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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society
  • 2006 - Herty Medal, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1985 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1977 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Gary B. Schuster is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, with a significant focus on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology as well as physics and astronomy. The scientist's main subfields include molecular biology, astronomy and astrophysics, biomaterials, organic chemistry, and endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.

The research topics Gary B. Schuster has contributed to are diverse and include:

  • DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
  • Origins and Evolution of Life
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • RNA and Protein Synthesis Mechanisms
  • Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
  • Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
  • Enzyme Structure and Function

Selected recent papers illustrate the focus on molecular self-assembly and prebiotic chemistry. These include:

  • "Water-Soluble Supramolecular Polymers of Paired and Stacked Heterocycles: Assembly, Structure, Properties, and a Possible Path to Pre-RNA," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021
  • "Depsipeptide Nucleic Acids: Prebiotic Formation, Oligomerization, and Self-Assembly of a New Proto-Nucleic Acid Candidate," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021
  • "X-ray Fiber Diffraction and Computational Analyses of Stacked Hexads in Supramolecular Polymers: Insight into Self-Assembly in Water by Prospective Prebiotic Nucleobases," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021
  • "A Plausible Prebiotic Path to Nucleosides: Ribosides and Related Aldosides Generated from Ribulose, Fructose, and Similar Abiotic Precursors," Chemistry - A European Journal, 2022
  • "Supramolecular assembly-enabled homochiral polymerization of short (dA)n oligonucleotides," Chemical Communications, 2021

Gary B. Schuster's frequent co-authors include:

  • Nicholas V. Hud
  • Suneesh C. Karunakaran
  • David M. Fialho
  • Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy
  • Asem Alenaizan

The scholar has published most often in the following venues:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Life
  • Chemical Communications
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Gary B. Schuster has received several recognitions, including:

  • Fellow of the American Chemical Society, 2017
  • Herty Medal, American Chemical Society (ACS), 2006
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2004
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1985
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1977

Best Publications

  • Long-range charge transfer in DNA: transient structural distortions control the distance dependence.

    Gary B. Schuster

  • Long-distance charge transport in duplex DNA: The phonon-assisted polaron-like hopping mechanism

    Paul T. Henderson;Denise Jones;Gregory Hampikian;Yongzhi Kan

  • Chemiluminescence of organic peroxides. Conversion of ground-state reactants to excited-state products by the chemically initiated electron-exchange luminescence mechanism

    Gary B. Schuster

  • Charge Migration in DNA: Ion-Gated Transport

    Robert N. Barnett;Charles L. Cleveland;Abraham Joy;Uzi Landman

  • Oxidation of DNA: Damage to Nucleobases

    Sriram Kanvah;Joshy Joseph;Gary B. Schuster;Robert N. Barnett

  • Intramolecular Photoinduced Electron Transfer to Anthraquinones Linked to Duplex DNA: The Effect of Gaps and Traps on Long-Range Radical Cation Migration

    Susan M. Gasper;Gary B. Schuster

  • Lifetime of singlet oxygen in solution directly determined by laser spectroscopy

    John R. Hurst;J. D. McDonald;Gary B. Schuster

  • Photochemistry of carbocyanine alkyltriphenylborate salts: intra-ion-pair electron transfer and the chemistry of boranyl radicals

    Subhanakar Chatterjee;Paul D. Davis;Peter Gottschalk;Michael E. Kurz

  • Electron-transfer reactions in cyanine borate ion pairs: photopolymerization initiators sensitive to visible light

    Subhankar. Chatterjee;Peter. Gottschalk;Paul D. Davis;Gary B. Schuster

  • Anthraquinone Photonucleases: Mechanisms for GG-Selective and Nonselective Cleavage of Double-Stranded DNA

    David T. Breslin;Gary B. Schuster

  • 1,2-Didehydroazepines from the photolysis of substituted aryl azides: analysis of their chemical and physical properties by time-resolved spectroscopic methods

    Yu Zhuo. Li;John P. Kirby;Michael W. George;Martyn. Poliakoff

  • Mechanism of Charge Transport in DNA: Internally-Linked Anthraquinone Conjugates Support Phonon-Assisted Polaron Hopping

    Danith Ly;Laurie Sanii;Gary B. Schuster

  • Tetramethyl-1,2-dioxetane. Experiments in chemiexcitation, chemiluminescence, photochemistry, chemical dynamics, and spectroscopy

    Nicholas J. Turro;Peter Lechtken;Neil E. Schore;Gary Schuster

  • Cleavage of DNA by Irradiation of Substituted Anthraquinones: Intercalation Promotes Electron Transfer and Efficient Reaction at GG Steps

    Danith Ly;Yongzhi Kan;and Bruce Armitage;Gary B. Schuster

  • Photochemistry of phenyl azide: chemical properties of the transient intermediates

    Alan K. Schrock;Gary B. Schuster

  • Cationic Anthraquinone Derivatives as Catalytic DNA Photonucleases: Mechanisms for DNA Damage and Quinone Recycling

    Bruce Armitage;Changjun Yu;Chelladurai Devadoss;Gary B. Schuster

  • Chemically initiated electron exchange luminescence. A new chemiluminescent reaction path for organic peroxides

    Ja-Young Koo;Gary B. Schuster

  • Bioluminescence of the firefly: key steps in the formation of the electronically excited state for model systems

    Ja-Young Koo;Steven P. Schmidt;Gary B. Schuster

  • Nonradiative relaxation of singlet oxygen in solution

    John R. Hurst;Gary B. Schuster

  • Adamantylideneadamantane-1,2-dioxetane. Chemiluminescence and decomposition kinetics of an unusually stable 1,2-dioxetane

    Gary B. Schuster;Nicholas J. Turro;Hans-Christian Steinmetzer;A. Paul Schaap

Frequent Co-Authors

Uzi Landman
Uzi Landman Georgia Institute of Technology
Nicholas V. Hud
Nicholas V. Hud Georgia Institute of Technology
Nicholas J. Turro
Nicholas J. Turro Columbia University
Loren Dean Williams
Loren Dean Williams Georgia Institute of Technology
Tom Autrey
Tom Autrey Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Martyn Poliakoff
Martyn Poliakoff University of Nottingham
Bruce A. Armitage
Bruce A. Armitage Carnegie Mellon University
Peter E. Nielsen
Peter E. Nielsen University of Copenhagen
Ole Buchardt
Ole Buchardt University of Copenhagen
Yuanhui Zhang
Yuanhui Zhang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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