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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Alexander M. Spokoyny is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields, focusing primarily on materials science and chemistry.

Within their main fields of study, their published works cover:

  • Materials Science
  • Chemistry

Their research also involves significant contributions in various subfields, including:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

The key topics addressed in their work encompass:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Boron Compounds in Chemistry
  • Organoboron and Organosilicon Chemistry
  • Radioactive Element Chemistry and Processing
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis

Spokoyny has published extensively in a range of scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Bioconjugate Chemistry

Their collaborative work features frequent coauthors such as:

  • Arnold L. Rheingold
  • Julia M. Stauber
  • Mary A. Waddington
  • Milan Gembický
  • Harrison A. Mills

Recent papers illustrate the thematic range and ongoing contribution to chemical sciences and materials research:

  • "Tunable Dopants with Intrinsic Counterion Separation Reveal the Effects of Electron Affinity on Dopant Intercalation and Free Carrier Production in Sequentially Doped Conjugated Polymer Films" (2020, Advanced Functional Materials)
  • "Oxidative Generation of Boron-Centered Radicals in Carboranes" (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • "An Organometallic Strategy for Cysteine Borylation" (2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • "Carborane Guests for Cucurbit[7]uril Facilitate Strong Binding and On-Demand Removal" (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • "Gold(III) Aryl Complexes as Reagents for Constructing Hybrid Peptide-Based Assemblies via Cysteine S-Arylation" (2021, Inorganic Chemistry)

These works focus on advanced chemical synthesis methods, organoboron chemistry, and applications involving organic electronics and peptide assembly.

Recognition for their work includes the award of Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Infinite coordination polymer nano- and microparticle structures

    Alexander M. Spokoyny;Dongwoo Kim;Abdelqader Sumrein;Chad A. Mirkin

  • A Perfluoroaryl-Cysteine SNAr Chemistry Approach to Unprotected Peptide Stapling

    Alexander M. Spokoyny;Yekui Zou;Jingjing J. Ling;Hongtao Yu

  • Organometallic palladium reagents for cysteine bioconjugation

    Ekaterina V. Vinogradova;Chi Zhang;Alexander M. Spokoyny;Bradley L. Pentelute

  • Carborane-based metal–organic frameworks as highly selective sorbents for CO2 over methane

    Youn Sang Bae;Omar K. Farha;Alexander M. Spokoyny;Chad A. Mirkin

  • A coordination chemistry dichotomy for icosahedral carborane-based ligands

    Alexander M. Spokoyny;Charles W. Machan;Daniel J. Clingerman;Mari S. Rosen

  • Synthesis and hydrogen sorption properties of carborane based metal-organic framework materials.

    Omar K. Farha;Alexander M. Spokoyny;Karen L. Mulfort;M. Frederick Hawthorne

  • Synthesis, Properties, and Gas Separation Studies of a Robust Diimide-Based Microporous Organic Polymer

    Omar K. Farha;Alexander M. Spokoyny;Brad G. Hauser;Youn Sang Bae

  • Arylation Chemistry for Bioconjugation.

    Chi Zhang;Ekaterina V. Vinogradova;Ekaterina V. Vinogradova;Alexander M. Spokoyny;Alexander M. Spokoyny;Stephen L. Buchwald

  • Ni(III)/(IV) bis(dicarbollide) as a fast, noncorrosive redox shuttle for dye-sensitized solar cells.

    Tina C. Li;Alexander M. Spokoyny;Chunxing She;Omar k Farha

  • Atomically precise organomimetic cluster nanomolecules assembled via perfluoroaryl-thiol SNAr chemistry

    Elaine A. Qian;Alex I. Wixtrom;Jonathan C. Axtell;Azin Saebi

  • Increased Electrical Conductivity in a Mesoporous Metal-Organic Framework Featuring Metallacarboranes Guests.

    Chung Wei Kung;Kenichi Otake;Cassandra T. Buru;Subhadip Goswami

  • Organometallic Gold(III) Reagents for Cysteine Arylation.

    Marco S Messina;Julia M Stauber;Mary A Waddington;Arnold L Rheingold

  • A “click-based” porous organic polymer from tetrahedral building blocks

    Prativa Pandey;Omar K. Farha;Alexander M. Spokoyny;Chad A. Mirkin

  • Rapid Flow-Based Peptide Synthesis

    Mark D. Simon;Patrick L. Heider;Andrea Adamo;Alexander A. Vinogradov

  • Synthesis and Applications of Perfunctionalized Boron Clusters

    Jonathan C. Axtell;Liban M. A. Saleh;Elaine A. Qian;Alex I. Wixtrom

  • Chemical reduction of a diimide based porous polymer for selective uptake of carbon dioxide versus methane

    Omar K. Farha;Youn Sang Bae;Brad G. Hauser;Alexander M. Spokoyny

  • New ligand platforms featuring boron-rich clusters as organomimetic substituents

    Alexander M. Spokoyny

  • Blue Phosphorescent Zwitterionic Iridium(III) Complexes Featuring Weakly Coordinating nido-Carborane-Based Ligands.

    Jonathan C. Axtell;Kent O. Kirlikovali;Peter I. Djurovich;Dahee Jung

  • Separation of gas mixtures using Co(II) carborane-based porous coordination polymers

    Youn Sang Bae;Alexander M. Spokoyny;Omar K. Farha;Randall Q. Snurr

  • Luminescent metal complexes featuring photophysically innocent boron cluster ligands

    Kent O. Kirlikovali;Jonathan C. Axtell;Alejandra Gonzalez;Alice C. Phung

Frequent Co-Authors

Chad A. Mirkin
Chad A. Mirkin Northwestern University
Arnold L. Rheingold
Arnold L. Rheingold University of California, San Diego
Omar K. Farha
Omar K. Farha Northwestern University
Joseph T. Hupp
Joseph T. Hupp Northwestern University
Petr Král
Petr Král University of Illinois at Chicago
Heather D. Maynard
Heather D. Maynard University of California, Los Angeles
Charlotte L. Stern
Charlotte L. Stern Northwestern University
Saeed I. Khan
Saeed I. Khan University of California, Los Angeles

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