James N. Wilson
Assistant Professor, Organic Chemistry

Ph. D., Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 2004
Post-doctorate, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 2005-2007
Lecturer, University of San Franciso, San Franciso, CA 2007-2008

E-mail: jnwilson@miami.edu

• “Efficient Quenching of Oligomeric Fluorophores on a DNA Backbone.” Wilson, J. N.; Teo, Y. N.; Kool, E. T. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, 15426-15427

• “Quenching of Fluorescent Nucleobases by Neighboring DNA:  The “Insulator” Concept.”  Wilson, J. N.; Cho, Y.; Tan, S.; Cuppoletti, A.; Kool, E. T. ChemBioChem, 2007, 9, 279-285.

• “Oligodeoxyfluorosides: Strong Sequence Dependence of Fluorescence Emission.” Wilson, J. N.; Gao, J. Kool, E. T. Tetrahedron, 2007, 63, 3427-3433.

• “Fluorescent DNA base replacements: reporters and sensors for biological systems.” Wilson, J. N.; Kool, E.T. Org. Biomol. Chem., 2006, 4, 4255-4264.

• “Cruciforms as Functional Fluorophores: Response to Protons and Selected Metal Ions.” Zucchero, A. J.; Wilson, J. N.; Bunz, U. H. F. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 11872-11881.

• “Reduced Fluorescence Quenching of Cyclodextrin-Acetylene Dye Rotaxanes.” Park, J. S.; Wilson, J. N.; Hardcastle, K. I.; Bunz, U. H. F. Srinivasarao, M. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 7714-7715.

• “Switching of Intramolecular Charge Transfer in Cruciforms: Metal Ion Sensing.” Wilson, J. N.; Bunz, U. H. F. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127. 4124-4125.

• “Nanostructuring of poly(aryleneethynylene)s: Formation of nanotowers, nanowires, and nanotubules by templated selfassembly.” Wilson, J. N.; Bangcuyo, C. G.; Erdogan, B.; Myrick, M. L.; Bunz, U. H. F. Macromolecules, 2003, 36, 1426-1428.

• “Bandgap-Engineering of Poly(paraphenyleneethynylene)s: Cross-Conjugated PPE-PPV Hybrids.” Wilson, J. N.; Windscheif, P. M.; Evans, U.; Myrick, M. L.; Bunz, U. H. F. Macromolecules, 2002, 35, 8681- 8683.

• “Chiroptical properties of poly(para-phenyleneethynylene) copolymers in thin films: Large g-values.” Wilson, J. N.; Steffen, W.; McKenzie, T. G.; Lieser, G.; Oda, M.; Neher, D.; Bunz, U. H. F. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2002, 124, 6830-6831.
  
  
• “Acetylene gas: A reagent in the synthesis of high molecular weight poly(para-phenyleneethynylene)s utilizing very low catalyst loadings.” Wilson, J. N.; Waybright, S. M.; McAlpine, K.; Bunz, U. H. F. Macromolecules, 2002, 35, 3779.