PML Biographical Summary

Paul M. Lahti
Organic, Materials, and Computational Chemistry

A.B. (Chemistry)	Cornell University	1978
M.S. (Chemistry)	Yale University	1980
M.Phil. (Chemistry)	Yale University	1981
Ph. D. (Chemistry)	Yale University	1985
Asst. Professor	University of Massachusetts	1985-1992
Assoc. Professor	University of Massachusetts	1992-1995
Professor	University of Massachusetts	1995-
Head of Department	UMass Chemistry Dept	1999-2002
Adjunct Professor	UMass Polymer Science & Engineering Dept	2000-2007
Associate Dean	UMass College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics	2004-2007
Co-Director	UMass Energy Frontier Research Center	2009-

Recipient of College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics Outstanding Teaching (1994), Research (2007), and Service (2009) Awards.

Selected Recent Bibliography

Paul M. Lahti (Editor), Molecular Magnetism in Organic-Based Materials, Marcel Dekker, New York, NY (1999): 728 pages, ISBN 0-8247-1976-X.
Paul M. Lahti, “Magneto-structural Correlations in π-Conjugated Nitroxide-based Radicals: Hydrogen-bonds and Related Interactions in Molecular Organic Solids”, in Carbon-based magnetism: An overview of the magnetism of metal-free carbon-based compounds and materials, Tatiana Markova and Fernando Palacio (eds)., Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2006) pp 23-52.
Hemali P. Rathnayake, Ali Cirpan, Zeynep Delen, Paul M. Lahti, Frank E. Karasz, "Optimizing OLED efficacy of 2,7-diconjugated 9,9-dialkylfluorenes by variation of periphery substitution and conjugation length", Adv. Funct. Mater. 17, 115-122 (2007).
Michael Y. Odoi, Nathan I. Hammer, Hemali P. Rathnayake, Paul M. Lahti, Michael D. Barnes, “Single Molecule Studies of a Model Fluorenone”, ChemPhysChem, 8, 1481-1486 (2007).
Hidenori Murata, Paul M. Lahti, “Synthesis and Chemical Oxidation of Triarylamine Derivatives Bearing Hydrogen Bonding Groups”, J. Org. Chem., 72, 4974-4977 (2007).
Hemali P. Rathnayake, Ali Cirpan, Frank E. Karasz, Michael Y. Odoi, Nathan I. Hammer, Michael D. Barnes, Paul M. Lahti, “Luminescence of Molecular and Block Copolymeric 2,7-Bis(phenylethenyl)-fluorenones; Identifying Green-band Emitter Sites in a Fluorene-Based Luminophore”, Chem. Mater., 72, 974-4977 (2007).
Ali Cirpan, Hemali P. Rathnayake, Paul M .Lahti, Frank E. Karasz, “Luminescence of Fluorenes 2,7-Conjugatively Extended with 1’-Pyrenylvinylene and 1’-Pyrenylvinylene-4’’-Phenylenevinylene”, J. Mater. Chem., 17, 3030-3036 (2007).
Hidenori Murata, Joel T. Mague, Safo Aboaku, Naoki Yoshioka, Paul M. Lahti, "An Organic Radical Solid Solution with Strong Ferromagnetic Exchange", Chem. Mater., 19, 4111-4113 (2007).
Hidenori Murata, Yuji Miyazaki, Akira Inaba, Armando Paduan-Filho, Valdir Bindilatti, Nei Fernandes Oliveira Jr., Zeynep Delen, Paul M. Lahti, “2-(4,5,6,7-Tetrafluorobenzimidazol-2-yl)-4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazole-3-oxide-1-oxyl, A Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Quasi-1D Ferromagnet”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 186-194 (2008).