NSF Career Award Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award ACS Maryland Chemist of the Year
Academic background
Education
B.A. in chemistry Ph.D. in organic chemistry
Alma mater
Oberlin College Cornell University
Academic work
Institutions
Johns Hopkins University
Thomas Lectka is an American organic chemist, academic and researcher. He is Jean and Norman Scowe Professor of Chemistry and leads the Lectka Group at Johns Hopkins University.[1]
Lectka specializes in areas of catalysis in synthetic and mechanistic organic chemistry and has authored over 120 research publications. He has made contributions in the discovery of metal-catalyzed amide isomerization; the development of first practical method for the catalytic, asymmetric synthesis of beta-lactams; the synthesis of [C-F-C] fluoronium ions; and site-selective aliphatic fluorination.[2]
ThomasLectka is an American organic chemist, academic and researcher. He is Jean and Norman Scowe Professor of Chemistry and leads the Lectka Group at...
York City: Painting. Jessie Lebaron, artist, New York City: Painting. ThomasLectka, Professor of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University: Catalytic asymmetric...
Phosphinooxazolines (PHOX) Trisoxazolines (TRISOX) Evans, David A.; Miller, Scott J.; Lectka, Thomas; von Matt, Peter (1 August 1999). "Chiral Bis(oxazoline)copper(II) Complexes...
doi:10.1016/j.ccr.2007.11.007. Evans, David A.; Miller, Scott J.; Lectka, Thomas; von Matt, Peter (1 August 1999). "Chiral Bis(oxazoline)copper(II) Complexes...
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