Thomas Lectka

Thomas Lectka is an American organic chemist, academic and researcher. He is Jean and Norman Scowe Professor of Chemistry and leads the Lectka Group at Johns Hopkins University.

Lectka specializes in areas of catalysis in synthetic and mechanistic organic chemistry and has authored over 120 research publications. He has made contributions in the discovery of metal-catalyzed amide isomerization; the development of first practical method for the catalytic, asymmetric synthesis of beta-lactams; the synthesis of [C-F-C] fluoronium ions; and site-selective aliphatic fluorination. Provided by Wikipedia