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25821
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

George W. Gokel is affiliated with the University of Missouri-St. Louis in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Chemistry, and Immunology and Microbiology, with a notable focus on Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Spectroscopy, Organic Chemistry, and Biomaterials.

The research topics most frequently addressed by Gokel comprise Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior, Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities, Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection, Antimicrobial agents and applications, Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials, Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography, and Protein Structure and Dynamics.

Recent publications by Gokel include the following works:

  • Supramolecular pore formation as an antimicrobial strategy (2020) published in Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • Crown ethers having side arms: a diverse and versatile supramolecular chemistry (2021) published in Journal of Coordination Chemistry
  • Assessment of a host-guest interaction in a bilayer membrane model (2022) published in RSC Advances
  • Bis(Tryptophan) Amphiphiles Form Ion Conducting Pores and Enhance Antimicrobial Activity against Resistant Bacteria (2021) published in Antibiotics
  • Antimicrobial and Adjuvant Potencies of Di-n-alkyl Substituted Diazalariat Ethers (2023) published in Antibiotics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Gokel include Saeedeh Negin, Michael R. Gokel, Mohit B. Patel, Shanheng Yin, and Hannah Gill.

Publications are frequently found in journals such as Antibiotics, Coordination Chemistry Reviews, Journal of Coordination Chemistry, and RSC Advances.

Gokel has received recognitions including being named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2013 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1996.

Best Publications

  • Crown ethers: sensors for ions and molecular scaffolds for materials and biological models.

    George W Gokel;W Matthew Leevy;Michelle E Weber

  • Comprehensive supramolecular chemistry II

    George Gokel

  • Stereoselective syntheses. VI. Correlation of central and planar chirality in ferrocene derivatives

    Dieter Marquarding;Hans Klusacek;George Gokel;Peter Hoffmann

  • Crown Ethers and Cryptands

    George W Gokel

  • Phase Transfer Catalysis in Organic Synthesis

    William P. Weber;George W. Gokel

  • Host-guest complexation. 1. Concept and illustration

    Evan P. Kyba;Roger C. Helgeson;Khorshed Madan;George W. Gokel

  • Stereoselective syntheses. VIII. Retentive nucleophilic displacements of .alpha.-substituted alkylferrocenes

    George W. Gokel;Dieter. Marquarding;Ivar K. Ugi

  • Protein N-myristoylation

    Jeffrey Gordon;R. J. Duronio;David Rudnick;S. P. Adams

  • Synthetic models of cation-conducting channels

    George W. Gokel;Anindita Mukhopadhyay

  • Host-guest complexation. 7. The binaphthyl structural unit in host compounds

    Evan P. Kyba;George W. Gokel;Feike De Jong;Kenji Koga

  • Synthetic ion channels: from pores to biological applications

    George W. Gokel;Saeedeh Negin

  • Lariat ethers: from simple sidearms to supramolecular systems

    George W. Gokel

  • Preparation and purification of 18-crown-6[1,4,7,10,13,16-hexaoxacyclooctadecane]

    George W. Gokel;Donald J. Cram;Charles L. Liotta;Henry P. Harris

  • CLARIFICATION OF THE HOLE-SIZE CATION-DIAMETER RELATIONSHIP IN CROWN ETHERS AND A NEW METHOD FOR DETERMINING CALCIUM CATION HOMOGENEOUS EQUILIBRIUM BINDING CONSTANTS

    G. W. Gokel;D. M. Goli;C. Minganti;L. Echegoyen

  • Lariat ether receptor systems show experimental evidence for alkali metal cation-pi interactions.

    George W. Gokel;Leonard J. Barbour;Riccardo Ferdani;Jiaxin Hu

  • Experimental Evidence for Alkali Metal Cation−π Interactions

    George W. Gokel;Stephen L. De Wall;Eric S. Meadows

  • 12-, 15-, and 18-Membered-Ring Nitrogen-Pivot Lariat Ethers: Syntheses, Properties, and Sodium and Ammonium Cation Binding Properties.

    R. A. Schultz;B. D. White;D. M. Dishong;K. A. Arnold

  • Ferrocenyl Iron as a Donor Group for Complexed Silver in Ferrocenyldimethyl[2.2]cryptand: A Redox-Switched Receptor Effective in Water

    Julio C. Medina;Timothy T. Goodnow;Maria T. Rojas;Jerry L. Atwood

  • Synthetic Organic Chemical Models for Transmembrane Channels

    George W. Gokel;Oscar Murillo

  • Rationalization of the unusual electrochemical behavior observed in lariat ethers and other reducible macrocyclic systems

    Steven R. Miller;Deborah A. Gustowski;Zhi Hong. Chen;George W. Gokel

  • Advances in Supramolecular Chemistry

    George W. Gokel

Frequent Co-Authors

Luis Echegoyen
Luis Echegoyen The University of Texas at El Paso
Angel E. Kaifer
Angel E. Kaifer University of Miami
Leonard J. Barbour
Leonard J. Barbour Stellenbosch University
Paul H. Schlesinger
Paul H. Schlesinger Washington University in St. Louis
Jeffrey I. Gordon
Jeffrey I. Gordon Washington University in St. Louis
Jerry L. Atwood
Jerry L. Atwood University of Missouri
Donald J. Cram
Donald J. Cram University of California, Los Angeles
Ivar Ugi
Ivar Ugi Technical University of Munich
Frank R. Fronczek
Frank R. Fronczek Louisiana State University
Simon G. Bott
Simon G. Bott University of Houston

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