2012

Synthesis and Structural Studies of Calcium and Magnesium Phosphinate and Phosphonate Compounds, Victoria Naa Kwale Bampoh

Nucleophilic Carbon-Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions of 2-Methylenetetrahydropyrans, Laura Jean Bateman

Hydrothermal Chemistry of the M(I,II)/PAHA/Anion System, Kari Ann Darling

Oral Delivery of the Appetite Suppressing Neuropeptide PYY(3-36) through the Vitamin B12 Dietary Uptake Pathway, Christopher H. Fazen

Investigating Novel Hydrothermal Synthesis Methods and Surface Chemistry Approaches in order to Better Integrate Quantum Dots into Applications in Biomimetic Self-Assembly and Energy Transfer, Hyunjoo Han

The Path to an Orally Administered Protein Therapeutic for the Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus, Susan Clardy James

Design and Synthesis of Solid State Materials Constructed from Polyoxomolybdate Clusters, Stephanie Jones

Terahertz spectroscopy and solid-state modeling of molecular crystals, Matthew D. King

Covalent Modification that Enhances Protein Properties and Functions and Folds Random Coil into Alpha-Helix, Deepali Prashar

Mechanism of Action and Gold Nanoparticle Delivery of Pt(IV) Prodrugs of Cisplatin, Yi Shi

Investigating the Interaction between Cubilin and Holo-Intrinsic Factor in the Small Intestine, Debbie Valentin

Synthesis, Design, and Biological Evaluation of Inhibitors and Activators of Src Homology 2 Domain-Containing Inositol Phosphatase (SHIP) and Synthetic Studies of Apicularen A and Maoecrystal V, Dennis Racca Viernes

Sillica Nanoporous Materials Adsorption and Release Study, Gang Wang

Investigation of Explosives and Related Compounds Using Terahertz Spectroscopy and Solid-State Density Functional Theory, Ewelina Witko

2011

Controlling Biofouling by Surface Engineering and Molecular Inhibition, Debjyoti Bandyopadhyay

Application of high throughput sequencing in selection of RNA aptamers, Lei Chen

Investigation of Coenzyme Q10 Production in Sporidiobolus johnsonii, David Dukane Dixson

Mutational Analysis of HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein and Methods Development for Aptamer Discovery, Wei Ouyang

Synthesis and Biosynthesis of Polyketide Natural Products, Atahualpa Pinto

Citrate Binding to the Membrane Protein Proteorhodopsin, Farhana F. Syed

2010

Affinity of the HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein for SL3 RNA: Effects due to salt and variation due to measurement technique, Shreyas S. Athavale

Face selectivity in the dihydropyrone Diels-Alder reaction and studies toward the total synthesis of phomactin A, Alex J. Augatis

The synthesis and Characterization of Novel s-block and Lanthanide Fluoroalkoxides, William D. Buchanan

Synthesis and Characterization of Aminotroponiminate-Zinc Functionalized Mesoporous Silica and Exfoliated Fluorosilica Nanomaterials as Efficient Catalysts, Cole Tyler Duncan

Investigations of illicit drugs and precursors via terahertz spectroscopy and solid-state molecular modeling, Patrick M. Harkey

Investigation of hydrogen bonded molecular solids by diffraction, spectroscopy, and computational chemistry, Matthew R. Hudson

Metal-Citrate Complex Transport in Streptomyces coelicolor, Joshua J. Lensbouer

Studies toward the total synthesis of herbimycin A, B, C, and geldanamycin, Yue Li

Solid-state density functional theory analyses of high-resolution waveguide terahertz spectra, Keith C. Oppenheim

Efficient and selective multifunctional nanoporous and heterogeneous catalysts: Novel synthetic methods, characterizations and applications, Krishna Kant Sharma

Evaluating the Structure Determining Factors of Alkali and Alkaline Earth Metal Amides, Ana Torvisco

Characterizing structure and function of thioesterase from polyketide synthase, Meng Wang

2009

Molybdophosphonate clusters as building blocks in the oxomolybdate-organodiphosphonate/M(II)-organoamine system: Structural influences of secondary metal, organoamine, and diphosphonate tether length (M=copper, nickel, cobalt), Nathan Gabriel Armatas

Chemical gradients and bioactive hydrogels for mechanistic studies of protein binding and cell adhesion, Erik Alvan Burton

Synthetic studies on maoecrystal V and studies on the rhodium catalyzed 1,2-addition of alkynes to activated ketones and aldehydes, Patrick Carberry

Structural direction of hybrid organic-inorganic materials: Synthesis of vanadium oxyfluoride, copper vanadate, and copper molybdate solid state materials through solvuthermal and solution methods, Paul DeBurgomaster

Development of time-gated protein detection assays with luminescent nucleotide sensors, Michelle F. Homsher

Investigating the pharmacodynamic and magnetic properties of pyrophosphate-bridged coordination complexes, Oluwatayo (Tayo) F. Ikotun

2-methylenetetrahydropyrans in the carbonyl-ene reaction: Studies toward the synthesis of spirastrellolide A, Troy Lam

Terahertz spectroscopy and molecular modeling of molecules connected by a network of non-covalent interactions, Tanieka L. Motley

Olefin metathesis for metal incorporation and ligand exchange reactions for the preparation of new ruthenium compounds and materials, Danielle E. Schuehler Sherwood

From small molecules to large proteins: Delivery through B family vitamin uptake pathways, Anthony R. Vortherms

Studies toward the synthesis of forskolin and phomactin A using the dihydropyrone Diels-Alder reaction, Bo Wang

2008

Manipulation of the ligand sphere of ruthenium metathesis catalysts for the synthesis of organometallic molecular wires, Sarah L. Bolton

A FRET based bistable oligonucleotide switch, AlloSwitch, designed for specific recognition of HIV-1 NCp7 and use in High Throughput Screening, Christopher Loreto DeCiantis

Carboplatin: Exploring mechanism of action and improved drug delivery (1) Role of carbonate in the mechanism of action of carboplatin; (2) Cytotoxicity of mesoporous silica nanomaterials, Anthony J. Di Pasqua

Heavy alkaline earth metal amides: Synthetic and structural investigations, Miriam M. Gillett-Kunnath

Improving access to biologically and pharmaceutically relevant molecules by understanding mechanisms of biosynthesis and improving chemical synthesis, Stephen Richard Houghton

Mid-infrared and near-infrared vibrational circular dichroism: New methodologies for biological and pharmaceutical applications, Shengli Ma

Inelastic neutron scattering and quantum mechanical calculations of polymorphic organic crystals, Sharon Rivera

A study on the formation of solid state nanoscale materials using polyhedral borane compounds, Jennifer V. Romero

I. Water-driven chemoselective reactions of squarate derivatives with amino acids and peptides: Mechanism and applications. II. Biocompatible hydrogels: Transferring bioinert chemistry from surfaces to 3-dimensional materials, Preeti Sejwal

NMR analysis of structural features of the HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein in response to mutation and interaction with RNA and drug candidates, Lingchun Yang

2007

Terahertz spectroscopy of the intermolecular and intramolecular vibrations of molecules in solution, Anna M. Fedor

Placing heavy alkaline earth metals on the map: Synthetic access, structure evaluation and reactivity studies of heavy alkaline earth organometallics, Marites A. Guino-o

Rhenium and technetium radiopharmaceuticals: Design and development for applicatons in nuclear medicine, Shelly James

Study of hydrogen bonding properties with ab initio calculations, neutron scattering spectroscopy and 1H NMR, Yanmei Lan

Rhodium-catalyzed addition of terminal alkynes to vinyl ketones and studies toward the synthesis of peyssonenynes A and B, Ronald Vivas Lerum

Application of the [2,3] Wittig rearrangement to synthetic studies toward the total synthesis of (+)-discodermolide, Guohua Liang

Structural diversity of the oxovanadium organodiphosphonate and the M(I,II)/1,2,4-triazolate systems: A platform for the design of multifunctional hybrid organic-inorganic materials, Wayne Ouellette

Analysis of cytotoxicity of anticancer drugs, Zhimin Tao

Nitro- and oxazoline-derivatized antennas: Structural and photophysical characterization of their lanthanide complexes, Subha Viswanathan

Progress in molecular heterobimetallic alkaline earth metal chemistry: New synthetic strategies, structural features and properties, Maria Felisa A. Zuniga

2006

Proteorhodopsin: A study on its photocycle and its place in the evolution of the bacteriorhodopsin superfamily, Richard A. Krebs

Thermal isomerizations through [1,5]-hydrogen shifts in mono-deuterium-labeled cis,cis-1,3-cyclononadienes, Anuradha S. Raghavan

Theoretical and experimental studies on intermetal communication in dinuclear complexes of ruthenium with conjugated bridging ligands, Sripriya K. Seetharaman

Liquid crystalline holography: The effect of various additives on photopolymerization, Lucas J. Tucker

Basic and applied studies of blue & green proteorhodopsin, Bangwei Xi

Influence of organic building blocks on the structures of bimetallic organic/inorganic hybrid frameworks, Gundog Yucesan

2005

Enhanced VCD in transition metal complexes and metalloproteins, Yanan He

Technetium and rhenium radiopharmaceutical agents in nuclear medicine: Design and synthesis, Neva Lazarova

Advances in the design of heavy alkaline earth metal complexes as precursors for chemical vapor deposition, Anna Yosick O'Brien

Studies toward the total synthesis of epothilone A, Francine Joy St. Denis

Design, synthesis and characterization of rhenium complexes for the development of diagnostic and therapeutic agents in nuclear medicine, Lihui Wei

Ruthenium incorporation into molecules and materials: New catalysts and strategies to prepare stable ruthenium-capped olefins, Joseph Ephraim Williams

2004

Computational quantum chemistry in initial designs and final analyses, Damian Gregory Allis

Solid state chemistry: Structural influences of the binucleating transition metal/tetra-2-pyridylpyrazine complex on the molybdophosphonate and molybdoarsonate class of materials, Eric M. Burkholder

Organic charge transfer complexes and an open-shell organic radical studied by inelastic neutron scattering spectroscopy and DFT methods, Jennifer A. Ciezak

Aromatic thiol based redox buffers: Increasing the folding rates of disulfide containing proteins, Jonathan David Gough

Enantiomeric excess determination and reaction monitoring of chiral molecules using near-infrared and mid-infrared vibrational circular dichroism, Changning Guo

Syntheses and structural survey of novel alkaline earth and rare earth metal complexes, Julia Hitzbleck

Affinity of the HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein for structural motifs in the genomic RNA packaging domain, Andrew Paoletti

Synthesis of highly functionalized natural products from carbohydrates: Application of the [2,3] Wittig rearrangement and advancement toward nonlinear optical materials, Melissa Perreira

Structure and excitation energy in retinals and retinal proteins, Lei Ren

From polymerization initiators to precursors for solid-state materials: Syntheses and structures of a series of molecular alkali and alkaline earth metal derivatives, Weijie Teng

Nitrogen-based alkaline earth metal compounds: Syntheses, structures and applications, Wilda Vargas Gregory

Role of conserved arginine in solar energy conversion: Infrared spectroscopy of bacteriorhodopsin, proteorhodopsin, and model compounds, Yaowu Xiao

Near-infrared vibrational circular dichroism of polypeptides and small pharmaceutical molecules, Taiping Zhao

2003

Not just Grignards: New developments in the organometallic chemistry of the heavy alkali and alkaline earth metals, Jacob S. Alexander

A study of the role of polyhedral borane compounds in solid state materials, nanotechnology and main group cluster substitution chemistry, John David Caruso III

The Z-selective [2,3] Wittig rearrangement of secondary allylic alpha-stannyl ethers, chiral alpha-alkoxy stannanes, and progress toward the enantiospecific total synthesis of (+)-mycotrieninol I, Anthony Martin Giamis

The characterization of two materials for permanent optical memories: Bacteriorhodopsin with its 9-cis retinal containing photoproducts, and fluorinated indolylfulgides with their derivatives, Nathan Bryce Gillespie

Short strong hydrogen bonds studied by inelastic neutron scattering and computational methods, Timothy Andrew Jenkins

Studies directed towards syntheses of multivalent carbohydrates suitable for binding to E. coli Shiga-like toxin, Jennifer Ji Young Kim-Beca

The synthesis and structure of novel carborane based and related nonlinear optical materials, Amy E. Newlon

2002

Experimental and theoretical measurements of vibrational circular dichroism and instrumental development of Raman optical activity, David Allen Dunmire

Noninvasive in vivo tissue modulated quantitative Raman spectroscopy of human blood, William Francis Finney

Database and algorithmic applications in nucleic acid sequence, structure and NMR frequencies, and an efficient chemical depiction, Yong Lin

Ligand influences on the structures of organically-templated mixed-metal molybdenum and vanadium oxides prepared via hydrothermal synthesis, Randy S. Rarig Jr.

Studies towards the total synthesis of rapamycin, Tong Wang