Contact Information:

office office 1408N (tel 212-650-3791), lab 1406N (tel 212-650-3827), fax (dept) 212-772-5332, email cdrain@hunter.cuny.edu, Go to Drain Group Homepage

Education:

Ph.D. Tufts University , Postdoc The Rockefeller University, University Louis Pasteur (France)

Research Summary: 

Our research falls broadly into several areas interconnected by the themes of self-assembly and energy transduction: Self-Assembly of Supramolecular Photonics (organic, inorganic and materials chemistry), Combinatorial Chemistry & the molecular recognition of biomolecules (organic and biochemistry), Membrane Electrostatics & Conduction (theoretical and biophysical chemistry), & Porphyrin Photophysics(physical chemistry).

Selected Publications

 A. Falber, B. P. Burton-Pye, I. Radivojevic, L. Todaro, R. Saleh, L. C. Francesconi, C. M. Drain Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2009, 2459–2466. “Ternary Porphyrinato Hf(IV) and Zr(IV) Polyoxometalate Complexes”

C.M. Drain, A. Varotto, I. Radivojevic Chem. Reviews 2009, 109, 1630–1658. “Self-Organized Porphyrinic Materials” 

J. Samson, A. Varotto, P. C. Nahirney, A. Toschi, I. Piscopo, C. M. Drain, ACS Nano 2009, 3 339-344. “Fabrication of Metal Nanoparticles Using Toroidal Plasmid DNA as a Sacrificial Mold”

C. M. Drain, S. Singh, D. Samaroo, S. Thompson, M. Vinodu, J. P. C. Tome, Proc. Soc. Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers-SPIE 2009, 7380, 73902K-1-9. “New Porphyrin  Glyco-conjugates” 

A. Varotto, L. Todaro, M. Vinodu, J. Koehne, G.-y. Liu, C.M. Drain, Chem. Com. 2008, 4921-4923. “Self-organization of a new fluorous porphyrin and C60 films on indium-tin-oxide electrodes”

S. Thompson,  X. Chen, L. Hui, A. Toschi, D. A. Foster, C.M. Drain, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. 2008, 7, 1415-1421. “Low Concentrations of a non-hydrolysable tetra-S-glycosylated porphyrin and low light induces apoptosis in human breast cancer cells via stress of the endoplasmic reticulum”

N. Stevens, N. O’Connor, H. Vishwasrao. D. Samaroo, E.R. Kandel, D.L. Akins, C.M. Drain, N.J. Turro, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008,  130, 7182-7183.  “Two Color RNA Intercalating Probe for Cell Imaging Applications”

Y.-H. Chan, A.E. Schuckman, L.M. Perez, M. Vinodu, C.M. Drain, J.D. Batteas, J. Phys. Chem. C., 2008; 112, 6110-6118. “Synthesis and Characterization of a Thiol-tethered Tripyridyl Porphyrin on Au(111)”

  G. Bazzan, W. Smith, L.C. Francesconi, C.M. Drain, Langmuir, 2008, 24, 3244-3249. “Electrostatic Self-Organization of Robust Porphyrin-Polyoxometalate Films”