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Chemistry - Dissertations

2006 2006

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 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 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 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 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

Design, synthesis, and characterization of photochromic organic compounds: Advances toward optical memory, Mason Atom Wolak

2001 2001

Solution conformations of tripeptides and cyclosporins using vibrational circular dichroism and computational methods, Louise Ann Bodack

Syntheses, thermal stereomutations, and (1,3)-sigmatropic isomerizations of cis-(1S,2R)- and trans-(1S,2S)-1-(E)-propenyl-2-methylcyclobutanes, Richard Charles Burrell

Coordination chemistry of rhenium: Design of radiopharmaceuticals for diagnostics and therapeutics in nuclear medicine, Frank Joseph Femia

Organic structural influences on metal oxide systems: Vanadium phosphates, vanadium phosphonates, and molybdenum phosphonates, Robert Clyde Finn

Isotopomers of 2-deoxy-D-ribose: Syntheses and applications in magnetic resonance, Paul Joseph Hatala

Synthesis and thermal automerizations of 4- and 6-exo-deuteriobicyclo[3.1.0]hex-2-enes, Edmund John Keliher

Structure and function in bacteriorhodopsin and the short-wavelength cone opsins, Anakarin Kusnetzow

The determination of ultra trace levels of mercury in environmental samples in the northeastern United States: Inferring the past, present, and future of atmospheric mercury deposition, Peter Michael Lorey Jr.

Aminoglycoside binding to the packaging region of HIV-1 RNA, Mark Patrick McPike

The photocoloration of transition metal oxides, Fazio Demeatre' Nash

Computational studies of wavelength selection in cone pigments and cation binding in bacteriorhodopsin, Deepak Singh

The synthesis and characterization of new metallaborane and carborane derivatives on the way to novel nonlinear optical materials and molecular nanosystems, Jesse W. Taylor

2000 2000

Modification of the extended solid structure of cuprous cyanide using polyimines, Douglas James Chesnut

The synthesis and structural study of organically templated copper molybdenum oxides, Douglas Earl Hagrman

Influences of organonitrogen components or organonitrogen-heterometal complexes on molybdenum- and vanadium-oxide composite materials: Hydrothermal syntheses and structural characterization, Pamela Jayne Hagrman

Raman optical activity: Theory, instrumentation and measurements. Electron transition current density: Ab initio calculation of vibrational transition current density in selected molecules, Eunah Lee

HIV-1 Psi RNA: Dimerization and nucleocapsid protein binding studies, Michael Frederick Shubsda

Design and synthesis of fluorinated derivatives of indolyl fulgides and fulgimides, Craig Joseph Thomas

1999 1999

Applications of tellurium in synthesis of alkenes, allylic alcohols, allylic amines and heterocyclic compounds, Bin Chao

Preparation, characterization and exploitation of novel self-assembled nanostructured thin films, Frederic Guerin

Theoretical and applied studies of rhodopsin and bacteriorhodopsin, Jack R. Tallent

The primary event of visual opsins, Bryan William Vought

Tellurium-triggered reactions of 5-hydroxymethyl-2-oxazolidinone tosylates, aziridinemethanol tosylates, and oxiranemethanol tosylates: Synthesis of allylic amines and no-solvent synthesis of allylic alcohols via ultrasound and microwave irradiations, Qinyu Xu

1998 1998

The synthesis and structural study of oxovanadium phosphites, phosphates, and phosphonates, Grant Howard Bonavia

An enantiospecific synthetic approach to the ansatrienin family of ansamycin antibiotics, Matthew Richard Dintzner

Membrane processes for gas separations: Part I. Removal of carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide from low-quality natural gas. Part II. Enrichment of krypton in air, Jibin Hao

I. Kinetic analysis of anticancer drug cleavage of closed-circular and intracellular DNA. II. Binding studies of the HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein to the SL3 stem-loop of the HIV-1 packaging signal, Chris Allen Kirk

Fourier transform vibrational circular dichroism: Step-scan instrumentation and biological applications, Fujin Long

The chemistry of rhenium with hydrazines and thiols, Kevin P. Maresca

Studies toward the total synthesis of octalactin A and B, Brian A. Sherer

1997 1997

Structural investigations of alkali- and alkaline earth-metal thiolates, Scott, Chadwick

Transannular coupling reactions of 1,6-cyclodecadiyne and synthesis and characterization of pentamethylcyclopentadienyliron complexes with unsaturated hydrocarbon bridges, Xinhong Simon Gu

Serial sigmatropic construction of polypropionate-derived acyclic systems: Synthesis of the ansa subunit of streptovaricin D, Michael Patrick Hayes

Study of zeolite-supported platinum catalysts using small angle x-ray scattering, Raghu Ramaya

Instrumentation advances and new applications in Raman optical activity, , Maria Vargek

1996 1996

Conventional and non-conventional synthesis of some oxovanadium phosphonate and phosphate clusters, Jose Ramos Salta III

Synthesis of polyketide-derived natural products from carbohydrates: Application of the (2,3)-Wittig rearrangement of carbohydrate-derived alpha-alkoxy tertiary allylic ethers to the syntheses of Adda and rapamycin, Ny Sin

Correlation between surfactant/micelle structure and the stability of bacteriorhodopsin in solution. Manipulation of the photocycle of bacteriorhodopsin via systematic structural modification of site-specific protein-bound organic cations, Eric Hock Lye Tan

1995 1995

Vibrational circular dichroism spectroscopy and its applications to conformational study of bifunctional chiral molecules, Xinhua Qu

Synthesis and characterization of oxo vanadium phosphate and phosphonate materials, Victoria Garabed Soghomonian

1994 1994

Polynuclear complexes of vanadium and molybdenum with organoarsonato- and organophosphonato ligands: Their syntheses and characterizations, Yuan-Da Chang

Development and application of Raman optical activity, Gu-Sheng Yu

1993 1993

Theoretical and materials chemistry of some group III and V elements, John Arthur Glass Jr.

Metallic and semiconductor nanoparticulate films generated under monolayers and between Langmuir-Blodgett films, Kyunghee Choi Yi

Holographic studies of liquid crystalline photopolymers, Jian Zhang

1992 1992

Development of new Raman optical activity techniques, Diping Che

1991 1991

Polarization modulation interferometry and vibrational circular dichroism of amino alcohols, Narayan Ragunathan

1990 1990

Organic chemistry of reduced species of sulfur dioxide, Michael Dennis Hoey

Multivariate and path analysis in magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Mark William Roggenbuck

Curing chemistry-network property-chemorheology relations in bismaleimide resins, Aroon Vishwanath Tungar

1989 1989

Part~I. The total synthesis of 18-deoxynargenicin A(1). Part~II. Studies toward the synthesis of the pseudomonic acids, Daniel John Plata

A PC-controlled, ultrafast scanning electrochemical detector for high-performance liquid chromatography, Derek Frank Rhodes

Advances in vibrational optical activity, Kevin Martin Spencer

1988 1988

Interaction of sulfur-dioxide with 1-benzyl-1,4-dihydronicotinamide and reactions of Rongalite with organic halides, William Francis Jarvis

1987 1987

Instrumental advances in vibrational optical activity, Carl Gordon Zimba

1981 1981

Ipso electrophilic aromatic substitution. I. Synthesis and nitration of 4-(2-phenylethyl) indan. II. Intramolecular cyclizations with carbon electrophiles: attempted synthesis of a steroid, David Anthony Gray

1977 1977

Cyclic ligands containing the amide linkage and manganese macrocyclic complexes containing an azo group, El-Ssaed Omar Ali Sabbak

1976 1976

Chemical and Physical Studies of Select Oxa- And Thiabicycles, John Christy Wetzel

1974 1974

Cyclopropane Geometry Effects in Rigid Cyclopropylaromatic Systems, Gary Ross Elling

Stochastic Modeling and Experimental Analysis of Particle Transport in Water Filtration, Rajamani Rajagopalan

1973 1973

Mechanistic Investigation Into The Nature Of The Thermal Bond Relocations of cis-Bicyclo(6.1.0)Nona-2,4,6-Trienes, Ronald Conrad Griffith

Genesis And Bond Relocation Of The Cyclononatetraenyl Cation And Related Compounds, Emel Yakali

1972 1972

Models and Mechanisms for the Pyridine Nucleotides, Frederick H. Batzold

N-Substituted Azonines, Spencer William Eachus

The Photochemical Rearrangements of 4-Cyclopropyl-4-Phenylcyclohexenone and the Corresponding Dienone, David Williams Kurtz

Molecular Reorganizations and Cycloadditions, Richard Michael Lazarus