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Eric Masson
Eric Masson
 
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Office Location:181 Clippinger Laboratories
Phone Number:740-593-9992
Fax Number:740-593-0148
E-Mail Address:masson@ohio.edu
 

 

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Lausanne, Switzerland

Bioorganic and Supramolecular Chemistry

 
Courses Taught
 
Chemistry 480/580
 
Chemistry 705
 
Chemistry 307
Advanced Organic Chemistry
 
Organometallic Chemistry
 
Organic Chemistry
Offered Fall Quarter 08-09
 
Offered Winter Quarter 08-09
 
Offered Spring Quarter 08-09
 

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW / RESEARCH ASSOCIATE POSITION IN SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

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Position available immediately

Focus is on the design, synthesis and evaluation of rotaxanes, catenanes, and other molecular machines.

Please see the details at http://www.phy.ohiou.edu/~eric/

 
Information

Research in the Masson group is at the crossroads of physical organic, bioorganic and medicinal chemistry. We are especially interested in host-guest supramolecular chemistry and in the mechanisms involved in non-covalent interactions. These interactions are tremendously important factors affecting the fascinating shape of large molecular assemblies such as proteins and DNA. Moreover, a myriad of non-covalent interactions between proteins play crucial roles in cellular pathways, such as growth and apoptosis regulation. Drug design also relies on such interactions to disrupt protein/protein or protein/DNA assemblies, in order to inhibit a specific cellular pathway.

 
Current projects include:
•    The construction of stimulus-sensitive nanostructures and molecular machines.
•    The design, synthesis and evaluation of new rotaxanes and other interlocked structures, and their applications as molecular machines.
•    The disruption of protein/protein interactions with new potent anti-cancer agents generated by dynamic combinatorial chemistry.
•    The synthesis and evaluation of planar substrates designed to bind to the minor groove of DNA. Applications will be oriented towards malaria treatment.
•    The elucidation and applications of the mysterious anion-pi interaction phenomenon. While such interactions have been shown to be highly favorable in silico, their existence in solution is yet to be demonstrated.
•    The regioselective functionalization of aromatic and heteroaromatic coumponds using “green polar organometallic chemistry” on solid phase

 
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