Chemistry @ IU

Contact Information:

(812) 856-3642
Teaching: professorflood@gmail.com
Research: aflood@indiana.edu
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Professor Flood received his B.Sc. with 1st Class Honors in 1996 and his Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of Otago with Professor Keith C. Gordon. He was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California in Los Angeles, from 2002 to 2005 with Sir Fraser Stoddart.

To date, he has authored over 75 journal articles, 5 book chapters and has made more than 80 invited and contributed presentations at national and international conferences in the field of supramolecular chemistry. He has served on the organizing committee for three international conferences including the upcoming 2013 International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC). He received Indiana University Trustees Teaching Awards in 2008 and 2010, an NSF CAREER Award in 2009, was a 2010 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, the Award for Excellence in Physical Organic Chemistry by Wiley and the inaugural Cram Lehn Pedersen Award in Supramolecular Chemistry for 2011.

Research

Research activities center around three main areas:

• Anion Regulation
• Molecular Robotics
• Active Plasmonics

Read about Professor Amar Flood's research here.

Publications

Anion Regulation

Hua, Y.; Flood, A. H., Flipping the switch on chloride concentrations with a light-active foldamer, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 12838-12840. DOI.

Hua, Y.; Flood, A. H., Click chemistry generates priviliged CH hydrogen-bonding triazoles: the latest addition to anion supramolecular chemistry, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2010, 39, 1262-1271. DOI.

Hua, Y.; Ramabhadran, R. O.; Uduehi, E. O.; Karty, J. A.; Raghavachari, K.; Flood, A. H.*, Aromatic and aliphatic CH hydrogen bonds fight for chloride while competing alongside ion pairing within triazolophanes, Chem. Eur. J. 2011, 17, 312-321. DOI.

Li, Y.; Flood, A. H., "Pure CH hydrogen bonding to chloride ions: A pre-organized and rigid macrocyclic receptor," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 2649-2652. DOI.

Molecular Robotics

Share, A. I.; Parimal, K.; Flood, A. H., Bilability is defined when one electron is used to switch between concerted and step-wise pathways in Cu(I)-based bistable [2/3]pseudorotaxanes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 1665-1675. DOI.

Active Plasmonics

Witlicki, E. H.; Johnsen, C.; Hansen, S. W.; Silverstein, D. W.; Bottomley, V. J.; Jeppesen, J.O.; Wong, E.W.; Jensen, L.; Flood, A. H. Molecular Logic Gates Using Surface-Enhanced Raman-Scattered Light, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 7288-7291. DOI.

Awards

• 2011 Award for Excellence in Physical Organic Chemistry
• Cram Lehn Pedersen Award in Supramolecular Chemistry 2011
• Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar 2010
• NSF CAREER Award 2009
• Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award, 2008 and 2010
• Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles, 2002-2005

Highlights