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 2005
Characterization of the X̃2Π and Ã2Σ+ Electronic States of the Phospaethyne cation (HCP+), Berhane Temelso, Nancy A. Richardson, Levent Sari, Yukio Yamaguchi, and Henry F. Schaefer
High accuracy ab initio studies of Li6+, Li6-, and three isomers of Li6, Berhane Temelso and C. David Sherrill
A novel achiral seco-amino-cyclopropylindoline (CI) analog of CC-1065 and the duocarmycins: design, synthesis and biological studies, James L. Toth, John D. Trzupek, Lloyd V. Flores, Konstantinos Kiakos, John A. Hartley, William T. Pennington, and Moses Lee
Novel Picolinic Acid-containing Pyrrole-Imidazole Polyamides: Synthesis and T-G Mismatched Base Pair Recognition, Peter B. Uthe, Andrew M. Staples, Mark Turlington, Justin B. Jones, Kevin N. Blackmon, Suzanna L. Bailey, Karen L. Buchmueller, and Moses Lee
Effects of steric constraint on chromium(III) complexes of tetraazamacrocycles, 2. Comparison of the chemistry and photobehavior of the trans-dichloro- and trans-dicyano- complexes of cyclam, 1,4-C2-cyclam, and 1,11-C3-cyclam, Paul S. Wagenknecht, Chuanjiang Hu, Denise Ferguson, Lawrence C. Nathan, Robert D. Hancock, Jason R. Whitehead, Kimberley Wright-Garcia, and Michael T. Vagnini
Transition Metal Catalyzed Reduction of Nicotinamide Coenzymes and Their Analogues, Paul S. Wagenknecht and Edward J. Sambriski
Synthesis of a Lewis acid bearing cyclopentadienyl ligand and its tricarbonylmanganese(I) complex, Rhett T. Watson, Jillian Basinger, Endy Y. Min, and Paul S. Wagenknecht
First-principle studies of intermolecular and intramolecular catalysis of protonated cocaine, C. G. Zhan, S. X. Deng, Jaime G. Skiba, B. A. Hayes, S. M. Tschampel, George C. Shields, and D. W. Landry
Submissions from 2004
Super-Precise Nanolithography Using Multilayer of Self-Assembled Monolayers, Mary Elizabeth Anderson, Lim-Piu Tan, Morgan Mihok, Mark W. Horn, and Paul S. Weiss
Vibrational and Electronic Absorption Spectroscopy of 2,3-Benzofluorene and Its Cation, John J. Banisaukas, Jan Szczepanski, Martin Vala, and So Hirata
Photodissociation Pathways of the 2,3-Benzofluorene Cation, John J. Banisaukas, Jan Szczopanski, John Eyler, and Martin Vala
The ability of the Gaussian-2, Gaussian-3, Complete Basis Set-QB3, and Complete Basis Set-APNO model chemistries to model the geometries of small water clusters, Meghan E. Dunn, E. K. Pokon, and George C. Shields
Thermodynamics of forming water clusters at various temperatures and pressures by gaussian-2, gaussian-3, complete basis set-QB3, and complete basis Set-APNO model chemistries; Implications for atmospheric chemistry, Meghan E. Dunn, E. K. Pokon, and George C. Shields
Design and synthesis of polymerizable tridentate hosts for encapsulation of organoiodides, Timothy W. Hanks, Prasant Deb, Brian T. Holmes, and William T. Pennington
Synthesis of Chiral Polydiacetylenes from Amino Acids, Timothy W. Hanks, Lee Ramsey, and Prasant Deb
Synthesis of Chiral Polydiacetylenes from Amino Acids, Timothy W. Hanks, Lee Ramsey, and Prasant Deb
Targeting the inverted CCAAT box 2 in the topoisomerase IIα promoter by JH-37, an imidazole-pyrrole polyamide hairpin: design, synthesis, molecular biology, and biophysical studies, James A. Henry, N. M. Le, Binh Nguyen, Cameron M. Howard, Suzanna L. Bailey, Sarah M. Horick, Karen L. Buchmueller, Minal Kotecha, Daniel Hochhauser, John A. Hartley, W. D. Wilson, and Moses Lee
Use of chiral capillary electrophoresis and circular dichroism for the determination of absolute values of Îε for diimine transition metal complexes, Brad J. Herbert, Holly E. Carpenter, Noel Kane-Maguire, and John F. Wheeler
Photoluminescence and photo-redox reactions of poly(2-methoxyaniline-5-sulfonic acid), Leon Kane-Maguire, J. A. Causley, Noel Kane-Maguire, and Gordon G. Wallace
A novel class of achiral seco-analogs of CC-1065 and the duocarmycins: design, synthesis, DNA binding, and anticancer properties, Stanley Kupchinsky, Sara Centioni, Tiffany T. Howard, John D. Trzupek, Shane G. Roller, Virginia Carnahan, Heather M. Townes, Bethany L. Purnell, Carly A. Price, Heather L. Handl, Kaitlin Summerville, Kimberly Johnson, James L. Toth, Stephen J. Hudson, Konstantinos Kiakos, John A. Harley, and Moses Lee
Energetic basis for selective recognition of T*G mismatched base pairs in DNA by imidazole-rich polyamides, Eilyn R. Lacy, Binh Nguyen, Minh Le, Kari K. Cox, Caroline O'Hare, John A. Hartley, Moses Lee, and W. D. Wilson
Accurate Experimental Values for the Free Energies of Hydration of H+, OH-, and H3O+, M. W. Palascak and George C. Shields
Unexpected Syntheses of seco-Cyclopropyltetrahydroquinolines From a Radical 5-Exo-Trig Cyclization Reaction: Analogs of CC-1065 and the Duocarmycins, Hari N. Pati, Lori Forrest, Heather M. Townes, Brian M. Lingerfelt, Luanne M. McNulty, and Moses Lee
A Stereospecific Route for the Preparation of trans-Combretastatin Analogs: Synthesis and Cytotoxicity, Hari N. Pati, Zarmeen T. Taherbhai, Lori Forrest, Martha Wicks, Suzanna L. Bailey, Andrew Staples, Michelle Stewart, William T. Pennington, Jeffery L. Harris, and Moses Lee
Synthesis of N-Benzylated Anilines from the Reaction of Anilines and Benzyl Chloroformate, Hari N. Pati, Paul Weisbruch, Adrienne Lemon, and Moses Lee