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 1987
ESR investigation of the cubane radical cation (C8H8+) in neon matrixes at 4 K, Lon B. Knight, Caleb A. Arrington, Brian W. Gregory, Scott T. Cobranchi, Shaowo Liang, and Leo Paquette
Reinvestigation of the aluminum hydride (AlH+ and AlD+) cation radicals by ESR in argon matrices at 4 K: Generation by reactive laser sputtering, Lon B. Knight, Scott T. Cobranchi, Brian W. Gregory, and Edward A. Earl
Laser sputtering generation of B2 for ESR matrix isolation studies: comparison with ab initio CI theoretical calculations, Lon B. Knight, Brian W. Gregory, Scott T. Cobranchi, David Feller, and Ernest R. Davidson
ESR and ab initio theoretical studies of the cation radicals14N+4 and 15N+4 The trapping of ion-neutral reaction products in neon matrices at 4 K, Lon B. Knight, Karl D. Johannessen, Daryl C. Cobranchi, Edward A. Earl, David Feller, and Ernest R. Davidson
Doubly charged ion mass spectra of alkyl-substituted furans and pyrroles, P. R. Nelson, C. A. Fung, K. F., J. B. SedgwickK, George C. Shields, L. E. Abbey, and T. F. Moran
Competition between single and double electron transfer in collisions of doubly charged molecular pyrrole ions with neutral pyrrole molecules, J. B. SedgwickK, B. P. Paulson, George C. Shields, and T. F. Moran
Charge transfer reactions of organic ions containing oxygen: Correlation between reaction energetics and cross sections, George C. Shields, P. A. Steiner, P. R. Nelson, M. C. Trauner, and T. F. Moran
Structural Studies of Three DNA Binding Proteins: Catabolite Gene Activator Protein, Resolvase, and the Klenow Fragment of DNA Polymerase I, T. A. Steitz, L. Beese, B. Engelman, P. Freemont, J. Friedman, M. Sanderson, S. Schultz, George C. Shields, and J. Warwicker
Submissions from 1986
Evidence for Long-Lived Excited States of [CnH2]2+ Carbodications, J. R. Appling, George C. Shields, and T. F. Moran
Polarizabilites of organic ions, G. W. Burdick, George C. Shields, and T. F. Moran
ESR investigations of molecular cation radicals in neon matrices at 4 K: generation, trapping, and ion-neutral reactions, Lon B. Knight
An ESR investigation of the F-2 radical anion in neon matrices at 4 K, Lon B. Knight, Edward A. Earl, A. R. Ligon, and Daryl P. Cobranchi
Neon matrix ESR and CI theoretical investigation of AlF+; photoionization of AlF from thermal and laser sputtering generation methods, Lon B. Knight, Edward A. Earl, A. R. Ligon, Daryl P. Cobranchi, James R. Woodward, J. M. Bostick, Ernest R. Davidson, and David Feller
Neon matrix ESR and CI theoretical investigation of 10BF+ and 11BF+: Photoionization of BF from reactive laser sputtering and high temperature sources, Lon B. Knight, A. R. Ligon, Scott T. Cobranchi, Daryl P. Cobranchi, Edward A. Earl, David Feller, and Ernest R. Davidson
Doubly-charged ethane ions: Solution to the dilemma of stability predicted by theory and instability observed in experiment, George C. Shields and T. F. Moran
Doubly-charged gas phase cations, George C. Shields and T. F. Moran
Sensitivity of charge transfer reactions to hydrocarbon ion structures, George C. Shields, L. Wennberg, J. B. Wilcox, and T. F. Moran
Submissions from 1985
Structures, Energetics and Fragmentation Pathways of CnH22+ Carbodications, G. W. Burdick, George C. Shields, J. R. Appling, and T. F. Moran
The generation and trapping of the high-temperature oxosilyliumyl cation radicals (28SiO+ and 29SiO+) in neon matrixes at 4 K; an ESR and ab initio CI theoretical investigation, Lon B. Knight, A. R. Ligon, R. W. Woodward, David Feller, and Ernest R. Davidson
Molecular charge-transfer cross sections and their correlation with reactant ion structures, George C. Shields and T. F. Moran
Submissions from 1984
Fast atom bombardment (FAB) generation of neutral and charged reactive intermediates for rare gas matrix isolation spectroscopic studies. An ESR investigation of 111,113CdOH and 111,113Cd+ in neon and argon matrices at 4 K, Lon B. Knight, P. K. Miller, and Jhobe Steadman
An ESR investigation of the C17O+ radical isolated in a neon matrix at 4 K, Lon B. Knight and Jhobe Steadman
An ESR investigation of the formaldehyde cation radicals (H212CO+ and H213CO+) in neon matrices at 4 K, Lon B. Knight and Jhobe Steadman
Experimental evidence for a C2v (2B1) ground-state structure of the methane cation radical: ESR and ab initio CI investigations of CH4+ and CD2H2+ in neon matrixes at 4 K, Lon B. Knight, Jhobe Steadman, David Feller, and Ernest R. Davidson
ESR and ab initio theoretical studies of the cation radicals 12C216O+2, 12,13C216O+2,13C216O+2, 12C216,17O+2, 12C217O+2, and 12,13C216,17O+2 isolated in neon matrices at 4 K. The use of matrix isolation for trapping ion-neutral reaction products, Lon B. Knight, Jhobe Steadman, P. K. Miller, D. E. Bowman, Ernest R. Davidson, and David Feller