James Canary

Xingda Lecturer, Peking University, March 13, 2015

Fellow, American Chemical Society, 2013

Outstanding Mentor Award, Harlem Children Society, 2013

Outstanding Service Award, American Chemical Society, New York Section, 2011

Who’s Who in America, 2010-present

Invited Professor, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France, April 2007

Guest Editor, Chirality, Special Issues, 2005, 2007

National ACS ChemLuminary Award (NY Section, J.W. Canary, Chair, 2006)

Chair (elected), American Chemical Society, New York Section, 2005

Chair-Elect (elected), American Chemical Society, New York Section, 2004

Director-at-Large (elected), American Chemical Society, New York Section, 2003

Editorial Board Member, Chirality, 2000-present

American Men and Women of Science, 1997-present

Goddard Fellowship, Spring 1996

Chair, Chemical Sciences Section, New York Academy of Sciences, 1994-1995

National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1988-1991

American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1988 (declined)

Dupont Outstanding Teaching Award, 1984

UCLA Graduate Division Research Grant, 1983

Kharkov, B.; Duan, X.; Tovar, E.S.; Canary, J.W.; Jerschow, A. “Singlet Excitation in the Intermediate Magnetic Equivalence Regime and Fild-dependent Study of Singlet-triplet Leakage,” PhysChemChemPhys, 2019, in revision. 

Duan, X.; Albelda, M.T.; Liu, X.; Guo, X.; Zhang, Y.; Canary, J.W. “Subtle Selection between Helicity-Determining Ether and Thioether Ligating Groups in Tripodal Coordination Complexes,” Chirality, 2019, in revision. 

Wang, X.; Li, C.; Niu, D.; Sha, R.; Seeman, N.C.; Canary, J.W. ”Construction of a DNA Origami Based Molecular Electro-optical Modulator,” Nano Lett., 2018, 18, 2112-5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b00332 

Kharkov, B.; Duan, X.; Canary, J.W.; Jerschow, A.J. “Effect of convection and B1 inhomogeneity on singlet relaxation experiments,” J. Mag. Res., 2017, 284, 1-7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmr.2017.09.005  

Duan, X.; Liu, X.; Canary, J.W. “Chiroptical Sensors,” in Lindon, J.C.; Tranter, G.E.;Koppenaal, D.W. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry, 3rd Edition, 2017, vol.1, 203-210

Canary J., (2016) Chiroptical Sensors. In: Reedijk, J. (Ed.) Elsevier Reference Module in Chemistry, Molecular Sciences and Chemical Engineering. Waltham, MA: Elsevier. 15-Nov-2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409547-2.12666-6

Zhang, Y.; Duan, X.; Soon, P.C.; Sychrovsky, V.; Canary, J.W.; Jerschow, A. “Limits in Proton Nuclear Singlet-State Lifetimes Measured with para-Hydrogen-Induced Polarization,” ChemPhysChem, 2016, in press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201600663

Mortezaei, S.; Catarineu, N.R.; Canary J.W. “Dial-in Selection of Any of Four Stereochemical Outcomes among Two Substrates by in situ Stereo-Reconfiguration of a Single Ambidextrous Catalyst,” Tetrahedron Lett. 2016, 57, 459-62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2015.12.015

Zhang, Y.; Basu, K.; Canary, J.W.; Jerschow, A. “Singlet Lifetime Measurements in an All- Proton Chemically Equivalent Spin System by Hyperpolarization and Weak Spin Lock Transfers,” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2015, 17, 24370-24375. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5cp03716f

Niu, D.; Jiang, H.; Sha, R.; Canary, J.W.; Seeman, N.C. “The Unusual and Dynamic Character of PX-DNA,” Nucl. Acids Res., 2015, 43, 7201-6.http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkv739

Mortezaei, S.; Caterineu, N.; Duan, X.; Canary, J.W. “Redox-Reconfigurable Ambidextrous Catalysis: Structural and Mechanistic Insight,” Chem. Sci. 2015, 6, 5904-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C5SC02144H

Li, D.; Wang, X.; Shi, F.; Sha, R.; Seeman, N.C.; Canary, J.W.  “Templated DNA Ligation with Thiol Chemistry,” Org. Biomol. Chem. 2014, 12, 8823–8827. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4ob01552e

Udomprasert, A.; Bongiovanni, M.N.; Sha, R.; Sherman, W.B.; Wang, T.; Arora, P.S.; Canary, J.W.; Gras, S.L.; Seeman, N.C.  “Amyloid Fibrils Nucleated and Organized by DNA Origami Constructions,” Nature Nanotech., 2014, 9, 537-41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2014.102

Zhang, Y.; Soon, P.C.; Jerschow, A.; Canary, J.W.  “Long-Lived 1H Nuclear Spin Singlet in Dimethyl Maleate Revealed by Addition of Thiols,” Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl., 2014, 53, 3396-99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201310284

Isaacman, S.; Buckley, M.; Wang, X.; Wang, E.Y.; Liebes, L.; Canary, J.W.  “Targeted Amplification of Delivery to Cell Surface Receptors by Dendrimer Self-Assembly,” Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., 2014, 24, 1290-3.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bmcl.2014.01.063

Soon, P.C.; Xu, X.; Zhang, B.; Gruppi, F.; Canary, J.W.; Jerschow, A.  “Hyperpolarization of Amino Acid Precursors to Neurotransmitters with Parahydrogen Induced Polarization,” ChemComm, 2013, 49, 5304-6.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C3CC40426A

Ye, M.; Guillaume, J.; Liu, Y.; Sha, R.; Wang, R.; Seeman, N.C.; Canary, J.W.  “Site-Specific Inter-Strand Crosslinks of DNA Duplexes,” Chem. Sci., 2013, 4, 1319-29.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C2SC21775A

Royzen, M.; Canary, J.W. "Structural Parameters in 8-Hydroxyquinoline Tripodal Ligand Complaxex in Zonc(II) affect Flourescence Quantum Yield," Polyhedron, 2013, 58, 85-91, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2012.11.027

Wang, X.; Bergenfeld, I.; Arora, P. S.;* and Canary, J. W.*.  “Reversible Redox Reconfiguration of Secondary Structures in a Designed Peptide”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 2012, 51, 12099-12101.

Gruppi, F.; Xu, X.; Zhang, B.; Tang, J. A.; Jerschow, A. A.;* and Canary, J. W.;*.  “Peptide Hydrogenation and Labeling with Parahydrogen”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 2012, 51, 11787-11790.

Wang, X.; and Canary, J. W.;*.  “Rapid Catalyst-Free Hydrazone Ligation: Protein-Pyridoxal Phosphoramides”, Bioconjug. Chem. 2012, 23, 2329-34.

Gruppi, F.; Liang, J.; Bartelle, B. B.; Royzen, M.; Turnbull, D. H.; and Canary, J. W.;*.  “Supramolecular Metal Displacement allows On-Fluorescence Analysis of Manganese(II) in Living Cells”, Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 10778-80.

Liu, Y.; Wang, R. S.; Ding, L.; Sha, R. J.; Seeman, N. C.; and Canary, J. W.  “Templated synthesis of nylon nucleic acids and characterization by nuclease digestion”, Chem. Sci. 2012, 3, 1930-1937.

Joyce, L. A.; Canary, J. W. and Anslyn, E. V.*.  “Enantio- and Chemoselective Differentiation of Protected alpha-Amino Acids and beta-Homoamino Acids with a Single Copper(II) Host”, Chem.-Eur. J. 2012, 18, 8064-8069.

Dai, Z.; Mortezaei, S.; and Canary, J. W.  “Spectroscopic Analysis: Chiroptical Sensors”, Eric M. Carreira and Hisashi Yamamoto Comprehensive Chirality, vol. 8; Elsevier, 2012, 600-624. Amsterdam: Elsevier

Mortezaei, S.; Catarineu, N. R.; and Canary, J. W.  “A Redox-Reconfigurable, Ambidextrous Asymmetric Catalyst”, J. Am Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 8054-8057.

Joyce, L.; Maynor, M.; Dragna, J.; da Cruz, G.; Lynch, V.; Canary, J.W.; Anslyn, E.V.  “A Simple Method for the Determination of Enantiomeric Excess and Identity of Chiral Carboxylic Acids,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133 13746–13752.

Dai, Z.; Canary, J.W.  “Dynamic Stereochemistry and Chiroptical Spectroscopy of Metallo-organic Compounds,” in Advances in Chiroptical Methods, vol. 2.  Berova, N.D.; Polavarapu, P; Nakanishi, K.; Woody, R., eds.  John Wiley & Sons, 2011. 

Ornelas, C.; Lodescar, R.; Durandin, A.; Canary, J.W.; Pennell, R.; Liebes, L.F.; Geacintov, N.; Weck, M.  “Combining Amino-Cyanine Dyes with Polyamide Dendrons:  A Promising Strategy for Imaging in the Near-Infrared Region,” Eur. J. Chem., 2011, 17, 3619 – 3629.

Tang, J.A.; Gruppi, F.; Fleysher, R.; Sodickson, D.K.; Canary, J.W.; Jerschow, A.  “Extended Para-Hydrogenation Monitored by NMR Spectroscopy,” ChemComm 2011, 47, 958-60.

Liang, J.; Canary, J.W.  “A Stereodynamic Tripodal Ligand with Three Different Coordinating Arms: Synthesis and Zinc(II), Copper(I) Complexation Study,” Chirality 2011, 23, 24-33.

Liang, J.; Canary, J.W.  “Discrimination between Hard Metals with Soft Ligand Donor Atoms: An On-Fluorescence Probe for Manganese(II),” Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl.  2010, 49, 7710-3.

Canary, J.W.; Mortezaei, S.; Liang, J.  “Redox-Reconfigurable Tripodal Coordination Complexes: Stereodynamic Molecular Switches",” ChemComm  2010, 46, 5850-60.

Canary, J.W.; Mortezaei, S.; Liang, J.  “Transition-Metal Based Chiroptical Switches for Molecular Electronics and Sensors,” Coord. Chem. Rev. 2010, 254, 2249-66.

Liang, J.; Zhang, J.; Zhu, L.; Duarandin, A.; Young, V. G.; Geacintov, N.; Canary, J. W. "Structures, Metal Ion Affinities, and Fluorescence Properties of Soluble Derivatives of Tris((6-Phenyl-2-Pyridyl)Methyl)Amine," Inorg. Chem. 2009, 48, 11196-11208.

Dai, Z.; Khosla, N.; Canary, J.W.  “Visible Color Displacement Sensing System for Manganese(II),” Supramol. Chem., 2009, 21, 296-300.

Canary, J.W.  “Redox-Triggered Chiroptical  Molecular Switches,” Chem. Soc. Rev., 2009, 38, 747-56.