Educational Background
- Bachelor of Arts, Bard College, 1977
- Master of Science, Yale University, 1979
- Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1982
Research Interests:
Mechanistic and synthetic organic photochemistry; metalloenzyme mimics
Professor Matlin has recently been appointed the new Donald R. Longman '32 Professor of Natural Sciences.
Teaches:
Organic Chem, General Chem
Representative Publications:
- "Ab Initio Structures for 90°-Twisted s-trans-1,3-Butadienes and Cyclooctatetraene: The Naked sp2-sp2 Bond” D. Feller, N.C. Craig A.R. Matlin, J Phys. Chem A 2008, 112, 2131-2133.
- “Rule of Five Cyclizations in 5-Hexenyl Radicals and Photocyclizations of 1,5-Hexadienes: Effect of 4-Oxa Substitution.”, AR Matlin, KF Brinton and BT Nivaggioli, J. Phys Org Chem., 2007, 20, 83-87.
- “Photocycloaddition / Trapping Reactions of Cross-Conjugated Cyclic Dienones: Capture of Oxyallyl Intermediates” A.R. Matlin in CRC Handbook of Organic Photochemistry and Photobiology, 2nd Edition, Editors W.H. Horspool, F.Lenci, CRC Press LLC, New York, 2004, 81-1 – 81-12.
- Photochemical Cycloaddition and Ene Reactions of 2,7-Cyclooctadienone: Experimental and Computational Studies of a Cyclopentyl Oxyallyl Intermediate" A.R. Matlin, P.M. Lahti, D. Appella, A. Straumanis, S. Lin, H. Patel, K. Jin, K.P. Schreiber, J. Pauls, P. Raulerson, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1999, 121, 2164-2173.
- "First Example of an Enone-Alkene [2+2+2] Photocycloaddition: 1,3 Photocycloaddition of Tetramethylethylene Across 2,7-Cyclooctadienone" A.R. Matlin, S.C. Lin, H.R. Patel, M. Chai; Org. Lett., 1999, 1, 303-305.
