Professor of Chemistry
B.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology; Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin

Email:

Personal Homepage: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/schuster/people/schuster/schuster.htm

Research Interests:

Synthesis of new types of fullerene derivatives; synthesis of porphyrin-fullerene dyads with flexible and rigid linkers; photoadditions to C60 and C70; photophysical studies of porphyrin-fullerene dyads; topological control of electron transfer and energy transfer in porphyrin-fullerene dyads; sensitization of singlet oxygen formation by fullerenes; fullerene derivatives as inhibitors of HIV-protease and in photodynamic therapy

Fellowships/Honors:

National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowships, 1956-60; Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 1967-69; National Science Foundation Science Faculty Fellowship, 1975-76; Elected Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1992; Golden Dozen Awards for Teaching, NYU College of Arts and Science, 1993 and 1998; Elected Fellow of the Inter-American Photochemical Society for Lifetime Achievement in the Photochemical Sciences, 2005.

Selected Works:

Vail, S. A.; Tomé, J. P. C.; Krawczuk, P. J.; Dourandin, A.; Shafirovich, V.; Cavaleiro, J. A. S.; Schuster, D. I. “Synthesis and Fluorescence Properties of a Porphyrin-Fullerene Molecular Wire”, J. Phys. Org. Chem. 2004, 17, 814-818.

Guldi, D. M.; Ramey, J.; Li, K.; Schuster, D. I. “Novel Photo- and Redoxactive Sandwiched Rotaxanes – Pseudocatenanes”, Org. Lett. 2004, 6, 1919-1922.

Tat, F. T.; Zhou, Z.; MacMahon, S.; Song, F.; Rheingold, A. L.; Echegoyen, L.; Schuster, D. I.; Wilson, S. R. “A New Fullerene Complexation Ligand: N-Pyridyl-fullero-pyrrolidine”. J. Org. Chem.  2004, 69, 4602-4606. 

Li, K.; Bracher, P. J.; Herranz, M. A.; Echegoyen, L.; Schuster, D. I. “[60]-Fullerene-   Stoppered Porphyrinorotaxanes: Pronounced Elongation of Charge-Separated State Lifetimes”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 9156-9157.

Perepichka, D. M.; Wudl, F.; Wilson, S. R.; Sun, Y; Schuster, D.I., “The Dissolution of Carbon Nanotubes in Aniline, Revisited”, J. M at. Chem. 2004, 14, 2749-2752.

Regev, A.; Tamar Galili, T.; Levanon, H.; Schuster, D.I.; Guldi, D. M. “Spin Dynamics of a “Parachute” Shaped Fullerene Porphyrin Dyad”, J. Phys. Chem. B 2004, 108, 10632-10639. 

Vail, S. A.; Paul J. Krawczuk, P. J.; Tomé, J. P. C.;  Fazio, M. A.;  Guldi, D. M.; Echegoyen, L.; Palkar, A.; Schuster, D. I., “Energy and Electron Transfer in Polyacetylene Zinc Porphyrin-[60]Fullerene Molecular Wires”, Chem. Eur.J. 2005, 11, 3375-3389.

Schuster, D.I.; MacMahon, S.; Guldi, D. M.; Echegoyen, L.; Braslavsky, S. E. “Synthesis and Photophysics of Porphyrin-Fullerene Donor-Acceptor Dyads with Conformationally Flexible Linkers” Tetrahedron 2005, 62, 1928-1936.  

Galili, T.; Regev, A.; Berg, A.;  Levanon, H.; Schuster, D. I.; Möbius, K.; Savitsky, A. “Intramolecular Electron and Energy Transfer in an Axial ZnP-Pyridylfullerene Complex as Studied by X- and W‑band Time-Resolved EPR Spectroscopy”, J. Phys. Chem. 2005, 109, 8451-8458.  

Schuster, D.I.; Li, K.; Guldi, D. M. “Porphyrin-Fullerene Photosynthetic Model Systems with Rotaxane and Catenane Architectures” Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Chim,, 2006, in press.

Rosenthal, J.; Schuster, D.I.; Cross, R. J.; Khong, A. M. “³He NMR as a Sensitive probe of Fullerene Reactivity: [2 + 2] Photocycloaddition of 3-Methylcyclohexenone to C₇₀”, J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71, 1191-1199.

Zhou, Z.; Schuster, D.I.; Wilson, S. R. “Tether-directed Selective synthesis of Fulleropyrrolidine Bisadducts”, J. Org. Chem., 2006, 71, 1545-1551.

Zhou, Z.; Ou, Z.; Song, F.; Echegoyen, L.; Kadish, K. M.; Schuster, D. I.; Wilson, S. R. “Fullerene Polypyridine Ligands: Synthesis, Ruthenium Complexes, and Electrochemical and Photophysical Properties”, Chem. Eur. J. 2006, in press.

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