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 2007
Preparation of highly polarized nuclei: Observation and control of time-dependent polarization transfer from H35Cl molecular rotation to 35Cl nuclear spin, Dimitris Sofikitis, Luis Rubio-Lago, Marion R. Martin, Davida J.A. Brown, Nathaniel C.-M Bartlett, Richard N. Zare, and T. P. Rakitzis
Nanostructures using self-assembled multilayers as molecular rulers and etch resists, Charan Srinivasan, J. Nathan Hohman, Mary Elizabeth Anderson, Paul S. Weiss, and Mark W. Horn
Scanning Electron Microscopy of Nanoscale Chemical Patterns, Charan Srinivasan, Thomas J. Mullen, J. Nathan Hohman, Mary Elizabeth Anderson, Arrelaine A. Dameron, Anne M. Andrews, Elizabeth C. Dickey, Mark W. Horn, and Paul S. Weiss
Ab initio thermochemistry of the hydrogenation of hydrocarbon radicals using silicon-, germanium-, tin-, and lead-substituted methane and isobutane, Berhane Temelso, C. David Sherrill, Ralph C. Merkle, and Robert A. Freitas
Effects of steric constraint on chromium(III) complexes of tetraazamacrocycles, 4: Comparison of the trans-difluoro-complexes of tet a, 1,4-C2-cyclam, and 1,11-C3-cyclam, Michael T. Vagnini, W. C. Rutledge, Chuanjiang Hu, Donald G. VanDerveer, and Paul S. Wagenknecht
Submissions from 2006
Do Hydroxyl Radical-Water Clusters, OH(H2O)n, n=1-5, Exist in the Atmosphere?, Marco A. Allodi, Meghan E. Dunn, Jovan Livada, Karl N. Kirschner, and George C. Shields
Exploration of the Potential Energy Surfaces, Prediction of Atmospheric Concentrations, and Prediction of Vibrational Spectra for the HO2···(H2O)n (n = 1-2) Hydrogen Bonded Complexes, K. S. Alongi, T. S. Dibble, George C. Shields, and Karl N. Kirschner
Hybrid Approaches to Nanolithography: Photolithographic Structures with Precise, Controllable Nanometer‐Scale Spacings Created by Molecular Rulers, Mary Elizabeth Anderson, M. Mihok, H. Tanaka, Lim-Piu Tan, Mark W. Horn, G. S. McCarty, and Paul S. Weiss
Combining Conventional Lithography with Molecular Self‐Assembly for Chemical Patterning, Mary Elizabeth Anderson, Charan Srinivasan, J. Nathan Hohman, E. M. Carter, Mark W. Horn, and Paul S. Weiss
Hybrid correlation models based on active-space partitioning: Seeking accurate O(N5) ab initio methods for bond breaking, Arteum D. Bochevarov, Berhane Temelso, and C. David Sherrill
Physical and structural basis for the strong interactions of the -ImPy- central pairing motif in the polyamide f-ImPyIm, Karen L. Buchmueller, Suzanna L. Bailey, David A. Matthews, Zarmeen T. Taherbhai, Janna K. Register, Zachary S. Davis, Chrystal D. Bruce, Caroline O'Hare, John A. Hartley, and Moses Lee
H + CD4 abstraction reaction dynamics: excitation function and angular distributions, Jon P. Camden, Wenfang Hu, Hans A. Bechtel, Davida J.A. Brown, Marion R. Martin, Richard N. Zare, György Lendvay, Diego Troya, and George C. Schatz
Synthesis and Cytotoxic Properties of Chalcones: An Interactive and Investigative Undergraduate Laboratory Project at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology, John Dickson, Lloyd V. Flores, Michelle Stewart, Regan LeBlanc, Hari N. Pati, Moses Lee, and Herman L. Holt
Prediction of Accurate Anharmonic Experimental Vibrational Frequencies for Water Clusters, (H2O)n, n=2-5, Meghan E. Dunn, Timothy M. Evans, Karl N. Kirschner, and George C. Shields
Synthesis and evaluation of an intercalator-polyamide hairpin designed to target the inverted CCAAT box 2 in the topoisomerase IIα promoter, Lloyd V. Flores, Andrew M. Staples, Hilary Mackay, Cameron M. Howard, Peter B. Uthe, Jim S. Sexton, Karen L. Buchmueller, W. D. Wilson, Caroline O'Hare, Jerome Kluza, Daniel Hochhauser, John A. Hartley, and Moses Lee
H + CD4 abstraction reaction dynamics: product energy partitioning, Wenfang Hu, György Lendvay, Diego Troya, George C. Schatz, Jon P. Camden, Hans A. Bechtel, Davida Brown, Marion R. J.A., and Richard N. Zare
Polydiacetylenes as probes for monitoring strain in blended films, Jennifer S. Kauffman, Angela Calchera, Sonia Behal, Timothy W. Hanks, Michael S. Ellison, and William T. Pennington
The conserved AAUAAA hexamer of the poly(A) signal can act alone to trigger a stable decrease in RNA polymerase II transcription velocity, Anita Nag, Kazim Narsinh, Amir Kazerouninia, and Harold G. Martinson
CCSD(T), W1, and other model chemistry predictions for gas-phase deprotonation reactions, Frank C. Pickard, Daniel R. Griffith, Skylar J. Ferrara, Matthew D. Liptak, Karl N. Kirschner, and George C. Shields
Ortho effect in the Bergman cyclization: Electronic and steric effects in hydrogen abstraction by 1-substituted naphthalene 5,8-diradicals, Frank C. Pickard, R. L. Shepherd, A. E. Gillis, Meghan E. Dunn, Steven Feldgus, Karl N. Kirschner, George C. Shields, M. Alabugin Manoharan, and V. I.
Extensions of molecular ruler technology for nanoscale patterning, C. Srinivasan, Mary Elizabeth Anderson, E. M. Carter, J. Nathan Hohman, S. S.N. Bharadwaja, S. Trolier-McKinstry, Paul S. Weiss, and Mark W. Horn
Electrically isolated nanostructures fabricated using self-assembled multilayers and a novel negative-tone bi-layer resist stack, Charan Srinivasan, Mary Elizabeth Anderson, R. Jayaraman, Paul S. Weiss, and Mark W. Horn
High-level ab initio studies of hydrogen abstraction from prototype hydrocarbon systems, Berhane Temelso, C. David Sherrill, Ralph C. Merkle, and Robert A. Freitas
Synthesis and Biophysical Testing of a Novel Pyrrole-Containing Polyamide-Benzamidine Hybrid, Mark Turlington, Hilary Mackay, W. C. Rutledge, Zarmeen T. Taherbhai, Binh Nguyen, David Wilson, and Moses Lee
Effects of steric constraint on Chromium(III) complexes of tetraazamacrocycles. 3. Insights into the temperature-dependent radiationless deactivation of the 2Eg (Oh) excited state of trans-Cr(N4)(CN)2]+ complexes, Michael T. Vagnini, Noel Kane-Maguire, and Paul S. Wagenknecht