Courses
- HLOHonors Lectures in Organic Chemistry
- LOCLectures in Organic Chemistry
- PCPolymer Chemistry
- SMOSynthetic 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
- Collaborative Research: Tailoring Electron and Spin Transport in Single Molecule Junctions
Co-Investigator (COI)
2023
$165.4KActiveOpportunity - Electronic Structure in Single Molecule Transport
Co-Investigator (COI)
2017
$507.5K - New Solution-Processable Phthalocyanine Derivatives with Near-Infrared Absorbing Condensed Phase Morphologies: Application to Organic Solar Cells
Principal Investigator (PI)
2015
$325.5K - Active Assembly of Nanomaterials: Artificial Microtubules
Principal Investigator (PI)
2014
$40.0K - Active Assembly of Nanomaterials: Artificial Microtubules
Principal Investigator (PI)
2012
$155.0K - Active Assembly of Nanomaterials: Artificial Microtubules
Principal Investigator (PI)
2011
$75.0K - Center for Interface Science, Hybrid Solar- Electric Materials (CIS:HSEM)
Co-Investigator (COI)
2009
$13.0M - 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 - Dendritic Hydrogel Actuators for a Liquid Drug Delivery Patch
Principal Investigator (PI)
2009
$300.0K - 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
- 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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