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 2012
Tri-snRNP-associated proteins interact with subunits of the TRAMP and nuclear exosome complexes, linking RNA decay and pre-mRNA splicing, Anita Nag and Joan A. Steitz
Isotopic Ratios in Titan's Methane: Measurements and Modeling, C. A. Nixon, Berhane Temelso, C. David Sherrill, and et al.
Structures of Cage, Prism, and Book Isomers of Water Hexamer from Broadband Rotational Spectroscopy, Cristóbal Pérez, Matt T. Muckle, Daniel P. Zaleski, Nathan A. Seifert, Berhane Temelso, George C. Shields, Zbigniew Kisiel, and Brooks H. Pate
Optical sensing by transforming chromophoric silver clusters in DNA nanoreactors, Jeffrey T. Petty, Sandra P. Story, Selina Juarez, Samuel S. Votto, Austin G. Herbst, Natalya N. Degtyareva, and Bidisha Sengupta
Stereochemically Versatile Synthesis of the C1-C12 Fragment of Tedanolide C, Thomas E. Smith, Sarah J. Fink, Zebulon G. Levine, Kerani A. McClelland, Adrian A. Zackheim, and Mary Beth Daub
Trifluoropropynyl as a surrogate for the cyano ligand and intense, room-temperature, metal-centered emission from its Rh(III) complex, Chivin Sun, Parth U. Thakker, Levan Khulordava, Daniel J. Tobben, Seth M. Greenstein, David L. Grisenti, Andrew G. Kantor, and Paul S. Wagenknecht
Quantum Mechanical Study of Sulfuric Acid Hydration: Atmospheric Implications, Berhane Temelso, Thomas E. Morrell, Robert M. Shields, Marco A. Allodi, Elena K. Wood, Karl N. Kirschner, Thomas C. Castonguay, Kaye A. Archer, and George C. Shields
Computational Study of the Hydration of Sulfuric Acid Dimers: Implications for Acid Dissociation and Aerosol Formation, Berhane Temelso, Thuong Ngoc Phan, and George C. Shields
Prolonged α-amanitin treatment of cells for studying mutated polymerases causes degradation of DSIF160 and other proteins, David C. Tsao, Noh Jin Park, Anita Nag, and Harold G. Martinson
Computational and Crystallographic Studies of Pseudo-Polyhalides, Rosa D. B. Walsh, Jessica M. Smith, Timothy W. Hanks, and William T. Pennington
Submissions from 2011
Alpha-fetoprotein peptides, Thomas T. Andersen, James A. Bennett, Herbert Jacobson, and George C. Shields
Electrostatic Control of Spin Exchange Between Mobile Spin-Correlated Radical Pairs Created in Micellar Solutions, Paula Caregnato, Lauren E. Jarocha, Hali S. Esinhart, Natalia V. Lebedeva, Valery F. Tarasov, and Malcolm D. E. Forbes
Sequence length dictates repeated CAG folding in three-way junctions, Natalya N. Degtyareva, Courtney A. Barber, Michael J. Reddish, and Jeffrey T. Petty
Non-B conformations of CAG repeats using 2-aminopurine, Natalya N. Degtyareva and Jeffrey T. Petty
X-ray Crystallographic Studies of a Bimetallic cis-Mo(CO)4(PPh2NH2CH2CH2N=CHC6H4-o-O)2Cu Complex, the Starting Material, cis-Mo(CO)4(PPh2Cl)2, and the Reaction Intermediates cis-Mo(CO)4(PPh2NH2CH2CH2NH22) 2 and cis-Mo(CO)4 (PPh2NH2CH2CH2N=CHC6H4-o-OH)2, Christina Duffey, Seth Stepleton, Mary Elizabeth Anderson, Daniel Cox, Marty Ready, Houston Byrd, Carrie A. Bloomfield, Jason L. Freeman, and Gary M. Gray
Regioselective semihydrogenation of dienes, Thomas J. A. Graham, Thomas H. Poole, Charles N. Reese, and Brian C. Goess
E-selective isomerization of stilbenes and stilbenoids through reversible hydroboration, Erin E. Gray, Lake E. Rabenold, and Brian C. Goess
Book Review of Advanced Fluorescence Reporters in Chemistry and Biology II: Molecular Constructions, Polymers and Nanoparticles, Jeffrey T. Petty
Optically enhanced, near-IR, silver cluster emission altered by single base changes in the DNA template, Jeffrey T. Petty, Chaoyang Fan, Sandra P. Story, Bidisha Sengupta, Matthew Sartin, Jung-Cheng Hsiang, Joseph W. Perry, and Robert M. Dickson
DNA sensing by amplifying the number of near-infrared emitting, oligonucleotide-encapsulated silver clusters, Jeffrey T. Petty, Bidisha Sengupta, Sandra P. Story, and Natalya N. Degtyareva
Molecular basis for the inhibition of HMGA1 proteins by distamycin A, Austin E. Smith and Karen L. Buchmueller
Synthesis ofcis and trans bis-alkynyl complexes of Cr(III) and Rh(III) supported by a tetradentate macrocyclic amine: a spectroscopic investigation of the M(III)-alkynyl interaction, Chivin Sun, Christopher R. Turlington, W. W. Thomas, James H. Wade, Wade M. Stout, David L. Grisenti, William P. Forrest, Donald G. VanDerveer, and Paul S. Wagenknecht
Benchmark Structures and Binding Energies of Small Water Clusters with Anharmonicity Corrections, Berhane Temelso, Kaye A. Archer, and George C. Shields
The Role of Anharmonicity in Hydrogen-Bonded Systems: The Case of Water Clusters, Berhane Temelso and George C. Shields
Total Synthesis of (±)-Hibiscone C, Sinziana Ungureanu, Maggie Meadows, Joel Smith, David B. Duff, James M. Burgess, and Brian C. Goess