With over seventy total researchers during the summer, the Furman University Chemistry Department boasts one of the largest undergraduate research programs in the nation. The summer of 2014 marked the 50th consecutive program in which undergraduates, masters students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty mentors, and visiting faculty from area schools work together over a ten-week period in a wide variety of scientific research projects. The undergraduate students, who receive stipends for the summer, carry out independent investigations in the areas of analytical, inorganic, physical, organic and bio-organic chemistry. This program would not be possible without the support of wide variety of public and private sources.
These student/faculty collaborations produced the following research papers that were published in peer-reviewed journals.
Submissions from 2004
Position-Selected Molecular Ruler, Hirofumi Tanaka, Mary Elizabeth Anderson, Mark W. Horn, and Paul S. Weiss
A Comparison of One-Particle Basis Set Completeness, Higher-Order Electron Correlation, Relativistic Effects, and Adiabatic Corrections for Spectroscopic Constants of BH, CH+, and NH, Berhane Temelso, F Valeev Edward, and C. David Sherrill
Submissions from 2003
Optical and Mass Spectral Studies of Shocked Salts and Polymer Films., Johnny Anderson, Allison Aiken, Steven Buelow, Charles A. Arrington, and Brooks Jones
Advances in nanolithography using molecular rulers, Mary Elizabeth Anderson, Lim-Piu Tan, H. Tanaka, M. Mihok, H. Lee, Mark W. Horn, and Paul S. Weiss
Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of a Novel DZQ-Polyamide Conjugate, Ramzi Ayyad, Hari N. Pati, Rizwan Khan, and Moses Lee
Vibrational and Electronic Spectroscopy of Acenaphthylene and Its Cation, John J. Banisaukas, Jan Szczepanski, John Eyler, Martin Vala, So Hirata, Martin Head-Gordon, Jos Oomens, Gerard Meijer, and Gert von Helden
Crystal Engineering through Halogen Bonding. 2. Complexes of Diacetylene-Linked Heterocycles with Organic Iodides, April Crihfield, Joshua Hartwell, Dustin Phelps, Rosa D. B. Walsh, Jeffery L. Harris, John F. Payne, William T. Pennington, and Timothy W. Hanks
Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel diaziridinylquinone-acridine conjugates, Angela Di Francesco, Stephen P. Mayalarp, Susan Kim, John Butler, and Moses Lee
Sterically constraining photoluminescence. X-ray crystal structure of a bulky platinum(II) α-diimine complex, Keenan E. Dungey, Laura L. Wright, Brian D. Thompson, Rosa D. B. Walsh, and William T. Pennington
Syntheses and structures of two acridine orange polyiodide salts, E. R. Gordon, Rosa D. B. Walsh, William T. Pennington, and Timothy W. Hanks
GC-MS of ignitable liquids using solvent-desorbed SPME for automated analysis, Ashley C. Harris and John F. Wheeler
Enzymatic Reductions with Dihydrogen via Metal Catalyzed Cofactor Regeneration, Robert T. Hembre, Paul S. Wagenknecht, and Jonathan M. Penney
Efficient Synthesis of a Complete Donor/Acceptor bis (Aryl)diyne Family, Brian T. Holmes, William T. Pennington, and Timothy W. Hanks
Chemistry of constrained dioxocyclam ligands with Co(III): unusual examples of C-H and C-N bond cleavage, Chuanjiang Hu, Robert M. Chin, Thoi D. Nguyen, Khoi T. Nguyen, Paul S. Wagenknecht, and Lawrence C. Nathan
Solution-state and solid-state structural characterization of complexes of a new macrocyclic ligand containing the 1,5-diazacyclooctane subunit, Chuanjiang Hu, Thoi D. Nguyen, Paul S. Wagenknecht, and Lawrence C. Nathan
An Efficient Method for the Synthesis of Substituted 4-Acetoxynaphthalene-2-Carboxylate Esters, Ethyl 4-Acetoxybenzofuran-6-Carboxylate, and Ethyl 4-Acetoxybenzothiophene-6-Carboxylate, Hari N. Pati, Regan LeBlanc, and Moses Lee
Capillary electrophoresis as a probe of enantiospecific interactions between photoactive transition metal complexes and DNA, James P. Schaeper, Lori A. Nelsen, M. A. Shupe, Brad J. Herbert, Noel Kane-Maguire, and John F. Wheeler
Spectroscopic studies of the multiple binding modes of a trimethine-bridged cyanine dye with DNA, K. M. Sovenyhazy
Cytotoxicity and sequence specificity of C- and N-terminus conjugates of N-methylpyrrole polyamides with seco-cyclopropaneindoline, James L. Toth, James A. Henry, Zarmeen T. Taherbhai, T. Staples, Kaitlin Summerville, Heather L. Handl, Stephen J. Hudson, Konstantinos Kiakos, John A. Hartley, and Moses Lee
Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Regeneration of Nicotinamide Coenzymes with Hydrogen1, Paul S. Wagenknecht, Jonathan M. Penney, and Robert T. Hembre
Effects of steric constraint on chromium(III) complexes of tetraazamacrocycles. Chemistry and excited-state behavior of 1,4-C2-cyclam complexes, Kimberley Wright-Garcia, Jillian Basinger, Sarah Williams, Chuanjiang Hu, Paul S. Wagenknecht, and Lawrence C. Nathan
Self-Organization of Gold Nanoparticles on Surface-Modified Conducting Polymer Films, Donghui Zhang, Sarah Klapman, and Timothy W. Hanks
High quantum yield blue emission from water-soluble Au8 nanodots, Jie Zheng, Jeffrey T. Petty, and Robert M. Dickson
Submissions from 2002
Exploiting intermolecular interactions and self-assembly for ultrahigh resolution nanolithography, Mary Elizabeth Anderson, R. K. Smith, Z. J. Donhauser, A. Hatzor, P. A. Lewis, Lim-Piu Tan, H. Tanaka, Mark W. Horn, and Paul S. Weiss
Viscometry and Atomic Force Microscopy Studies of the Interactions of a Dimeric Cyanine Dye with DNA, Jason A. Bordelon, Karl J. Feierabend, Shabana A. Siddiqui, Laura L. Wright, and Jeffrey T. Petty