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 2002
Electron spin resonance studies of 199HgH, 201HgH, 199HgD and 201HgD isolated in neon and argon matrices at 4K: an electronic structure investigation, Ashley C. Stowe and Lon B. Knight
Vibrational and Electronic Spectroscopy of the Fluorene Cation, Jan Szczepanski, John Banisaukas, Martin Vala, So Hirata, Rodney J. Bartlett, and Martin Head-Gordon
Preresonance Raman Spectrum of the C13H9 Fluorene-like Radical, Jan Szczepanski, John Banisaukas, Martin Vala, So Hirata, and William R. Wiley
Sequence selective recognition of DNA by hairpin conjugates of a racemic seco-cyclopropaneindoline-2-benzofurancarboxamide and polyamides, James L. Toth, Carly A. Price, Erik C. Madsen, Heather L. Handl, Stephen J. Hudson, III R. Hubbard, J. P. Bowen, Konstantinos Kiakos, John A. Hartley, and Moses Lee
Investigation of a novel reductively-activatable anticancer prodrug of seco-CBI-TMI, an analog of duocarmycin SA, Heather M. Townes, Kaitlin Summerville, Bethany L. Purnell, M. Hooker, Erik C. Madsen, Stephen J. Hudson, and Moses Lee
Kinetics and Mechanism of Chromate Reduction with Hydrogen Peroxide in Base, Douglas A. Vander Griend, Joshua S. Golden, and Charles A. Arrington
Electronic Energy Self-Exchange with Macrocyclic Chromium(III) Complexes, Paul S. Wagenknecht, Noel Kane-Maguire, David G. Speece, and Nancy Helwic
Polypyrrole Surfaces as Substrates for Electroactive Ferrocene-Tethered Assemblies, Donghui Zhang and Timothy W. Hanks
Submissions from 2001
Fluvial geochemistry of selected tributary watersheds in the Enoree River Basin, northwestern South Carolina., C. B. Andersen, Kenneth A. Sargent, John F. Wheeler, and Sandra K. Wheeler
Synthesis and characterization of heteroleptic Cr(diimine)33+ complexes, Kylie D. Barker, Kristin A. Barnett, Stuart M. Connell, Jeff W. Glaeser, Amy Jo Wallace, Justin Wildsmith, Brad J. Herbert, John F. Wheeler, and Noel Kane-Maguire
Intercalative binding and photoredox behavior of Cr(phen)2(dppz)]3+ with B-DNA, Kylie D. Barker, Bethany R. Benoit, Jason A. Bordelon, Robert J. Davis, Andrew S. Delmas, Olga V. Mytykh, Jeffrey T. Petty, John F. Wheeler, and Noel Kane-Maguire
An ONIOM study of the Bergman reaction: a computationally efficient and accurate method for modeling the enediyne anticancer antibiotics, Steven Feldgus and George C. Shields
Cigarette Smoke Analysis Using an Inexpensive Gas-Phase IR Cell, N. Garizi, A. Macias, Toran Furch, R. Fan, Paul S. Wagenknecht, and Karen A. Singmaster
Design and synthesis of porphyrin-containing arrays on polypyrrole surfaces, Timothy W. Hanks, Brian Bergman, and Patrick Dillon
Iodine and Organoiodide Templates in Supramolecular Synthesis, Timothy W. Hanks, William T. Pennington, and Rosa D. Bailey
Chiral separations of transition metal complexes using capillary zone electrophoresis, Jamie E. Harris, Nehal Desai, Kathryn E. Seaver, Rhett T. Watson, Noel Kane-Maguire, and John F. Wheeler
Noncovalent Interactions in 2-Mercapto-1-methylimidazole Complexes with Organic Iodides, Julie I. Jay, Clifford W. Padgett, Rosa D. B. Walsh, Timothy W. Hanks, and William T. Pennington
Efficient Synthesis of (±)-seco-Cyclopropaneindoline Analogs of CC-1065, Sharon A. Jennings, James L. Toth, Shane G. Roller, Natalie Brooks, Caroline O'Hare, Konstantinos Kiakos, John A. Hartley, Philip J. Burke, and Moses Lee
Photoredox behavior and chiral discrimination of DNA bound M(diimine)3n+ complexes (M=Ru2+, Cr3+), Noel Kane-Maguire and John F. Wheeler
Hydrophobic interaction electrokinetic chromatography for the separation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using non-aqueous matrices, Jeremy T. Koch, Brooke Beam, K. S. Phillips, and John F. Wheeler
Accurate pKa calculations for carboxylic acids using Complete Basis Set and Gaussian-n models combined with CPCM continuum solvation methods, Matthew D. Liptak and George C. Shields
Experimentation with different thermodynamic cycles used for pKa calculations on carboxylic acids using complete basis set and gaussian-n models combined with CPCM continuum solvation methods, Matthew D. Liptak and George C. Shields
Capillary electrophoresis with laser-induced fluorescence detection for chiral analysis and DNA binding studies of ruthenium(II) Tris-diimine complexes, Susan E. Martin, Connatser R. Maggie, Noel Kane-Maguire, and John F. Wheeler
Comparison of CBS-QB3, CBS-APNO, and G3 predictions of gas phase deprotonation data, E. K. Pokon, Matthew D. Liptak, Steven Feldgus, and George C. Shields
Further quantum mechanical evidence that difluorotoluene does not hydrogen bond, Edward C. Sherer, Sam J. Bono, and George C. Shields