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Professor of Chemistry
B.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology; Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin
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Personal Homepage: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/schuster/people/schuster/schuster.htm
Research Interests: Synthesis of new types of fullerene derivatives; synthesis of porphyrin-fullerene dyads with flexible and rigid linkers; photoadditions to C60 and C70; photophysical studies of porphyrin-fullerene dyads; topological control of electron transfer and energy transfer in porphyrin-fullerene dyads; sensitization of singlet oxygen formation by fullerenes; fullerene derivatives as inhibitors of HIV-protease and in photodynamic therapy
Fellowships/Honors: National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowships, 1956-60; Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 1967-69; National Science Foundation Science Faculty Fellowship, 1975-76; Elected Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1992; Golden Dozen Awards for Teaching, NYU College of Arts and Science, 1993 and 1998; Elected Fellow of the Inter-American Photochemical Society for Lifetime Achievement in the Photochemical Sciences, 2005.
Selected Works:
Schuster, D. I.; Li, K.; Guldi, D. M.; Palker, A.; Echegoyen, L.; Stanisky, C.; Cross, R. J.; Isossomppi, M.; Lemmetyinen, H. “Azobenzene-Linked Porphyrin Fullerene Dyads”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 15973-15962.
Megiatto, J. D., Jr.; Schuster, D. I. “General Method for Synthesis of Functionalized Macrocycles and Catenanes Using “Click” Chemistry, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 12872-12873.
Fazio, M. A.; Lee, O. P.; Schuster, D. I. “First Triazole-Linked Porphyrin-Fullerene Dyads”, Org. Lett. 2008, 21, 4979-4982.
Jakob, M.; Berg, A.; Rubin, R.; Levanon, H.; Li, K.; Schuster, D. I. “Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Porphyrin- and Fullerene/Porphyrin-Based Rotaxanes as Studied by Time-Resolved EPR Spectroscopy”, J. Phys. Chem. A 2009, 113, 5846-5854.
Megiatto, J. D., Jr.; Schuster, D. I. “’Click’ Methodology for synthesis of Functionalized [3]Catenanes: Toward Higher Interlocked Structures”, Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 5444-5448.
Schuster, D. I.; Megiatto, J. D., Jr. “Nanotubes reveal all in solution”, Nature Chem. 2009, 1, 182-183.
Fazio, M. A.; Durandin, A.; Tkachenko, N. V.; Niemi, M.; Lemmetyinen, H.; Schuster, D. I. “Synthesis, Conformational Interconversion and Photophysics of Tethered Porphyrin-Fullerene Dyads with Parachute Topology”, Chem Eur. J. 2009, 16, 7698-7705.
Megiatto, J. D, Jr.; Spencer, R.; Schuster, D. I. “Efficient One-Pot Synthesis of Rotaxanes Bearing Electron Donors and [60]Fullerene”, Org. Lett. 2009, 11, 4152-4155.
Megiatto, J. D., Jr.; Schuster, D. I. “Introduction of Useful Peripheral Functional Groups on [2]Catenanes by Combining Cu(I)-Template Synthesis with “Click” Chemistry”, New J. Chem. 2009, in press.
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