Karl Thorley
Education
2010-2012: Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Universität Würzburg, Germany (w. Prof. Frank Würthner)
2006-2010: DPhil, Organic Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK (w. Prof. Harry L Anderson)
2002-2006: MChem, University of Oxford, UK
Selected Publications:
1. R.K. Hallani, K.J. Thorley, Y. Mei, S.R. Parkin, O.D. Jurchescu & J.E. Anthony, “Structural and electronic properties of crystalline, isomerically-pure anthradithiophene derivatives” Advanced Functional Materials, Accepted (2015)
2. R.K. Hallani, K.J. Thorley, A.K. Hailey, S.R. Parkin, Y.L. Loo & J.E. Anthony, “The Effect of Regioisomerism on the Crystal Packing and Device Performance of Desymmetrized Anthra-dithiophenes” Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 3, 8956–8962 (2015)
3. S. Han, K. Wang, M. Willis, L. Nuccio, F.L. Pratt, J.S. Lord, K.J. Thorley, J.E. Anthony, A.J. Drew, S. Zhang & L. Schulz, “Muonium Avoided Level Crossing Measurement of Electron Spin Relaxation Rate in a Series of Substituted Anthradithiophene Based Molecules,” Synthetic Metals, in press DOI:10.1016/j.synthmet.2015.04.020 (2015)
4. K.J. Thorley & J.E. Anthony, “The Electronic Nature and Reactivity of the Larger Acenes.” Israel Journal of Chemistry. 54, 642-649 (2014)
5. K.J. Thorley, J.M. Hales, H. Kim, S. Ohira, J.L. Brédas, J.W. Perry & H.L. Anderson, “Cyanine-like Dyes with Large Bond-Length Alternation.” Chemistry – A European Journal, 19, 10370–10377 (2013)
6. K.J. Thorley & F. Würthner, “Synthesis and Properties of a Covalently Linked Angular Perylene Imide Dimer.” Organic Letters, 14, 6190–6193 (2012)
7. K.J. Thorley & H.L. Anderson, “Extending Conjugation in Porphyrin Dimer Carbocations,” Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 8, 3472–3479 (2010)
8. S. Ohira, J.M. Hales, K.J. Thorley, H.L. Anderson, J.W. Perry & J.L. Brédas, “A New Class of Cyanine-like Dyes with Large Bond-Length Alternation,” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131, 6099–6101 (2009)
9. J.E. Reeve, H.A. Collins, K. De Mey, M.M. Kohl, K.J. Thorley, O. Paulsen, K. Clays, & H.L. Anderson, “Amphiphilic Porphyrins for Second Harmonic Generation Imaging,” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131, 2758–2759 (2009).
10. K.J. Thorley, J.M. Hales, H.L. Anderson & J.W. Perry, “Porphyrin Dimer Carbocations with Strong near Infrared Absorption and Third-Order Optical Nonlinearity,” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 47, 7095–7098 (2008)
