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 2020
Synthesis and characterization of a tert-butyl ester substituted titanocene dichloride: t-BuOOCCp2TiCl2, Jackson S. McCarthy, Colin D. McMillen, Jared A. Pienkos, and Paul S. Wagenknecht
Is indenyl a stronger or weaker electron donor ligand than cyclopentadienyl? Opposing effects of indenyl electron density and ring slipping on electrochemical potentials, Khiem Nguyen, Emily Lane, C D. McMillen, Jared A. Pienkos, and Paul S. Wagenknecht
Computation of Atmospheric Concentrations of Molecular Clusters from ab initio Thermochemistry, Tuguldur T. Odbadrakh, Ariel G. Gale, Benjamin T. Ball, Berhane Temelso, and George C. Shields
Twenty years of exceptional success: The molecular education and research consortium in undergraduate computational chemistry (MERCURY ), George C. Shields
Maintaining a high degree of research productivity at a predominately undergraduate institution as your career advances, George C. Shields and Scott E. Feller
Catalytic activity of water molecules in gas-phase glycine dimerization, George C. Shields, Ariel G. Gale, and Tuguldur T. Odbadrah
Phosphorus···Iodine Halogen Bonding in Cocrystals of Bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane (dppe) and p-Diiodotetrafluorobenzene (p-F4DIB), Adam M. Siegfried, Hadi D. Arman, Khadijatul Kobra, Kunhuan Liu, Andrew J. Peloquin, Colin McMillen, Timothy W. Hanks, and William T. Pennington
A plausible metal-free ancestral analogue of the Krebs cycle composed entirely of α-ketoacids, R. Trent Stubbs, Mahipal Yadav, Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, and Greg Springsteen
A proposed mechanism to induce multi-layer polydiacetylene-coated filter color response to bacteria, Yueyuan Zhang, Paul L. Dawson, Tzuen-Rong Tzeng, Timothy W. Hanks, Julie K. Northcutt, and William T. Pennington
Submissions from 2019
Ultrafast flavin/tryptophan radical pair kinetics in a magnetically sensitive artificial protein, Chris Bialas, David T. Barnard, Dirk B. Auman, Rylee A. McBride, Lauren E. Jarocha, P. J. Hore, P. Leslie Dutton, Robert J. Stanley, and Christopher C. Moser
Enantioselective [2+2] Cycloadditions of Cinnamate Esters: Generalizing Lewis Acid Catalysis of Triplet Energy Transfer, Mary Beth Daub, Hoimin Jung, Byung Joo Lee, Joonghee Won, Mu-Hyun Baik, and Tehshik P. Yoon
Infrared Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Human Hair to Characterize Longitudinal Profiles of the Antiretroviral Maraviroc for Adherence Monitoring, William M. Gilliland, Jr.; Heather M. A. Prince; Amanda Poliseno; Angela D. M. Kashuba; and Elias P. Rosen
Dichlorido(2,20′-methylenedipyridine)zinc(II), Timothy W. Hanks
Electron‐deficient p‐benzoyl‐L‐phenylalanine Derivatives Increase Covalent Chemical Capture Yields for Protein–protein Interactions, Cassandra M. Joiner, Meghan E. Breen, and Anna K. Mapp
Picosecond to Nanosecond Manipulation of Excited State Lifetimes in Complexes with an FeII to TiIV Metal-to-Metal Charge-Transfer: The Role of Ferrocene-Centered Excited States, Maksim Y. Livshits, Michael D. Turlington, Carl O. Trindle, Lei Wang, Zikri Altun, Jeffrey J. Rack, and Paul S. Wagenknecht
Water Induces the Same Crown Shapes as Li+ or Na+ in 15-crown-5 Ether: a Broadband Rotational Study, Juan C. López, Cristóbal Pérez, Susana Blanco, V. Alvin Shubert, Berhane Temelso, George C. Shields, and Melanie Schnell
Analysis of Polyhexamethylene Biguanide and Alexidine in Contact Lens Solutions Using Capillary Electrophoresis, Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatography and Quadrupole Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry, Brandon L. Thompson, Vikram N. Samant, Xing Wei, Frederic D.C. David, Carter E. Edmunds, Jonathan M. Wheeler, K Scott Phillips, John F. Wheeler, and Sandra K. Wheeler
Incorporation of Gold Nanoparticles into the Bilayer of Polydiacetylene Unilamellar Vesicles , Andrew Tobias, Whit Rooke, and Timothy W. Hanks
A comparison of the metal-ligand interactions of the pentafluorophenylethynyl and trifluoropropynyl ligands in transition metal cyclam complexes, Paul S. Wagenknecht
Ruthenium-Catalyzed Oxidation of Silyl Ethers to Silyl Esters, Alicia M. Weinhofer, Houston D. Cole, Ben A. Mitchell, Amanda J. Ritz, David B. Vogt, Jacob E. Rabinovitch, Brian C. Goess, and Sarah K. Goforth
Submissions from 2018
Comparison of Surface-Bound and Free-Standing Variations of HKUST-1 MOFs: Effect of Activation and Ammonia Exposure on Morphology, Crystallinity, and Composition, Brandon H. Bowser, Landon J. Brower, Monica L. Ohnsorg, Lauren K. Gentry, Christopher K. Beaudoin, and Mary Elizabeth Anderson
Modulating the Masters: Chemical Tools to Dissect CBP and p300 Function, Meghan E. Breen and Anna K. Mapp
Surface modification of polyaniline nanorods with thiol-terminated poly(ethylene oxide), Brandon T. DiTullio, Cassandra J. Wright, Patricia Hayes, Paul J. Molino, and Timothy W. Hanks
Development of a Microchip CE-HPMS Platform for Cell Growth Monitoring, William M. Gilliland, Jr. and J. Michael Ramsey