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Associate Professor of Chemistry
B.S., University of California at Berkeley Ph.D., University of California at Irvine, Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology
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Research Interests: Organic chemistry, chemical biology, and molecular recognition
Fellowships/Honors: American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship (1999-2002), James D. Watson Investigator Award (2002), Cottrell Scholar Award (2005), Whitehead Fellowship in Biomedical and Biological Sciences (2005-2006), Golden Dozen Teaching Award (2007)
Selected Works:
Chapman, R. N.; Kulp, J. L. III; Patgiri, A.; Kallenbach, N. R.; Bracken, C.; Arora, P. S. “Trapping a Folding Intermediate of the Alpha-Helix: Stabilization of the Pi-Helix.” Biochemistry (Accelerated Publication) 2008, 47, 4189-4195.
Wang, D.; Liu, J.; Zheng, Q.; Lu, M.; Arora, P. S. “Atomic Structure of a Short Alpha-Helix Stabilized by a Main Chain Hydrogen Bond Surrogate”. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 4334-4337.
Wang, D.; Lu, M.; Arora, P.S. “Inhibition of HIV-1 Fusion by Hydrogen-Bond Surrogate Based Alpha-Helices.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 1879-1882.
Angelo, N.; Arora, P. S. “Solution and Solid Phase Synthesis of Triazole Oligomers that Display Protein-like Functionality.” J. Org. Chem. 2007, 72, 7963-7967.
Chapman, R. N.; Arora, P. S. “Optimized Synthesis of Hydrogen-Bond Surrogate Helices: Surprising Effects of Microwaves on the Activity of Grubbs Catalysts.” Org. Lett. 2006, 8, 5825-5828.
Wang, D.; Chen, K.; Kulp, J. L. III; Arora, P. S. “Evaluation of Biologically Relevant Short Alpha-Helices Stabilized by a Main-Chain Hydrogen-Bond Surrogate.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 9248-9256.
Angelo, N.; Arora, P. S. “Nonpeptidic Foldamers from Amino Acids: Synthesis and Characterization of 1,3-Substituted Triazole Oligomers.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 17134-17135.
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