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Research Interests

The research interest of the Scott group is to design and synthesize organic materials with desired properties and functions - specifically biological properties and functions. Some properties that I am interested in include conductivity, electron transfer, porosity, and optical sensing of biological analytes. Due to the design-by-properties and function approach, the application of my research interests can be broad. I am also interested in developing synthetic methods to covalently link different organic materials with known properties and study the properties of the new material.We will also extend our work to fabricate nano-sized compounds (eg Nano-sheets).

Selected Publications

Scott, C.N., Wilcox, C.S., "A Mild Synthesis of Unsymmetrical Bis-Alkoxysilanes through Catalyzed Alcoholysis of Hydridosilanes containing C-C Multiple Bonds and Aryl Halides", J. Org. Chem. 2010,75,253-256.

Scott, C.N., Wilcox, C.S., "A Mild synthesis of Unsymmetrical Bis-Alkoxysilanes through Catalyzed Alcoholysis of Hydridosilanes" Synthesis 2004, 16, 2273.

Kar, S., Lefterov, I.M., Wang, M., Lazo, J.S., Scott, C.N., Wilcox, C.S., Carr, B.I., "Binding and Inhibition of Cdc25 Phosphates by Vitamin K Analogs", Biochemistry 2003, 42, 10490-10497.