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CV and Research Interests


    I Statistical Mechanics of Linear Chains

  1. S. Lifson. Potentiometric Titration, Association Phenomena and Interactions of Neighboring Groups in Polyelectrolytes. J. Chem. Phys. 26, 727 (1957).

  2. S. Lifson. Neighbor Interactions and Internal Rotations in Polymer Molecules. I. Stereospecific Structure and Average Dimensions. J. Chem. Phys. 29, 80 (1958).

  3. S. Lifson. Neighbor Interactions and Internal Rotations in Polymer Molecules. III.Statistics of Interdependent Rotations and Their Application to the Polyethylene Molecule. J. Chem. Phys. 30, 964 (1959).

  4. S. Lifson and A. Roig. On the Helix-Coil Transition in Polypeptides. J. Chem. Phys. 34, 1963 (1961).

  5. S. Lifson. Partition Functions of Linear Chain Molecules. J. Chem. Phys. 40, 3705 (1964).

  6. S. Lifson, C. Andreola, N.C. Peterson and M.M. Green. Macromolecular Stereochemistry: Helical Sense Preference in Optically Active Polyisocyanates; Amplification of a Conformational Equilibrium Deuterium Isotope Effect. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 111, 8850-8858 (1989).

  7. M.M. Green, N. C. Peterson, T. Sato, A. Teramoto, R. Cook and S. Lifson. A Helical Polymer with a Cooperative Response to Chiral Information. Science 268, 1860-1866 (1995).

    II. Consistent Force Field of Empirical Energy Functions

  8. M. Bixon and S. Lifson. Potential Functions and Conformations in Cycloalkanes. Tetrahedron 23, 769 (1967).

  9. M. Bixon, H. Dekker, J.D. Dunitz, H. Eser, S. Lifson, C. Mosselman, J. Sicher and M. Svoboda. Structural and Strain-Energy Consequences of "Intra-Annular" Substitution in the Cyclodecane Ring. Chem. Commun. 360 (1967).

  10. S. Lifson and A. Warshel. A Consistent Force Field for Calculation of Conformations Vibrational Spectra and Enthalpies of Cycloalkane and n-Alkane Molecules. J. Chem. Phys. 49, 5116 (1968).

  11. M. Levitt and S. Lifson. The Refinement of Protein Conformations Using a Macromolecular Energy Minimization Procedure. J. Mol. Biol. 46, 269 (1969).

  12. A. Warshel and S. Lifson. Consistent Force Field Calculations. II. Crystal Structures, Sublimation Energies, Molecular and Lattice Vibrations, Molecular Conformations and Enthalpies of Alkanes. J. Chem. Phys. 53, 582 (1970).

  13. A.T. Hagler, E. Huler and S. Lifson. Energy Functions for Peptides and Proteins: I. Derivation of a Consistent Force Field Including the Hydrogen Bond from Amide Crystals. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 96, 5319 (1974).

  14. A.T. Hagler and S. Lifson. Energy Functions for Peptides and Proteins: II. The Amide Hydrogen Bond and Calculation of Amide Crystal Properties. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 96, 5327 (1974).

  15. S. Lifson, A.T. Hagler and P. Dauber. Consistent Force Field Studies of Intermolecular Forces in Hydrogen-Bonded Crystals. I. Carboxylic Acids, Amides and the C=O...H- Hydrogen Bonds. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 101, 5111 (1979).

  16. A.T. Hagler, S. Lifson and P. Dauber. Consistent Force Field Studies of Intermolecular Forces in Hydrogen-Bonded Crystals. II. A Benchmark for the Objective Comparison of Alternate Force Fields. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 101, 5122 (1979).

  17. S. Lifson and P.S. Stern. Born-Oppenheimer Energy Surfaces of Similar Molecules: Interrelations Between Bond Lengths, Bond Angles and Frequencies of Normal Vibrations in Alkanes. J. Chem. Phys. 77, 4542 (1982).

  18. S. Lifson, C.E. Felder and A. Shanzer. Internal & External Alkali-Ion Complexes of Enniatin: An Empirical Force Field Analysis. Biochemistry 23, 2577 (1984). A. Shanzer, J. Libman, S. Lifson and C.E. Felder. Origin of the Fe3+ Binding and Conformational Properties of Enterobactin. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 108 7609-7619 (1986).

  19. S. Lifson, C.E. Felder and M. Dobler. Effects of Crystal Packing and Hydration on the Conformation of Enniatin B. Acta Crystallogr. B 43, 179-187 (1987).

  20. Y. Tor, J. Libman, A. Shanzer, C.E. Felder and S. Lifson. Tripodal Peptides with Chiral Confor- mations Stablized by Inter-strand Hydrogen Bonds. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 114, 6653-6661 (1992).

  21. Y. Tor, J. Libman, A. Shanzer, C.E. Felder and S. Lifson. Chiral Siderophore Analogs: Enterobactin. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 114, 6661-6671 (1992).

  22. S. Lifson, C.E. Felder and M.M. Green. Helical Conformations, Internal Motion and Helix Sense Reversal in Polyisocyanates and the Preferred Helix Sense of an Optically Active Polyisocyanate. Macromolecules, 25, 4142-4148 (1992).

    III. Origin of Life

  23. S. Lifson. Chemical Selection, Diversity, Teleonomy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Reflections on Eigen's Theory of Self-Organization of Matter. Biophys. Chem. 26, 303-311 (1987).

  24. S. Lifson. On the Crucial Stages in the Origin of Animate Matter. J. Molec. Evol. 44, 1-8 (1997).

  25. S. Lifson and H. Lifson. A Model of Prebiotic Replication: Survival of the Fittest versus Extinction of the Unfittest. J. Theor. Biol. 199,425-433 (1999).

    IV. Various

  26. S. Lifson and J.L. Jackson. On the Self Diffusion of Ions in a Polyelectrolyte Solution. J. Chem. Phys. 36, 2410 (1962).

  27. J.L. Jackson, S. Lifson and S.R. Coriell. Transport Properties of Tracer Counterions in a Polyelectrolyte Solution. J. Chem. Phys. 50, 5045 (1969).

  28. S. Lifson and C. Sander. Antiparallel and Parallel beta-Strands Differ in Amino Acid Residue Preferences. Nature 282, 109 (1979).

  29. Y. Rudich, S. Lifson and R. Naaman. The Reaction of 0(3P) with Cyclohexane Clusters. Hint for the Mechanism in the Liquid Phase. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 113, 7077-7087 (1991).