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William Dichtel
PhD University of California at Berkeley
BSc Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Appointment with Prof. James R. Heath at the California Institue of TechnologyResearch Topics
Molecular Flash Memory
Reconfigurable Molecular Logic Devices Artificial Muscles More about Will
I was born in Houston, Texas, but spent most of my impressionable years growing up in Roanoke, Virginia. Roanoke is known as the “Star City of the South” and features the world’s second largest man-made star, lit up every night for your viewing pleasure.
I left Roanoke for bigger and better things at MIT, where I majored in chemistry and had the pleasure of getting my first research experience working in the laboratory of Prof. Tim Swager. During my time in Boston I developed a taste for the local cuisine and an obsession with the Red Sox that continues to this day. Despite my love for all things New England, I moved west to UC-Berkeley for graduate school, and greatly enjoyed my time earning my Ph.D. working alongside the extraordinary people of Prof. Jean M. J. Fréchet’s group.
I’d been a swimmer my whole life and I took up ocean swimming when I moved to California. When I lived in Berkeley, I would wake up early in the morning to swim in the frigid waters of the San Francisco Bay. I have made the swim from Alcatraz more than a dozen times, swam north to Marin directly underneath the Golden Gate Bridge, and from Candlestick Park all the way around the peninsula to the west end of Fisherman’s Wharf. If you are in the Bay Area, check out the South End Rowing Club, the best open water swimming club in the world. Now that I’ve moved south to Los Angeles, I’m getting to know a new set of ocean landmarks and training for longer distances in cold water.
I also love to cook, especially on my new toy, a Weber charcoal grill. I spend the rest of my time with my beautiful wife, Laura, debating which breed(s) of dog(s) we will eventually adopt.
Selected Publications
1) "Cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene)-Based [2]Catenanes Prepared by Kinetically Controlled Reactions Involving Alkynes" Miljanic, O.; Dichtel, W. R.; Mortezaei, S.; Stoddart, J. F. Org. Lett., ASAP Article.
2) "Efficient Templated Synthesis of Donor-Acceptor Rotaxanes using Click Chemistry," Dichtel, W. R.; Miljanic, O.; Spruell, J. M.; Heath, J. R.; Stoddart, J. F. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 10388–10390
3) "Amphiphilic Diblock Star Polymer Catalysts via Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization,” Dichtel, W. R.; Baek, K.-Y., Fréchet, J. M. J.; Rietveld, I. B.; Vinogradov, S. A. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2006, 44, 4939–4951.
4) "Light-Harvesting Chromophores with Metalated Porphyrin Cores for Tuned Photosensitization of Singlet Oxygen via Two-Photon Excited FRET," Oar, M. A.; Dichtel, W. R.; Serin, J. M.; Fréchet, J. M. J.; Rogers, J. E.; Slagle, J. E.; Fleitz, P. A.; Tan, L.-S; Ohulchanskyy, T. Y.; Prasad, P. N. Chem. Mater. 2006, 18, 3682–3692.
5) "Functionally layered dendrimers: A new building block and its application to the synthesis of multichromophoric light-harvesting systems," Dichtel, W. R.; Hecht, S.; Fréchet, J. M. J. Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 4451–4454.
6) "Photosensitization of singlet oxygen via two-photon-excited fluorescence resonance energy transfer in a water-soluble dendrimer," Oar, M. A.; Serin, J. A.; Dichtel, W. R.; Fréchet, J. M. J. Chem. Mat. 2005, 17, 2267–2275.
7) "Singlet oxygen generation via two-photon excited FRET," Dichtel, W. R.; Serin, J. M.; Edder, C.; Fréchet, J. M. J.; Matuszewski, M.; Tan, L. S.; Ohulchanskyy, T. Y.; Prasad, P. N. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 5380–5381.
