Lawrence Huck
Lawrence Huck
B.Sc. University of Victoria, 2003


Current Position: Ph.D. student
Email:   
huckl@mcmaster.ca
Phone:  x23715

Project: Mechanistic Studies of Diarylgermylenes and Tetraaryldigermenes
Publications
12. L. A. Huck and W. J. Leigh*, "A Better Sunscreen – Conformational Effects on Spectral Properties", J. Chem. Ed., submitted

11. L. A. Huck and W. J. Leigh*, "Kinetic and Mechanistic Studies of the Formal (1+2)- and (1+4)-Cycloadditions of Germylenes to Conjugated Dienes." Organometallics, 28, 6777 (2009)  

10. L. A. Huck, G. D. Potter, H. A. Jenkins, J. F. Britten, and W. J. Leigh,* "1,1-Bis[4-(trifluorommethyl)phenyl]germetane", Acta Cryst. E65, m602 (2009)

9.   F. Lollmahomed, W. J. Leigh*, L. A. Huck, S. S. Chitnis, and C. R. Harrington, “Time-Resolved Spectroscopic Studies of the Reactivities of Transient Germylenes in Methanol and Tetrahydrofuran Solution”, Organometallics, 28, 1484-1494 (2009)

8.   A. Moretto, M. Crisma, F. Formaggio, L.A. Huck, D. Mangion, W.J. Leigh*, C. Toniolo*, " Photoinduced Intramolecular Macrocyclization Reaction between a Bpa and a Met Residue in a Helical Peptide: 3D-Structures of the Diastereomeric Products Formed", Chem. Eur. J., 15, 67-70 (2009)

7.   W.J. Leigh*, G.D. Potter, L.A. Huck, A. Bhattacharya, "Competing Germene and Germylene Extrusion from Photolysis of 1,1-Diarylgermacyclobutanes. Substituent Effects on Germene Reactivity.", Organometallics, 27, 5948–5959 (2008)

6.   L.A. Huck, L.E. Harrington, J.F. Britten and W. J. Leigh*, "3,4-Dimethyl-1,1-bis[4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-2,5-dihydro-1H-germole", Acta Cryst., E63, m1282-m1283 (2007)

5.   L.A. Huck and W.J. Leigh*, "Substituent Effects on the Reactions of Diarylgermylenes and Tetraaryldigermenes with Acetic Acid and Other Lewis Bases",Organometallics, 26, 1339-1348 (2007)

4.   W.J. Leigh,* L.A. Huck, E. Held, and C.R. Harrington, "The Photochemistry of a Potential Diphenylsilylene Precursor. Time-resolved Spectroscopic Studies of the Reactivity of a Transient Vinylsilirane", Silicon Chemistry, 3, 139-149 (2005)

3.   L.A. Huck, M. Xu, K. Forest, and P. Wan*, "Efficient photodecarboxylation of 3- and 4-acetylphenylacetic acids in aqueous solution", Can. J. Chem. 82, 1760-1768 (2004)

2.   M. Flegel, M. Lukeman, L. Huck, and P. Wan*, "Photoaddition of water and alcohols to the anthracene moiety of 9-(2'-hydroxyphenyl)anthracene via formal excited state intramolecular proton transfer", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 7890-7897 (2004)

1.   L.A. Huck and P. Wan*, "Photochemical deuterium exchange of the m-methyl group of 3-methylbenzophenone and 3-methylacetophenone in acidic D2O", Org. Lett. 6, 1797-1799 (2004)
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