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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2000 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Thomas Lectka is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science. Their research spans several subfields including Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Fluorine in Organic Chemistry
  • Radical Photochemical Reactions
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Crystallography and Molecular Interactions
  • Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds

Thomas Lectka's frequent publication venues reflect their research focus, including:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Organic Letters

Notable recent papers authored by or involving Lectka cover innovative approaches to fluorination and radical mechanisms in organic chemistry:

  • Carbonyl-Directed Aliphatic Fluorination: A Special Type of Hydrogen Atom Transfer Beats Out Norrish II, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Site-Selective Photochemical Fluorination of Ketals: Unanticipated Outcomes in Selectivity and Stability, 2020, The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Fluorine: A Very Special Element and Its Very Special Impacts on Chemistry, 2021, The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Fluorine: A Very Special Element and Its Very Special Impacts on Chemistry, 2021, Inorganic Chemistry
  • Hydroxy-directed fluorination of remote unactivated C(sp3)-H bonds: a new age of diastereoselective radical fluorination, 2022, Chemical Science

Thomas Lectka has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Maxime A. Siegler
  • Travis Dudding
  • Muhammad Kazim
  • Phuong Minh Nguyen
  • Srini Vemulapalli

The scientist's career includes recognition through fellowships such as:

  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2003
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2000

Best Publications

  • Nucleophilic Chiral Amines as Catalysts in Asymmetric Synthesis

    David J. Guerin;Scott J. Miller;Thomas Lectka

  • The Development of the First Catalyzed Reaction of Ketenes and Imines: Catalytic, Asymmetric Synthesis of β-Lactams

    Andrew E. Taggi;Ahmed M. Hafez;Harald Wack;Brandon Young

  • CHIRAL BIS(OXAZOLINE)COPPER(II) COMPLEXES AS LEWIS ACID CATALYSTS FOR THE ENANTIOSELECTIVE DIELS-ALDER REACTION

    David A. Evans;Scott J. Miller;Thomas Lectka;Peter von Matt

  • Bis(oxazoline)copper(II) complexes as chiral catalysts for the enantioselective Diels-Alder reaction

    David A. Evans;Scott J. Miller;Thomas Lectka

  • Bifunctional Asymmetric Catalysis: Cooperative Lewis Acid/Base Systems

    Daniel H. Paull;Ciby J. Abraham;Michael T. Scerba;Ethan Alden-Danforth

  • Bis(oxazoline) and Bis(oxazolinyl)pyridine Copper Complexes as Enantioselective Diels−Alder Catalysts: Reaction Scope and Synthetic Applications

    David A. Evans;David M. Barnes;Jeffrey S. Johnson;Thomas Lectka

  • Catalytic, Asymmetric Synthesis of β-Lactams

    Andrew E. Taggi;Ahmed M. Hafez;Harald Wack;Brandon Young

  • Chemical synthesis of β-lactams: asymmetric catalysis and other recent advances.

    Cody Ross Pitts;Thomas Lectka

  • Catalytic, Enantioselective Alkylation of α-Imino Esters Using Late Transition Metal Phosphine Complexes as Catalysts

    Dana Ferraris;Brandon Young;Travis Dudding;Thomas Lectka

  • Alpha-imino esters: versatile substrates for the catalytic, asymmetric synthesis of alpha- and beta-amino acids and beta-lactams.

    Andrew E. Taggi;and Ahmed M. Hafez;Thomas Lectka

  • A Polycomponent Metal-Catalyzed Aliphatic, Allylic, and Benzylic Fluorination

    Steven Bloom;Cody Ross Pitts;David Curtin Miller;Nathan Haselton

  • Advances in the Catalytic, Asymmetric Synthesis of β-Lactams

    Anthony Weatherwax;and Andrew E. Taggi;Thomas Lectka

  • Bifunctional Lewis Acid-Nucleophile-Based Asymmetric Catalysis: Mechanistic Evidence for Imine Activation Working in Tandem with Chiral Enolate Formation in the Synthesis of β-Lactams

    Meha H. Shah;Anthony Weatherwax;Harald Wack

  • An optimized procedure for titanium-induced carbonyl coupling

    John E. McMurry;Thomas Lectka;Joseph G. Rico

  • Catalytic, Enantioselective Alkylation of α-Imino Esters: The Synthesis of Nonnatural α-Amino Acid Derivatives

    Dana Ferraris;Brandon Young;Christopher Cox;Travis Dudding

  • Catalytic, asymmetric reactions of ketenes and ketene enolates

    Daniel H. Paull;Anthony Weatherwax;Thomas Lectka

  • Direct, Catalytic Monofluorination of sp3 C–H Bonds: A Radical-Based Mechanism with Ionic Selectivity

    Cody Ross Pitts;Steven Bloom;Ryan Woltornist;Dillon Jay Auvenshine

  • Asymmetric cycloadditions of o-quinone methides employing chiral ammonium fluoride precatalysts.

    Ethan Alden-Danforth;Michael T. Scerba;Thomas Lectka

  • Catalytic, Asymmetric α-Halogenation

    Harald Wack;Andrew E. Taggi;Ahmed M. Hafez;and William J. Drury

  • Iron(II)-Catalyzed Benzylic Fluorination

    Steven Bloom;Cody Ross Pitts;Ryan Woltornist;Andrew Griswold

  • A Novel Synthesis of α-Amino Acid Derivatives through Catalytic, Enantioselective Ene Reactions of α-Imino Esters

    William J. Drury;Dana Ferraris;Christopher Cox;Brandon Young

Frequent Co-Authors

Maxime A. Siegler
Maxime A. Siegler Johns Hopkins University
Christopher Cox
Christopher Cox Johns Hopkins University
Scott J. Miller
Scott J. Miller Yale University
David A. Evans
David A. Evans Harvard University
Mark A. Johnson
Mark A. Johnson Yale University
Kit H. Bowen
Kit H. Bowen Johns Hopkins University
Kenneth D. Jordan
Kenneth D. Jordan University of Pittsburgh
Anne B. McCoy
Anne B. McCoy University of Washington
Jeffrey S. Johnson
Jeffrey S. Johnson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gerd Ganteför
Gerd Ganteför University of Konstanz

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