CURRICULUM VITAE

MARK ROBERT WILLCOTT, III

Date of Birth: July 23, 1933

Place of Birth: Muskogee, Oklahoma

Present Address: 1807 Orchard County Lane, Houston, Texas 77062

Education:

B.A. in Chemistry, Rice University (1955)

M.S. in Chemistry, Yale University (1959)

Ph.D. in Chemistry, Yale University (1963)

Professional Experience:

Line Officer, United States Navy, rising from Ensign to Lt., 1955-58

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Consultant to major NMR manufacturers, international drug, petrochemical,

biomedical industries; and medical societies, 1962-Present

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 1962-64

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas , 1965-1968

Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 1968-1973

Professor of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 1965-1983

Head, Biomedical NMR Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, 1982-1983

President and Chairman of the Board NMR Imaging, Inc., Houston, Texas, 1983-88

Research Professor of Radiology, Vanderbilt University, 1989-1994

Research Professor of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, 1989-1994

Professor, Department of Radiology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, 1994-1999

Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX, 1980-present

Senior Research Associate, Department of Physical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, 1999-2002

Member, Medical Advisory Board, ONI, Inc., Andover, MA, 1998-present

Member, Board of Directors, SMC Technology, Carlsbad, CA 2001-present

Consulting Scientist, Houston Veteran's Administration Hospital, Houston, TX, 2002-present

Consultant, MR Spectroscopy, UT Health Science Center, Houston, TX, 2001- present

Consultant, General Electric Medical Systems, MR Imaging, 2003-2004

Chief Technologist, WEESCAN, Inc. (neonatal MRI), San Diego, CA 2003-present

Consultant, Central Texas Veterans Administration Health Care System, Temple, TX 2004-present

Adjunct Professor, Department of Radiological Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, 2004-present

Research Scientist, Institute for Advanced Technologies, University of Texas, Austin, TX, 2004-present

Administrative and Committee Service:

Personnel Committee, Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 1973-75

Graduate Faculty Ad Hoc Committee, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 1973-75

Solar Energy Advisory Panel, University of Hosuton, Houston, Texas, 1974-76

Curriculum Committee, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 1973-76

Teaching Excellence Award Committee, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 1976-78

Athletic Committee, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 1974-1983

Faculty Development Leave Committee, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 1976-83

Research Committee, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 1981-1983

National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., Task Force of Science Information Activities 1977-78

Houston Economic Development Council, Houston, Texas, Member: HEDC Forum, Task

Force on Secondary Education, 1985-86

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Biomedical Technology Breakfast Club, Houston, Texas, Member and Presenter, 1985-87

The MIT Enterprise Forum, Houston, Texas, Member and Presenter, 1984-Present

Protocol Group: Proton NMR Spectroscopy of Plasma, National Cancer Institute, 1987-2000

Chairman, AAPM Committee on in-vivo MR Spectroscopy, 1989-2000

Director of Research, Department of Radiology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas,

1995-2000

Senior Fellowships and Awards:

John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 1972

Faculty Development Leave, University of Houston, 1978-79, 1970

Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Prize, 1978

Society Memberships:

American Chemical Society, 1960-Present

Society of Resonance in Medicine, 1981-Present

Society of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 1981-Present

American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Member: NMR Committee and MR Phantom and Test

Methods Task Group, 1982-87

American College of Radiology, Member: Committee on Spectroscopy (Commission on Magnetic

Resonance), 1983-Present

National Electrical Manufacturers Association, Member: Technical Committee (MRI Section), 1986-

Present

Radiological Society of North America,: 1988-Present

Patents:

Patent Number: 4,502,007

Date of Patent: Feb. 26, 1985

Inventors: Gary L. Mee and M. Robert Willcott

Invention: Method of Measuring NMR Spin-Spin Relaxation

Time (T2) Using Spin-Echoes

Patient Number: 4,543,529

Date of Patent: Sep. 24, 1985

Inventors: Gary L. Mee and M. Robert Willcott

Invention: Method of Tuning an NMR Apparatus

Patent Number: 4,551,678

Date of Patent: Nov. 5, 1985

Inventors: Tommie J. Morgan and M. Robert Willcott

Assigned to: The University of Texas System Cancer Center

Assigned to: M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute

Invention: Phantom for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Machine

Patent Number: 4,710,715

Date of Patent: Dec. 1, 1987

Inventors: Gary L. Mee and M. Robert Willcott

Invention: Methods of Mapping Magnetic Field Strength and

Tipping Pulse Accuracy of an NMR Imager

Theses Directed:

The Mercury 6 1 P1 Photosensitized Decomposition of Carbon Dioxide, Calvin M. Wolff, Supported in

part by the Petroleum Research Fund, Ph. D., January 1968

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The Use of Double Irradiation Experiments to Analyze Complex Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectra,

Billy Joe Fairless, Supported in part by PHS Grant No. A1-04054, Ph.D., January 1968

The Degenerate Vinycylopropane Rearrangement, Virgil H. Cargle, Supported in part by the Petroleum

Research Fund, Ph.D., August 1969

The Thermal Isomerization of a-Pinene, Patrick Yeager Howard, Supported in part by the Robert A. Welch

Foundation (E-183) and NDEA Title Fellowship, M.S., August 1970

Bornadience, Clinton J. Boriack, Supported in part by The Robert A. Welch Foundation Grant No. E-183,

Ph.D., May 1970

Butadience Monoepoxide and Cyclopropane Carboxaldehyde Pyrolysis and Structure, John B. Sapp, Jr.,

Supported in part by The Robert A. Welch Foundation Grant No. E-183, Ph.D., December 1971

The Thermal Isomerization of Norcarane, Farid William Shumbo, M.S., August 1972

Thermal Isomerizations in the Vinylcyclopropane System, I.M. Rathburn, III, Supported in Part by the

National Scienc Foundation and by the Petroleum Research Fund, Ph.D., May 1972

Applications of Lanthanide Induced Shift NMR Experiments to the Structure Determination of Organic

Molecules, Robert Lenkinski, Supported in part by The Robert A. Welch Foundation Grant No. E-183,

Ph.D., August 1973

Lanthanide Induced Shifts in Proton NMR. A Statistical Comparison, Einar Helmuth Goerland,

Supported in Part by the Upjohn Company, M.S., May 1973

Carbon-13 Magnetic Resonance: Part I. Chemistry of the Tropylium Ion, Part II, Spectra of Xanthone

Analogs, Roger Dale Knapp, Supported in part by the National Science Foundation, Ph.D., August 1974

Lanthanide Induced Shift NMR Experiments, William Harlie Bearden, Supported in part by The Robert A.

Welch Foundation Grant No. E-183, Ph.D., May 1975

A Study of Acetic Acid-Water Solutions by Means of Static and Dynamic Physical Property

Measurements, Robert Warren Sims, Supported in Part by the Monsanto Company, M.S., May 1977

Computer Assisted Optimization of Magnetic Field Homogeneity in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Spectroscopy, Joseph A. Jansen, Jr., Supported in Part by the National Science Foundation, M.S.,

December 1979

Fourier Transform Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Applications of Chemical Interest, Ruth R.

Inners, Supported in Part by The Robert A. Welch Foundation Grant No. E-183 and the National Science

Foundation. Grant No. GM 22927 and the National Science Foundation. Grant No. MPS 75-06162,

Ph.D., May 1979

An Investigation of the Effect of Pulse Angle and Interpulse Delay Time on the Sensitivity of the Fourier

Transformed 13 C NMR Spectrum of a -santonin, William L. Champion, Jr., Supported in Part by The

Robert A. Welch Foundation Grant No. E-183, M.S., May 1979

The Synthesis of Selected Monoaza- and Diazaphenoxathiin Analogs as Novel Antipsychotic Agents: and

an Investigation Into the 13 C NMR Chemical Shift Parameters and Dihedral Angle, S.R. Caldwell,

Supported in Part by the Robert A. Welch Foundation M.S., May 1979

Investigation into and Total Assignment of the 13 C NMR Spectrum of the Diterpenoids Sinularin,

Dihydrosinularin, Eunicin and Jeunicin, R.T. Gampe, Jr., Supported in Part by the Robert A. Welch

Foundation, M.S., March 1981

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Studies into the Synthesis, Molecular Geometry, and 13 C NMR Spectra of Novel Phenoxathiin and

Thianthrene Analogs, Salvator Puig-Torres, Supported in Part by the Robert A. Welch Foundation, M.S.,

May 1982

Attempted Synthesis of 10-Pn-5 Aromatic Pnictogen Species, Stephen Bruce Miline, 1992, M.S.

Synthesis of Modified Dess-Martin Periodinance and Novel/T-Buoxyperiodinance, Qian Zhao, 1992, M.S.

The Synthesis, Reactivity, and Structural Analysis of Hypervalent Iodine, Silicon, Phosphorus, and

Tellurium Species, Chester Darryl Moon, 1992, Ph.D.

Synthesis, Structure and Reactions of Flouinated Tellerium Compounds, M. Patel, Ph.D., 1993

I. Progress in the Development of Species with Multicentered Bonding. II. An NMR Study of Selected

Biologically Significant Compounds, Kim Maria Cecil, 1993, Ph.D.

Hypervalent Silicon and Germanium Compounds, V. Benin. 1994, Ph.D.

Research Grants:

1. NSF Grant No. CHE8910896, Reacting Intermediates Useful in Synthesis, M.R. Willcott, P.I.,

6/1/89-11/30/93 ($506,773)

2. USPHS Grant No. NI6MS 5-R01-GM36844-07, M.R. Willcott, P.I., Synthetic and Physical

Studies of Anticancer Agents, 12/1/85-11/30/93 ($583,808)

3. USPHS NINDS 1-R01-NS27966-01A2, Quantitating Brain Perfusion Measurements with

Magnetic Resonance Imagining, D.R. Pickens, P.I., M.R. Willcott, Co-Investigator, 9/15/91-

8/31/94 ($564,789)

4. Mallinckrodt Medical, Inc., Assessment of the Clinical Utility of Two MR Contrast Agents,

R.R. Price, P.I., M.R. Willcott, Co-Investigator, 3/15/92-3/14/93, ($107,058)

5. USPHS Grant No. NF-19056, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Evaluation of Stroke, R.N. Bryan,

M.D., Ph.D., Prinicipal Investigator, M.R. Willcott, Ph.D., Co-Investigator and Co-Author,

January 1982-December 1985 ($374,290.00)

6. The Radian Corporation, Austin, Texas, Subcontract under a National Institute of Enviromental

and Health Sciences Grant, 13 C NMR Spectroscopy of Tetrachlorodibenzdiioxins (TCDBs), 13 C

NMR Spectroscopy of Dibenzfurans, M.R. Willcott, Ph.D., G.E. Martin, Ph.D., November

1983- December 1984 ($53,400.00)

7. Robert A. Welch Foundation Grant No. E-183, Investigators in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance,

M.R. Willcott, Ph.D., 1967-1983 ($315,000.00)

8. USPHS Grant No. GM 22927, Protein Conformation Studies by Multi-Nuclear NMR, M.R.

Willcott, Ph.D., Co-principal Investigator, D.F. Dyckes, Ph.D., Co-principal Investigator, April

1, 1976-March 31, 1979 ($93,600.00)

9. National Science Foundation, Thermolysis of Pinene, M.R. Willcott, Ph.D., 1976-1978,

($42,500.00)

10. Departmental Instrumentation Grant: 100MHz NMR Spectrometer, M.R. Willcott, Ph.D.,

Principal Author, Co-principle Investigator, 1975, $200,000 with additional $200,000 in

matching funds ($400,000 total)

11. The Upjohn Company, Investigators of the Theology of Urethanes by NMR, M.R. Willcott,

Ph.D., 1970-1975 ($18,500.00)

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12. Petroleum Research Fund, Vinylcylcopropane Rearrangements, M.R. Willcott, Ph.D., 1967-1969

($37,400.00)

13. University of Houston, RIG (Research Initiation Grant), M.R. Willcott, Ph.D., 1967-1969

($12,000.00)

14. National Science Foundation GP-3761, Departmental NMR Spectrometer, R.S. Becker, Ph.D.,

M.R. Willcott, Ph.D., 1965 ($105,000.00)

Extraordinary Research Funding:

1. Technology Transfer Support Group, Development of Cost-Effective Magnetic Resonance

Imager, M.R. Willcott, Ph.D., 1982-1987 ($3,400,000.00)

Book Chapters:

1. NMR Chemical Principles, M.R. Willcott, in M agnetic R esonance ( MR) I magin g , second

edition, C.L. Partain, et al, editors, W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1988.

2. The Synthesis and Properties of Polycyclic Aromatic Thiophenes and Related Heterocycles

Occurring in Coal-derived Products, R.N. Castle, M.L. Tedjamulia, Y. Tominaga, R. Pratap, M.

Sugiura, H. Kudo, M.L. Lee, M. Iwao, R.D. Thompson, G.E. Martin, R.T. Gampe, M.J.

Musmar, M.R. Willcott, S.L. Smith, W.J. Layton, R.E. Hurd, and L.F. Johnson, in

Lectures i n H e terocyclic

C hemistr y , Vol VII, R.N. Castle, editor, Heterocorp, Provo, Utah, 1984.

3. NMR Spectroscopy, M.R. Willcott and G.E. Martin, in N uclear M agnetic R esonance a nd

C orrelative I maging M odalitie s , C.L. Partain, editor, Society of Nuclear Medicine, New York,

1982.

4. NMR in Chemistry, M.R. Willcott, J.P. Cook, J.J. Ford, and G.E. Martin, in N uclear M agnetic

R esonance I magin g , C.L. Partain, et al, editors, W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1982.

5. Phantoms for NMR Image Analysis, N.J. Schneiders, R.N. Bryan, M.R. Willcott, in N uclear

M agnetic R esonance I magin g , C.L. Partain, et al, editors, W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1982.

6. NMR Spectroscopy, M.R. Willcott, J.J. Ford, and G.E. Martin, in N MR I magin g : P r oceedings

of

a n I nter n a tional S ymposiu m , R.L. Witkofski, N. Karstaedt, and C.L. Partain, editors, The

Bowman-Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C., 1982.

7. Configurational Assessment of Conformationally Mobile Molecules by the LIS Experiment,

M.R. Willcott, III, and R.E. Davis, in R.E. Sievers, editor, N MR S hift R eagent s , Academic Press,

New York, N.Y. 159-172, 1973.

8. Assessment of the Pseudocontract Model via Agreement Factors, R.E. Davis and M.R. Willcott,

III, in R.E. Sievers, editor, N uclear M agnetic R esonance S hift R eagent s , Academic Press, New

York, N.Y. 143-158, 1973.

9. Thermal Unimolecular Reactions, M.R. Willcott, R.L. Cargill and A.B. Sears, in A. Streitwieser,

Jr. and R.W. Taft, editors, P rogress i n P hysical O rganic C he m istr y , 9, John Wiley, New York,

N.Y. 25-98, 1972.

Abstracts:

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1. J Villanueva-Meyer, D Fleming, W Velasquez, H Singh, MR Willcott, and DF Cowan.

Evaluating the Response of Neo-adjuvant Chemotherapy in Locally Advanced Breast Cancer.

Supplement to Radiology, V209:522, November 1998.

2. H Singh, MR Willcott, MN Gohil, E vanSonnenberg. MRI of the Breast: Our

Experience with Dedicated Breast Magnet with Bilateral Breast Coils. Supplement to Radiology,

V209:524, November 1998.

3. Willcott MR, Rhoden SA, Ezell EL. Novel Methods for Viewing Contrast Enhanced NMR

Images. ENC 38th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference. Orlando, FL, March

23-27, 1997.

4. Hann SR, Willcott MR, Martin JC. 1,1,1-Triacetoxy - 1,1,1,3- Tetrahydro-3 Pentafluorophenyl

Trifluoromethyl - 6 (1,1-Dimethylethyl) - 1,2, Benziodoxole. 3. synthesis of a new dess-martin

periodinane analog containing a chiral center. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical

Society. Vol 208:427, 1994.

5. Benin VA, Willcott MR. Hypervalent compounds of silicon and germanium synthesis and NMR

studies. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, V207:231, 1994.

6. Riddle WR, Gibbs SJ, Fitzpatrick JM and Willcott MR, Using do/dt to evaluate the effect of

eddy currents in MR spectroscopy. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Volume 2(P), Number

2:154, 1992.

7. Lee H, Price RR, Riddle WR, Lorenz CH, Pickens DR and Partain CL. TurboFLASH

diffusion imaging with centric-ordered phase encoding. Radiology185(P): 158, 1992.

8. Riddle WR, Wudel JH, Gibbs SJ, Willcott MR. Evaluating cardiac allograft rejection with P-31

R spectroscopy. Radiology 185(P):256, 1992.

9. Willcott MR,Riddle R, and Gibbs, SJ. Interpreting time-domain phase signals from gradientlocalized

MR spectroscopy. J. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 1(2):180, 1991.

10. Willcott MR, Riddle WR, and Gibbs SJ. Enhancement of MR spectra using liner prediction:

opportunities, applications, and problems. Book of Abstracts: Society of Magnetic Resonance in

Medicine, p 181, 1991.

11. Riddle WR, Willcott MR, Gibbs SJ, and Price RR. Using the phase of the quadrature signal in

magnetic resonance spectroscopy to evaluate magnetic field homogeneity and temporal stability.

Book of Abstracts: Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, p. 453, 1991.

12. Gibbs, SJ, Willcott MR, Riddle WR and Deboer, D. Early detection of cardiac allograft

rejection: applications of P-31 MR spectroscopy. Radiology 181(P):238, 1991.

13. Price RR, Riddle WR, Lorenz CH, Pickens DR, Willcott MR and Partain CL, et al. T1

dependence in TURBOFLASH diffusion imaging. Radiology 181(P):310, 1991.

14. Willcott MR, Gibbs SJ, and Riddle WR. Artifact removal in MR spectroscopy: automatic

eddycurrent compensation. Radiology, 177(P):324, 1990.

15. Willcott MR, Gibbs SJ, and Riddle WR. Artifact removal in MR spectroscopy: automatic

eddy- current compensation. Radiology, 177(P):324, 1990.

16. Willcott MR, Riddle WR and Gibbs SJ. Interpreting time-domain phase signals from gradientlocalized

MR spectroscopy. J. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 1(2):180, 1991.

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17. Society Reactive Hyperemia in Muscle: Proton MRI and MRA Studies of Magnetic Resonance

in Medicine, MR Willcott, SJ Gibbs, DR Pickens, WR Riddle, AS Hollister, IO Biagionni, and

RR Rice. Ninth Annual Meeting, New York, August 1990.

18. Experience with STEAM MR Spectroscopy, MR Willcott, SJ Gibbs, WR Riddle, S

Gronenemeyer, JS Taylor, Siemens Spectroscopy Users Meeting, June 1990.

19. Error Analysis of the Fitting of MR Relaxation Data: The Double Exponential Fit, SJ Gibbs,

MR Willcott, RR Price, CL Partain and AE James, Jr., Society for Magnetic Resonance Imaging,

Eighth Annual Meeting, Vol. 8, Suppl 1, 236, Washington, DC, February 1990.

20. Optimization of Volume Selected MR Imaging for Localization Proton Spectroscopy, WR

Riddle, MR Willcott, RR Price, DR Pickens, CL Partain and AE James, Society for

Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Eighth Annual Meeting, Vol. 8, Suppl 1, 240, Washington, DC,

February 1990.

21. MR Spectroscopy, MR Willcott, Refresher Couse, Radiological Society of North America,

Chicago, November-December 1988.

22. NMR Imaging of Susceptibility-Induced Magnetic Field Inhomogeneities, RE Wendt, MR

Willcott, W Nitz, PH Murphy and R Bryan, Radiological Society of North America, Chicago,

November-December 1987.

23. Calculated T2 and its Clinical Application, RN Bryan, JA Jackson, NJ Schneiders, JJ Ford,

and MR.Willcott III, American Society of Neuradiology, Boston, June 1984.

24. Flow in the Plane of the Slice (WIP), RE Wendt, III, PH Murphy, JA Burdine, MR Willcott,

III, JJ Ford and RN Bryan, Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, San Francisco, August

1983. Abstract: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 1, 284-285, 1984.

25. Production and Display of Spin Density, T1 and T2 NMR Imaging, NJ Schneiders, JJ Ford,

JA Jackson, RN Bryan and MR Willcott, III, American Association of Physicists in

Medicine, New York City, July-August, 1983. Abstract: Magnetic Resonance in

Medicine,1,245, 1984.

26. Optimization of NMR RF Pulse Techniques for Brain Imaging, RN Bryan, MR Willcott, III,

RE Wendt, III, JJ Ford, Scheiders, and H. Post, Radiological Society of North America, Chicago,

November 1983.

27. CT vs NMR Imaging of Ischemic Cerebral Infarction, RN Bryan, HS Derman, JA Jackson,

SW Weathers, MR Willcott, III, JJ Ford, and NJ Schneiders, American Society of

Neuroradiology, San Francisco, June 1983. Abstract: American Journal of Radiology, 4,1136,

1983.

28. CT-NMR Imaging of Multiple Sclerosis-A Comparative Study, RN Bryan, GR Kelly, JA

Jackson,

MR Willcott, III, JJ Ford, and NJ Schneiders, Society for Magnetic Resonance Imaging,

Colorado Springs, February, 1983. Abstract: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 1, 231, 1983.

29. NMR Evaluation of Occlusive Stroke in Rat, RN Bryan, MR Willcott, NJ Schneiders, and

JE Rose, Abstract: Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, 7, 184, 1983.

30. Phantoms for NMR Images, NJ Schneiders, RN Bryan, MR Willcott and J Ford, Abstract:

Medical Physics, 10, 133-134, 1983.

31. NMR Imagining of Flow, PH Murphy, RN Bryan, MR Willcott, WL Thompson, and JA

Burdine, Abstract:Medical Physics, 10, 133, 1983.

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32. Spin Density and T2 NMR Images. NJ Schneiders, P Brunner, RN Bryan, MR Willcott, III

and JJ Ford, The Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, December 1982.

33. Phantoms for NMR Images, NJ Schneiders, RN Bryan, JJ Ford, and MR Willcott, III, The

Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, December 1982.

34. Bryan RN, Ford JJ , Rose JE, Schneiders NJ and Willcott MR. NMR images-phantoms, rat

rains

and practical considerations: Abstract: Journal of Nuclear, Medicine, 23, 38, 1982.

35. Bryan RN, Willcott MR, Schneiders NJ and Rose JE. Evaluation of occlusive stroke in rat,

Abstract: American Journal of Radiology, 1,4-945, 1982.

Articles in Proceedings:

1. von E. Doering W and Willcott, III MR. On the irrelevance to the norardiene problem of

conrow’s eucarvone enol triphenyl-methyl ether. Tetrahedron Letters, No. 15, 663-666, 1962.

2. von E Doering W, Willcott, III MR and Jones, Jr. M. The structure of two minor products of the

pyrolysis of thujone. The Journal of the American Chemical Society, 84, 1224-1228, 1962.

3. Chesick JP and Willcott MR. Isotope effects in the methylene insertion reaction. 1. propane vs.

2,2-dideuteriopropane. The Journal of Physical Chemistry, 67, 2850-2851, 1963.

4. Berson JA and Willcott, III MR. Bredt’s rule interdiction of cyclopropane rearrangements. The

vinyl norticyclenes. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 30, 3569-3572, 1965.

5. Berson JA and Willcott, III MR. New thermal rearrangements of tropilidenes. The Journal of

the American Chemical Society, 87, 2751-2752, 1966.

6. Berson JA and Willcott, III MR. Thermally induced skeletal rearrangements of tropilidene

rearrangements. The Journal of the American Chemical Society, 87, 2752-2753, 1966.

7. Willcott MR and Goerland EH. The kinetics of the bicyclo[3.2.0]-heptadiene to cycloheta-triene

conversion. Tetrahedron Letters. No. 52, 6341-6345, 1966.

8. Berson JA and Willcott, III MR. Thermally induced skeletal rearrangements of tropilidenes.

Record of Chemical Progress, 27, No. 3, 139-149, 1966.

9. Willcott, III MR and Cargle VH. The stereochemical fate of the cyclopropyl ring in the

vinlycyclopropane rearrangement. The Journal of the American Chemical Society, 89, 723,

1967.

10. Cargill RL, and Willcott, III MR. Photochemical cycloaddition reactions with norbornene.

Journal of Organic Chemistry, 31, 3938, 1966.

11. Chang C, Fairless BJ, Curl RF, Hinze J, Koster DF, and Danti A. Proton magnetic resonance

spectrum and nuclear overhauser effects on n-methylmethyleneimine. Journal of Molecular

Spectroscopy, 22, 112-117, 1967.

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12. Berson JA, Grubb PW, Clark RA, Hartter DB, and Willcott III MR. Skeletal rearrangements of

the methyl-7,7-dicyanonorcara-dienes. The Journal of the American Chemical Society, 89,

4076-4081, 1967.

13. Willcott, III MR, and Boriack CJ. Bornadiene thermolysis. A new entry into the trimethyltropilidene

labyrinth. The Journal of the American Chemical Society, 90, 3287-3288, 1968.

14. Willcott, III MR and Cargle VH. Structural evidence for the existence of a symmetrical high

energy species inthe degenerate vinyl cyclopropane rearrangement. The Journal of the American

Chemical Society, 91, 4310-4311, 1969.

15. Cargill RL, Gimarc BM, Pond DM, King TY, Sears AB and Willcott MR. Stereochemistry of a

photochemical allylic rearrangement. The Journal of the American Chemical Society, 92, 3809-

3810, 1970.

16. Willcott, III MR and Boriack CJ. Chiral Bornadiene: Its synthesis and rearrangement.

Angewandte Chemie(English Edition), 10, 78, 1971.

17. Willcott, III MR, and Boriack CJ. Chiral bornadiene. Its synthesis and characterization. The

Journal of the American Chemical Society, 93, 2354-2356, 1971.

18. Willcott III, MR, Oth JFM, Thio J, Plinke G, and Schroeder G. Rapid solution of

stereochemical problems with europium-tris(tetramethyl-heptanedione), eu(thd)3 , Tetrahedron Letters,

19, 1579- 1582, 1971.

19. Cargill RL, King TY, Sears AB, and Willcott MR. The tricyclo[5.2.0.02,5 ] nonane system. The

Journal of Organic Chemistry, 36, 1423-1428, 1971.

20. Gansow OA, Willcott MR, and Lenkinksi RE. Carbon magnetic resonance. Signal assignment

by alternately pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance and lanthanide-induced chemical shifts. The

Journal of the American Chemical Society, 93, 4295-4297, 1971.

21. Bear JL, Kitchens J, and Willcott, III MR. A kinetic study of the reaction of rhodium(II) acetate

with trifluroacetic acid. The Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry, 33, 3479-3486, 1971.

22. Willcott, III MR, Lenkinski RE, and Davis RE. Interpretation of the pseudocontact model for

nuclear magnetic resonance shift reagents. I. The agreement factor r. The Journal of the

American Chemical Society, 94, 1742-1744, 1972.

23. Davis R, and Willcott, III MR, Interpretation of the pseudocontact model for nuclear magnetic

resonance shift reagents. II. Significance testing on the agreement factor r. The Journal of the

American Chemical Society, 94, 1744-1745, 1972.

24. Gansow OA, Loeffler PA, Davis RE, Willcott, III MR and Lenkinski RE. Evaluation of

lanthanide-induced carbon-13 contact vs. pseudocontact nuclear magnetic resonance shifts. The

Journal of the American Chemical Society,95, 3389-3390,1973.

25. Gansow OA, Loeffler PA, Davis RE, Willcott, III MR, and Lenkinski RE. Evidence for

europium-induced fermi contact shifts in carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectra. The

Journal of the American Chemical Society, 95, 3390-3392, 1973.

26. Cargill RL, Sears AB, Boehm J, and Willcott M. Robert. Photochemistry of bicyclo[3.2.0] hept-

3-en-2-ones. The Journal of the American Chemical Society, 95, 4346-4355, 1973.

27. Willcott, III MR and Davis RD. Determination of the structure of organic molecules by

lanthanide-induced chemical shifts in theory and practice. Proceedings of the Tenth Rare Earth

Research Conference, 405, 1973.

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28. Davis RE, Willcott, III MR, Lenkinski RE, Doering WE and Birladeanu L. The Journal of the

American Chemical Society, 95, 6846-6848, 1973.

29. Willcott MR, Davis RE, Faulkner DJ, and Stollard MO. The configuration and conformation of

7-chloro-1,6-dibromo-3,7-dimethyl-3,4-epoxy-1-octene. Tetrahedron Letters, 3967-3970, 1973.

30. Willcott, III MR, and Rathburn IM. Intermolecular methyl transfer during pyrolysis of 1,5,5-

Trimethylcyclopentadiene. The Journal of the American Chemical Society, 96, 938-939, 1974.

31. Hehre WJ, Salem L, and Willcott, III MR. Organic transition states. II The

methylenecyclopropane rearrangement. A two-step diradical pathway with a secondary

minimum. The Journal of the American Chemical Society, 96, 4328-4330, 1974.

32. Willcott, III MR, Davis RE, Holder RW. Interpretation of the pseudocontact model for nuclear

magnetic shift reagents. VI. Determination of the stereoisomeric relationships of four

structurally isomeric methylbicyclooctenois. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 40, 1952-

1957, 1975.

33. Willcott MR, Bearden WH, Davis RE and Pettit R. An NMR study of the conformations of

certain alcohol derivatives of tricarbonyl (Diene) iron compounds: a critique. Organic Magnetic

Resonance, 7, 557-562, 1975.

34. Willcott, III MR, and Davis RE. Determination of molecular conformation in solution. Science,

190, 850-857, 1975.

35. Gansow OA, Davis RE, and Willcott, III MR. Contact vs. pseudocontract contibutions to

lanthanide induced shifts in the NMR spectra of isoquinoline and of enod-norbornenol. The

Journal of the American Chemical Society, 98, 4250-4258, 1976.

36. Deming SN, Morgan SL, and Willcott MR. Sequential simplex optimization. American

Laboratory , 9, No. 10, 13-19, 1976.

37. Kohn H, Cravey MJ, Arceneaux JH, Cravey RL, and Willcott, III MR. Syntheses and spectral

properties of substituted imidazolidones and imidazolidines. The Journal of Organic Chemistry,

42, 941-948, 1977.

38. Boothe TE, Greene, Jr. JL, Shevlin PB, Willcott, III MR, Inners RR and Cornelis A. The

sterochemistry of free radical eliminations on β- Phenylsulfinyl radicals. The Journal of the

American Chemical Society. 100, 3874-3879, 1978.

39. Willcott MR, Dyckes DF, Harina GJ, and Inners RR. Two dimensional fourier transform NMR

spectroscopy of biologically relevant molecules. XX Congress AMPERE, Tallin, Estonia, 543,

1978.

40. Harina BJ, Dyckes DF, Willcott MR and Jons, Jr. WC. 13 C Enriched S-methylmethionyl

residues

as a probe of protein conformation. The Journal of the American Chemical Society, 100, 4897-

4899, 1978.

41. Barfield M, Marshall JL, Canada ED, and Willcott III MR. y-Methyl substituent effects on

vicinal coupling constants involving carbon -13. The Journal of the American Chemical Society,

100, 7076-7077, 1978.

42. Sims RW, Willcott III MR, and Inners RR. The use of static and dynamic physical property

measurements of infer structural properties of associated liquids: acetic acid-water. The Journal

of Chemical Physics, 70, 4562-4573, 1979.

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43. Bearden WH, Davis RE, and Willcott, III MR. Cis-Azoxyalkanes. II. Lanthanide induced

uclear magnetic resonance shifts; complexation at nitrogen. The Journal of Organic Chemistry,

44, 1974-1977, 1979.

44. Harina BM, Dyckes DF, Willcott , III MR, and Jones , Jr. WC. Denaturation studies by 13 C

nuclear magnetic resonance on modified basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor using the novel s-[13

C] methyll methionyl probe. The Journal of the American Chemical Society, 102, 1120-1124,

1980.

45. Sims RW, and Willcott, III MR. Comment on the specific concentration dependence of the

proton magnetic resonance chemical shift in the system acetic acid-water. The Journal of

Chemical Physics, 74, 6533, 1981.

46. Willcott MR, Morrison PA, Assercq JM, Welch SC, and Inners R. Cycloseychellene: a

structural revision. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 46, 4819-4820, 1981.

47. Welch SC, Gruber JM, Chow CY, Willcott MR and Inners R. Synthesis of sychellene and the

original structure reported for cycloseychellene. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 46, 4816-

4817, 1981.

48. Caldwell SR, Martin GE, Simonsen SH, Inners RR, and Willcott, III MR. Chemistry of the

phenoxathiins and isoterically related heterocycles. XVI (1) The synthesis and molecular

structure of 3-Azaphenoxathiin: Evidence in support of factors responsible for control of the

dihedral angle. Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry, 18, 479-484, 1981.

49. Gampe RT, Matson JD, Weinheimer AJ, Martin GE, and Willcott MR. Regularities in the 13 C

NMR chemical shifts of methylene groups in isoprene derived structural fragments.

Spectroscopy Letters, 15, 795-802, 1982.

50. Puig-Torres S, Martin GE, Ford JJ, Willcott MR and Smith K. Chemistry of the phenoxathiins

and isosterically related heterocycles. XXIII. 1-Azathianthrene: The first reported synthesis of a

monoazathinrene and the investigation of the 13 C NMR spectrum using two-dimensional NMR

techniques. Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry, 19, 1441-1446, 1982.

51. Puig-Torres S and Gampe RT. Homonuclear two-dimensional j-resolved spectroscopy.

Examination of resonance due to strong coupling in the two-dimensional j spectrum of 1,6-

diazathianthrene: The role of first order character in position and intensity of resonance due to s

strong coupling. Journal Heterocyclic Chemistry, 20, 253-256, 1983.

52. Martin GE, Gampe RT, Ford JJ, Willcott MR, Ternay AL, Okafor CO, and Smith K. Novel

heterocyclic systems 6. Chemisty of the phenocathiins and isosterically related heterocycles. 27.

2-Dimensional j resolved spectra of 1,4,9-triazaphenoxathin. The influence of frequency on the

position and intensity of resonances due to strong coupling. Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry,

20, 1063-1075, 1983.

53. Martin GE, Smith SL, Layton WJ, Willcott MR, Iwao M, Lee ML, and Castle RN. Assignment

of the 1 H and 13 C NMR spectra of phenanthro [1,2-b] thiophene through the concerted

application of two-dimensional NMR spectroscopic techniques. Journal of Heterocyclic

Chemistry, 20, 1367-1381, 1983.

54. Musmar MJ, Willcott MR, Martin GE, Gampe, Jr. RT, Iwao M, Lee ML, Hurd RE, Johnson LF,

and Casstle RN. Autocorrelated 13 C 13 C double quantum coherence two-dimensional NMR

spectroscopy: utilization of a modified version of the technique as an adjunct in the total

assignment of the 1 H- and 13 C- NMR spectra of the mutagen phenanthro [3,4-b] thiophene.

Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry, 20, 1661-1669, 1983.

55. Bryan RN, Willcott MR, Schneiders NJ, Ford JJ, and Derman HS. Nuclear magnetic resonance

evaluation of stroke. Radiology, 149, (1), 189-192, 1983.

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56. Bryan RN, Willcott MR, Schneiders NJ, and Rose JE. NMR evaluation of stroke in the rat.

American Journal of Neuradiology, 4, 242-244, 1983.

57. Schneiders NJ, Post H, Brunner P, Ford J, Bryan N, and Willcott MR. Accurate T2 NMR

images. Medical Physics, 10(5), 642,1983.

58. Gampe RT, Alam M, Weinheimer AJ, Martin GE, Matson JA, Willcott MR, Inners RR, and

Hurd RE. Total assignment of the 13 C NMR spectrum of the cembranoid diterpene eunicin t

through the use of two-dimensional proton-carbon chemical shift correlation. Journal of the

American Chemical Society, 106, 1823-1826, 1984.

59. Jackson JA, Derman HS, Harper RL, Willcott MR, Ford JJ, Schneider MJ, Kelly A, and Bryan

RN. Nuclear magnetic resonance diagnosis of an anaplastic astrocytoma. Magnetic Resonance

Imaging, 2, 227-233, 1984.

60. Willcott MR, III, Mee GL, and Chesick JP. Magnetic field mapping in NMR imaging.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 5, 301-306, 1987.

61. Wendt RE, Willcott MR, III, Nitz W, Murphy PH and Bryan RN. NMR imaging of

susceptibility -induced magnetic field inhomogeneities, Radiology, 168:837-841, 1988.

62. Riddle WR, Gibbs SJ, and Willcott MR. Removing Effects of Eddy Currents in Proton MRSpectroscopy.

Medical Physics, V19:501-509,1992.

63. Riddle WR, Wudel JH, Gibbs SJ, and Willcott MR. Evaluating Cardiac Allograft-Rejection with

P-31 MR Spectroscopy. Radiology, V185:256,1992.

64. Riddle WR, Gibbs SJ, and Willcott MR. Dissecting and Implementing Steam Spectroscopy.

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, V29:378-380,1993.

65. Willcott MR. Dedication to Martin, J.C. Heteroatom Chemistry, V4:107-111,1993.

66. Benin VA, Martin JC, and Willcott, MR. Low-Temperature NMR Evidence Shows the Elusive

Siliconium Ion is a Further Example of Tautomeric Equilibrium. Tetrahedron Letters, V35:2133-

2136,1994.

67. Carrol, FE, Waters, JW, Willcott, MR et al. Attenuation of Monochromatic X-rays by Normal

and Abnormal Breast Tissues. Investigative Radiology, V29:266-272, 1994.

68. Martin PR, Gibbs SJ, Nimmerrichter AA, Riddle WR, Welch LW, and Willcott MR. Brain

Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Studies in Recently Abstinent Alcoholics, Alcoholism:

Clinical and Experimental Research, V19:1078-1082, 1995.

69. Gajewski JJ, Olsen LP, and Willcott, III MR. Evidence for Concert in the Thermal Unimolecular

Vinylcyclopropane to Cyclopentenone Sigmatropic 1,3-Shift, Journal of the American Chemical

Society, 118:299-306, 1996.

70. Parry RJ, S Jiralerspong, SV Mhaskar, L Alemany and R Willcott. Investigations of coronatine

biosynthesis. Elucidation of the mode of incorporation of pyruvate into coronafacic acid. J. Am.

Chem. Soc.,118, 703, 1996.

71. Hu J, Willcott MR and Moore GJ. Two-Dimensional Proton Chemical-Shift

Imaging of Human Muscle Metabolities. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 126: 187-192, 1997.

72. Alemany LB, Gonzalez A, Luo W, Billups WE, Willcott MR, Ezell E and Gozansky E.

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Observation of Alignment Effects in High-Field Proton NMR Spectra of Hydrogenated

Fullerenes: Evidence for Residual Anisotropic Dipole—Dipole Couplings. J. Am. Chem. Soc.

119, 5047-5048,1997.

73. Alemany LB, Gonzales A, Billups WE, Willcott MR, Ezell E and Gozansky E. Alignment

Effects in High Field Proton NMR Spectra of the Hydrogenated Fullerenes C60H2 and C60H4 -

Evidence for Residual Anisotropic Dipole-Dipole Couplings. Journal of Organic Chemistry,

62(17):5771-5779, Aug, 22, 1997.

74. Benin VA, Martin JC, Willcott MR. Solution and Solid State Studies of Some New Silicon and

Germanium Compounds Stabilized by Tridentate Ligands. Tetrahedron, 53(29):10133-10154,

Jul 21 1997.