Publications in International Journals

1. Efficient Catalytic Proficiency for Chemically Distinct Reactions (with Ann Babtie, Luis Olguin and Florian Hollfelder) Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 48, 3692-3694 (2009). 
2. Effiziente katalytische Promiskuität für chemisch unterschiedliche Reaktionen (with Ann C. Babtie, Luis F. Olguin, Florian Hollfelder) Angewandte Chemie, 121, 3746-3749 (2009).
3. Reversible Photo-Regulation of a Hammerhead Ribozyme using a Diffusible Effector (with Hyun-Wu Lee, Stephen Robinson, Reginald Mitchell, and Dipankar Sen), Journal of  Molecular Biology, 371, 1163–1173 (2007).
4. Isotactic Polyethylenimines Induce Formation of L Amino Acids in Transamination (with Wenjun Zhou and Ronald Breslow), Organic Letters, 9, 1009–1012 (2007).
5. Molecular Digial Multiplexer (with Joakim Andreasson, Stephen D. Straight, Reginald H. Mitchell, Thomas A. Moore, Ana L. Moore, and Devens Gust), Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 46,  958-961 (2007).
6. Water Exclusion and Enantioselectivity in Catalysis (with Ronald Breslow, Mindy Levine and Wenjun Zhou), ChemBioChem, 7, 1491-1496 (2006).
7. Multistate p Switches: Synthesis and Photochemistry of a Molecule Containing Three Switchable Annelated Dihydropyrene Units. (with Reginald H. Mitchell, Cornelia Bohne, Yunxia Wang, and Chelsea Wozniak),  Journal of Organic Chemistry, 71(1), 327-336 (2006).
8. Molecular AND and INHIBIT Gates Based on Control of Porphyrin Fluorescence by Photochromes  (with Stephen D. Straight, Joakim Andreasson, Gerdenis Kodis, Reginald H. Mitchell, Thomas A. Moore, Ana L. Moore, and Devens Gust), Journal of the American Chemical Society, 12,  9403-9409 (2005).  This work was featured in Chemistry and Industry Highlight, Sept 5, 2005.
9. 13-Methyl-2,6-dithia[7]metacyclophane: A Useful Molecule To Connect VT NMR Results and Structure with Calculations.  ( with Reginald Mitchell, Rachel Blunden, Gavin Hollett, Richard Vaughan Williams, and Brendan Twamley), Journal of Organic Chemistry,70(2),  675-680   (2005). 
10. Molecule-Based Photonically Switched Half-Adder (with Joakim Andreasson, Gerdenis Kodis, Yuichi Terazono, Paul Liddell, Reginald Mitchell, Thomas Moore, Ana Moore, and Devens Gust), Journal of the American Chemical Society, 126(49),  15926-15927 (2004). 
11. Linked Photoswitches Where Both Photochromes Open and Close, (with Reginald Mitchell), Organic Letters,6(11), 1729-1732 (2004).
12. Photonic Switching of Photoinduced Electron Transfer in a Dihydropyrene-Porphyrin-Fullerene Molecular Triad, (with  Paul A. Liddell, Gerdenis Kodis, Joakim Andreasson, Linda De la Garza, Reginald Mitchell, Thomas A. Moore, Ana L. Moore, and Devens Gust), Journal of the American Chemical Society, 126(15),  4803-4811 (2004). 
13. Mechanistic studies on the photochromism of [e]-annelated dimethyldihydropyrenes, (with Molina A. L. Sheepwash, Timothy R. Ward, Yunxia Wang, Reginald Mitchell, and Cornelia Bohne), Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 2(2),  104-112   (2003).
14. Dimethyldihydropyrene-Dehydrobenzoannulene Hybrids: Studies in Aromaticity and Photoisomerization, (with David  Kimball, Michael Haley, Reginald Mitchell, Timothy Ward, Richard Vaughan Williams, and John Armantrout), Journal of Organic Chemistry, 67(25),  8798-8811  (2002).
15. A Theoretical and Experimental Scale of Aromaticity. The First Nucleus-Independent Chemical Shifts (NICS) Study of the Dimethyldihydropyrene Nucleus (with Richard Vaughan Williams, John R. Armantrout, Brendan Twamley, Reginald Mitchell, and Timothy Ward), Journal of the American Chemical Society, 124(45),  13495-13505 (2002).

  Invited Talks

1. 56th ACS Northwest Regional Meeting, Seattle, Washington, USA. “Multistate Optoelectronic Switch Based on Dihydropyrene Systems.”. June 2000.
2. 85th Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference, Vancouver, BC. Paper 1283 “A Multistate Photoswitch’’. June 2002.
3. Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, “Multistate, Multimode Molecular Photoswitches”. January 2005.