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Kyle Plunkett

Professor, Vice Chair
kplunkett@chem.siu.edu
618-453-2758
Biochemistry, Chemistry

Education

  • B.S. Texas A&M University, College Station
  • Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Science
  • Postdoctoral Associate, Columbia University

Awards

  • J. Mater. Chem. Emerging Investigator themed issue (2016)
  • NSF CAREER Award (2014-2019)
  • University-Level Early Career Faculty Excellence Award (2014)
  • Thieme Chemistry Journal Award (2014)
  • Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006)

Research Interests

  • Self-assembly motifs in chemistry and materials science
  • Synthetic and physical chemistry approaches to materials design
  • Functionalizable cyclopenta-fused polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (CP-PAHs) as acceptor materials
  • Conjugated polymers that form well-defined nanostructures
  • Smart surfaces for biomacromolecule immobilization
  • Lab Website

 

Selected Publications

Uddin, A., Pandey, K., Plunkett, K.N., “"Indacenodipyrene Containing Small Molecules and Ladder Polymers", Tetrahedron Chem., 2022, 2, 100019. 

Hussain, W.A., Plunkett, K.N., “Synthesis of Anthradithiophene Containing Conjugated Polymers via a Cross-coupling Strategy”, RSC Adv., 2021, 11, 996-1000. 

Du, Y., Lovell, H. B., Lirette, F., Morin, J.-F., Plunkett, K.N., “Electron Acceptors Based on Cyclopentannulated Anthanthrenes”, J. Org. Chem., 2021, 86, 1456-1464.

Sekulovski, N., MacLean II, J.A., Bheemireddy, S.R., Yu, Z., Okuda, H., Plunkett, K.N., Matzuk, M., and Hayashi, K.  “Niclosamide's Potential Direct Targets in Ovarian Cancer”, Biol. Reprod. 2021, 86, 12569-12576.

Uddin, A., Plunkett, K.N., “Donor Acceptor Copolymers from Cyclopentannulation Polymerizations with Dicyclopenta[cd,jk]pyrene and Dicyclopenta[cd,lm]perylene Acceptors”, J. Polym. Sci., 2020, 58, 3165-3169.

Plunkett, K.N., "A Simple and Practical Method for Incorporating Augmented Reality into the Classroom and Laboratory", J. Chem. Educ., 2019, 96, 2628-2631.

Claywell, J. E., Matschke, L.M., Plunkett, K.N., Fisher, D.J., “Inhibition of the Protein Phosphatase CppA Alters Development of Chlamydia trachomatis”, J. Bacteriol., 2018, 200, e00419-18.

Bheemireddy, S.R., Hussain, W.A., Uddin, A., Du, Y., Hautzinger, M.P., Kevorkian, P.V., Petrie, F.A., Plunkett, K.N., "Cyclopentannulation and Cyclodehydrogenation of Isomerically Pure 5,11-Dibromo-Anthradithiophenes Leading to Contorted Aromatics", Chem. Comm., 2018, 54, 14140-14143.

Bheemireddy, S., Hautzinger, M.P., Li, T., Lee, B., Plunkett, K.N.*, "Conjugated Ladder Polymers by a Cyclopentannulation Polymerization", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 5801-5807.

Bheemireddy, S.R., Ubaldo, P.C., Rose, P.W., Finke, A.D., Zhuang, J., Wang, L., Plunkett, K.N.*, "Stabilizing Pentacene via Cyclopentannulation", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 15762-15766.