Biography

(b. 1979) B.S. with Honors, New York University (2001); Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007); NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007-2010)
 

Research Overview

The Rosenthal Research Lab's work is focused on new platforms with unique electronic and reactivity profiles to address issues relating to 1) environmental and energy sustainability, 2) catalysis and upconversion of small molecule substrates, and 3) development of improved light-based therapeutics for treatment of cancer and other diseases.

Our work places major emphasis on the design and construction of new compounds and materials with projects involving the synthesis of new coordination complexes with non-traditional ligand architectures, porous inorganic materials, and metal-based alloys. We partner our efforts in chemical synthesis with expertise in electrochemistry, photochemistry & spectroscopy, as well as many other analytical and physical characterization methods. As a result, members of our group gain direct exposure to chemical synthesis, electrochemistry, materials chemistry, photochemistry, catalysis, surface science, and spectroscopy. Students also benefit through interactions with our network of collaborators at UD, other universities, and National Labs to learn about computational chemistry and ultrafast spectroscopy, as well as tissue culture and cell biology.

You can keep up to date on what's going on in our group by following us on Twitter (@rosenthal_lab)! We also invite you to learn more about our research facilities and instrumentation, our prior work, and the compelling scientific problems we are tackling by visiting our group's website.
 

Representative Publications

1)  Maxwell I. Martin, Qiuqi Cai, Glenn P.A. Yap, and Joel Rosenthal "Synthesis, Redox and Spectroscopic Properties of Pd(II) 10,10-Dimethylisocorrole Complexes Prepared via Bromination of Dimethylbiladiene Oligotetrapyrroles"Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 18241–18252. (DOI:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02721)

2)  Thabiso Kunene, Abderrahman Atifi, and Joel Rosenthal "Selective CO2 Reduction Over Rose's Metal in the Presence of an Imidazolium Ionic Liquid Electrolyte" ACS App. Energy Mat. 2020, 3, 4193–4200. (DOI:110.1021/acsaem.9b01995)

3)  Alexandra M. Antonio, Joel Rosenthal, and Eric D. Bloch "Electrochemically-Mediated Syntheses of Titanium(III)-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 11383-11387. (DOI:10.1021/jacs.9b05035)

4)  Thabiso Kunene, Lu Xiong and Joel Rosenthal "Solar-powered synthesis of hydrocarbons from carbon dioxide and water" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2019, 116, 9693-9695. (DOI:10.1073/pnas.1904856116)

5)  Andrea M. Potocny, Rachel S. Riley, Rachel K. O'Sullivan, Emily S. Day, and Joel Rosenthal "Photochemotherapeutic Properties of a Linear Tetrapyrrole Palladium(II) Complex displaying an Exceptionally High Phototoxicity Index"Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 10608–10615. (DOI:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b01225)

6)  Abderrahman Atifi, David W. Boyce, John L. DiMeglio, and Joel Rosenthal "Directing the Outcome of CO2 Reduction at Bismuth Cathodes Using Varied Ionic Liquid Promoters" ACS Catalysis. 2018, 8, 2857–2863. (DOI:10.1021/acscatal.7b03433)

7)  Jonnathan Medina-Ramos, Sang Soo Lee, Timothy T. Fister, Aude A. Hubaud, Robert L. Sacci, David R. Mullins, John L. DiMeglio, Rachel C. Pupillo, Stephanie M. Velardo, Daniel A. Lutterman, Joel Rosenthal, and Paul Fenter "Structural Dynamics and Evolution of Bismuth Electrodes during Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 in Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquid Solutions" ACS Catalysis. 2017, 7, 7285–7295. (DOI:10.1021/acscatal.7b01370)

8)  Gabriel A. Andrade, John L. DiMeglio, Eric T. Guardino, Glenn P.A. Yap and Joel Rosenthal "Synthesis and Structure of Palladium(II) Complexes Supported by bis-NHC Pincer Ligands for the Electrochemical Activation of CO2" Polyhedron 2017, 135, 134-143. (DOI:10.1016/j.poly.2017.06.018)