The Power of Click Chemistry for Molecular Machines and Surface Patterning

Jason Michael Spruell was born in Nashville, Tennessee on July 18, 1983. Although he moved from place to place throughout his childhood, he was primarily raised and educated in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Jason earned a B.S. Degree in Chemistry from the University of Alabama, graduating Summa Cume Laude in 2005. He and his wife, Joy, then moved to Los Angeles, California for him to work with Fraser Stoddart at the University of California at Los Angeles for his graduate degree supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship as well as the Chancellor’s Fellowship from UCLA. Jason earned a M.S. degree in Chemistry from UCLA in 2007 before moving with Sir Fraser to Northwestern University, where he was awarded the Presidential Fellowship. Jason is a member of Northwestern University’s Society of Fellows and has been generously supported throughout the years by the Barry M. Goldwater National Scholarship, USA Today Academic All-American Team, the Presidential Scholarship from the University of Alabama, as well as the National Merit Scholarship. He and Joy are the proud parents of two sons – Nathan and London. They will all be moving shortly to the University of California at Santa Barbara for Jason to begin post-doctoral research as an Elings Fellow in Experimental Science through which he will research closely with Craig Hawker.

Kinetic and Thermodynamic Approaches for the Efficient Formation of Mechanical Bonds.- Efficient Templated Synthesis of Donor–Acceptor Rotaxanes using Click Chemistry.- A One-Pot Synthesis of Constitutionally Unsymmetrical Rotaxanes Using Sequential Cu(I)-Catalyzed Azide–Alkyne Cycloadditions.- Heterogeneous Catalysis through Microcontact Printing.- Heterogeneous Catalysis of a Copper-Coated Atomic Force Microscopy Tip for Direct-Write Click Chemistry.- A Push-Button Molecular Switch.- Highly Stable TTF Radical Dimers in a Five-State [3]Catenane