Turro, Nick

The authors gratefully acknowledge the intellectual and experimental contributions of their colleagues whose names appear in the references. Without their efforts, the authors portion of this chapter could not have been written. We thank Dave Eaton, Bob Liu, John Scheffer, Nick Turro, K. Venkatesan and C. L. Khetrapal for useful discussions and helpful comments. The National Science Foundation is also thanked for its support of the research of RGW related to this chapter. 

When I was still at Columbia I was working on chiral metal complexes bound to DNA and I was also doing some studies in collaboration with Nick Turro, my wonderful colleague at Columbia, on the photophysical properties of ruthenium complexes bound to DNA. The complexes I was using in DNA binding studies could be considered as derivatives of those that had been used by Henry Taube in his classic studies of electron transfer... 

A special mention deserves the overview Nick Turro has published of his work in physical organic, organic supramolecular and spin chemistry during his five decades carrier at Columbia. A tutorial review has been published on the utility of photolabile protecting groups in chemical synthesis and in biology. A wide scope crytical review has been devoted to the 2 + 2 cycloaddition reaction involving allenes and includes several photoehemical examples. ... 

Fig. 18 Nick Turro, Porter Lecturer at the XV lUPAC Symposium (Praha, July 1994). From the left Lord Porter, the medal and Nick Turro (from EPA Newsletter, 1994, 52, 83). 

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