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Overview

Timothy D. Lash is affiliated with Illinois State University in the United States and focuses primarily on materials chemistry and chemistry. Their research encompasses various subfields including materials chemistry, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, molecular biology, inorganic chemistry, and organic chemistry. The main scientific topics addressed in their work include porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry, photodynamic therapy research studies, metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms, porphyrin metabolism and disorders, luminescence and fluorescent materials, crystallization and solubility studies, and X-ray diffraction in crystallography.

Throughout their career, Lash has published extensively, with significant contributions to the following scientific venues:

  • The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Molecules
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Tetrahedron Letters
  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines

Their recent papers highlight advancements in coordination chemistry and modified porphyrinoid systems, among other topics. Notable publications include:

  • "Coordination Chemistry of Modified Porphyrinoid Systems," 2022, Chemical Reviews
  • "Synthesis and Characterization of N-Methylporphyrins, Heteroporphyrins, Carbaporphyrins, and Related Systems," 2020, The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • "Telluracarbaporphyrins and a Related Palladium(II) Complex: Evidence for Hypervalent Interactions," 2021, Inorganic Chemistry
  • "Organometallic Chemistry within the Structured Environment Provided by the Macrocyclic Cores of Carbaporphyrins and Related Systems," 2023, Molecules
  • "Extended porphyrinoid chromophores: heteroporphyrins fused to phenanthrene and acenaphthylene," 2021, Tetrahedron

Lash frequently collaborates with other researchers, with key coauthors including Deyaa I. AbuSalim, Gregory M. Ferrence, Melissa A. Mathius, Sun T. Chaney, and Amy L. Johnson. These collaborations have contributed to the breadth and depth of Lash's research output.

Best Publications

  • Carbaporphyrinoid Systems.

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  • Oxybenziporphyrin, a Fully Aromatic Semiquinone Porphyrin Analog with Pathways for 18π‐Electron Delocalization

    Timothy D. Lash

  • Conjugated Macrocycles Related to the Porphyrins. 12.1 Oxybenzi- and Oxypyriporphyrins: Aromaticity and Conjugation in Highly Modified Porphyrinoid Structures

    Timothy D. Lash;Sun T. Chaney;Daniel T. Richter

  • Porphyrin Synthesis by the “3+1” Approach: New Applications for an Old Methodology

    Timothy D. Lash

  • Giant Porphyrinoids: From Figure Eights to Nanomolecular Cavities.

    Timothy D. Lash

  • Azuliporphyrin: A Case of Borderline Porphyrinoid Aromaticity

    Timothy D. Lash;Sun T. Chaney

  • Recent Advances on the Synthesis and Chemistry of Carbaporphyrins and Related Porphyrinoid Systems

    Timothy D. Lash

  • Oxidation with dilute aqueous ferric chloride solutions greatly improves yields in the ‘4+1’ synthesis of sapphyrins

    Daniel T. Richter;Timothy D. Lash

  • Modification of the porphyrin chromophore by ring fusion: identifying trends due to annelation of the porphyrin nucleus

    Timothy D. Lash

  • Out of the Blue! Azuliporphyrins and Related Carbaporphyrinoid Systems.

    Timothy D. Lash

  • Benziporphyrins, a unique platform for exploring the aromatic characteristics of porphyrinoid systems

    Timothy D. Lash

  • Oxypyriporphyrin, the First Fully Aromatic Porphyrinoid Macrocycle with a Pyridine Subunit

    Timothy D. Lash;Sun T. Chaney

  • Porphyrins with exocyclic rings. 14. Synthesis of tetraacenaphthoporphyrins, a new family of highly conjugated porphyrins with record-breaking long-wavelength electronic absorptions.

    John D. Spence;Timothy D. Lash

  • Conjugated macrocycles related to the porphyrins. 21. Synthesis, spectroscopy, electrochemistry, and structural characterization of carbaporphyrins

    Timothy D. Lash;Michael J. Hayes;John D. Spence;Melanie A. Muckey

  • Porphyrins with Exocyclic Rings. 13.1 Synthesis and Spectroscopic Characterization of Highly Modified Porphyrin Chromophores with Fused Acenaphthylene and Benzothiadiazole Rings

    Timothy D. Lash;Pushpa Chandrasekar;Augustine T. Osuma;Sun T. Chaney

  • Metal Complexes of Carbaporphyrinoid Systems

    Timothy D. Lash

  • An azulene analogue of the tripyrranes and carbaporphyrinoids therefrom.

    Shelley R. Graham;Denise A. Colby;Timothy D. Lash

  • Origin of aromatic character in porphyrinoid systems

    Timothy D. Lash

  • Organometallic chemistry of azuliporphyrins: synthesis, spectroscopy, electrochemistry, and structural characterization of nickel(II), palladium(II), and platinum(II) complexes of azuliporphyrins.

    Timothy D Lash;Denise A Colby;Shelley R Graham;Gregory M Ferrence

  • Silver(III) Carbaporphyrins: The First Organometallic Complexes of True Carbaporphyrins†

    Melanie A. Muckey;Lisa F. Szczepura;Gregory M. Ferrence;Timothy D. Lash

  • Adaptation of the Rothemund reaction for carbaporphyrin synthesis: preparation of meso-tetraphenylazuliporphyrin and related benzocarbaporphyrins.

    Denise A. Colby;Timothy D. Lash

  • Carbaporphyrinoid chemistry has a silver lining! silver(III) oxybenzi-, oxynaphthi-, tropi-, and benzocarbaporphyrins.

    Timothy D. Lash;Jane M. Rasmussen;Katrina M. Bergman;Denise A. Colby

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian J. Wilkinson
Brian J. Wilkinson Illinois State University
Peter R. Jaffé
Peter R. Jaffé Princeton University
Matthias Zeller
Matthias Zeller Purdue University West Lafayette
Marcin Stępień
Marcin Stępień University of Wrocław
Lechosław Latos-Grażyński
Lechosław Latos-Grażyński University of Wrocław

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