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.

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Submissions from 2001

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An ONIOM study of the Bergman reaction: a computationally efficient and accurate method for modeling the enediyne anticancer antibiotics, Steven Feldgus and George C. Shields

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Cigarette Smoke Analysis Using an Inexpensive Gas-Phase IR Cell, N. Garizi, A. Macias, Toran Furch, R. Fan, Paul S. Wagenknecht, and Karen A. Singmaster

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Design and synthesis of porphyrin-containing arrays on polypyrrole surfaces, Timothy W. Hanks, Brian Bergman, and Patrick Dillon

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Iodine and Organoiodide Templates in Supramolecular Synthesis, Timothy W. Hanks, William T. Pennington, and Rosa D. Bailey

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Chiral separations of transition metal complexes using capillary zone electrophoresis, Jamie E. Harris, Nehal Desai, Kathryn E. Seaver, Rhett T. Watson, Noel Kane-Maguire, and John F. Wheeler

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Noncovalent Interactions in 2-Mercapto-1-methylimidazole Complexes with Organic Iodides, Julie I. Jay, Clifford W. Padgett, Rosa D. B. Walsh, Timothy W. Hanks, and William T. Pennington

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Efficient Synthesis of (±)-seco-Cyclopropaneindoline Analogs of CC-1065, Sharon A. Jennings, James L. Toth, Shane G. Roller, Natalie Brooks, Caroline O'Hare, Konstantinos Kiakos, John A. Hartley, Philip J. Burke, and Moses Lee

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Photoredox behavior and chiral discrimination of DNA bound M(diimine)3n+ complexes (M=Ru2+, Cr3+), Noel Kane-Maguire and John F. Wheeler

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Hydrophobic interaction electrokinetic chromatography for the separation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using non-aqueous matrices, Jeremy T. Koch, Brooke Beam, K. S. Phillips, and John F. Wheeler

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Accurate pKa calculations for carboxylic acids using Complete Basis Set and Gaussian-n models combined with CPCM continuum solvation methods, Matthew D. Liptak and George C. Shields

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Experimentation with different thermodynamic cycles used for pKa calculations on carboxylic acids using complete basis set and gaussian-n models combined with CPCM continuum solvation methods, Matthew D. Liptak and George C. Shields

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Capillary electrophoresis with laser-induced fluorescence detection for chiral analysis and DNA binding studies of ruthenium(II) Tris-diimine complexes, Susan E. Martin, Connatser R. Maggie, Noel Kane-Maguire, and John F. Wheeler

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Comparison of CBS-QB3, CBS-APNO, and G3 predictions of gas phase deprotonation data, E. K. Pokon, Matthew D. Liptak, Steven Feldgus, and George C. Shields

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Further quantum mechanical evidence that difluorotoluene does not hydrogen bond, Edward C. Sherer, Sam J. Bono, and George C. Shields

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Matrix-isolation investigation of the diatomic anion radicals of aluminum and gallium (Al2- and Ga2-) An electron spin resonance and ab initio theoretical study, Ashley C. Stowe, John G. Kaup, Lon B. Knight, Jeffrey R. Davis, and Allan J. McKinley

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Accurate relative pKa calculations for carboxylic acids using complete basis set and Gaussian-n models combined with continuum solvation methods, A. M. Toth, Matthew D. Liptak, D. L. Phillips, and George C. Shields

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Crystal Engineering through Halogen Bonding: Complexes of Nitrogen Heterocycles with Organic Iodides, Rosa D. B. Walsh, Clifford W. Padgett, Pierangelo Metrangolo, Giuseppe Resnati, Timothy W. Hanks, and William T. Pennington

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Preparation and Use of a Room-Temperature Catalytic Converter, Gareth Wong, Bernard Mark, Xijia Chen, Toran Furch, Karen A. Singmaster, and Paul S. Wagenknecht

Submissions from 2000

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Tetraiodoethylene: a supramolecular host for Lewis base donors, Rosa D. Bailey, Laura L. Hook, Russell P. Watson, Timothy W. Hanks, and William T. Pennington

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Self-Assembly of Chromophoric Arrays on Conducting Polymers, Brian Bergman, Patrick Dillon, and Timothy W. Hanks

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Spectroscopic, Microscopic, and Surface Analysis of Alkanethiol- and Fluoroalkanethiol-Modified Conducting Polymer Thin Films, Brian Bergman and Timothy W. Hanks

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Alteration in the choice of DNA repair pathway with increasing sequence selective DNA alkylation in the minor groove, Natalie Brooks, Peter J. McHugh, Moses Lee, and John A. Hartley

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Catalytic Asymmetric Epoxidation Using a Fructose-Derived Catalyst, Andy Burke, Patrick Dillon, Kyle Martin, and Timothy W. Hanks

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Probing the Active Site of Yeast Alcohol Dehydrogenase through Microscale Yeast-Mediated Reductions of Acetophenone and Acetylpyridines. A Collaborative and Research-Based Advanced Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory Project, Michael Carnahan, Kari K. Cox, Joey E. Espinosa, Ray Feaster, Robert Hirsch, Andrew Lam, Shane G. Roller, Brent Steadman, James L. Toth, Moses Lee, and Jennifer Azbell

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Photobehavior of (α-Diimine)dimesitylplatinum(II) Complexes, Keenan E. Dungey, Brian D. Thompson, Noel Kane-Maguire, and Laura L. Wright