Publications

(undergraduate authors, co-first authors# )

132Not all disinfectants are created equal: the importance of mechanistic understanding to drive research forward

Elise L. Bezold, Kevin P.C. Minbiole & William M. Wuest Future Microbiology, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1080/17460913.2025.2480946

103Property-Controllable Generation of Quaternary Ammonium Compounds

Pan, B.; Wang, Y.; Lin, X.; Qin, M.; Ghaemi, S.; Ding, A.; Wang, S.; Al-Khalifa, S.; Minbiole, K.P.C.; Wuest, W.M.; Petersen, A.A.; Leitgeb, A.; Shehu, A.;* Zhao, L.*

 

IEEE Intl Conf on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) Workshops: Computational Structural Biology Workshop (CSBW). 2022 :1-8.

102Generation and Characterization of Quaternary Ammonium Compounds via Deep Learning

Wang, Y.; Ghaemi, S.; Ding, A.; Du, Y.; Pan, B.; Qin, M.; Lin, X.; Petersen, A.A.; Leitgeb, A.; Al-Khalifa, S.; Minbiole, K.P.C.; Wuest, W.M.; Zhao, L.;* Shehu, A.*

 

IEEE Intl Conf on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) Workshops: Computational Structural Biology Workshop (CSBW)2022 :1-8.

101Multi-objective Deep Data Generation with Correlated Property Control

Wang, S.; Guo, X.; Ling, M.; Pan, B.; Du, Y.; Wang, Y.; Ye, Y.; Petersen, A.A.; Leitgeb, A.; Al-Khalifa, S.; Minbiole, K.P.C.; Wuest, W.M.; Shehu, A.*; Zhao, L.*

 

 Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)2022 Available here

94Antibacterials

Cheng, A. V.; Wuest, W.M.

 

2021 DOI: 10.1021/acs.infocus.7e4006 (Invited contributor for ACS In-Focus Series of E-books)

76Are Quaternary Ammonium Compounds, the Workhorse Disinfectants, Effective against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2?

Schrank, C.L.; Minbiole, K.P.C.*; Wuest, W.M.*

 

ACS Infectious Diseases 2020 6, 1553 DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.0c00265

58Hijacking Bacterial Circuitry of Biofilm Processes via Chemical “Hot-wiring”: An Under-explored Avenue for Therapeutic Development

Wilt, I.K.; Hari, T.P.A.; Wuest, W.M.*

 

ACS Infectious Diseases 2019 5, 789 DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.9b00104 (Invited Viewpoint)

 

 

40Hybrid BisQACs: Potent Biscationic Quaternary Ammonium Compounds Merging the Structures of Two Commercial Antiseptics

Schallenhammer, S.A.; Duggan, S.M.; Morrison, K.R.; Bentley, B.S.; Wuest, W.M.*; Minbiole, K.P.C.*

 

ChemMedChem 2017 12, 1931 DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.201700597

39ErosS enzyme from Aliivibrio fischeri plays Cupid to choanoflagellates

Rossiter, S.E.; Wuest, W.M.*

ChemBioChem 2017 18, 2298 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201700552 (Invited Highlight)

36A novel application of the Staudinger ligation to access neutral cyclic di-nucleotide analog precursors via a divergent method

Fletcher, M.H.; Burns-Lynch, C.E.; Knouse, K.W.; Abraham, L.T.; DeBrosse, C.W.; Wuest, W.M.*

 

RSC Adv. 2017 7, 29835. DOI: 10.1039/C7RA06045A

29Natural Product-Inspired Approaches to Combat Bacteria

Jennings, M.C.; Wuest, W.M.*

 

Tetrahedron 2016 72, 3547. DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2016.04.064 (Editorial Preface for Tetrahedron Symposium-in-Print)

26Structure-Resistance Relationships: Interrogating Antiseptic Resistance in Bacteria with Multicationic Quaternary Ammonium Dyes

Forman, M.E.; Fletcher, M.H.; Jennings, M.C.; Duggan, S.M.; Minbiole, K.P.C.*; Wuest, W.M.

 

ChemMedChem 2016 11, 958.DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.201600095

17Molecular Simulation of Conformational Pre-organization in Cyclic RGD Peptides

Wakefield, A.E.; Wuest, W.M.; Voelz, V.A.

J. Chem. Inf. Model2015 55, 806. DOI: 10.1021/ci500768u

11Using Technology to Create an Active, Collaborative Learning Environment: Even in Organic Chemistry!

Wuest, W.M.*; Wuest, L.M*

Proceedings of the 2014 Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching and Learning 2014 44.

8TMEDA-derived biscationic amphiphiles: An economical preparation of potent antibacterial agents

Black, J.W.; Jennings, M.C.; Azarewicz, J.; Paniak, T.J.Grenier, M.C.; Wuest, W.M.*; Minbiole, K.P.C.*

Bioorg. Med. Chem Lett. 2014 24, 99.

2Ortho-TMS Benzaldehyde: an Effective Linchpin for Type II Anion Relay Chemistry (ARC)

Smith III, A.B.*; Kim, W.S.; Wuest, W.M.

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008 47, 7082.

 

1Intramolecular Hydroamination of Aminoalkynes with Silver Phenanthroline Catalysts

Carney, J.M.; Donoghue, P.J.; Wuest, W.M.; Wiest, O.*; Helquist, P.*

Org. Lett. 2008 10, 3903.