Garry N. Fickes
Emeritus Associate Professor
Organic Chemistry
B.S. (1960), University of California, Davis; Ph.D. (1965), University of Wisconsin (Harlan L. Goering); Postdoctoral (1965-66), Harvard University (Paul D. Bartlett).
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Garry N. Fickes
Research Interests
My research interests are in organic synthesis and reaction mechanisms. Recent synthetic work is in the areas of polycyclic ring systems, polymers with special optical properties, and photochemically reactive chiral compounds.
Selected Publications
“Synthesis of soluble, substituted silane high polymers by Wurtz coupling techniques,” Miller, R.D.; Fickes, G.N.; Thompson, D.T. J. Polym. Sci., Polym. Chem. Ed. 1991, 29, 813.
“Block interrupt polysilane derivatives,” Miller, R.D.; Fickes, G.N. J. Polym. Sci., Polym. Chem. Ed. 1990, 28,1397.
“Experimental and theoretical studies of substituent effects on an orbital symmetry forbidden electrocyclization,” Spellmeyer, D.C.; Houk, K.N.; Rondan, N.G.; Miller, R.D.; Franz, L.; Fickes, G.N. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1989, 111, 5356.
“Soluble polysilane derivatives: Chemistry and spectroscopy,” Miller, R.D.; Rabolt, J.F.; Sooriyajumaran, R.; Fleming, W.; Fickes, G.N.; Farmer, B.L.; Kuzmany, H. in Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers, M. Zeldin, K.J. Wynne, and H.R. Allcock, Eds., ACS Symposium Series, No. 360, 1988, 43.