The University of Western Australia

UWA Staff Profile


Dr Melissa Latter

ARC Postdoctoral Fellow

Contact details

Address Chemistry
The University of Western Australia (M313)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia
Phone 6488 4455

Location

Room 318, Molecular and Chemical Sciences Building, Crawley campus

Biography

Dr Melissa Latter obtained her Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Applied Chemistry at Central Queensland University. She then moved to Flinders University in South Australia to complete her PhD under Dr Martin Johnston. Dr Latter has worked in post doctoral positions at Monash University, with Prof Steven Langford, and the University of New Orleans, with Prof Bruce Gibb. She then worked as an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Otago before taking up her current position as an ARC post doctoral Fellow at UWA in 2008.

Key research

  • Supramolecular chemistry
  • Nano-chemistry
  • Synthetic chemistry

Publications

Hutchison, J.A., Langford, S.J., Latter, M.J., Lee, M.A.P., Lowenstern, P.R., Scholes, C., Takezaki, M., Wilman, B.E., Ghiggino,K.P. Porphyrin-based Molecular Rotors as Fluorescent Probes of Nanoscale Environments, Advanced Functional Materials, 17: pp 805-813 (2007)

Langford, S.J., Latter, M.J., Woodward, C.P. Designing molecular-sized energy transducers – controlling the spin character in charge-separated states, The Spectrum, 19: pp 23-27 (2006)

Ghiggino, K.P., Hutchison, J.A., Langford, S.J., Latter, M.J., Takezaki, M. Triaminotriazines- Photophysical Investigations of a Porphyrin-appended Triazine Receptor with a Naphthalene Diimide Guest, Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, 19: pp 491-494 (2006)

Langford, S.J., Latter, M.J., Woodward, C.P. Progress in Charge Transfer Systems Utilising Porphyrin Donors and Simple Aromatic Diimide Acceptor Units,Photochemistry and Photobiology, 82: pp 1530-1540 (2006)

Langford, S.J., Latter, M.J., Woodward, C.P. Construction of Multiporphyrin Arrays via Selective Cross-Metathesis, Organic Letters, 8 (12): pp 2595-2598 (2006)

Ghiggino, K.P., Hutchison, J.A., Langford, S.J., Latter, M.J., Lee, M.A-P., Takezaki, M.A. Simple Dyad Exhibiting Microsecond Charge-Separation in Non-Polar Solvents, Australian Journal of Chemistry, 59 (3): pp 179-185 (2006)

Langford, S.J., Latter, M.J., Lau, V-L., Martin, L.L., Mechler, A. Organogels Derived From Tetranitrated Crown Ethers, Organic Letters, 8 (7): 1371-1373 (2006)

Langford, S.J., Latter, M.J. Porphyrin-Based Molecular Devices, Solid-State Phenomena, in press, (2006)

Bakker, J.M., Langford, S.T., Latter, M.J., Lee, K.A., Woodward, C.P. Template-Directed Assembly of a Macrocyclic Porphyrin Tetramer Using Olefin Metathesis, Australian Journal of Chemistry, 58 (11): pp 757-761 (2005)

Johnston, M.R., Latter, M.J.Capsules, Cages and Three-Dimensional Hosts: Self-Assembly of Complementary Monomers, Supramolecular Chemistry, 17(8): pp 595-607 (2005)

Hogan, C.F., Hutchison, J.A., Ghiggino, K.P., Langford, S.J., Latter, M.J., Lau, V-L., Murali, V.V. A 24-Crown-8 Bearing Naphthalene and Naphthoquinone Chromophores, Supramolecular Chemistry,17 (7): pp 513-519 (2005)

Belousoff, M.J., Langford, S.J., Latter, M.J., Lau, V-L. 4’,4”,5’,5”-Tetranitro-2,3:11,12-dibenzo-1,4,7,10,13,16-hexaoxacyclooctadeca-2,11-diene acetonitrile solvate monohydrate, ActaCryst, E61, o3283-o3284 (2005)

Langford, S.J., Latter, M.J., Beckmann, J. Synthesis and Characterisation of a bis(siloxy)tin(IV) porphyrin, Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 8 (10): pp 920-923 (2005)

Cheah, I.K., Langford, S.J., Latter, M.J. Concept Transfer—From Genetic Information to Molecular Logic, Supramolecular Chemistry, 17 (1-2): pp 121-128 (2005)

Johnston, M.R., Latter, M.J. Characterisation of PorphyrinSupramolecular Complexes Using NMR Diffusion Spectroscopy, Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, 6 (11&12): pp 757-762 (2002)

Johnston, M.R., Latter, M.J., Warrener, R.N. Porphyrin containing Molecular Capsules: Dimerisation of a Self-Complementary V-shaped bis-Porphyrin Cavity, Organic Letters, 4 (13): pp 2165-2168 (2002)

Johnston, M.R., Latter, M.J., Warrener, R.N. Bis-Porphyrin Cavities: From Guest Complexation to Molecular Capsule Formation, Australian Journal of Chemistry, 54 (9&10): pp 633-636 (2001)

Johnston, M.R., Latter, M.J., Warrener, R.N., Golic, M., McKavanagh, D., Margetic, D. Diels-Alder cycloadditions of 1,3-cyclohexadiene-4,5-diones (o-benzoquinones) with norbornadiene. Part I. Synthesis, Proceedings of the Electronic Conference on Synthetic Organic Chemistry-3, -4, (1999, 2000)

Margetic, D. Johnston, M.R., Latter, M.J., Warrener, R.N. Diels-Alder cycloadditions of 1,3-cyclohexadiene-4,5-diones (o-benzoquinones) with norbornadiene. Part II. A high level computational study of their stereospecificities, Proceedings of the Electronic Conference on Synthetic Organic Chemistry-3, -4, (1999, 2000)

Funding received

ARC Discovery Project: Integrated Approach to self assembled capsules

Memberships

Royal Australian Chemistry Institute (Chartered Chemist)

Research profile