Campus Directory

Division Physical & Biological Sciences Division

Department/College/Unit Chemistry & Biochemistry Department

Title Professor Emeritus

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Biomolecular Science & Engineering

Faculty Type Emeriti

Areas of Expertise Chemistry

Web Site

Primary Office Location Physical Sciences Building
340

Additional Location(s) Physical Sciences Building 340

Office Hours by appointment

Mail Stop Chemistry

Biography, Education and Training

Post Doc, Harvard, E.J. Corey

Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Bill Dauben

B.S., University of Missouri, Columbia

Summary of Expertise

Molecular engineering for drug discovery, computational high-throughput screen QSAR; virtual library design; improving cancer chemotherapy

Research Interests

Todd Wipke is a computational chemist, primarily interested in computer-assisted design of drugs, molecular engineering, and expert systems in organic chemistry. He is imparting to the computer strategies of construction, knowledge of chemical transformations, and knowledge of how drugs bind to proteins. This work has useful application in the design and synthesis of new drugs for AIDS, breast cancer, and inflammation, and synthesis of new catalysts and materials. His group collaborates with the pharmaceutical industry for the synthesis and testing of candidate molecules.

Selected Publications

• B. B. Goldman, W. T. Wipke, "QSD Quadratic Shape Descriptors .2. Molecular Docking Using Quadratic Shape Descriptors (QSDock)", Proteins 1999.
• B. B. Goldman, W. T. Wipke, "QSD Quadratic Shape Descriptors .1. Rapid Superposition of Dissimilar Molecules using Geometrically Invariant Surface Descriptors," J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci., 39, 1999.
• J. Lawton, M. Tudor, W. T. Wipke, "The Basic Shape Topology of Protein Interfaces" in Rational Drug Design: Novel Methodology and Practical Application, ed. by A. Parrill, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 1999, Symposium Series.
• G. B. Fisher, J. J. Juarez-Brambila, C. T. Goralski, W. T. Wipke, and B. Singaram, "Novel Conversion of Aldehydes to Boronic Esters. Simultaneous IGOR2 Computer Generation and Experimental Observation of an Unusual Rearrangement of alpha-Aminoboranes," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 115, 440, 1993
• W. T. Wipke and M. A. Hahn, "Analogy and Intelligence in Molecular Model Building," in Artificial Intelligence Applications in Chemistry, ed. by T. Pierce and B. Hohne (American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 1986), Symposium Series no. 306, pp. 136