Christopher S. Foote Memorial Poster Session

Held at the UCLA Faculty Center

5pm on October 14, 2005

Poster titles:
(1) "Rearrangement of 5-hydroxy-8-oxoguanosine, a Guanosine Oxidation Intermediate" Jeremy McCallum and Christopher S. Foote, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

(2) "Mechanistic Studies on the Cycloaddition Reactions of Tetraethoxyethylene and Fullerenes" Corrie Y. Kuniyoshi, Christopher S. Foote, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

(3) "Product Structural Analysis and Detection of Transient Intermediates in the Low Temperature Photosensitized Oxidation of a 9-Substituted-7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanosine Derivative" Patrick L. Theofanis, Jeremy McCallum, and Christopher S. Foote, UCLA.

(4) "An Application of Phosphine-Catalyzed [4+2] Annulation: A New Approach Towards Different Monoterpenoid Indole Alkaloids" Yang S. Tran, Reymundo A. Villa, and Ohyun Kwon, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of
California, Los Angeles

(5) "TiO2 Photocatalysis of Arsenic: Mechanistic Studies and Potential Applications" Tielain Xu and Kevin O'Shea, Department of Chemistry, Florida International University, University Park, Miami, Florida

(6) "Blue-Green Algae Toxins: From Health Threats to Oxidative Degradation" Adriana Campos-Serrano, Sabrina Bardowell, Weihua Song and Kevin O'Shea,
Department of Chemistry, Florida International University, University Park, Miami, Florida

(7) "Reactions of Singlet Oxygen with the Urocanic Acid" Roberto Roa and Kevin O'Shea, Department of Chemistry, Florida International University, University Park, Miami, Florida

(8) "The reaction of N-methyl-1,2,4-triazoline-3,5-dione with
tetracyclopropylethylene. Formation of an unusual meso-ionic product and its rearrangement to the diazetidine" Duk Kyung Kim and Kevin O'Shea, Department of Chemistry, Florida International University, University Park, Miami, Florida

(9) "Isotopic Perturbation of Equilibrium Studies on Aziridinium Imide" Brian Ohta and Ruth Hough, Department of Chemistry, Villanova University

(10) "Direct Observation of Peroxidic Intermediates in the Oxidation of Arylphosphines with Singlet Oxygen: Non-radical Olefins Oxidation" David G. Ho, Ruomei Gao, and Matthias Selke, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
California State University, Los Angeles

(11) "Singlet Oxygen Generation from Water-soluble Quantum
Dot-Organic Dye Nanocomposites" Lixin Shi, Ana Gamboa, Billy Hernandez, and Matthias Selke, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University, Los Angeles

(12) "Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Inhibitors of Polysialic Acid Biosynthesis" Jessica Wong, Daisuke Nakata, Frederick A. Troy III, and Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis

(13) "Singlet oxygen stereoselectivity through vibrational deactivation." T. Poon (1), C. Hooper1, J. Sivaguru2, H. Saito3, M. Solomon2, Y. Inoue3, W.1Joint Science Department, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges,
Claremont, California. 2The Department of Chemistry and the Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York. 3The Department of Molecular Chemistry, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Japan and The
Entropy Control Project, ICORP, JST, 4-6-3 Kamishinden, Toyonaka, Japan. 4Institute für Organische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, 97074 Würzburg,Germany, and the Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, PR 00931.

(14) "The Photophysics and Photochemisty of Hypericin with Melanins: A Protective Effect Explained" Colleen Sutton and Christopher S. Foote, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

(15) "Current Research in the Houk Group" K. N. Houk, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

(16) "Oxygen Scavenging Polymers for Food Packaging" Ta Yen Ching, Chevron Phillips Chemical Co., Kingwood, TX

(17) "The Impact of an Ultramild Foaming Hand Cleanser on Skin Health of Healthcare Workers - Can Laboratory Findings be Validated in a Clinical Healthcare Setting?" J. W. Arbogast1, C. Ferrazzano Yaussy1, B. Reece2, and E. Young3. 1GOJO Industries, Inc., Akron, OH. 2Reliance Clinical Testing
Services, Inc., Irving, TX. 3Robinson Memorial Hospital, Ravenna, OH

(18) "Reducing Lost Training Time in IET: A Comprehensive Hand Hygiene Approach at Fort Sill, OK" Major P. Mott1, Captain B. Sisk2, J. W. Arbogast3, C. Ferrazzano Yaussy3, Major (P) J. Sheehan2. 1US Army Center for Health
Promotion and Preventive Medicine. 2Reynolds Army Community Hospital, Fort
Sill, OK. 3GOJO Industries, Inc., Akron, OH

(19) "Light Management in Electronic Image Sensors - Fabrication of Color Filter and Microlens Arrays" Ronald Wake, Eastman Kodak Research Labs, Rochester, NY

(20) "Ozonolysis of C60 and Separation of Oxidized Fullerenes" Shailendra Kumar1, Sam T. Cosentino1, Ronnie N. Brown1, and Ripudaman Malhotra2.
1Division of Science, Governors State University, University Park, IL. 2SRI International, Menlo Park, CA

(21) "Adventures in Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Diels-Alder as a Route for Highly Hindered Cyclohexenes and Progress Toward the Synthesis of Heterumaimides E" David G. Ho and Michael E. Jung, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

(22) "Generation of a Novel C2-Symmetric Bis-dioxirane:
3,3'-Dimethyl-[3,3']bidioxirane" Nahed Sawwan and Alexander Greer, Department of Chemistry, Graduate Center & The City University of New York (CUNY), Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York

(23) "Polysulfane Natural Products as Evolved Chemical Warfare Agents. Biomimetic Synthesis and Mechanistic Studies" Edyta M. Brzostowska and Alexander Greer, Department of Chemistry, Graduate Center & The City
University of New York (CUNY), Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York

(24) "Bonding on Mussel Beach: Oxidative Crosslinking and Degradation of Mussel Adhesive Protein" Brian R. Baker, Jeong-Yeol Yoon, Azim Laiwalla and Robin L. Garrell Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

(25) "Borromean Ring Compounds" Kelly S. Chichak1, Andrea J. Peters1, Stuart J. Cantrill1, J. Fraser Stoddart, Jerry L. Atwood2, and Gareth W. V. Cave3
(Poster Presenter: Cari D. Pentecost1) 1California NanoSystems Institute and
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles. 2Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia. 3Schoolof Biomedical and Natural Sciences, Nottingham Trent University

(26) "Nuances of Molecular Structure in Device Performance" Jang-Wook Choi, Scott Vignon, Amar H. Flood, James R. Heath, J. Fraser Stoddart, (Poster Presenter: Adam Braunschweig), California Nanosystems Institute and Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles (Vignon, Flood, Stoddart), Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (Choi, Heath)

(27) "Mechanochemistry of Rotaxanes: Functional Devices and the Measurement of Single-Molecule Actuation Energetics" Branden Brough, Jacob J. Schmidt, Hsian-Rong Tseng, Kendall N. Houk, J. Fraser Stoddart, Chih-Ming-Ho, (Poster Presenter: Brian H. Northrop), UCLA Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Branden and Ho), UCLA Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging (Tseng), UCLA Dept. of Biomolecular Engineering (Schmidt)

(28) "Template-Directed Synthesis of Mechanically Interlocked Molecules Under Thermodynamic Control" Fabio Arico, Theresa Chang, Saeed I. Khan, Stuart Cantrill, J. Fraser Stoddart, (Poster Presenter: Daniela Lanari) California
NanoSystems Institute and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

(29) "Template-Directed Olefin Cross-Metathesis Incorporating Ammonium Ion-Crown Ether Supramolecular Complexations" Daniela Lanari2, Alshakim Nelson2, Stuart Cantrill1, Katherine Poulin2, Robert H. Grubbs2, J. Fraser
Stoddart1, (Poster Presenter: Ken C.-F. Leung). 1California NanoSystems Institute and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles. 2The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Laboratory, California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

(30) "Photophysical Properties of Three New C60 Derivatives- Characterization of a 1,2,3,4,5,6-Hexasubstituted C60 Adduct". Khin K. Chin, Shih-Ching Chuang, Billy Hernandez, Matthias Selke, Yves Rubin, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of
California, Los Angeles

(31) "TBA" Richard Julius, Omar Farha, Mark Lee, M. Frederick Hawthorne, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

(32) "Solubilization of Double Cable Polymer: Towards Improved Charge Mobility
in Solar Cells". Ana Tontcheva, Alex Ayzner, Yves Rubin, Sara Tolbert, Ben Schwarz.

(33) "Regioregular Poly(Phenyleneethynylenes)" Eugene Rozumov