Research Highlights

 

Computational Design, Synthesis, and Optical Properties of Film-Forming, Near-Infrared Absorbing, and Fluorescent Chromophores with Multidonors and Large Heterocyclic Acceptors [PDF] [Link]
 
Min Luo , Hooman Shadnia, Gang Qian, Xiaobo Du, Dengbin Yu, Dongge Ma, James S. Wright, , Zhi Yuan Wang, Chemistry – A European Journal,
2009

 

 

 

 

 

Deconstructing the estradiol ABCD ring structure:  A new family of A-CD compounds which are potent and selective estrogen receptor agonists [PDF] [Link]
 
Tony Durst*, Mohammed Asim, James S. Wright, Hooman Shadnia, Christine Pratt, John Katzenellenbogen, Kathryn Carlsen. Bioorganic and Medicinal Biology,
2009
 

Investigation of Residues K112, E136, H138, G247, Y248, and D249 in the Active Site of Yeast Cystathionine β-Synthase [PDF] [Link]
Pratik Lodha, Hooman Shadnia, Colleen M. Helferty, James Wright, and Susan M. Aitken*. Biochemistry and Cell Biology, 2009

 
Interaction force diagrams:  New insight into ligand-receptor binding [PDF] [Link] [Download Software]

Hooman Shadnia*, James S. Wright, James M. Anderson, Journal of Computer Aided Molecular Design,
, Volume 23, No. 3, 1573,185-194, 2009
 

Computational optimization of peptides that inhibit the dimerization of estrogen receptor

Hooman Shadnia* and James S. Wright, Submitted June 2009

 

 

 

Experimental and Computer Modelling Thermodynamics Studies of Polyhalogenated Organic Compounds Adsorption from Aqueous Solutions by chemically modified Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
 
Mohamed Abdel Salam*, Hooman Shadnia, Robert Burk, Submitted Aug 2009.

 

Using molecular strain and aromaticity to create ultra-weak C-H bonds and stabilized carbon-centered radicals [PDF] [Link]
Hooman Shadnia* and James S. Wright. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 5, 1129–1136, 2009

 

Stability of carbon-centered radicals: Effect of functional groups on the energetics of addition of molecular oxygen [PDF] [Link]
James S. Wright, Hooman Shadnia, Leonid L. Chepelev. Journal of Computational Chemistry,
30(7):1016-26. 2009

 
Computational modeling of substituent effects on phenol toxicity [PDF] [Link]

[FEATURED ACS ARTICLE]

James S. Wright* and Hooman Shadnia. Chemical. Research in Toxicology, 21(7); 1426-1431, 2008

 

Understanding the toxicity of phenols:  Using QSAR and enthalpy changes to discriminate between possible mechanisms [PDF] [Link]

Hooman Shadnia* and James S. Wright. Chemical Research in Toxicology, 21(6); 1197-1204, 2008

 
Synthesis, antibacterial activity, and quantitative structure–activity relationships of new (Z)-2-(nitroimidazolylmethylene)- 3(2H)-benzofuranone derivatives [PDF] [Link]

Narges Hadj-esfandiari, Latifeh Navidpour, Hooman Shadnia, Mohsen Amini, Nasrin Samadi, Mohammad Ali Faramarzid and Abbas Shafiee*. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 17, 6354–6363, 2007
 

Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of substituted 2-alkylthio-1,5-diarylimidazoles as selective COX-2 inhibitors [PDF] [Link]

Latifeh Navidpour*, Hooman Shadnia, Hamed Shafaroodi, Mohsen Amini, Ahmad Reza Dehpourd and Abbas Shafiee. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 15, 1976–1982, 2007

 

 

Modeling of ligand binding to human carbonyl reductase enzyme

W.G. Willmore*, F. Quazi, H.Shadnia , Draft, Apr 2008.
 

Conformational analysis of the free and copper bound peptides in water

Buchanan*, G., Abdul, M, Shadnia, H., Draft, Feb 2008.