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Chemistry - Dissertations

2015 2015

Coordination Chemistry in Biology and Medicine, Christopher Chu

Nanoparticle Biofunctionalization for Self-Assembly and Energy Transfer Applications, Kaitlin Jeanne Coopersmith

IDENTIFICATION OF SUBSTRATE CHEMICAL GROUPS IMPORTANT FOR GHRELIN O-ACYLTRANSFERASE ACTIVITY, Joseph Edgar Darling

Quantitative Investigation of Factors Impacting Protein Farnesylation Within the Cell, Susan Clare Flynn

Investigation of Electrostatic Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles Mediated by Giant Polyoxomolybdate Clusters, Jonathan Gooch

Synthetic, Structural, and Mechanistic Investigations of Vitamin B12 Conjugates of the Anorectic Peptide PYY3-36, Kelly Elizabeth Henry

Ruthenium-Catalyzed Transformations for the Synthesis of Conjugated Dienes, Lauren Kaminsky

Design and Fabrication of Multicomponent Heterostructured Nanoparticles, Patrick Lutz

Investigating the unique occurrence of polytypism and the role of available shell precursors in the growth of giant shell quantum dots, Somak Majumder

Optimizing Acyclic Identification of Aptamers, Caitlin M. Miller

Label Free Analysis of Native Planktonic P. aeruginosa cells and Growth Media by Near Infrared (NIR) Binary Spectronephelometry (BSN), Steven Ortiz

The Self-Assembly of Peptides to Create Catalysts, Caroline Marie Rufo

Discovering the Biological Activities of Maltose Derivatives for Controlling Bacterial Multicellular Behaviors, GAURI SHIRISH SHETYE

Synthesis towards Polyhedral and Rigid Organic Non-Linear Optic Materials, Casey R. Simons

Controlling Microbial Multicellular Behaviors With Saccharide Derivatives, NISCHAL SINGH

Designing Core/Alloy Nanoparticles by Manipulation of Interfacial Oxidation and Atomic Diffusion, Rahiem Davon Slaton

Ruthenium Hydride Catalyzed Silylvinylation of Alkynes, Robert J. Wilson

2014 2014

Modeling H-Bonded Uncharged (arginine-tyrosine), or "BU(RY)", dyads in activated states of G-protein coupled receptors, ANDREW TOYI BANYIKWA

Theoretical investigation of the quantum-confined Stark effect, Christopher Jon Blanton

Characterizing Pharmaceutical Polymorphs Using Terahertz Spectroscopy, Sean Patrick Delaney

Development and Application of Explicitly Correlated Wave Function Based Methods for the Investigation of Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanomaterials, Jennifer Mary Elward

Using Temperature-Sensitive Smart Polymers to Regulate DNA-mediated Nanoassembly, Kristen Hamner

Investigating the Activity of Metal Pyrophosphate Complexes against Select Pathogenic Organisms, Amanda E. Hoffman

I. Metal-Citrate Transport in Kineococcus radiotolerans & II. The Interaction of Saposin B with Antimalarial Drugs, Brian Phillip Huta

Evaluation of Non-Covalent Interaction Models in Molecular Crystals Using Terahertz Spectroscopy, Thomas Juliano

Isolation of polyacetylene: Exploring the properties of isolated, oriented, and insulated polyacetylene utilizing inclusion crystal chemistry, Amanda F. Lashua

The synthesis, characterization, and application of carborane-cluster based macrocycles and boron nitride nanosheets in photovoltaics, Christopher Robert Petrelli

Coordination polymers of the alkaline earth metals for applications in synthesis and gas storage, Peter Josue Rosado Flores

Metal Based Synthetic Strategies and the Examination of Structure Determining Factors in Alkaline Earth Metal Compounds, Yuriko Takahashi

Enabling Single-Chain Surfactants to Form Vesicles by Nonamphiphilic Liquid Crystals in Water AND Controlling Attachment and Ligand-Mediated Adherence of Candida albicans on Monolayers, Nisha Varghese

2013 2013

Investigating the Role of Quantum Dot Morphology and Microstructure in Resonance Energy Transfer, Rabeka Alam

DNA-Capped Gold Nanoparticles as Intercalative Anticancer Drug Delivery Vehicles, Colleen Marie Alexander

Recombinant Expression, Purification, and Characterization of an HIV-1 Tat-Human Cyclin T1 Chimera, Collin Lesley Fischer

Thermal and photochemical reactions of large metallaborane clusters and functionalizations of boron nitride nanosheets, Pei Ma

The Solid State Simulation of the Structure and Vibrational Modes of Organic, Hybrid Organometallic and Inorganic Species Using the CRYSTAL09 Code., Steven Pellizzeri

Development of Pd Catalyzed Amidations & Applications to the Synthesis of Heterocycles, Adam Jason Rosenberg

Design and Synthesis of Solid State Materials Constructed from Transition Metals and Diphosphonate or Organoarsonate Ligands, Tiffany Marie Smith

Synthesis and Processing of Core/Alloy Nanoparticles: Optical Properties and Morphological Evolutions, Wenjie Wu

I. Stereochemical Control of Chiral Assembly and Liquid Crystal Phase Formation of Nonamphiphilic Molecules in Water II. Control Bacterial Quorum Sensing and Quorum Sensing-mediated Activities Using Small Unnatural Molecules, Sijie Yang

Tuning Quantum Dot Interfaces for Biofunctionalization with expressed Haptocorrin and Fluorescent Proteins: Applications in Targeted Delivery, Cellular Imaging, Self-Assembly, and Energy Transfer, Joshua Zylstra

2012 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 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 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 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 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 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

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