Extramural Presentations

We love to present our work! Here are select examples:

Sharma, M.; Ticho, A.; Samankumara, L.; Zeller, M.; Brückner, C. ‘Conformational Landscapes of M(II) Porphyrinato, Chlorinato, and Morpholinochlorinato Complexes’ Poster, Boston Regional Inorganic Chemistry (BRIC-44), Tufts University, Boston, MA, 10/2017.

Dorazio, S.J.; Dechert, S.; Brückner, C.; Meyer, F. ‘Group 10 Homobimetallic Complexes of the Siamese-Twin Porphyrin’ Poster, 254th ACS National Meeting, Washington, D.C., 8/2017.

Nevonen, D.; Kaesmann, E.; Li, R.; Zeller, M.; Brückner, C.; Nemykin,V. ‘Systematic Studies of Electronic Structures and MCD Spectra of Synthetic Oxochlorins, Dioxo­bacteriochlorins, and Dioxoisobacteriochlorins’ Poster, 100th Canadian Society of Chemistry Conference, Toronto, ON, Canada 5-6/2017.

Erfanzadeh, M.; Luciano, M.; Zhou, F.; Brückner, C.; Zhu, Q. ‘A Monomeric Water-soluble NIR-absorbing Porphyrin Derivative as in vivo Photoacoustic Tomography Contrast Agent’ SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, 1-2/2017.

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In Nanjing, PRC

Li, R.; Meehan, E.; Zeller, M.; Brückner, C. ‘Surprising Outcomes of Classic Ring Expansion Reactions When Applied to Octaethyloxochlorin’, Poster, International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP‑9), Nanjing, PRC, 7/2016.

Vogel, A.; Dechert, S.; John, M.; Brückner, C.; Meyer, F. ‘On the Twists and Turns of the Siamese-Twin Porphyrin upon Oxidation’, Poster, International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP‑9), Nanjing, PRC, 7/2016.

Sharma, M.; Meehan, E.; Brückner, C. ‘β‑Alkyloxazolochlorins: Ozonation of Octaalkylporphyrins’, Poster, International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP‑9), Nanjing, PRC, 7/2016.

Hewage, N.; Zeller, M.; Brückner, C. ‘Oxidizing Chromene-annulated Chlorin’ Poster, International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP‑9), Nanjing, PRC, 7/2016.

Luciano, M.; Erfanzadeh, M.; Zhou, F.; Zhu, Q.; Brückner, C. ‘Water-Soluble Quinoline-Annulated Porphyrins as Contrast Agents for Photoacoustic Cancer Imaging’ Poster, International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP‑9), Nanjing, PRC, 7/2016.

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At the ACS-CVS Undergraduate Symposium

Hamchand, R.; LaFountain, A. M.; Magdaong, N.; Brückner, C.; Prum, R. O.; Frank, H. A. ‘Analysis of the Pigment Composition of Keratinized Tissues of Vertebrates’ Poster #15, Undergraduate Research Symposium of the ACS Connecticut Valley Section, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, 4/2016.

Tardie, W.; Luciano, M.; Brückner, C. ‘The Mending and Breaking of Porphyrins to Expand a Pyrrolic Building Block’ Poster #38, Undergraduate Research Symposium of the ACS Connecticut Valley Section, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, 4/2016.

Kaesmann, E.; Li, R.; Nimthong-Roldán, A.; Zeller, M.; Brückner, C. ‘Old Reaction, New Insights: All Regioisomers of Oxo- and Dioxochlorins’ Poster #20, Undergraduate Research Symposium of the ACS Connecticut Valley Section, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, 4/2016.

Han, Y.; Li, R.; Brückner, C.; Vadas, T.M. ‘Comparison of chemical oxidation pathways on nanofibrous activated carbon materials’, Poster, ENVR-152, 251st ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, 3/2016.

Kaesmann, E.; Li, R.; Nimthong-Roldán, A.; Zeller, M.; Brückner, C. ‘Old Reaction, New Insights: The Structures of All Regioisomers of Oxo- and Dioxochlorins’ Poster, CHED-338, 250th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, 8/2015.

Li, R.; Meehan, E.; Zeller, M.; Brückner, C. ‘Octaethyl-1,3-oxazinochlorin: Expanding Octaethylporphyrin’ Oral, ORGN-700, 250th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, 8/2015.

Luciano, M.; Akhigbe, J.; Zeller, M.; Zhu, Q.; Brückner, C. ‘Quinoline-annulated Porphyrins as NIR Dyes for Bioimaging’ Oral, ORGN-594, 250th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, 8/2015.

Hewage, N.; Yang, B.; Agrios, A. G.; Brückner, C. ‘Introduction of Carboxyl Functionalities to meso‑Tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)porphyrins and -hydroporphyrins using SNAr Chemistry’ Poster, ORGN-688, 250th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, 8/2015.

Sharma, M.; Meehan, E.; Brückner, C. ‘The Ozonation of ß-Octaalkylporphyrins’ Poster, ORGN-687, 250th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, 8/2015.

Samankumara, L. P.; Zeller, M.; Brückner, C. ‘Indabacteriochlorins: Bacteriochlorin-like Indaphyrin Derivatives’ Poster S-30, 43rd National Organic Symposium (NOS) 2013, Seattle, WA, 6/2013.

Akhigbe, J.; Haskoor, J. P.; Krause, J. A.; Zeller, M.; Brückner, C. ‘Formation, Structure, and Reactivity of meso-Tetraarylporphyrinoids Incorporating Oxazolone or Imidazolone Moieties’ Poster S-29, 43rd National Organic Symposium (NOS) 2013, Seattle, WA, 6/2013.

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Sampling the delicacies on Jeju Island (Thanks Viktor for capturing the moment!)

Meyer, F.; Frensch, L. K.; Brückner, C.; Demeshko, S.; Dechert, S.; John, M. ‘Binuclear Complexes of the Siamese Twin Porphyrin’, Symposium Lecture, International Conference of Coordination Chemistry (ICCC 40), Valencia, Spain, 09/2012

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Mike Hyland, Junichi Ogikubo, and CB at the ICPP-7 on Jeju Island, Korea, 2012

Hyland, M.; Brückner, C. ‘Chromene-annulated Chlorins and Bacteriochlorins’ Poster, International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP 7), Jeju Island, Korea, 6/2012.

Ogikubo, J.; Meehan, E. V.; Brückner, C. ‘Synthesis and Optical Properties of Oxazolochlorins and Oxazolobacteriochlorins’ Poster, International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP 7), Jeju Island, Korea, 6/2012.

Wang, Y.; La, A.; Brückner, C.; Lei, Y. ‘Signal-amplifying Fluorescence Polymer for Ultrasensitive Detection of Nitroaromatics in Solution’, Oral ANYL 189, 243th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, 3/2012.

Samankumara, L.; Wells, S.; Zeller, M.; Brückner, C. ‘Expanded Bacteriochlorins’ Poster ORGN 850, 243th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, 3/2012.

Worlinsky, J.; Zarate, G.; Ghandehari, M.; Khalil, G. E.; Brückner, C. ‘meso-Tetraaryl-nitroporpholactones: Tuning the pH Range for Optical High pH Sensing’ Poster ANYL 39, 243th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, 3/2012.

Wang, Y.; Ding, Y.; La, A.; Brückner, C.; Lei, Y. ‘Novel Fluorescent Nanofibrous Membrane As Sensory Materials–Towards Landmine Detection’, Poster, 2011 AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 10/2011.

Wang, Y.; Akhigbe, J.; Ding, Y.; Brückner, C.; Lei, Y. ‘meso-Tritolylcorrole/Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes Donor-Acceptor Heterojunction and Its Application in Ultra-Sensitive NO2 Detection’ Oral, 10th AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 11/2010. (3rd place award)

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Hyland, M.; Banerjee, S.; Brückner, C. ‘[Azeteochlorinato]Ni(II): A Pyrrole Ring-contracted Chlorin Analogue’, Poster (ORG 206), 240th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, 8/2010.

Ogikubo, J.; Samankumara, L. P.; Brückner, C. ‘Synthesis and Optical Properties of Oxazolochlorins and Oxazolobacteriochlorins’, Poster (ORG 207), 240th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, 8/2010.

Worlinski, J.; Zarate, G.; Daddario, P.; Khalil, G.; Ghandehari, M.; Brückner, C. ‘Synthesis of β-Substituted Porpholactones as Novel Chromophores for Optical High pH Sensing’, Poster (ORG 204), 240th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, 8/2010.

Akhigbe, J.; Brückner, C. ‘Beckmann Rearrangement and Ring Annulation of Porphyrin Dione Oximes: Novel Strategy Toward the Synthesis of Long Wavelength Chromophores’, Oral (ORG 876), 240th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, 8/2010.

Samankumara, L. P.; Zeller, M.; Brückner, C. ‘Syntheses, Structures, Modification, and Optical Properties of Two Isomeric meso-Tetraaryl-2,3,12,13-tetrahydroxybacteriochlorins’, Oral (ORG 880), 240th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, 8/2010.

Banerjee, S.; Zeller, M.; Brückner, C. ‘Synthesis of Novel Porphyrinoids Through Porphyrin N-Oxidation’, Oral (ORG 881), 240th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, 8/2010.

Brückner, C. ‘Pyrrole-Modified Porphyrins as Flexible Porphyrinoid Ligands’, Oral (INOR 1310), 239th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 3/2010.

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San Francisco – 3/2010, view from hotel window

Peters, G. M.; Akhigbe, J.; Brückner, C. ‘Synthesis of meso-Tetraphenyloxadiazepinonochlorins and its Metal Complexes: Chlorin-like Chromophores Containing a Seven-membered Ring’, Poster (CHED #1087.5), 239th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 3/2010.

Daddario, P.; Lau, K. S.; Zhao, S.; Khalil, G. E.; Gouterman, M. P.; Zeller, M.; Brückner, C. ‘Synthesis of Porphodilactones’ Poster (ORGN #183), 236th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A., 8/2008.

Akhigbe, J.; Zarate, G.; Wang, Y.; Choi, K.; Kodali, A.; Pattipati, C. R.; Lei, Yu.; Brückner, C. ‘Fluorescence Detection of Nitroaromatics Using a Library of Structurally Diverse Porphyrinoids’ Poster (ANAL #148), 236th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A., 8/2008.

Dean, M. L.; Miller, T. A.; Brückner, C. ‘Synthesis of Free Base Pyrazinochlorins’ Poster (ORGN #182), 236th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A., 8/2008.

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Gloria Zarate, 2007

Bobbitt, J. M.; Brückner, C.; Merbouh, N.; Bailey, W. F.; Bartelson, A. L. ‘Oxoammonium Salt and Nitroxide Catalyzed Oxidations of Carbohydrates’, Oral (CARB #108), 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, MA, U.S.A., 4/2008.

Dean, M. L.; Schmink, J.; Leadbeater, N.; Brückner, C. ‘Microwave-promoted Insertion of Ni(II), Pd(II) and Pt(II) into Free Base Porphyrins and Chlorins’ Poster (INOR #657), 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, 8/2007.

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Gloria Zarate with graduate student mentor Joshua Akhigbe, and CB, 2007

Akhigbe, J.; Jia, W.; Lei, Y.; Brückner, C. ‘The Fluorescence Detection of TNT and other Nitroaromatics Using a Library of Structurally Diverse Porphyrinoids’ Poster (ANYL #136), 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, 8/2007 (SciMix Selection).

Dean, M. L.; Miller, T. A.; Brückner, C. ‘Eggciting! The Isolation of Porphyrins from Brown Egg Shells and their Detection by Luminescence’ Poster (CHED #104), 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, 8/2007.

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Nicole Morozowich with CB, 2007

Morozowich, N.; Ryppa, C.; Brückner, C. ‘Conversion of Free Base Octaethylporphyrins to Oxypyriporphyrins’ Poster (CHED #545), 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, 3/2007.

King, M.; Crundwell, G.; Brückner, C. ‘Relative Basicity of Porpholactones’ Poster (CHED #1236), 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, 3/2007.

Lau, K. S.; Brückner, C.; Khalil, G. S.; Gouterman, M., Sadilek, M. ‘Tandem ESI-Mass Spectrometric Characterization of Porpholactones’ Poster, International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP 4), Rome, Italy, 7/2006.

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CB in discussion with T.D. Lash at the ACS in Boston, 2006

Lau, K. S.; Khalil, G. S.; Gouterman, M.; Zeller, M.; Brückner, C. ‘Syntheses of Porpholactones, Hydroxybacteriolactones, and Bacteriodilactones for Photonic Applications’ Poster, International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP 4), Rome, Italy, 7/2006.

Katsiaouni, S.; Meyer, F.; Brückner, C., Dechert, S. ‘Pyrrole-Pyrrazole Hybrid Macrocycles: “Tropopiophyrin”’ Poster, International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP 4), Rome, Italy, 7/2006. Abstract: J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines 2006, 10, 704.

Lim, N.; Brückner, C. ‘Fluorescent Chemosensors for Intracellular Zinc’ Invited Oral Presentation, Gordon Research Conference: Graduate Research Seminar – Bioinorganic Chemistry, Ventura, CA, 1/2005.

Lim, N. C.; Brückner, C. ‘Novel Fluorescent Sensors for Iron(III)’ Poster, Gordon Research Conference: Graduate Research Seminar – Bioinorganic Chemistry, Ventura, CA, 1/2004.

Brückner, C.; McCarthy, J. R.; Jenkins, H. A.; Frank, H. A.; Ilagan, R.; Pendon, Z.; Birge, R. R.; Ren, L.; Shima, S. ‘Synthesis and Optical Properties of Porphyrin-Derived Chromophores Containing a Non-Pyrrolic Building Block’ Oral Presentation, Tetrapyrrole Photo-receptors in Photosynthetic Organisms – Structure/Function Relationships of Natural and Artificial Tetrapyrrolic Photoreceptors, Passau, Germany, 10/2003.

Lim, N. C.; Brückner, C.; Yao, L.; Freake, H. C. ‘Development of Fluorescent Chemosensors for Iron(III) and Zinc(II)’ Oral Presentation (INOR #884), 225th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 3/2003.

McCarthy, J. R.; Hyland, M. A.; Brückner, C. ‘Synthesis of Novel meso-Tetraphenylsecochlorin-Based Chromophores Incorporating β-to-o-Phenyl Linkages’ Oral Presentation (ORGN #323), 225th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 3/2003.

Merbouh, N.; Brückner, C. ‘Syntheses of C-Glycosides Incorporating 1,3-diketone Moieties’ Oral Presentation (CARB #29), 225th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 3/2003.

Lim, N. C.; Brückner, C. ‘Novel Fluorescent Sensors for Intracellular Zinc’ Oral Presentation, Gordon Research Conference: Graduate Research Seminar – Bioinorganic Chemistry, Ventura, CA, 2/2003.

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Boston and Cambridge from Prudential Center, 2002

Brückner, C.; Merbouh, N., Bobbitt, J. M. ‘Use of Oxammonium Salts in Preparative Carbohydrate Chemistry’ Oral Presentation (CARB #55), 224th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, 8/2002.

Brückner, C.; Briñas, R. P. ‘Syntheses of 5,10,15-Triphenylcorrole and 5,10-Diphenylporphyrin’, Oral Presentation (ORGN #60), 224th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, 8/2002.

Brückner, C.; Lim, N. C., Morton, M. D.; Jenkins, H. A. ‘Synthesis and Properties of Squarate Hydroxamates’ Oral Presentation (ORGN #58), 224th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, 8/2002.

Brückner, C.; McCarthy, J. R.; Daniell, H. D.;# Frank, H. A.; Ilagan, R.; Pendon, Z.; Birge, R. R.; Jenkins, H. A. ‘Investigations of the Conformational Flexibility of Homoporphyrins’ Oral Presentation (ORGN #61), 224th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, 8/2002.

Brückner, C.; McCarthy, J. R. ‘Synthesis of Free Base Homoporphyrins Derived from meso-Tetraaryl-2,3-dihydroxychlorins’ Oral Presentation (ORGN #59), 224th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, 8/2002.

Brückner, C.; Briñas, R. P.; Kite, B. J. ‘Synthesis and Characterization of [meso-Triarylcorrolato]Cu(III) Complexes’ Poster (INOR #160), 224th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, 8/2002.

Brückner, C.; Daniell,# H. W. ‘Enantiomeric Separation of Ruffled [Homoporphyrinato]Ni(II) Complexes’ Poster (INOR #158), 224th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, 8/2002.

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Kyoto

Brückner, C.; Barta, C. A.; Briñas, R. P. ‘Synthesis and Properties of [meso-Triarylcorrolato]Ag(III)’ Poster (P-268), 2nd International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-2), Kyoto, Japan, 6/2002.

Brückner, C.; Daniell, H. W. ‘Chiral Separation of Ni(II)-Induced Homoporphyrin Conformers’ Poster (P-37), 2nd International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-2), Kyoto, Japan, 6/2002.

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At ICPP-2

Brückner, C.; McCarthy, J. R.; Frank, H. A.; Ilagan, R.; Pendon, Z.; Birge, R. R.; Shima S.; Jenkins, H. A. ‘Synthesis and Physical Properties of Free Base meso-Tetraarylhomoporphyrins’ Poster (P-107), 2nd International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP 2), Kyoto, Japan, 6/2002.

Brückner, C.; Merbouh, N. ‘Synthesis of C-Glycosidic Metal Chelators Incorporating an acac Moiety’ Oral Presentation (CARB #009), 223rd ACS National Meeting, Orlando, FL, 4/2002.

Brückner, C.; Merbouh, N.; Bobbitt, J. M. ‘Oxidations of Monosaccharide Derivatives Using Oxoammonium Salts’ Oral Presentation (CARB #005), 223rd ACS National Meeting, Orlando, FL, 4/2002.

Brückner, C.; McCarthy, J. R. ‘Free Base Homoporphyrins by Modification of 2,3-Dihydroxy-meso-tetraphenylchlorin’ Oral Presentation (ORG #264), 222nd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, 8/2001.

Brückner, C. ‘Synthesis and Electrochemical Investigation of Tetraphenyl¬porphyrin-derived Homoporphyrins’ Oral Presentation (ORAL 223), 1st International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-1), Dijon, France, 6/2000.

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Roof of UConn Chemistry Building

 

Brückner, C. ‘Synthesis of Homoporphyrins by Derivatization of Tetraphenylporphyrins’ Oral Presentation (INOR 341), 219th National ACS Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 3/2000.

Campbell, C. J.; Brückner, C.; Rusling, J. F. ‘Electrochemical Characterisation of a Range of Nickel Tetraphenyl-chlorins, –homoporphyrins, and –chlorophins’ Oral Presentation (INOR 340), 219th National ACS Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 3/2000.

 

Brückner, C.; Caulder, D. L.; Raymond, K. N. ‘Synthesis, Structure and Properties of Nickel Catecholates’ Poster (INOR 539), 213th National ACS Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 4/1997.

Brückner, C.; Dolphin, D. ‘Preparation and Characterization of Transition Metal Complexes of 2-Pyrrolylthioketones’ Poster (INORG 445), Pacifichem ‘95, Honululu, Hawaii, 12/1995.