Philip P. Lampkin

Chemist making molecules and models to understand and design new materials.

I'm a chemist working at the meeting point of catalysis and physical organic chemistry. I design bifunctional catalysts, build open-source tools for visible-light photochemistry, and lean on mechanism and computation to understand why reactions behave the way they do. This site collects my published work, ongoing projects, and the software I help maintain.

Current position

ACS Arthur C. Cope and One-U Responsible AI Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Utah

Research interests

New Polymerizations and Functional Materials — Placeholder.
Data Chemistry — Placeholder.
Catalysis — Placeholder.

2025

Bifunctional Catalysis of Aldol Reactions by Foldamer Dihydrazides: Assessment of Conformational Preorganization

Journal of the American Chemical Society 147(37): 33932-33943 (2025)

P. P. Lampkin, K. M. Sanders, L. C. Garman, S. A. Guzei, S. H. Gellman

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Dual Activation Modes Enable Bifunctional Catalysis of Aldol Reactions by Flexible Dihydrazides

Journal of the American Chemical Society 147(4): 3731–3739 (2025)

P. P. Lampkin, S. H. Gellman

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2024

Energy-Transfer Photocatalytic (E)→(Z) Isomerization of 2-Nitrocinnamaldehyde Using an Inexpensive, 3-D Printed Photoreactor Monitored by ¹H NMR Spectroscopy and Computational Modeling

Journal of Chemical Education 101(9): 3949–3957 (2024) · ACS Editors’ Choice

P. P. Lampkin, A. Xu, B. J. Esselman, C. E. Schwarz, S. D. Thompson, S. H. Gellman, N. J. Hill

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2023

Radiometallation and Photo-Triggered Release of Ready-to-Inject Radiopharmaceuticals from the Solid Phase

Chemical Science 14: 5038–5055 (2023)

D. Śmiłowicz, S. Eisenberg, S. H. Ahn, A. J. Koller, P. P. Lampkin, E. Boros

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2021

Versatile Open-Source Photoreactor Architecture for Photocatalysis Across the Visible Spectrum

Organic Letters 23(13): 5277–5281 (2021)

P. P. Lampkin, B. J. Thompson, S. H. Gellman

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2020

Catalytic Intramolecular Conjugate Additions of Aldehyde-Derived Enamines to α,β-Unsaturated Esters

Organic Letters 22(11): 4568–4573 (2020)

Z. C. Girvin, P. P. Lampkin, X. Liu, S. H. Gellman

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2019

Tunneling by 16 Carbons: Planar Bond Shifting in [16]Annulene

Journal of the American Chemical Society 141(13): 5286–5293 (2019)

C. S. Michel, P. P. Lampkin, J. Z. Shezaf, C. Castro, W. L. Karney

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Wisconsin Photoreactor Platform

An open-source architecture for low-cost, high-performance photoreactors for synthetic organic chemistry — a 3D-printed enclosure, an inexpensive LED light source, off-the-shelf electronics, and a custom circuit board. Dimensions and features are easily varied, and labs across academia, industry, and teaching use it worldwide.

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