Yisrael Meir Lattke Lamb, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Areas of expertise:
- Solution-phase photochemistry and photophysics
- Photoredox catalysis
- Time-resolved and steady-state spectroscopies
- Kinetic simulations
Education:
- CU@FLC Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, 2021
- Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder, 2021
- B.A., Clark University
About Dr. Lamb
Dr. Lamb has an F next to chemistry on one of his high-school report cards. Lest that concern you, he’s made some progress in the field since then. His research interests involve investigating mechanistic details of visible-light photoredox catalytic cycles. This methodology can potentially decrease the energetic costs of chemical production and opens the door to truly green, sunlight-driven photochemical syntheses.
Dr. Lamb is dedicated to involving and supporting students in scientific research—as a graduate student at CU Boulder, he was a mentor for the Summer Multicultural Access to Research Training Program, or SMART, and helped organize the first implementation of the Stem Routes Uplift Program.
Selected publications
Chrisman, C.H.; Kudisch, M.; Puffer, K.O.; Stewart, T.K.; Lamb, Y.M.L.; Lim, C.; Escobar, R.; Thordarson, P.; Johannes, J.W.; Miyake, G.M. Halide Noninnocence and Direct Photoreduction of Ni(II) Enables Coupling of Aryl Chlorides in Dual Catalytic, Carbon-Heteroatom Bond-Forming Reactions, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 22, 12293—12304.
Lattke, Y.M.; Corbin, D.A.; Sartor, S.M.; McCarthy, B.G.; Miyake, G.M.; Damrauer, N.H. Interrogation of O-ATRP Conducted by Singlet and Triplet Excited States of Phenoxazine Photocatalysts, J. Phys. Chem. A 2021, 125, 15, 3109—3121.
Sartor, S.M.; Lattke, Y.M.; McCarthy, B.G.; Miyake, G.M.; Damrauer, N.H. Effects of Naphthyl Connectivity on the Photophysics of Compact Organic Charge-Transfer Photoredox Catalysts, J. Phys. Chem. A 2019, 123, 22, 4727—4736.