Orville
Chapman
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Professor.
Synthesis of molecules of theoretical interest; mechanistic and
preparative photochemistry; insect and mammalian pheromones;
ordered arrays, materials research. |
Christopher Foote
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Professor. Reactions of oxygen in
its ground and excited states. Photochemical oxidation in organic,
biological, and medical systems; photoprotective agents; laser
spectroscopy of transient reaction intermediates; organic photochemistry;
chemically generated excited states; fullerene chemistry and
photochemistry. |
Miguel
Garcia-Garibay
|
Associate Professor. Solid state organic
chemistry. Structure-reactivity correlations; supramolecular
organic photochemistry and absolute asymmetric synthesis; chemical
dynamics in organic crystals; X-ray diffraction and solid state
NMR; crystal engineering and organic material science. |
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Robin
Garrell
|
Associate Professor. Laser spectroscopy of surfaces, interfaces,
and thin films; experimental and theoretical studies of molecule-metal
interactions; development of new techniques for probing adlayer
microstructure and its effects on macroscopic optical andmechanical
properties such as adhesion; design of novel biomolecular and
polymeric thin films. |
Kendall
Houk
|
Professor. Theoretical and experimental
organic chemistry; design and experimental investigation of stereoselective
organic reactions and catalysts; pericyclic reaction mechanisms,
rates, and synthetic applications; exploring the origin of catalysis
by antibodies; dynamics of fast organic reactions, entropycontrol,
and solution simulations; dynamics of binding of small molecules
by hosts and carcerands; gating in molecular recognition. |
Michael
Jung
|
Professor. Organic synthesis, particularly
of biologically active natural products; development of new synthetic
methods; study of electrocyclic reactions and their use in organic
synthesis; design, synthesis and testing of inhibitors of enzymatic
reactions; bioorganic chemistry; medicinal chemistry. |
Craig
Merlic
|
Associate Professor. Organic chemistry;
applications of transition metal chemistry to organic synthesis;
new synthetic methodology; synthesis of biologically active natural
and unnatural products; organic and organometallic radical reactions;
mechanistic andsynthetic organometallic chemistry. |
Yves Rubin
|
Associate Professor. Fullerene chemistry:
total synthesis and study of buckminsterfullerene C60, its endohedral
metal complexes, and higher fullerenes (C84, etc.). Synthesis
of bowl-shaped aromatic hydrocarbons. Addition chemistry of C60
using Diels-Alder, carbene, and other cycloaddition reactions.
Organic ferromagnets : synthesis of two- and three-dimensional
high spin networks based on stable organic radicals and manganese
(II) complexes. Enediyne antitumor drugs: design and synthesis
of novel strained enediynes and study of their Bergman reactivity
and DNA cleavage properties. |
David
Sigman
|
Professor. Bioorganic chemistry; reaction
mechanisms in molecular biology; chemical nucleases; gene-specific
inhibitors; design of site-specific DNA and RNA scission reagents;
chromosomal mapping. |
Fraser
Stoddart
|
Professor. Nanoscience as it relates
to both supramolecular and macromolecular chemistry: Carbohydrate-containing
dendrimers; catenanes, rotaxanes, and knots; concept transfer
between the life sciences and materials science: interlocked
and intertwined structures and superstructures; molecular machines;
molecule shuttles, molecular switches; polycationic dendrimers;
nature of the mechanical bond; nature of the noncovalent bond;
self-assembly processes under both kinetic and thermodynamic
control; synthetic cyclic oligosaccharides; template-directed
synthesis. |
Fred
Wudl
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Professor. Optical and electrooptical
properties of processable conjugated polymers as well the organic
chemistry of fullerenes and the design and preparation of organic
ferromagnets, particularly ferromagnetic organic metals. Design
and preparation of ultrahard organic solids. Synthesis of heterocycles
exhibiting unusual solid state properties. |
