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 1993
Laser vaporization generation of Y10B+, Y11B+, and YAl+ for electron spin resonance studies in neon matrices at 4 K: Comparison with theoretical calculations, Lon B. Knight, Robert M. Babb, Gina M. King, Allan J. McKinley, Michael D. Morse, and Caleb A. Arrington
Laser vaporization generation of HA1OH, DA1OD and HAl17OH for neon and argon matrix isolation electron spin resonance investigations. Comparison with theoretical calculations, Lon B. Knight, Brian W. Gregory, John Cleveland, and Caleb A. Arrington
Electron spin resonance investigation of Sc+2 in neon matrices and assignment of its ground electronic state as X4Σ-. Comparison with theoretical calculations, Lon B. Knight, Allan J. McKinley, Robert M. Babb, Devon W. Hill, and Michael D. Morse
Laser vaporization generation of the SiB and SiAl radicals for matrix isolation electron spin resonance studies; comparison with theoretical calculations and assignment of their electronic ground states as X4 Σ, Lon B. Knight, Allan J. McKinley, Robert M. Babb, Michael D. Morse, and Caleb A. Arrington
Electron spin resonance studies of P2H+6and PH+3 radical cations in rare gas matrices at 4 K. Comparison with theoretical calculations, Lon B. Knight, Donald J. Tyler, Paul Kudelko, John B. Lyon, and Allan J. McKinley
Electron spin resonance investigations of aluminum hydrides (AlH2, AlHD, AlD2), and aluminum hydroxides (Al(OH)2, and Al(OD)2) in neon matrixes at 4 K; comparisons with ab initio theoretical calculations, Lon B. Knight, James R. Woodward, Thomas J. Kirk, and Caleb A. Arrington
The proton hyperfine interaction in HC60, signature of a potential interstellar fullerene, J. R. Morton, K. F. Preston, Paul J. Krusic, and Lon B. Knight
Submissions from 1992
Laser vaporization generation of the diatomic radicals PdB, 105PdB, PdAl, and105PdAl: Electron spin resonance investigation in neon matrices at 4 K, Lon B. Knight, Robert M. Babb, Devon W. Hill, and Allan J. McKinley
Laser vaporization generation of B14NH, B15NH, B14ND, B16O, and B17O: Electron-spin-resonance investigation in neon matrices under ultracold trapping conditions, Lon B. Knight, John O. Herlong, Thomas J. Kirk, and Caleb A. Arrington
Matrix isolation ESR and theoretical investigations of 11B14N11B and 10B14N11B: laser vaporization generation, Lon B. Knight, Devon W. Hill, Thomas J. Kirk, and Caleb A. Arrington
Theoretical and neon matrix electron spin resonance studies of the methanol cation: CH3OH+, CH3OD+, CH2DOH+, and 13CH3OH+, Lon B. Knight, Kelly Kerr, Martha Villanueva, Allan J. McKinley, and David Feller
Experiment in quantization: Atomic line spectra, George C. Shields and M. M. Kash
Submissions from 1991
AM1 and PM3 calculations of the potential energy surfaces for hydroxymethyl radical reactions with nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide, G. H. Kalkanis and George C. Shields
Generation and Study of Inorganic Cations in Rare Gas Matrices by Electron Spin Resonance, Lon B. Knight
Electron-spin-resonance studies of 12CH3F+, 13CH3F+, and 12CH2DF+ in neon matrices at 4 K: Comparison with theoretical calculations, Lon B. Knight, Brian W. Gregory, Devon W. Hill, Caleb A. Arrington, Takamasa Momose, and Tadamasa Shida
Matrix isolation electron spin resonance studies of silicon (28,28Si2+, 28,29Si2+, 29,29Si2+) and germanium (Ge2+ and 73Ge2+) cations produced by pulsed laser vaporization. Comparison with theoretical calculations, Lon B. Knight, John O. Herlong, Robert M. Babb, Edward A. Earl, Devon W. Hill, and Caleb A. Arrington
Crystal structure of a CAP-DNA complex: the DNA is bent by 90 degrees, S. C. Schultz, George C. Shields, and T. A. Steitz
Submissions from 1990
Laser vaporization generation of Al12C, Al13C, Al12C2, and Al13C2 for rare gas matrix electron spin resonance studies: Experimental-theoretical comparisons, Lon B. Knight, Scott T. Cobranchi, John O. Herlong, and Caleb A. Arrington
Laser vaporization/rare gas matrix-isolation electron spin resonance studies of PdH+2, PdD+2, PdH, and PdD: Theoretical investigation of PdH+2, Lon B. Knight, Scott T. Cobranchi, John O. Herlong, Thomas J. Kirk, K. Balasubramanian, and K. K. Das
Laser vaporization generation of PdCH3, 105PdCH3, and Pd13CH3 for electron spin resonance neon matrix study at 4 K, Lon B. Knight, John O. Herlong, Scott T. Cobranchi, and Thomas J. Kirk
Crystallization of Escherichia coli catabolite gene activator protein with its DNA binding site: The use of modular DNA, S. C. Schultz, George C. Shields, and T. A. Steitz
Submissions from 1989
Production Methods for ESR Studies of Neutral and Charged Radicals, Lon B. Knight
Electronic ground state assignment for O+4 Neon matrix electron-spin resonance investigation, Lon B. Knight, Scott T. Cobranchi, and Jeffrey T. Petty
The generation and electron spin resonance characterization of 63,65Cu12CH2 and 63,65Cu13CH2 in neon matrices, Lon B. Knight, Scott T. Cobranchi, Jeffrey T. Petty, and Daryl P. Cobranchi
Electron spin resonance investigations of 11B12C, 11B13C, and 10B12C in neon, argon, and krypton matrices at 4 K: Comparison with theoretical results, Lon B. Knight, Scott T. Cobranchi, Jeffrey T. Petty, Edward A. Earl, David Feller, and Ernest R. Davidson