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 2008
Emissive chromium(III) complexes with substituted arylethynyl ligands, David L. Grisenti, W. W. Thomas, Christopher R. Turlington, Matthew D. Newsom, Christopher J. Priedemann, Donald G. VanDerveer, and Paul S. Wagenknecht
Hydration of OCS with one to four water molecules in atmospheric and laboratory conditions, Gregory M. Hartt, George C. Shields, and Karl N. Kirschner
Targeting the inverted CCAAT Box-2 of the topoisomerase IIα gene: DNA sequence selective recognition by a polyamide-intercalator as a staggered dimer, Hilary Mackay, Toni Brown, Jim S. Sexton, Minal Kotecha, Binh Nguyen, W. D. Wilson, Jerome Kluza, Boris Savic, Caroline O'Hare, Daniel Hochhauser, Moses Lee, and John A. Hartley
Halogen Bonding with Dihalogens and Interhalogens, William T. Pennington, Timothy W. Hanks, and Hadi D. Arman
Quantitative Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging: A Simple Approach to Automated Angle Scanning, Julia A. Ruemmele, Mary S. Golden, Yang Gao, Eric M. Cornelius, Mary Elizabeth Anderson, Lucian Postelnicu, and Rosina M. Georgiadis
Base-Directed Formation of Fluorescent Silver Clusters, Bidisha Sengupta, Caroline M. Ritchie, Jenna G. Buckman, Kenneth R. Johnsen, Peter M. Goodwin, and Jeffrey T. Petty
Efficient and Accurate Characterization of the Bergman Cyclization for Several Enediynes Including an Expanded Substructure of Esperamicin A(1), Edward C. Sherer, Karl N. Kirschner, Frank C. Pickard, Chantelle Rein, Steven Feldgus, and George C. Shields
The limitations of certain density functionals in modeling neutral water clusters, George C. Shields and Karl N. Kirschner
Biospecific Recognition of Tethered Small Molecules Diluted in Self‐Assembled Monolayers, M. J. Shuster, A. Vaish, M. E. Szapacs, Mary Elizabeth Anderson, Paul S. Weiss, and Anne M. Andrews
Sub-30-nm patterning on quartz for imprint lithography templates, Charan Srinivasan, J. Nathan Hohman, Mary Elizabeth Anderson, Paul S. Weiss, and Mark W. Horn
A reversible colorimetric and fluorescent polydiacetylene vesicle sensor platform, Zhongzhe Yuan and Timothy W. Hanks
Submissions from 2007
Electron Affinity of NO, Charles A. Arrington, Thom H. Dunning, and David E. Woon
Synthesis and biophysical evaluation of minor-groove binding C-terminus modified pyrrole and imidazole triamide analogs of distamycin, Toni Brown, Zarmeen T. Taherbhai, Jim S. Sexton, Arden Sutterfield, Mark Turlington, Justin B. Jones, Lindsay Stallings, Michelle Stewart, Karen L. Buchmueller, Hilary Mackay, Caroline O'Hare, Jerome Kluza, Binh Nguyen, David Wilson, Moses Lee, and John A. Hartley
Transition metal catalyzed D2/H2O exchange: Distinguishing between the single and double exchange pathways, Jennifer L. Carriker, Paul S. Wagenknecht, Mitra A. Hosseini, and Patrick E. Fleming
Synthesis and Optical Properties of Chiral Polydiacetylenes, Prasant Deb, Zhongzhe Yuan, Lee Ramsey, and Timothy W. Hanks
DNA conformational effects on the interaction of netropsin with A-tract sequences, Natalya N. Degtyareva, Megan J. Fresia, and Jeffrey T. Petty
Hydration changes accompanying the binding of minor groove ligands with DNA, Natalya N. Degtyareva, Bret D. Wallace, Andrea R. Bryant, Kristine M. Loo, and Jeffrey T. Petty
Synthesis and characterization of tris(heteroleptic) diimine complexes of chromium(III), Edward G. Donnay, James P. Schaeper, Richard D. Brooksbank, Jennifer L. Fox, Rebekah G. Potts, Rush M. Davidson, John F. Wheeler, and Noel Kane-Maguire
Computational Analysis of Stereospecificity in the Cope Rearrangement, Laura Glish and Timothy W. Hanks
Solution Phase Synthesis of Imidazole- and Pyrrole-containing Hairpin Polyamides, Dorothy Harris, Michelle Stewart, Alan Sielaff, Keith Mulder, Toni Brown, Hilary Mackay, and Moses Lee
Process for Stabilizing Enzymes with Phosphine or Phosphite Compounds, Robert T. Hembre, Paul S. Wagenknecht, and Jonathan M. Penney
Modulation of topoisomerase IIα expression by a DNA sequence-specific polyamide, Daniel Hochhauser, Minal Kotecha, Caroline O'Hare, Peter J. Morris, Janet M. Hartley, Zarmeen T. Taherbhai, Dorothy Harris, Claudia Forni, Roberto Mantovani, Moses Lee, and John A. Hartley
Design, synthesis, and biological testing of pyrazoline derivatives of combretastatin-A4, Marlie Johnson, Brent Younglove, Lauren Lee, Regan LeBlanc, Herman L. Holt, Patrice Hills, Hilary Mackay, Toni Brown, Susan L. Mooberry, and Moses Lee
Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds: Chromium, Noel Kane-Maguire
In Search of CS2(H2O)n=1-4 Clusters, Karl N. Kirschner, Gregory M. Hartt, Timothy M. Evans, and George C. Shields