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Overview

Roger C. Helgeson is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Materials Science, with a specialization in Materials Chemistry. Additional areas of study include Molecular Biology and Pharmacology.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, including:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
  • Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization

Roger C. Helgeson has published research in venues such as:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Nature Chemistry

Recent publications include:

  • "Efficient Lewis acid catalysis of an abiological reaction in a de novo protein scaffold," 2021, Nature Chemistry
  • "CCDC 1972198: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination," 2021, The Cambridge Structural Database
  • "CCDC 1972193: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination," 2021, The Cambridge Structural Database
  • "CCDC 1972197: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination," 2021, The Cambridge Structural Database

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Sophie Basler
  • Sabine Studer
  • Yike Zou
  • Yusuke Ota
  • Anna Camus

Best Publications

  • Highly sensitive biological and chemical sensors based on reversible fluorescence quenching in a conjugated polymer

    Liaohai Chen;Duncan W. McBranch;Hsing Lin Wang;Roger Helgeson

  • Host-guest complexation. 48. Octol building blocks for cavitands and carcerands

    Linda M. Tunstad;John A. Tucker;Enrico Dalcanale;Jurgen Weiser

  • Host-guest complexation. 1. Concept and illustration

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

  • Host-guest complexation. 46. Cavitands as open molecular vessels form solvates

    Donald J. Cram;Stefan. Karbach;Hye Eun. Kim;Carolyn B. Knobler

  • Host-guest complexation. 20. Chiral recognition in transport as a molecular basis for a catalytic resolving machine

    Martin Newcomb;John L. Toner;Roger C. Helgeson;Donald J. Cram

  • Tetramethylpentacene: Remarkable Absence of Steric Effect on Field Effect Mobility

    Hong Meng;Michael Bendikov;Gregory Mitchell;Roger Helgeson

  • Host-guest complexation. 8. Macrocyclic polyethers shaped by two rigid substituted dinaphthyl or ditetralyl units

    Donald J. Cram;Roger C. Helgeson;Stephen C. Peacock;Lester J. Kaplan

  • Host-guest complexation. 35. Spherands, the first completely preorganized ligand systems

    Donald J. Cram;Takahiro Kaneda;Roger C. Helgeson;S. Bruce Brown

  • Dual-color polymer light-emitting pixels processed by hybrid inkjet printing

    Shun-Chi Chang;Jayesh Bharathan;Yang Yang;Roger Helgeson

  • Spherands-ligands whose binding of cations relieves enforced electron-electron repulsions

    Donald J. Cram;Takahiro Kaneda;Roger C. Helgeson;George M. Lein

  • An Unusual Electrochromic Device Based on a New Low‐Bandgap Conjugated Polymer

    Hong Meng;Derald Tucker;Sterling Chaffins;Yongsheng Chen

  • Computational design of catalytic dyads and oxyanion holes for ester hydrolysis.

    Florian Richter;Rebecca Blomberg;Sagar D. Khare;Gert Kiss

  • Host-guest complexation. 23. High chiral recognition of amino acid and ester guests by hosts containing one chiral element

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  • Building highly sensitive dye assemblies for biosensing from molecular building blocks.

    Robert M. Jones;Liangde Lu;Roger Helgeson;Troy S. Bergstedt

  • Chiral recognition in complexation of guests by designed host molecules

    D. J. Cram;R. C. Helgeson;L. R. Sousa;J. M. Timko

  • Host-guest complexation. 13. High chiral recognition of amino esters by dilocular hosts containing extended steric barriers

    Stephen C. Peacock;Linda A. Domeier;Fred C. A. Gaeta;Roger C. Helgeson

  • HOST‐GUEST COMPLEXATION. 22. RECIPROCAL CHIRAL RECOGNITION BETWEEN AMINO ACIDS AND DILOCULAR SYSTEMS

    Stephen S. Peacock;David M. Walba;Fred C. A. Gaeta;Roger C. Helgeson

  • Superquenching in cyanine pendant poly(L-lysine) dyes: dependence on molecular weight, solvent, and aggregation.

    Liangde Lu;Roger Helgeson;Robert M. Jones;Duncan Mcbranch

  • Host-guest complexation. 6. The [2.2]paracyclophanyl structural unit in host compounds

    Roger C. Helgeson;Thomas L. Tarnowski;Joseph M. Timko;Donald J. Cram

  • Complete optical resolution by differential complexation in solution between a chiral cyclic polyether and an .alpha.-amino acid

    Roger C. Helgeson;Kenji. Koga;Joseph M. Timko;Donald J. Cram

  • Letter: Enantiomer differentiation in transport through bulk liquid membranes.

    Martin Newcomb;Roger C. Helgeson;Donald J. Cram

  • Dual-color polymer light-emitting pixels processed by hybrid inkjet printing

    Shun-Chi Chang;Jayesh Bharathan;Roger Helgeson;Fred Wudl

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald J. Cram
Donald J. Cram University of California, Los Angeles
Carolyn B. Knobler
Carolyn B. Knobler University of California, Los Angeles
Fred Wudl
Fred Wudl University of California, Santa Barbara
Kendall N. Houk
Kendall N. Houk University of California, Los Angeles
Martin Newcomb
Martin Newcomb University of Illinois at Chicago
Kenji Koga
Kenji Koga Nara Institute of Science and Technology
George W. Gokel
George W. Gokel University of Missouri–St. Louis
David G. Whitten
David G. Whitten University of New Mexico
James M. Mayer
James M. Mayer Yale University
Hsing-Lin Wang
Hsing-Lin Wang Southern University of Science and Technology

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