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 2000
Density functional and ab initio studies on N-acetyl-duocarmycin SA: insight into its DNA interaction properties, Karl N. Kirschner, Moses Lee, Robert C. Stanley, and J. P. Bowen
Matrix-Isolation ESR Studies of the Various Isotopomers of the CH3Zn and ZnH Radicals: Comparisons with ab Initio Theoretical Calculations, Allan J. McKinley, Emmanuel Karakyriakos, Lon B. Knight, Robert M. Babb, and Aaron Williams
Application of capillary electrophoresis to stereochemical conversions. A case study: the photoracemization/hydrolysis of Cr(diimine)33+ species, Olga V. Mytykh, Susan E. Martin, John F. Wheeler, and Noel Kane-Maguire
Thermodynamic Characterization of the Association of Cyanine Dyes with DNA, Jeffrey T. Petty, Jason A. Bordelon, and Mary E. Robertson
Synthesis of Polydiacetylene Charge-Transfer Complexes, Dustin Phelps, April Crihfield, Joshua Hartwell, Timothy W. Hanks, William T. Pennington, and Rosa D. Bailey
Complexes of acridine and 9-chloroacridine with I2: formation of unusual I6 chains through charge-transfer interactions involving amphoteric I2, Elizabeth L. Rimmer, Rosa D. Bailey, Timothy W. Hanks, and William T. Pennington
Submissions from 1999
The role of base excision repair in the repair of DNA adducts formed by a series of nitrogen mustard-containing analogues of distamycin of increasing binding site size, Natalie Brooks, Peter J. McHugh, Moses Lee, and John A. Hartley
Modulation of Sequence Specificity of Duocarmycin-Dependent DNA Alkylation by Pyrrole-Imidazole Triamides, Tsuyoshi Fujiwara, Zhi-Fu Tao, Yohei Ozeki, Isao Saito, H. Wang, Moses Lee, and Hiroshi Sugiyama
Synthesis, characterization and polymerization of metal pyrrolyl complexes, Timothy W. Hanks, Matthew Mathis, and Wayne Harsha
Surface Modification of Conducting Polymer Films, Timothy W. Hanks, M. Powell, and Laura L. Wright
Neon and argon matrix ESR and theoretical studies of the 12CH3Cd, 12CD3Cd, 13CH3Cd, 12CH3111Cd, and 12CH3113Cd radicals, Emmanuel Karakyriakos, Jeffrey R. Davis, Carl J. Wilson, Sally A. Yates, Allan J. McKinley, Lon B. Knight, Robert M. Babb, and Donald J. Tyler
Electron spin resonance and theoretical studies of the 14 N....14N and 15N....15N spin-pair radicals in neon matrices: The effects of mixing among the 1Σ+g, 3Σ+u, 5Σ+g, and 7Σ+u electronic states, Lon B. Knight, Benjamin A. Bell, Daryl P. Cobranchi, and Ernest R. Davidson
Electron spin resonance studies of 45Sc17O,89Y17O, and 139La17O in rare gas matrices: Comparison with ab initio electronic structure and nuclear hyperfine calculations, Lon B. Knight, John G. Kaup, Benjamin Petzoldt, Ramzi Ayyad, Tapan K. Ghanty, and Ernest R. Davidson
Interaction of Cr(diimine)3 3+ Complexes with DNA, Rhett T. Watson, Nehal Desai, Justin Wildsmith, John F. Wheeler, and Noel Kane-Maguire
Synthesis and Characterization of an Unusual Platinum(II) Alkene Complex with an η2-Arene Interaction, Laura L. Wright, Scott J. Moore, John A. McIntyre, Sandra M. Dowling, Jennifer D. Overcast, Karen Konkel Nelson, Paula R. Rupert, and William T. Pennington
Imidazole-imidazole pair as a minor groove recognition motif for T:G mismatched base pairs, Xiang-Lei Yang, III R. Hubbard, Moses Lee, Zhi-Fu Tao, Hiroshi Sugiyama, and Andrew H. Wang
Binding of AR-1-144, a tri-imidazole DNA minor groove binder, to CCGG sequence analyzed by NMR spectroscopy, Xiang-Lei Yang, Crystal Kaenzig, Moses Lee, and Andrew H. Wang
Submissions from 1998
Bis(Pyridyl)Cadmium(II) Iodide Complexes: Thermal, Inclusion, and Structural Behavior, Rosa D. Bailey, Laura L. Hook, A. K. Powers, Timothy W. Hanks, and William T. Pennington
Melting transition in the leucoemeraldine form of polyaniline, A. P. Chacko, S. S. Hardaker, R. V. Gregory, and Timothy W. Hanks
Surface Modification of Polyaniline Films with 4-Alkyl- and 4-Perfluoroalkylanilines, Timothy W. Hanks, M. Powell, R. V. Gregory, and Laura L. Wright
AFM and contact angle studies of surface modified polyaniline thin films, Timothy W. Hanks, Laura L. Wright, and R. V. Gregory
Synthesis of a Deoxyguanosine-2-Amino Adduct of a Triimidazole-containung Tallimustine Analog, Crystal Kaenzig, III R. Hubbard, Mingzhu Zhang, Constance M. Harris, Thomas M. Harris, and Moses Lee
Theoretical and electron spin resonance studies of the the H··· H, H···D, and D··· D spin-pair radicals in rare gas matrices: A case of extreme singlet-triplet mixing, Lon B. Knight, William E. Rice, Louie Moore, Ernest R. Davidson, and Robert S. Dailey
Design, synthesis and DNA binding properties of a series of 4,5-bis(substituted)-1,2,3-triazole derivatives of imidazole- and pyrrole-containing analogs of distamycin, Stanley Kupchinsky, Joey E. Espinosa, Kimberly Johnson, Brent Steadman, Natalie Brooks, John A. Hartley, and Moses Lee