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 1998
Synthesis and Characterization of Nickel(II) and Palladium(II) Pyrrolyl Complexes and Their Polymerization to Electroactive Materials, Matthew Mathis, Wayne Harsha, Timothy W. Hanks, Rosa D. Bailey, George L. Schimek, and William T. Pennington
Structures of (η1-Fluorenyl)Re(Co)5 and (η5-Fluorenyl)Re(Co)3 and Their Thermal Interconversion in Solid Matrices, Angie L. Mejdrich and Timothy W. Hanks
Crystal Engineering Through Charge Transfer Interactions, William T. Pennington, Rosa D. Bailey, Brian T. Holmes, Laura L. Hook, Russell P. Watson, M. Warmoth, and Timothy W. Hanks
The reaction of iodine with 9-methylacridine: formation of polyiodide salts and a charge-transfer complex, Elizabeth L. Rimmer, Rosa D. Bailey, William T. Pennington, and Timothy W. Hanks
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a PNA·DNA·PNA Triple Helix in Aqueous Solution, George C. Shields, C. A. Laughton, and M. Orozco
AIURP/CURSOR/SURE Summer Grant Programs: A Look at Our Prior Recipients, Laura L. Wright
Submissions from 1997
Synthesis, structure and thermal decomposition of nitrogen-iodine charge-transfer complexes, Rosa D. Bailey, Gregory W. Drake, M. Grabarczyk, Timothy W. Hanks, Laura L. Hook, and William T. Pennington
Synthesis, structure and thermal decomposition of tetra(2-pyridyl)pyrazineâ I2 charge-transfer complexes, Rosa D. Bailey, M. Grabarczyk, Timothy W. Hanks, and William T. Pennington
Structure-activity relationship of a series of C-terminus modified aminoalkyl, diaminoalkyl- and anilino-containing analogues of the benzoic acid mustard distamycin derivative tallimustine: Synthesis, DNA binding and cytotoxicity studies, Natalie Brooks, John A. Hartley, Jacob E. Simpson, Stephen R. Wright, Shirley Woo, Sara Centioni, Michael D. Fontaine, Terry E. McIntyre, and Moses Lee
Synthesis, DNA binding, cytotoxicity and sequence specificity of a series of imidazole-containing analogs of the benzoic acid mustard distamycin derivative tallimustine containing an alkylating group at the C-terminus, Natalie Brooks, Moses Lee, Stephen R. Wright, Shirley Woo, Sara Centioni, and John A. Hartley
Developing High Strength Electrically Conducting Polyaniline Fibers, A. P. Chacko, S. S. Hardaker, R. V. Gregory, and Timothy W. Hanks
Enhancement of Asymmetric Induction in the Aqueous Diels-Alder Reaction of (L)-Menthyl Acrylate with Cyclopentadiene by ?-Cyclodextrin, Kristen Daniell, Terry E. McIntyre, A. L. Poh, and Moses Lee
2,5-Diaziridinyl-3-phenyl- p-benzoquinone, R. H. J. Hargreaves, Stephen P. Mayalarp, John Butler, Moses Lee, and William T. Pennington
Synthesis of (-)-(S)-4b, (S)-8b, (S)-8c, (S)-8d Diisopropyl 4b,8b,8c,8d-Tetrahydrodibenzo[a,f]pentalene-8a-8b,8c-Dicarboxylate: An Advanced Organic Chemistry Project on Absolute Asymmetric Induction, Kimberly Johnson, Jacob E. Simpson, and Moses Lee
Electron spin resonance matrix isolation studies of 27Al16,17O, 69,71Ga16,17O and 115In16,17O: Observed hyperfine interactions compared with ab initio theoretical results, Lon B. Knight, Thomas J. Kirk, John O. Herlong, John G. Kaup, and Ernest R. Davidson
Synthesis of an aminopropyl analog of the experimental anticancer drug tallimustine, and activation of its 4-nitrobenzylcarbamoyl prodrug by nitroreductase and NADH, Moses Lee, Jacob E. Simpson, Shirley Woo, Crystal Kaenzig, Gill M. Anlezark, Ebun Eno-Amooquaye, and Philip J. Burke
Soluble Organoiron Derivatives of Polypyrrole, Kyle Martin and Timothy W. Hanks
Dicarbonyl(η5-cyclopentadienyl)(pyrrolyl-N)iron(II), M. Powell, Rosa D. Bailey, C. T. Eagle, G. L. Schimek, Timothy W. Hanks, and William T. Pennington
Enhanced selectivity for capillary zone electrophoresis using ion-pair agents, Chris M. Shelton, Jeremy T. Koch, Nehal Desai, and John F. Wheeler
Application of Capillary Electrophoresis for the Assessment of Enantiomeric Purity of α-Diimine Transition Metal Complexes, Chris M. Shelton, Kathryn E. Seaver, John F. Wheeler, and Noel Kane-Maguire
Comparison of experimental and theoretical structures of a transition state analogue used for the induction of anti-cocaine catalytic antibodies, Edward C. Sherer, G. Yang, G. M. Turner, George C. Shields, and D. W. Landry
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the d(T·A·T) Triple Helix, George C. Shields, C. A. Laughton, and M. Orozco
Selectivity enhancement for free zone capillary electrophoresis using conventional ion-pairing agents as complexing additives, Millicent K. Weldon, Catherine M. Arrington, Petrise L. Runnels, and John F. Wheeler
Electrochemical Measurements in the Undergraduate Curriculum, John F. Wheeler, Sandra K. Wheeler, and Laura L. Wright