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American chemist
Rebekka Klausen is an American chemist who is the Second Decade Society Associate Professor at
Johns Hopkins University . Her research considers carbon and silicon-based nanomaterials for optoelectronic devices. She was a finalist for the 2021
Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists .
Early life and education
Klausen is from
Brookline, Massachusetts . She was an undergraduate student in biochemistry at
Boston College . She moved to
Harvard University as a graduate student, where she worked under the supervision of
Eric Jacobsen and studied asymmetric
Pictet–Spengler reactions .
[1]
[2]
[3] She moved to New York for postdoctoral research, joining the lab of
Colin Nuckolls at
Columbia University .
[1] There, she studied the conductive properties of molecules containing a 1-D chain of silicon atoms,
[4] as well as other
fluorene -derivatives that can act as molecular wires.
[5]
Research and career
Klausen began her independent career at
Johns Hopkins University in 2013. Her research group studies
organosilicon compounds , including poly(cyclosilane)s.
[6]
[7] Klausen initially looked to create a bottom-up fabrication process for the realization of silicon-based materials, and to develop cyclo-silane building blocks for their polymerization.
[8]
[9]
[10]
[11] Borrowing from the principles of carbon-based synthesis, Klausen has achieved precise control of the structure of silicon-based polymers.
[8] She was named as the Second Decade Society Associate Professor in 2019.[
citation needed ] Klausen is part of the
National Science Foundation Polymer Optimization Centre.
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[13]
Awards and honors
References
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"Rebekka Klausen" . Department of Chemistry . 18 March 2016. Retrieved 2022-05-23 .
^ Klausen, Rebekka S.; Jacobsen, Eric N. (2009-02-19).
"Weak Brønsted Acid−Thiourea Co-catalysis: Enantioselective, Catalytic Protio-Pictet−Spengler Reactions" . Organic Letters . 11 (4): 887–890.
doi :
10.1021/ol802887h .
ISSN
1523-7060 .
PMC
2664157 .
PMID
19178157 .
^ Klausen, Rebekka S.; Kennedy, C. Rose; Hyde, Alan M.; Jacobsen, Eric N. (2017-09-06).
"Chiral Thioureas Promote Enantioselective Pictet–Spengler Cyclization by Stabilizing Every Intermediate and Transition State in the Carboxylic Acid-Catalyzed Reaction" . Journal of the American Chemical Society . 139 (35): 12299–12309.
doi :
10.1021/jacs.7b06811 .
ISSN
0002-7863 .
PMC
5674793 .
PMID
28787140 .
^ Klausen, Rebekka S.; Widawsky, Jonathan R.; Steigerwald, Michael L.; Venkataraman, Latha; Nuckolls, Colin (2012-03-14).
"Conductive Molecular Silicon" . Journal of the American Chemical Society . 134 (10): 4541–4544.
doi :
10.1021/ja211677q .
ISSN
0002-7863 .
PMID
22352896 .
^ Klausen, R. S.; Widawsky, J. R.; Su, T. A.; Li, H.; Chen, Q.; Steigerwald, M. L.; Venkataraman, L.; Nuckolls, C. (2014-03-04).
"Evaluating atomic components in fluorene wires" . Chemical Science . 5 (4): 1561–1564.
doi :
10.1039/C4SC00064A .
ISSN
2041-6539 .
^ Press, Eric M.; Marro, Eric A.; Surampudi, Sravan K.; Siegler, Maxime A.; Tang, Joel A.; Klausen, Rebekka S. (2017-01-09).
"Synthesis of a Fragment of Crystalline Silicon: Poly(Cyclosilane)" . Angewandte Chemie International Edition . 56 (2): 568–572.
doi :
10.1002/anie.201610208 .
OSTI
1533091 .
PMID
27897420 .
^ Fang, Fan; Jiang, Qifeng; Klausen, Rebekka S. (2022-05-04).
"Poly(cyclosilane) Connectivity Tunes Optical Absorbance" . Journal of the American Chemical Society . 144 (17): 7834–7843.
doi :
10.1021/jacs.2c01820 .
ISSN
0002-7863 .
OSTI
1864628 .
PMID
35467855 .
S2CID
248389390 .
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b
c Klausen, Rebekka (2020).
"Early Career: Mesoscale Fragments of Crystalline Silicon by Chemical Synthesis" .
doi :
10.2172/1735959 .
OSTI
1735959 .
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"Chemists build a zoo of new polymer building blocks" . cen.acs.org . Retrieved 2022-05-23 .
^ Marro, Eric A.; Folster, Carlton P.; Press, Eric M.; Im, Hoyeon; Ferguson, John T.; Siegler, Maxime A.; Klausen, Rebekka S. (2019-11-06).
"Stereocontrolled Syntheses of Functionalized cis – and trans -Siladecalins" . Journal of the American Chemical Society . 141 (44): 17926–17936.
doi :
10.1021/jacs.9b09902 .
ISSN
0002-7863 .
OSTI
1570378 .
PMID
31600060 .
S2CID
204244421 .
^ Marro, Eric A.; Press, Eric M.; Siegler, Maxime A.; Klausen, Rebekka S. (2018-05-09).
"Directional Building Blocks Determine Linear and Cyclic Silicon Architectures" . Journal of the American Chemical Society . 140 (18): 5976–5986.
doi :
10.1021/jacs.8b02541 .
ISSN
0002-7863 .
PMID
29635912 .
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"NSF Creates Polymer Chemistry Optimization Center at Duke for Future Materials" . today.duke.edu . September 2021. Retrieved 2022-05-23 .
^ Wallach, Rachel (2021-09-22).
"Johns Hopkins chemist explores longer-lasting, sustainable materials with NSF-funded team" . The Hub . Retrieved 2022-05-23 .
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"Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships" (PDF) .
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"AAAS' Marion Milligan Mason Awards Go to Five Female Scientists | American Association for the Advancement of Science" . www.aaas.org . Retrieved 2022-05-23 .
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"Johns Hopkins Catalyst Awards: 2017 Awardees" . VPR at JHU . 2017-07-05. Retrieved 2022-05-23 .
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"Rebekka Klausen Receives NSF CAREER Award" . Department of Chemistry . 30 January 2018. Retrieved 2022-05-23 .
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"2021 ACS National Award winners—Part III – C&EN" . cen.acs.org . Retrieved 2022-05-23 .
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"Blavatnik Family Foundation, New York Academy of Sciences Name 31 Finalists for 2021 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists | Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists" . blavatnikawards.org . Retrieved 2022-05-23 .
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"Rebekka Klausen is finalist for 2021 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists" . Department of Chemistry . 15 June 2021. Retrieved 2022-05-23 .