个人简介

Dr. LeGrande “Lee” Slaughter grew up in Levelland, a small town in West Texas, but headed out of state for his education, obtaining a B.A. in Chemistry with minors in Physics and German from Drew University (Madison, New Jersey) in 1994. He then pursued graduate studies in Inorganic Chemistry under the advisement of Pete Wolczanski at Cornell University, where he received his Ph.D. in 2000.His dissertation work focused on equilibrium isotope effects in CH-activation reactions. Dr. Slaughter then accepted a postdoctoral position with Prof. Jim Collman at Stanford, where he studied oxidation catalysis. Dr. Slaughter began his independent career as an Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University in 2002 and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2008. His research group moved to the University of North Texas in August 2013.

研究领域

Inorganic Organic

Dr. Slaughter’s research expertise is in the areas of transition metal organometallic chemistry and catalysis. His group seeks to understand and control metal-ligand interactions, with a goal of uncovering useful new reactions for organic synthesis or energy conversion. Dr. Slaughter was the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and the OSU Sigma Xi Young Investigator Award.

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Nanayakkara, Y. S.; Woods, R. M., Breitbach, Z. S.; Handa, S.; Slaughter, L. M.; Armstrong, D. W. “Enantiomeric separation of isochromene derivatives by high-performance liquid chromatography using cyclodextrin based stationary phases and principal component analysis of the separation data.” Journal of Chromatography A 2013, 1305, 94-101. Handa, S.; Mathota Arachchige, Y. L. N.; Slaughter, L. M.* “Access to 2'-substituted binaphthyl monoalcohols via complementary nickel-catalyzed Kumada coupling reactions under mild conditions: Key role of a P,O ligand.” Journal of Organic Chemistry 2013, 78, 5694-5699.] Singh, P.; Raj, R.; Bhargava, G.;* Hendricks, D. T.; Handa, S.; Slaughter, L. M.; Kumar, V.* “b-Lactam synthon-interceded diastereoselective synthesis of functionalized octahydroindole-based molecular scaffolds and their in vitro cytotoxic evaluation.” European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2012, 58, 513-518. Owusu, M. O.; Handa, S.; Slaughter, L. M.* “Chugaev-type bis(acyclic diaminocarbenes) as a new ligand class for the palladium-catalyzed Mizoroki-Heck reaction.” Applied Organometallic Chemistry 2012, 26, 712-717. Sluch, I. M.; Miranda, A. J.; Elbjeirami, O.; Omary, M. A.; Slaughter, L. M.* “Interplay of metallophilic interactions, p-p stacking, and ligand substituent effects in the structures and luminescence properties of neutral PtII and PdII aryl isocyanide complexes.” Inorganic Chemistry 2012, 51, 10728-10746. Slaughter, L. M.* “Acyclic aminocarbenes in catalysis.” ACS Catalysis 2012, 2, 1802-1816. Invited Perspective (critical review). Handa, S.; Slaughter, L. M.* “Enantioselective alkynylbenzaldehyde cyclizations catalyzed by chiral gold(I) acyclic diaminocarbene complexes that contain weak Au-arene interactions.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2012, 51, 2912-2915. Designated a Very Important Paper (top 5%). Featured on journal back cover. Highlighted in Angewandte Chemie, Synfacts, and ChemCatChem. Subramanium, S. S.; Handa, S.; Miranda, A. J.; Slaughter, L. M.* “Simple silver salts and palladium bis(N-heterocyclic carbene) complexes as complementary catalysts for the Nazarov cyclization.” ACS Catalysis 2011, 1, 1371-1374. Raj, R.; Mehra, V.; Singh, P.; Kumar, V.; Bhargava, G.; Mahajan, M. P.*; Handa, S.; Slaughter, L. M. “b-Lactam-synthon-interceded, facile, one-pot, diastereoselective synthesis of functionalized tetra/octahydroisoquinolone derivatives.” European Journal of Organic Chemistry 2011, 2697-2704. Subramanium, S. S.; Slaughter, L. M.* “Direct observation of a carbonylation reaction relevant to CO/alkene copolymerization in a methylpalladium carbonyl complex containing a bis(N-heterocyclic carbene) ligand.” Dalton Transactions 2009, 6930-6933. Invited contribution for a special issue on N-heterocyclic carbene ligands. Selected as a Dalton Transactions “Hot Article”. Wanniarachchi, Y. A.; Subramanium, S. S.; Slaughter, L. M.* “Palladium complexes of bis(acyclic diaminocarbene) ligands with chiral N-substituents and 8-membered chelate rings.” Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2009, 694, 3297-3305. Bunce, R. A.*, Nammalwar, B.; Slaughter, L. M. “Divergent reactivity in tandem reduction-Michael ring closures of five- and six-membered cyclic enones” Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry 2009, 46, 854-860. Sluch, I. M.; Miranda, A. J.; Slaughter, L. M.* “Channeled polymorphs of cis-M(CNPh)2Cl2 (M = Pt, Pd) with extended metallophilic interactions.” Crystal Growth & Design 2009, 9, 1267-1270. Slaughter, L. M.* “‘Covalent self-assembly’ of acyclic diaminocarbene ligands at metal centers.” Comments on Inorganic Chemistry 2008, 29, 46-72. Invited review article. Bunce, R. A.*, Nago, T.; Sonobe, N.; Slaughter, L. M. “Benzo-fused heterocycles and carbocycles by intramolecular SNAr and tandem SN2- SNAr reactions.” Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry 2008, 45, 551-557. Wanniarachchi, Y. A.; Slaughter, L. M.* “Reversible chelate ring opening of a sterically crowded palladium bis(acyclic diaminocarbene) complex.” Organometallics 2008, 27, 1055-1062. Wanniarachchi, Y. A.; Kogiso, Y.; Slaughter, L. M.* “Chiral palladium bis(acyclic diaminocarbene) complexes as enantioselective catalysts for the aza-Claisen rearrangement.” Organometallics 2008, 27, 21-24. Al-Far, A. M.; Slaughter, L. M.* “cis-cis-trans-Bis(acetonitrile-kN)-dichloridobis(triphenylphosphine-kP)-ruthenium(II) acetonitrile disolvate.” Acta Crystallographica, Section E: Structure Reports Online 2008, E64, m184. Sluch, I. M.; Slaughter, L. M.* “trans-Diaquadichloridobis(N,N-dimethylformamide-kO)manganese(II).” Acta Crystallographica, Section E: Structure Reports Online 2007, E63, m3095. Bunce, R. A.*, Schammerhorn, J. E.; Slaughter, L. M. “(±)-2,3-Dialkyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline-3-carboxylic esters by a tandem reduction-reductive amination reaction.” Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry 2007, 44, 1051-1057.