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Alok Shaurya, Graham A.E. Garnett, Melissa J. Starke, Mark C. Grasdal, Charlotte C. Dewar, Anton Y. Kliuchynskyi, and Fraser Hof* An easily accessible, lower rim substituted calix[4]arene selectively binds N,N-dimethyllysine Org. Biomol. Chem. 2021, 19, 4961–4696. preprint / web
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Meagan A. Beatty and Fraser Hof* Host-guest binding in water, salty water, and biofluids: general lessons for synthetic, bio-targeted molecular recognition (A Tutorial Review) Chem. Soc. Rev. 2021, 50, 4812–4832. preprint / web
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Zoey Warmerdam, Bianca E. Kamba, Alok Shaurya, XuXin Sun, Mary K. Maguire, and Fraser Hof* Calix[4]arene sulfonate hosts selectively modified on the upper rim: a study of nicotine binding strength and geometry Supramol. Chem. 2021, 33, 88–96. preprint / web
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Sijie Wang, Kyle Denton, Kathryn Hobbs, Tyler Weaver, James McFarlane, Katelyn Connelly, Michael C. Gignac, Natalia Milosevich, Fraser Hof, Irina Paci, Catherine Musselman, Emily Dykhuizen, Casey Krusemark* Optimization of Ligands using Focused DNA-encoded Libraries to Develop a Selective, Cell-permeable CBX8 Chromodomain Inhibitor ACS Chem. Biol. 2020, 15, 112–131. web
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Natalia Milosevich, James McFarlane, Michael C. Gignac, Janessa Li, Tyler M. Brown, Chelsea R. Wilson, Lindsay Devorkin, Caitlin S. Croft, Rebecca Hof, Irina Paci, Julian J. Lum, and Fraser Hof* Pan-Specific and Partially Selective Dye-Labeled Peptidic Inhibitors of the Polycomb Paralog Proteins Bioorg. Med. Chem. 2020, 28, 115176. preprint / web
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Meagan A. Beatty, Allison J. Selinger, YuQi Li, and Fraser Hof* Parallel synthesis and screening of supramolecular chemosensors that achieve fluorescent turn-on detection of drugs in saliva J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 16763–16771. preprint / web
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Derek Blevins, Ronan P. Hanley, Trevor Bolduc, David Powell, Michael C. Gignac, Kayleigh Walker, Mark Carr, Fraser Hof, and Jeremy Wulff* In vitro assessment of putative PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors: suggestions of an alternative mode of action ACS Med. Chem. Lett. 2019, 10, 1187–1192. web
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Chakravarthi Simhadri, Kevin D. Daze, Sarah F. Douglas, Natalia Milosevich, Leticia Monjas, Amarjot Dev, Tyler M. Brown, Anna K. H. Hirsch, Jeremy E. Wulff, and Fraser Hof* Rational adaptation of L3MBTL1 inhibitors to create small-molecule Cbx7 antagonists ChemMedChem. 2019, 14, 1444–1456. web
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Graham A.E. Garnett and Fraser Hof* Compounds and conjugates for identifying and separating post-translationally modified analytes US Patent 10,338,037, issued July 2, 2019. web
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Meagan A. Beatty, Aidan T. Pye, Alok Shaurya, Belim Kim, Allison J. Selinger, Fraser Hof* Using reversible non-covalent and covalent bonds to create assemblies and equilibrating molecular networks that survive 5 molar urea Org. Biomol. Chem. 2019, 17, 2081–2086. web
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Meagan A. Beatty, Jil A. Busmann, Noah G. Fagen, Graham A. E. Garnett, Fraser Hof* A clip-like host that undergoes self-assembly and competitive guest-induced disassembly in water Supramol. Chem. 2019 31, 101–107. web
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Reuven Gordon, Brian Cheng, Rashid Bux, Bram Ramjiawan, Aftab Ahmed, and Fraser Hof Detection and quantification of acetylamantadine in urine samples US Patent 10,175,226, Issued January 8, 2019. web
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Meagan A. Beatty, Jorge Borges-González, Nicholas J. Sinclair, Aidan T. Pye, Fraser Hof* Analyte-driven disassembly and turn-on fluorescent sensing in competitive biological media J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 3500–3504. web
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Fraser Hof, Samuel Minaker, Kevin Daze, Sara Tabet, and Manual Ma Method and Array for Identifying Histone-Code-Related Analytes US Patent 9,879,300, issued January 30, 2018. web
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Kyle E. Denton, Sijie Wang, Michael C. Gignac, Natalia Milosevich, Fraser Hof, Emily C. Dykhuizen, Casey J. Krusemark* Robustness of In Vitro Selection Assays of DNA-Encoded Peptidomimetic Ligands to CBX7 and CBX8 SLAS Discovery 2018, 1–12. web
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Mariam Traoré, Michael Gignac, Ngoc-Duc Doan, Fraser Hof, and William D. Lubell* Aza-amino acid scanning of chromobox homolog 7 (CBX7) ligands J. Peptide Sci. 2017, 23, 266–271. web
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Chakravarthi Simhadri, Michael C. Gignac, Cameron J. Anderson, Natalia Milosevich, Aman Dheri, Nishant Prashar, Robert T. Flemmer, Amarjot Dev, Trevor G. Henderson, Sarah F. Douglas, Jeremy E. Wulff, Fraser Hof* Structure-activity relationships for Cbx7 inhibitors, including selectivity studies against other Cbx proteins ACS Omega 2016, 1, 541–551. web
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Wei Li, Nathan W. Kuehne, Erin Dallin, Reuven Gordon, Fraser Hof* A supramolecular indicator displacement assay for acetyl amantadine, a proxy biomarker for Spermidine/spermine N1-acetyltransferase (SSAT) activity Can. J. Chem. 2016, 94, 969–975. web
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Natalia Milosevich, Zoey Warmerdam, and Fraser Hof* Structural aspects of small molecule inhibition of methyllysine reader proteins Future Med. Chem. 2016, 13, 1681–1702. web
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Fraser Hof* Host-guest chemistry that directly targets lysine methylation: synthetic host molecules as alternatives to bio-reagents Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 10093–10108. (Invited Feature Article) web
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Joanne K. Hobbs, Seunghyae M. Lee, Melissa Robb, Fraser Hof, Christopher Barr, Kento T. Abe, Jan Hendrik Hehemann, Richard McLean, D. Wade Abbott, and Alisdair B. Boraston* KdgF, the missing link in the microbial metabolism of uronate sugars from pectin and alginate Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 2016, 113, 6188–6193. web
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Graham A.E. Garnett, Melissa J. Starke, Alok Shaurya, Janessa Li, and Fraser Hof* Supramolecular affinity chromatography for methylation-targeted proteomics, Anal. Chem. 2016, 88, 3697–3703. web
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Graham A.E. Garnett, Kevin D. Daze, J. Peña Diaz, N. Fagen, Alok Shaurya, Manuel C.F. Ma, Mary S. Collins, Darren W. Johnson, Lev Zhakarov, and Fraser Hof* Attraction by repulsion: compounds with like charges undergo self-assembly in water that improves in high salt and persists in real biological fluidsChem. Commun. 2016, 52, 2768–2771. web
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Ronan P. Hanley, Shanti Horvath, Jianghong An, Fraser Hof, and Jeremy E. Wulff* Salicylates are interference compounds in TR-FRET assays Bioorg Med. Chem. Lett. 2016, 26, 973–977 web
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Natalia Milosevich and Fraser Hof* Chemical inhibitors of epigenetic methyl reader proteins Biochemistry 2016, 55, 1570–1583 . web
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Natalia Milosevich, Michael C. Gignac, James McFarlane, Chakravarthi Simhadri, Shanti Horvath, Kevin D. Daze, Caitlin S. Croft, Aman Dheri, Taylor T.H. Quon, Sarah F. Douglas, Jeremy E. Wulff, Irina Paci,* and Fraser Hof* Selective inhibition of CBX6—a methyllysine reader protein in the polycomb family, ACS Med. Chem. Lett. 2016, 7, 139–144. web
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Muzaffar Ali, Kevin D. Daze, Daniel E. Strongin, Scott B. Rothbart, Hector Rincon-Arano, Hillary F. Allen, Janessa Li, Brian D. Strahl, Fraser Hof* and Tatiana G. Kutateladze* Molecular insight into inhibition of the methylated histone-plant homeodomain complexes by calixarenes, J. Biol. Chem., 2015, 290, 22919–22930. web
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Róise E. McGovern, Brendan D. Snarr, Joseph A. Lyons, James McFarlane, Amanda L. Whiting, Irina Paci, Fraser Hof and Peter B. Crowley* Structural study of a small molecule receptor bound to dimethyllysine in lysozyme Chemical Science, 2015, 6, 442–449. web
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Jian Wu, Wei Li, Ghazal Hajisalem, Ariella Lukach, Eugenia Kumacheva, Fraser Hof, and Reuven Gordon* Trace cancer biomarker quantification using polystyrene-functionalized gold nanorods Biomed. Optics Express, 2014, 5 (12), 4101–4107. web
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Guangyi Cao, Ghazal Hajisalem, Wei Li, Fraser Hof, Reuven Gordon* Quantification of an Exogenous Cancer Biomarker in Urinalysis by Raman Spectroscopy The Analyst, 2014, 139, 5375–5378. web
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Hillary F. Allen,1 Kevin D. Daze,1 Anne Lai, Catherine A. Musselman, Jennifer K. Sims, Paul A. Wade, Fraser Hof,* and Tatiana G. Kutateladze* Inhibition of histone readers by supramolecular hosts, Biochem. J.,2014, 459, 505–512. web
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Chakravarthi Simhadri,1Kevin D. Daze,1Sarah F. Douglas, Taylor T.H. Quon, Amarjot Dev, Michael C. Gignac, Fangni Peng, Markus Heller, Martin Boulanger, Jeremy E. Wulff, and Fraser Hof* Chromodomain antagonists that target the polycomb-group methyllysine reader protein Chromobox homolog 7 (CBX7), J. Med. Chem., 2014, 57 (7), 2874–2883. web
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Xing Wang, Joshua Post, Dennis K. Hore,* and Fraser Hof* A minimalist synthetic host with stacked guanidinium ions mimics the weakened hydration shells of protein-protein interaction interfaces, J. Org. Chem. 2014, 79 (1), 34–40. web
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Alok Shaurya, Krystyn I. Dubicki, and Fraser Hof* Chemical agents that bind post-translationally methylated lysines and arginines, Supramol. Chem., 2014, 26 (7-8), 583–590. (Invited Review) web
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Sara Tabet, Sarah F. Douglas, Kevin D. Daze, Graham A. E. Garnett, Kevin J. H. Allen, Emma M. M. Abrioux, Taylor T.H. Quon, Jeremy E. Wulff, and Fraser Hof* Synthetic trimethyllysine receptors that bind histone 3, lysine 27 trimethylated (H3K27me3) and disrupt its interaction with the epigenetic reader protein CBX7, Bioorg. Med. Chem., 2013, 21 (22), 7004–7010. web
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Amanda L. Whiting, Krystyn I. Dubicki, and Fraser Hof* Synthesis of versatile nonsymmetric amine- and boron-functionalized Tröger’s base derivatives, including a Tröger’s base amino acid, Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2013, (30), 6802–6810. web
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Kevin D. Daze, Catherine E. Jones, Brandin J. Lilgert, Cory S. Beshara, and Fraser Hof* Dissecting the effects of physiological salt, buffer, and temperature on the complexation of methylated ammonium ions and methyllysines by sulfonated calixarenes Can. J. Chem., 2013, 91 (10), 1072–1076. web
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Thomas Pinter, Chakravarthi Simhadri, and Fraser Hof* Dissecting the complex recognition interfaces of potent tetrazole- and pyrrole-based anion binders J. Org. Chem., 2013, 78 (10), 4642–4648. web
(selected as a Feature Article)
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Kevin D. Daze and Fraser Hof* The cation-pi interaction at protein-protein interaction interfaces: developing and learning from synthetic mimics of proteins that bind methylated lysines Acc. Chem. Res., 2013, 78 (10), 4642–4648. web
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Amanda L. Whiting and Fraser Hof* Binding cationic guests in water with a series of indole-derived hosts: large differences in affinity from subtle changes in structure Org. Biomol. Chem., 2012, 10 (34), 6885–6892. web
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Jill I. Murray, Michelle L. Tonkin, Amanda L. Whiting, Fangni Peng, Benjamin Farnell, Jay T. Cullen, Fraser Hof and Martin J. Boulanger* Structural characterization of S100A15 reveals a novel zinc coordination site among S100 proteins and altered surface chemistry with functional implications for receptor binding BMC Structural Biology, 2012, 12: 16. web
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Kevin D. Daze, Thomas Pinter, Cory S. Beshara, Andreas Ibraheem, Samuel A. Minaker, Manuel C.F. Ma, Rebecca J.M. Courtemanche, Robert E. Campbell,* and Fraser Hof* Supramolecular hosts that recognize methyllysines and disrupt the interaction between a modified histone tail and its epigenetic reader protein Chemical Science, 2012, 3 (9), 2695–2699. web
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Samuel Minaker, Kevin D. Daze, Manuel C.F. Ma, and Fraser Hof* Antibody-free reading of the histone code using a simple chemical sensor array J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134 (28), 11674–11680. web
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Subrata Jana, Amanda L. Whiting, Anita Hazra, Saikat Sen, Shyamaprosad Goswami, Goverdhan Mehta, Hoong-Kun Fun, and Fraser Hof* Anion recognition by a novel preorganized binding motif: amide-functionalized quinoliniums characterized in the solid state and in solution Supramol. Chem. 2012, 24 (6), 385–391. web
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Kevin D. Daze, Manuel C.F. Ma, Florent Pineux, and Fraser Hof* Synthesis of new trisulfonated calix[4]arenes functionalized at the upper rim, and their complexation with the trimethyllysine epigenetic mark Org. Lett. 2012, 14 (6), 1512–1515. web
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Xing Wang and Fraser Hof* (How) does 1,3,5-triethylbenzene scaffolding work? Analyzing the abilities of 1,3,5-triethylbenzene- and 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene-based scaffolds to preorganize the binding elements of supramolecular hosts and to improve binding of targets. Beil. J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1–10. web
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Rebecca J.M. Courtemanche, Thomas Pinter, and Fraser Hof* Just add tetrazole: 5-(2-pyrrolo)tetrazoles are potent anion recognition elements Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 12688–12690. web
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Thomas Pinter, Subrata Jana, Rebecca J.M. Courtemanche, and Fraser Hof* The recognition properties of carboxylic acid bioisosteres: anion binding by tetrazoles, aryl sulfonamides and acyl sulfonamides on a calix[4]arene scaffold, J. Org. Chem., 2011, 76, 3733–3741. web
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Jennifer Pape, Keri McQuinn, Fraser Hof, and J. Scott McIndoe* Blurring the line between solution and the gas phase: evaporation of water from hypersolvated lanthanide trications provides insights into solution acidity, New. J. Chem., 2011, 35, 1582–1587. web journal cover (pdf)
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M. Adil Khan, Joel Moktar, Patrick Mott, Mary Vu, Aaron H. McKie, Thomas Pinter, Fraser Hof,* and Russell Bishop* Inscribing the perimeter of the PagP hydrocarbon ruler by site-specific chemical alkylation, Biochemistry, 2010, 49, 9046–9057. web
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Cory S. Beshara and Fraser Hof* Modular incorporation of 1-benzyltryptophan into dipeptide hosts that bind acetylcholine in pure water, Can. J. Chem., 2010, 88, 1009–1016 (cover of Oct. 2010 issue). web
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Cory S. Beshara, Catherine E. Jones, Kevin D. Daze, Brandin J. Lilgert, and Fraser Hof* A simple calixarene recognizes post-translationally methylated lysine, ChemBioChem, 2010, 11, 63–66. web
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Nathan R. West, Benjamin Farnell, Jill I. Murray, Fraser Hof,* Peter H. Watson,* and Martin J. Boulanger,* Structural and functional characterization of a triple mutant form of S100A7 defective for Jab1 binding Protein Sci., 2009, 18, 2615–2623. web
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Rafaél León, Jill I. Murray, Gina Cragg, Benjamin Farnell, Nathan R. West, Tamara Pace, Peter H. Watson, Cornelia Bohne,* Martin J. Boulanger,* and Fraser Hof* Identification and characterization of binding sites on S100A7, a participant in cancer and inflammation pathways Biochemistry, 2009, 48, 10591–10600. web
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Amanda L. Whiting, Nicole M. Neufeld, Fraser Hof* A tryptophan-analog host whose interactions with ammonium ions in water are dominated by the hydrophobic effect Tet. Lett., 2009, 50, 7035–7037. web
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Keri McQuinn, Fraser Hof,* J.S. McIndoe,* X. Chen, G. Wu, A.J. Stace* Evidence of asymmetric cation solvation from the instability of [Pb(H2O)n]2+ complexes Chem. Commun. 2009, 4088–4091. web
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Keri McQuinn, Fraser Hof,* and J. Scott McIndoe* Collision-induced dissociation of large protonated water clusters Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 2009, 279, 32–36. web
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Aaron H. McKie, Sayuri Friedland, and Fraser Hof* Tetrazoles are potent anion binding elements that emulate the disfavoured anti conformation of carboxylic acids Org. Lett. 2008 10(20), 4653–4655. web
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Keri McQuinn, J. Scott McIndoe*, and Fraser Hof* Insights into the post-translational methylation of arginine from studies of guanidinium-water nanodroplets Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14(21), 6483–6489. web
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Xing Wang, Olga V. Sarycheva, Bryan D. Koivisto, Aaron H. McKie, and Fraser Hof* A terphenyl scaffold for pi-stacked guanidinium recognition elements Org. Lett. 2008, 10(2), 297–300. web
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Keri McQuinn, Fraser Hof*, and J. Scott McIndoe* Direct observation of ion evaporation from a triply charged nanodroplet Chem. Commun. 2007, 4099–4101. web
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Devin J. Mahnke, R. McDonald, and Fraser Hof* A shape-dependent hydrophobic effect for tetrazoles Chem. Commun. 2007, 3738–3740. web
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Orion B. Berryman, Fraser Hof, Michael J. Hynes and Darren W. Johnson* Anion–pi interaction augments halide binding in solution Chem. Commun. 2006, 506–508. web
Post-doctoral work – with François Diederich, ETH Zurich
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Martina Zürcher, Fraser Hof, Luzi Barandun, Andri Schütz, W. Bernd Schweizer, Solange Meyer, Daniel Bur, François Diederich Synthesis of exo-3-amino-7-azabicyclo[2.2.1]heptanes as a class of malarial aspartic protease inhibitors: exploration of two binding pockets Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2009, 1707–1719. web
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Fraser Hof, Andri Schütz, Christoph Fäh, Solange Meyer, Daniel Bur, Jun Liu, Daniel E. Goldberg, and François Diederich Starving the Malaria Parasite: A New Class of Inhibitors Active Against the Aspartic Proteases Plasmepsins I, II, and IV Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45(13), 2138–2141. web
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Fraser Hof, Sergey Sergeyev, Mikhail Shair, Denise M. Scofield, Felix Fischer, and François Diederich Preparation of Tröger Base Derivatives Using Cross-Coupling Methodologies Helv. Chim. Acta 2005, 88(8), 2333–2344. web
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Fraser Hof, Denise M. Scofield, W. Bernd Schweizer, and François Diederich A Weak Attractive Interaction Between Organic Fluorine and an Amide Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004, 43(38), 5056–5059. web
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Fraser Hof and François Diederich Medicinal Chemistry in Academia: Molecular Recognition with Biological Receptors Chem. Commun. 2004, (5), 484-487. web
Graduate studies – with Julius Rebek, Scripps Research Institute
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Shannon M. Biros, Elke C. Ullrich, Fraser Hof, Laurent Trembleau, and Julius Rebek, Jr. Kinetically Stable Complexes in Water: The Role of Hydration and Hydrophobicity J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126(9), 2870-2874. web
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Darren W. Johnson, Fraser Hof, Liam C. Palmer, Tomás Martín, Ulrike Obst, and Julius Rebek, Jr. Glycoluril Ribbons Tethered by Complementary Hydrogen Bonds Chem. Commun. 2003, 14, 1638-1639. web
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Fraser Hof, Laurent Trembleau, Elke Christine Ullrich, and Julius Rebek, Jr. Acetylcholine Recognition by a Deep, Biomimetic Pocket Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2003, 42(27), 3150-3153. web
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Darren W. Johnson, Fraser Hof, Peter M. Iovine, Colin Nuckolls, and Julius Rebek, Jr. Solid State and Solution Studies of a Tetrameric Hydrogen-Bonded Capsule and its Guests Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2002, 41(20), 3793-3796. web
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Darren W. Johnson, Liam C. Palmer, Fraser Hof, Peter M. Iovine, and Julius Rebek, Jr. New Supramolecular Organization for Glycoluril: Chiral Hydrogen-Bonded Ribbons Chem. Commun. 2002, 2228-2229. web
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Fraser Hof, Stephen L. Craig, Colin Nuckolls, and Julius Rebek, Jr. Molecular Encapsulation Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2002, 41(9), 1488-1508. (selected for cover of 2002 issue #9) web
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Fraser Hof and Julius Rebek, Jr. Molecules-Within-Molecules: Molecular Recognition Through Self-Assembly Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2002, 99(8), 4775-4777. web
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Fraser Hof, Peter M. Iovine, Darren W. Johnson, and Julius Rebek, Jr. Highly Selective Synthesis of Heterosubstituted Aromatic Sulfamides Org. Lett. 2001, 3 (26), 4247-4249. web
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Fraser Hof, Liam C. Palmer, and Julius Rebek, Jr. Synthesis and Self-Assembly of the “Tennis Ball” Dimer and Subsequent Encapsulation of Methane: An Advanced Organic Chemistry Laboratory Experiment J. Chem. Ed. 2001, 78, 1519-1524. pdf
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Fraser Hof, Colin Nuckolls, Stephen L. Craig, Tomas Martín, and Julius Rebek, Jr. Emergent Conformational Preferences of a Self-Assembling Small Molecule: Structure and Dynamics in a Tetrameric Capsule, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122 (17), 10991-10996. web
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Fraser Hof, Colin Nuckolls, and Julius Rebek, Jr. Diversity and Selection in Self-Assembled Tetrameric Capsules, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122 (17), 4251-4252. web
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Colin Nuckolls, Fraser Hof, Tomas Martín, and Julius Rebek, Jr. Chiral Microenvironments in Self-Assembled Capsules, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121 (44), 10281-10285. web
Undergrad – University of Alberta
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Marcelo M. M. Pelisson, Gil Valdo José da Silva, Derrick L. J. Clive, Don M. Coltart, and Fraser A. Hof Studies on the Preparation of 3,4-Disubstituted 2-Methoxypyridines, J. Het. Chem. 1999, 36, 653-658.
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