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 2015
DNA-Directed Fluorescence Switching of Silver Clusters, Mainak Ganguly, Cara Bradsher, Peter M. Goodwin, and Jeffrey T. Petty
Fundamentals of MOF Thin Film Growth via Liquid-Phase Epitaxy: Investigating the Initiation of Deposition and the Influence of Temperature, Monica L. Ohnsorg, Christopher K. Beaudoin, and Mary Elizabeth Anderson
Ten-Atom Silver Cluster Signaling and Tempering DNA Hybridization, Jeffrey T. Petty, Orlin O. Sergev, Andrew G. Kantor, Ian Rankine, Mainak Ganguly, Frederic D. David, Sandra K. Wheeler, and John F. Wheeler
Computational estimation of pKa values, Paul G. Seybold and George C. Shields
Reaching Back to Jump Forward: Recent Efforts towards a Systems-Level Hypothesis for an Early RNA World, Greg Springsteen
Formation of Deprotonated 2-Imidazoline-4(5)-One Product Ions in the Collision-Induced Dissociation of Some Serine-Containing Dipeptides, James S. Swan, Peter M. Findeis, Sheena Hilton, Kathryn M. Lebold, Berhane Temelso, and George C. Shields
Creative Language in a Student-generated Bioorganic Chemistry Wiki Textbook, Andrea Tartaro, Brian C. Goess, and Mike Winiski
Importance and Reliability of Small Basis Set CCSD(T) Corrections to MP2 Binding and Relative Energies of Water Clusters, Berhane Temelso, Carla R. Renner, and George C. Shields
Functionalised inherently conducting polymers as low biofouling materials, BinBin Zhang, Alex R. Nagle, Gordon G. Wallace, Timothy W. Hanks, and Paul J. Molino
Submissions from 2014
Substrate activity screening with kinases: discovery of small-molecule substrate-competitive c-Src inhibitors, Meghan E. Breen, Michael E. Steffey, Eric J. Lachacz, Frank E. Kwarcinski, Christel C. Fox, and Matthew B. Soellner
Hydration of the Sulfuric Acid-Methylamine Complex and Implications for Aerosol Formation, Danielle J. Bustos, Berhane Temelso, and George C. Shields
Photophysical properties of 2,3-dihydroquinazolin-4(1H)-one derivatives, Fanny A. Cabrera-Rivera, Jaime Escalante, Hugo Morales-Rojas, David F. Zigler, Robert D. Schmidt, Lauren E. Jarocha, and Malcolm D. E. Forbes
Study of picosecond processes of an intercalated dipyridophenazine Cr(III) complex bound to defined sequence DNAs using transient absorption and time-resolved infrared methods, Stephen J. Devereux, Páriac M. Keane, Suni Vasudevan, Igor V. Sazanovich, Michael Towrie, Qian Cao, Xue-Zhong Sun, Michael W. George, Christine J. Cardin, Noel A P Kane-Maguire, John M. Kelly, and Susan J. Quinn
Development and Implementation of a Two-Semester Introductory Organic-Bioorganic Chemistry Sequence: Conclusions from the First Six Years, Brian C. Goess
Comparative growth mechanism study for two thermoelectric compounds, Cameron F. Holder, Evan E. Rugen, and Mary Elizabeth Anderson
Hydrogen Bond Cooperativity and the Three-Dimensional Structures of Water Nonamers and Decamers, Cristóbal Pérez, Daniel P. Zaleski, Nathan A. Seifert, Berhane Temelso, George C. Shields, Zbigniew Kisiel, and Brooks H. Pate
Near-infrared silver cluster optically signaling oligonucleotide hybridization and assembling two DNA hosts, Jeffrey T. Petty, David A. Nicholson, Orlin O. Sergev, and Stuart K. Graham
Computational approaches for the prediction of pKa values, George C. Shields and Paul G. Seybold
Structural Analysis of α-Fetoprotein (AFP)-like Peptides with Anti-Breast-Cancer Properties, Berhane Temelso, Katherine A. Alser, Arianne Gauthier, Amber Kay Palmer, and George C. Shields
Synthesis of trans bis-alkynyl complexes of Co(III) supported by a tetradentate macrocyclic amine: A spectroscopic, structural, and electrochemical analysis of π-interactions and electronic communication in the C≡C—M—C≡C structural unit, Parth U. Thakker, Roberto G. Aru, Chivin Sun, William T. Pennington, Adam M. Siegfried, Elyse C. Marder, and Paul S. Wagenknecht
Synthetic control of the cis/trans geometry of M(cyclam)(CCR)2]OTf complexes and photophysics of cis-Cr(cyclam)(CCCF3)2]OTf and cis-Rh(cyclam)(CCCF3)2]OTf, Parth U. Thakker, Chivin Sun, Levan Khulordava, Colin D. McMillen, and Paul S. Wagenknecht
Kinetic analysis of nitroxide radical formation under oxygenated photolysis: toward quantitative singlet oxygen topology, David F. Zigler, Eva Chuheng Ding, Lauren E. Jarocha, Renat R. Khatmullin, Vanessa M. DiPasquale, R. Brendan Sykes, Valery F. Tarasov, and Malcolm D. E. Forbes
Submissions from 2013
Chapter One - Time-Resolved Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: History, Technique, and Application to Supramolecular and Macromolecular Chemistry, Malcolm D. E. Forbes, Lauren E. Jarocha, SooYeon Sim, and Valery F. Tarasov
Study of the Halogen Bonding between Pyridine and Perfluoroalkyl Iodide in Solution Phase Using the Combination of FTIR and 19F NMR, Briauna Hawthorne, Haiyan Fan-Hagenstein, Elizabeth Wood, Jessica M. Smith, and Timothy W. Hanks
Polydiacetylene-Based Smart Packaging, Sarah C. Hill, Yamin Htet, Jennifer Kauffman, Inyee Y. Han, Paul L. Dawson, William T. Pennington, and Timothy W. Hanks