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Jason Spruell
BSc University of Alabama
Research Topics
Molecular Muscles via [3]Rotaxanes
More about Jason
My wife Joy and I, moved to UCLA together in 2005 after graduating from the University of Alabama. There I researched with Silas Blackstock on electron donor-acceptor binding between sulfoxides and electron poor alkenes in solution and the solid state. I then moved on to computational studies with David Dixon using DFT to model water soluble phosphine catalysts being developed by Kevin Shaughnessy at the University of Alabama. With the help of Anthony Arduengo and Armido Studer, I wrote a grant that was funded to synthesize nitroxide radical compounds with Studer at the Universität Münster, in Germany.
I moved around the South growing up, namely Chattanooga, TN, Birmingham, AL, and Dothan, AL but also spent some time in Breckenridge, CO. I enjoy skiing and snowboarding, learning foreign languages (German so far), traveling, watching movies, and spending time at the beach (the wonders of which extend through the winter in LA).
Selected Publications
1) Trixylylphophine trisulfonate (TXPTS): Steric and Electronic Properties, Palladium Coordination Chemistry, and Application to Aqueous-Phase Cross-Coupling Reactions. Moore, L. R.; Wester, E. C.; Spruell, J. M.; Dixon, D. A.; Shaughnessy, K. H. In Preparation.
2) Steric and Electronic Effects on the coordination of Bulky, Water-Soluble Alkylphosphines to Palladium under Reducing Conditions: Correlation to Catalytic Activity. DeVasher, R. B.; Spruell, J. M.; Dixon, D. A.; Broker, G. A.; Rogers, R. D.; Shaughnessy, K. H.; "" Organometallics, 2005; 24(5); 962-971.
