solid surface

        2002

      • Photochromic dendrimers containing six azobenzenes

        2002

      • Hydrobenzoin-based rigid chiral polymer

        2002

      • Microstructure of amphiphilic monodendrons at the air-water interface

        2002

      • Dendrimer isolation of chromphores for photonic applications

        2002

      • Molecular packing of amphiphiles with crown polar heads at the air-water interface

        2002

      • Synthesis of photolabile dendrimer cores

        2002

      • Langmuir-Blodgett monolayers from lower generation amphiphilic monodendrons

        2002

      • Intralayer reorganization of photochromic molecular films

        2001

      • Olefin metathesis for dendrimer assembly

        2000

      • Effect of macromolecular isomerism on the photomodulation of dendrimer properties

        2000

      • Toward chiral polyhydroxylated dendrimers. Preparation and chiroptical properties

        2000

      • Langmuir monolayers from azobenzene-containing dendrons

        2000

      • Macromolecular isomers of azobenzene-containing photochromic dendrimers

        2000

      • Photolabile dendrimers using o-nitrobenzyl ether linkages

        2000

      • Shape-persistent azobenzene-containing dendrimers

        2000

      • Synthesis of spiropyran based photoresponsive dendrimers

        2000

      • Synthesis and chiroptical analysis of optically active chiral shell dendrons

        2000

      • Driving dendrimers with light: Dendrimers with azobenzene central linkers

        1999

      • Mild and convenient oxidation of aromatic heterocyclic primary alcohols by 4-acetylamino-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxoammonium perchlorate

        1999

      • Photoresponsive azobenzene-containing dendrimers with multiple discrete states

        1999

      • Synthesis of amphiphilic photoresponsive dendrons

        1999

      • Platinum-macrocycle co-catalysts for the electrochemical oxidation of methanol

        1998

      • Driving dendrimers with light

        1998

      • Toward photoresponsive dendritic self-assembly

        1998

      • Effect of Covalently Incorporated Azobenzenes on Dendrimers

        1998

      • Synthesis of optically active chiral shell dendrons

        1998

      • Synthesis and characterization of new amine-imine ligands based on trans-2,5-disubstituted pyrrolidines

        1997

      • Asymmetric Synthesis of a Series of Chiral AB sub 2 sub Monomers for Dendrimer Construction

        1997

      • ASYMMETRIC SYNTHESIS OF A SERIES OF CHIRAL AB2 MONOMERS FOR DENDRIMER CONSTRUCTION

        1997

      • Photoresponsive dendrimers

        1997

      • Constitution, configuration, and the optical activity of chiral dendrimers

        1997

      • Toward an understanding of the high enantioselectivity in the osmium-catalyzed asymmetric dihydroxylation. 4. Electronic effects in amine-accelerated osmylations

        1997

      • AN APPROACH TO HIGHLY FUNCTIONALIZED DENDRIMERS FROM CHIRAL, NON-RACEMIC SYNTHETIC MONOMERS

        1996

      • Synthesis of optically active chiral dendrimers with 1,2-diol linkages

        1996

      • Toward chiral dendrimers with highly functionalized interiors. Dendrons from synthetic AB sub 2 sub monomers

        1996

      • The mechanism of aqueous ruthenium(II)catalyzed olefin isomerization

        1994

      • Chain transfer during the aqueous ring-opening metathesis polymerization of 7-oxanorbornene derivatives

        1993

      • Reinvestigation of the infrared spectra of oxoosmium(VI) esters by isotopic labeling

        1993

      • Aqueous Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of carboximide-functionalized 7-oxanorbornenes

        1992

      • Aqueous ring-opening metathesis polymerization of exo-N-methyl-7-oxabicyclo[2.2.1]hept-5-ene-2,3-dicarboximide

        1991

      • Aqueous ruthenium(II) complexes of functionalized olefins: The X-ray structure of Ru(H sub 2 sub O) sub 2 sub η su1 su(O)η su2 su(C,C′)OCOCH sub 2 sub CH=CHCH sub 3 sub sub 2 sub

        1991

      • C-C bond cleavage in hydrocarbons by iridium complexes

        1986

      • Identification and determination of millimolar C sub 6 sub C sub 8 sub alkenes in the corresponding alkanes 4]

        1986

      • Thermal and photochemical catalytic dehydrogenation of alkanes with IrH sub 2 sub CF sub 3 sub CO sub 2 sub PR sub 3 sub sub 2 sub R C sub 6 sub H sub 4 sub F-and cyclohexyl)

        1985

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