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David Dolphin

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Professor EmeritusUBC ChemistryUniversity of British Columbia

David Dolphin

Professor Emeritus

UBC Chemistry

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Emeritus professors are retired and rarely take new students.
1 publication in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 21 research grants (21 NSERC), most recently in 2005.

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Latest papers

Reflections on the pigments of life.
Nature reviews. Chemistry · 2025 · senior author
Diastereoselective generation of triple-stranded helicates induced by gem-dimethyl groups on a linker.
Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) · 2012 · senior author
Self-assembly of [2×2] grids and a hexagon using bis(dipyrrin)s.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) · 2011 · senior author

All 14 publications

Latest funding

Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal Accompanying Supplement
NSERC · 2005 · Principal investigator
$800,000
Herzberg/Gold Medal
NSERC · 2004 · Principal investigator
$50,000
Polypyrrolic metal complexes
NSERC · 2003 · Principal investigator
$320,000

All 30 grants and awards

14 publications.

Reflections on the pigments of life.

Rosu-Finsen A, Dolphin D

Nature reviews. Chemistry2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41570-025-00684-9 PMID: 39809862

Diastereoselective generation of triple-stranded helicates induced by gem-dimethyl groups on a linker.

Zhang Z, Chen Y, Dolphin D

Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)2012Senior author

DOI: 10.1039/c2dt12316a PMID: 22421795

Self-assembly of [2×2] grids and a hexagon using bis(dipyrrin)s.

Ma L, Patrick BO, Dolphin D

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)2011Senior author

DOI: 10.1039/c0cc03765f PMID: 21063615

Synthesis of triple-stranded complexes using bis(dipyrromethene) ligands.

Zhang Z, Dolphin D

Inorganic chemistry2010Senior author

DOI: 10.1021/ic101694z PMID: 21070002

BODIPY-hexaphyrin hybrids.

Shin JY, Tanaka T, Osuka A, Miao Q, Dolphin D

Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2009Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/chem.200902407 PMID: 19885897

Near-Infrared absorbing azo dyes: synthesis and x-ray crystallographic and spectral characterization of monoazopyrroles, bisazopyrroles, and a boron-azopyrrole complex.

Li Y, Patrick BO, Dolphin D

The Journal of organic chemistry2009Senior author

DOI: 10.1021/jo9003019 PMID: 19572570

Facile synthesis of dicyanovinyl-di(meso-aryl)dipyrromethenes via a dipyrromethene-DDQ adduct.

Shin JY, Patrick BO, Dolphin D

Organic & biomolecular chemistry2009Senior author

DOI: 10.1039/b904446a PMID: 19421438

Self-assembly of oligomeric linear dipyrromethene metal complexes.

Miao Q, Shin JY, Patrick BO, Dolphin D

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)2009Senior author

DOI: 10.1039/b820461f PMID: 19532883

Oxidized forms of a tripyrrane: alpha-tripyrrinone, beta-tripyrrinone and a C2 symmetric hexapyrrole.

Shin JY, Hepperle SS, Patrick BO, Dolphin D

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)2009Senior author

DOI: 10.1039/b901171b PMID: 19377673

Facile synthesis of unsubstituted beta,beta'-linked diformyldipyrromethanes.

Zhang Z, Shin JY, Dolphin D

The Journal of organic chemistry2008Senior author

DOI: 10.1021/jo802114h PMID: 18998733

Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal Accompanying Supplement

Principal investigatorNSERC2005Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering

Principal investigators: Dolphin, David

$800,000

Herzberg/Gold Medal

Principal investigatorNSERC2004Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering

Principal investigators: Dolphin, David

$50,000

Polypyrrolic metal complexes

Principal investigatorNSERC2003Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Dolphin, David

$320,000

NSERC/Quadra Logic Industrial Research Chair in Photodynamic Technologies

Principal investigatorNSERC2003Industrial Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Dolphin, David

$1,490,628

Data system for high resolution mass spectrometer

Principal investigatorNSERC2002Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Dolphin, David

$59,208

C-HORSE - Centre for Higher Order Structure Elucidation

Co-investigatorCFI2002Innovation Fund: Innovation Fund (1999-2005)

Principal investigators: Orvig, Chris

Keywords: molecular recognition, high technology materials synthesis, simulation modelling, directed pharmaceutical design, X-ray diffraction, NMR

$1,464,000

Intellectual Property Management 2001-02 Competition

Principal investigatorNSERC2001Intellectual Property Mobilization - Infrastructure

Principal investigators: Dolphin, David

$239,000

Upgrading of matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) time of flight (TOF) mass spectrometer

Principal investigatorNSERC2000Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Dolphin, David

$148,766

Departmental 400 MHz NMR spectrometer

Co-investigatorNSERC1999Research Tools and Instruments - Category 3 (>$325,000)

Principal investigators: Andersen, Raymond

$757,049

Polypyrrolic metal complexes

Principal investigatorNSERC1999Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Dolphin, David

$201,600

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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David Dolphin

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Reflections on the pigments of life.

Diastereoselective generation of triple-stranded helicates induced by gem-dimethyl groups on a linker.

Self-assembly of [2&#xd7;2] grids and a hexagon using bis(dipyrrin)s.

Synthesis of triple-stranded complexes using bis(dipyrromethene) ligands.

BODIPY-hexaphyrin hybrids.

Near-Infrared absorbing azo dyes: synthesis and x-ray crystallographic and spectral characterization of monoazopyrroles, bisazopyrroles, and a boron-azopyrrole complex.

Facile synthesis of dicyanovinyl-di(meso-aryl)dipyrromethenes via a dipyrromethene-DDQ adduct.

Self-assembly of oligomeric linear dipyrromethene metal complexes.

Oxidized forms of a tripyrrane: alpha-tripyrrinone, beta-tripyrrinone and a C2 symmetric hexapyrrole.

Facile synthesis of unsubstituted beta,beta'-linked diformyldipyrromethanes.

Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal Accompanying Supplement

Herzberg/Gold Medal

Polypyrrolic metal complexes

NSERC/Quadra Logic Industrial Research Chair in Photodynamic Technologies

Data system for high resolution mass spectrometer

C-HORSE - Centre for Higher Order Structure Elucidation

Intellectual Property Management 2001-02 Competition

Upgrading of matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) time of flight (TOF) mass spectrometer

Departmental 400 MHz NMR spectrometer

Polypyrrolic metal complexes

Self-assembly of [2×2] grids and a hexagon using bis(dipyrrin)s.