A collection of published articles from members of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
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Submissions from 2013
Protein Similarity Networks Reveal Relationships Among Sequence, Structure, and Function within the Cupin Superfamily, Richard Uberto and Ellen W. Moomaw
Submissions from 2012
One-Phase Synthesis of Surface Modified Gold Nanoparticles and Generation of SERS Substrate by Seed Growth Method, Bharat Baruah, Carl Craighead, and Caleb Abolarin
Interaction of Liosome-encapsulated Cisplatin with Biomolecules, Bharat Baruah and Alexandr Surin
Helicobacter Pylori Hydrogenase Accessory Protein HypA and Urease Accessory Protein UreG Compete with Each Other for UreE Recognition, Stéphane L. Benoit, Jonathan L. McMurry, Stephanie A. Hill, and Robert J. Maier
MAP Kinases Bind Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase, Carol A. Chrestensen, Jonathan L. McMurry, and John C. Salerno
On the Solvolysis Kinetics of Amidoesters Derived from β-Aminoalcohols, Jamilah N. Hankins, Michele Gouws, Amir Mahajer, Ethan S. Kim, Kevin P. Gwaltney, and John Haseltine
Gauss–Jordan Elimination Methods for the Moore–Penrose Inverse of a Matrix, Jun Ji
Molecular Cycloencapsulation Augments Solubility and Improves Therapeutic Index of Brominated Noscapine in Prostate Cancer Cells, Jitender Madan, Bharat Baruah, Mulpuri Nagaraju, and Mohamed O. Abdalla
Identification of a Suspicious Drug by Using Spectroscopic Techniques: A Forensic Analytical Chemistry Project, Huggins Z. Msimanga and Gregory P. Everhart
A Direct, Competitive Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) as a Quantitative Technique for Small Molecules, Jennifer L. Powers, Karen Rippe, Kelly Imarhia, Arleen Swift, Melanie Scholten, and Naina Islam
Improving High School Chemistry Teaching via the “Trickle Up” Effect: A Perspective on the New AP Chemistry Curriculum Framework, Gregory T. Rushton
Submissions from 2011
Antidiabetic Vanadium Compound and Membrane Interfaces: Interface-facilitated Metal Complex Hydrolysis, Debbie Crans, Samantha Schoeberl, Ernestas Gaidamauskas, Bharat Baruah, and Deborah Roess
Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase Inhibitors - Progress and Potential, Ish K. Khanna and Christopher W. Alexander
Retention and Reform: An Evaluation of Peer-Led Team Learning, Scott E. Lewis
Establishing Open-Ended Assessments: Investigating the Validity of Creative Exercises, Scott E. Lewis, Janet L. Shaw, and Kathryn A. Freeman
Rate, Affinity and Calcium Dependence of Nitric Oxide Synthase Isoform Binding to the Primary Physiological Regulator Calmodulin, Jonathan L. McMurry, Carol A. Chrestensen, Israel M. Scott, Elijah W. Lee, Aaron M. Rahn, Allan M. Johansen, Brian J. Forsberg, Kyle D. Harris, and John C. Salerno
Characterization of Ceriporiopsis subvermispora Bicupin Oxalate Oxidase Expressed in Pichia pastoris, Patricia Moussatche, Alexander Angerhofer, Witcha Imaram, Eric Hoffer, Kelsey Uberto, Christopher Brooks, Crystal Bruce, Daniel Sledge, Nigel G. J. Richards, and Ellen W. Moomaw
Characterization of crude Echis carinatus venom-induced cytotoxicity in HEK 293T cells, Rebecca D. Pierce, Ethan S. Kim, Lance W. Girton, and Jonathan L. McMurry
Chemistry Teachers' Emerging Expertise in Inquiry Teaching: The Effect of a Professional Development Model on Beliefs and Practice, Gregory T. Rushton, Christine Lotter, and Jonathan Singer
Gel Formulation Containing Mixed Surfactant and Lipids Associating with Carboplatin, Kellie A. Woll, Eli J. Schuchardt, Claire R. Willis, Christopher D. Ortengren, Noah Hendricks, Mitch Johnson, Ernestas Gaidamauskas, Bharat Baruah, Audra G. Sostarecz, Deanna R. Worley, David W. Osborne, and Debbie C. Crans
Submissions from 2010
Gunshot Residue Analysis in the Undergraduate Laboratory Using Toy Cap Guns, Christopher Dockery, Julie Turner, Matthew A. Rosenberg, Kimberly Kammerdiener, and Susan W. Mungai
Structure Dependence in the Solvolysis Kinetics of Amino Acid Esters, John Haseltine and Jason W. Runyon
Ab Initio Studies of Structural and Vibrational Properties of Protonated Water Cluster H7O3+ and Its Deuterium Isotopologues: An Application of Driven Molecular Dynamics, Martina Kaledin and Christopher A. Wood
Undergraduate Analytical Chemistry: Method Development and Results of the Analysis of Bismuth in Pharmaceuticals, Marina Koether, Brent Ferguson, and Rebekah Kimbrough
Charge Neutralization Study of Mixtures of Al13 with Alum, Marina Koether, Dayne Fraser, Amanda Owens, and Richard Murphy
Creative Exercises in General Chemistry: A Student-Centered Assessment, Scott E. Lewis, Janet L. Shaw, and Kathryn A. Freeman
Kinetic Characterization of Salmonella FliK-FlhB Interactions Demonstrates Complexity of the Type III Secretion Substrate-Specificity Switch, Daniel P. Morris, Eric D. Roush, J. Will Thompson, M. Arthur Moseley, James W. Murphy, and Jonathan L. McMurry
Discerning Some Tylenol Brands Using Attenuated Total Reflection Fourier Transform Infrared Data and Multivariate Analysis Techniques, Huggins Msimanga and Robert J. Ollis
A Real Time Optical Biosensor Assay for Amoxicillin And Other β-Lactams in Water Samples, Israel M. Scott, Lewis J. Kraft, Jonathan D. Parker, Kathryn Daniel, Sarah Kustick, Diana Kennen, and Jonathan L. McMurry
Development of A Real Time Optical Biosensor Assay for Amoxicillin and Other β-Lactams in Water Samples, Israel M. Scott, Lewis J. Kraft, Jonathan D. Parker, Kathryn Daniel, Sarah Kustick, Diana Kennen, and Jonathan L. McMurry
[Diphenyldi(pyrazol-1-yl)methane]dinitratocobalt(II), Janet L. Shaw and Bruce C. Noll
The Preparation, Characterization, X-ray Structural Analysis, and Thermogravimetric Analysis of Tetrakis[1,3-Dimethyl-2(3H)-Imidazolethione]Zinc(II) Nitrate and Tetrafluoroborate, Daniel J. Williams, Kimberly Arrowood, Lindsey M. Bloodworth, Angela L. Carmack, Daniel Gulla, Michael W. Gray, Igal Maasen, Fareeha Rizvi, Sarah L. Rosenbaum, Kevin P. Gwaltney, and Donald VanDerveer
Further Studies into the Feasibility of Using Aqueous Alum Solutions in the Destruction of VX, Daniel J. Williams, William R. Creasy, Roderick A. Fry, Vicky L. H. Bevilacqua, and H. Dupont Durst
Optical Biosensing, Jo Leanna Wilson, Israel M. Scott, and Jonathan L. McMurry
Optical Biosensing: Kinetics of Protein A-IGG Binding Using Biolayer Interferometry, Jo Leanna Wilson, Israel M. Scott, and Jonathan L. McMurry
Submissions from 2009
Automated Extraction of Direct, Reactive, and Vat Dyes from Cellulosic Fibers for Forensic Analysis by Capillary Electrophoresis, Christopher R. Dockery, Amy R. Stefan, Alexander A. Nieuwland, and Samantha N. Roberson
Detection of Psilocybin Mushroom Analogs in Chocolate: Incorporating Current Events into the Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory, Brandon Huskins and Christopher Dockery
Calculation of the Vibrational Spectra of H5O2+ and Its Deuterium-Substituted Isotopologues by Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Martina Kaledin, Alexey L. Kaledin, Joel M. Bowman, Jing Ding, and Kenneth D. Jordan
Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Infrared Spectra of H3O2- and D3O2-, Martina Kaledin, John M. Moffitt, Craig R. Clark, and Fareeha Rizvi
Indirect Gravimetric Determination of Waters of Hydration, Marina C. Koether
Flagellar Formation in C-Ring-Defective Mutants by Overproduction of FliI, the ATPase Specific for Flagellar Type III Secretion, Manabu Konishi, Masaomi Kanbe, Jonathan L. McMurry, and Shin-Ichi Aizawa
Attitude Counts: Self-Concept and Success in General Chemistry, Scott E. Lewis, Janet L. Shaw, Judith O. Heitz, and Gail H. Webster
Induction of Tunica Vaginalis Mesotheliomas in Rats by Xenobiotics, Robert R. Maronpot, Errol Zeiger, Ernest E. McConnell, Holly Kolenda-Roberts, Henry Wall, and Marvin A. Friedman
The Helicobacter pylori Anti-Sigma Factor FlgM Is Predominantly Cytoplasmic and Cooperates with the Flagellar Basal Body Protein FlhA, Melanie Rust, Sophie Borchert, Eike Niehus, Sarah A. Gripp, Afrodita Bajceta, Jonathan L. McMurry, Sebastian Suerbaum, Kelly T. Hughes, and Christine Josenhans
The Trans Effect: A Guided-Inquiry Experiment for Upper-Division Inorganic Chemistry, Janet L. Shaw, Christopher R. Dockery, Scott E. Lewis, Lindsay Harris, and Richard Bettis
Synthesis and Characterization of a Series of Diphenyldipyrazolylmethane Complexes with Zinc(II), Janet L. Shaw, Kevin P. Gwaltney, and Nikky Keer
Microextraction, Capillary Electrophoresis, and Mass Spectrometry for Forensic Analysis of Azo and Methine Basic Dyes from Acrylic Fibers, Amy R. Stefan, Christopher R. Dockery, Brittany M. Baguley, and Brandi C. Vann
Forensic Analysis of Anthraquinone, Azo, and Metal Complex Acid Dyes from Nylon Fibers by Micro-extraction and Capillary Electrophoresis, Amy R. Stefan, Christopher R. Dockery, Alexander A. Nieuwland, and Samantha N. Roberson
N,N,N′,N′-Tetraethyl-P-phenylphosphonous Diamide, Daniela Tapu
13C NMR Spectroscopy of "Arduengo-type" Carbenes and Their Derivatives, Daniela Tapu, David A. Dixon, and Christopher Rowe
The First Phenanthrene-Fused Imidazol-2-ylidene and Its Transition-Metal Complexes, Daniela Tapu, Clayton Owens, Donald VanDerveer, and Kevin P. Gwaltney
Aluminum Sulfate and Sodium Aluminate Buffer Solutions for the Destruction of Phosphorus Based Chemical Warfare Agents, Daniel J. Williams, William R. Creasy, David McGarvy, Roderick A. Fry, Vicky L. H. Bevilacqua, and H. Dupont Durst
The Preparation, Characterization and X-ray Structural Analysis of Tetrakis[1-Methyl-3-(2-Propyl)-2(3H)-Imidazolethione]Cadmium(II) Hexafluorophosphate, Daniel J. Williams, Daniel Gulla, Kimberly Arrowood, Lindsey M. Bloodworth, Angela L. Carmack, Taylor J. Evers, Mark S. Wilson, Javier J. Concepcion, Carol A. S. Brevett, Benjamin E. Huck, and Donald VanDerveer
Submissions from 2008
Visualizing the Solute Vaporization Interference in Flame Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy, Christopher Dockery, Michael J. Blew, and Scott R. Goode
Seeking Effectiveness and Equity in a Large College Chemistry Course: An HLM Investigation of Peer-Led Guided Inquiry, Scott E. Lewis and Jennifer E. Lewis
Group 13 Chelates in Nerve Gas Agent and Pesticide Dealkylation, Amitabha Mitra, David A. Atwood, Jeffrey Struss, Daniel J. Williams, Bradley J. McKinney, William R. Creasy, David McGarvy, H. Dupont Durst, and Roderick A. Fry
Determining the Lifetime of Detectable Amounts of Gunshot Residue on the Hands of a Shooter Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, Matthew A. Rosenberg and Christopher Dockery
Alternative Conceptions of Organic Chemistry Topics among Fourth Year Chemistry Students, Gregory T. Rushton, Rebecca C. Hardy, Kevin P. Gwaltney, and Scott E. Lewis
Submissions from 2007
Loss of MNK Function Sensitizes Fibroblasts to Serum-withdrawal Induced Apoptosis, Carol A. Chrestensen, Andrew Eschenroeder, William G. Ross, Takeshi Ueda, Rie Watanabe-Fukunaga, Rikiro Fukunaga, and Thomas W. Sturgill
Lactate Dehydrogenase Kinetics and Inhibition using a Microplate Reader, Jennifer L. Powers, Natalie E. Kiesman, Connie M. Tran, John H. Brown, and Vicky L. H. Bevilacqua
A Survey of Enzymatic Activity in Commercially Available Pool and Spa Products, Karen Rippe, Brian Condon, Kevin Hosterman, Erica Williams, and Michelle Garner
Molecularly Imprinted Polymers, Ken D. Shimizu and Gregory T. Rushton
The Effect of Steric Bulk on Coordination Sphere Geometry for BiCl3 Complexes with Bulky Heterocyclic Imidazolethione Ligands, Daniel J. Williams, Jeffrey T. Anderton, Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Margaret H. Bowen, Richard E. Hart, Segmia K. Tata, Dustin R. Smith, Kathleen M. White, and Donald VanDerveer
The Preparation, Characterization and X-ray Structural Analysis of Tetrakis[1,3-dimethyl-2(3H)-imidazoleselone]cadmium(II) Hexafluorophosphate, Daniel J. Williams, Bradley J. McKinney, Ben Baker, Kevin P. Gwaltney, and Donald VanDerveer
Submissions from 2006
The Preparation, Characterization and X-Ray Structural Analysis of Tetrakis[1-methyl-3-(2-propyl)-2(3H)-imidazolethione]zinc(II) Tetrafluoroborate and Tetrakis[1-methyl-3-(1-butyl)-2(3H)-imidazolethione]zinc(II) Tetrafluoroborate, Daniel J. Williams, Javier J. Concepcion, Marina Koether, Kimberly Arrowood, Angela L. Carmack, Tiffany G. Hamilton, Stacy M. Luck, Madeleine Ndomo, C. Ryan Teel, and Donald VanDerveer
Main Group Metal halide Complexes with Sterically Hindered Thioureas Part XVIII: The Synthesis, Characterization, and X-Ray Crystallographic Study of a BiCl3 Complex with 1-methyl-2(3H)-imidazolethione, Daniel J. Williams, Anna M. Hutchings, Natalia E. McConnell, Roland A. Faucher, Benjamin E. Huck, Carol A. S. Brevett, and Donald VanDerveer
Submissions from 2005
The Structural Characterization of the First Beryllium Amide Possessing Nitrogen-Bridged Be(II) and Sn(IV) Metal Centers: Synthesis and X-Ray Study of [(Me3Sn)2nbe(Cl)•(THF)]2, Jack F. Eichler, Oliver Just, and William S. Rees
Structure-Activity Relationships for 1-Alkyl-3-(1-naphthoyl)indoles at the Cannabinoid CB1 and CB2 Receptors: Steric and Electronic Effects of Naphthoyl Substituents. New Highly Selective CB2 Receptor Agonists, John W. Huffman, Gulay Zeggin, Ming-Jung Wu, Jianzhong Lu, George Hynd, Kristen Bushell, Alicia L. S. Thompson, Simon Bushell, Cindy Tartal, Dow P. Hurst, Patricia H. Reggio, Dana E. Selley, Michael P. Cassidy, Jenny L. Wiley, and Billy R. Martin
Carbohydrate Recognition by Porphyrin-Based Molecularly Imprinted Polymers, Jung-Deog Lee, Nathaniel T. Greene, Gregory T. Rushton, Ken D. Shimizu, and Jong-In Hong
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Endocannabinoid N-Arachidonoylethanolamine (Anandamide) in a Phospholipid Bilayer: Probing Structure and Dynamics, Diane L. Lynch and Patricia H. Reggio
Methanol and Water Cluster Ab-Initio Structure Determination, Maxwell Merkle and Leon L. Combs
A Chemometrics Module for an Undergraduate Instrumental Analysis Chemistry Course, Huggins Z. Msimanga, Phet Elkins, Segmia K. Tata, and Dustin Ryan Smith
Determination of Acetaminophen in Analgesics by the Standard Addition Method: A Quantitative Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, Huggins Z. Msimanga and Jilliann Wiese
An SDS-PAGE Examination of Protein Quaternary Structure and Disulfide Bonding for a Biochemistry Laboratory, Jennifer L. Powers, Carla S. Andrews, Carolina C. St. Antonia, and Swapan S. Jian
Disease Resistance Conferred by the Expression of a Gene Encoding a Synthetic Peptide in Transgenic Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) Plants, Kanniah Rajasekaran, Jeffrey W. Cary, Jesse M. Jaynes, and Thomas E. Cleveland
Analysis of Phosphoric Acid Content in Popular Carbonated Drinks, Jessie Rodgers and Marina Koether
Submissions from 2004
Science Education in the Web Era, Leon L. Combs
Structural Mimicry in Class A G Protein-coupled Receptor Rotamer Toggle Switches, Sean D. McAllister, Dow P. Hurst, Judy Barnett-Norris, Diane L. Lynch, Patricia H. Reggio, and Mary E. Abood
Submissions from 2003
3-Indolyl-1-naphthylmethanes: New Cannabimimetic Indoles. Provide Evidence for Aromatic Stacking Interactions with the. CB1 Cannabinoid Receptor, John W. Huffman, Ross Mabon, Ming-Jung Wu, Jianzhong Lu, Richard E. Hart, Dow P. Hurst, Patricia H. Reggio, Jenny L. Wiley, and Billy R. Martin
The Preparation, Characterization, and X-Ray Structural Analysis of Dichlorobis[1-methyl-3-(2-propyl)-2(3H)-imidazolethione]mercury(II), Anna M. Hutchings, Natalia E. McConnell, Roland A. Faucher, Donald VanDerveer, and Daniel J. Williams
The Name Game: Learning the Connectivity between the Concepts, Marina C. Koether
An Aromatic Microdomain at the Cannabinoid CB1 Receptor Constitutes an Agonist/Inverse Agonist Binding Region, Denise McAllister, Gulrukh Rizvi, Sharon Anavi-Goffer, Dow P. Hurst, Judy Barnett-Norris, Diane L. Lynch, Patricia H. Reggio, and Mary E. Abood
Pharmacophores for Ligand Recognition and Activation/Inactivation of the Cannabinoid Receptors, Patricia H. Reggio
The Preparation and Structural Characterization of 1-methylimidazolium and 1,3-dimethylimidazolium Tetrachlorobismuthate(III), Daniel J. Williams, William T. Pennington, Donald VanDerveer, Jeffrey T. Anderton, and Kathleen M. White
Teaching Environmental Chemistry with Wetland Microcosms, Daniel J. Williams, Martha C. Williams, Barbara E. Foster, Jane C. Malone, Erin E. Milner, Andrew L. Tartaglia, Angel Turner-Reed, and Marina Koether
Submissions from 2002
Agonist Alkyl Tail Interaction with Cannabinoid CB1 Receptor V6.43/I6.46 Groove Induces a Helix 6 Active Conformatio, Judy Barnett-Norris, Dow P. Hurst, Kurt Buehner, Juan A. Ballesteros, Frank Guarnieri, and Patricia H. Reggio
Conformational Memories and the Endocannabinoid Binding Site at the Cannabinoid CB1 Receptor, Judy Barnett-Norris, Dow P. Hurst, Diane L. Lynch, Frank Guarnieri, Alex Makriyannis, and Patricia H. Reggio
Collaboration between Chemistry and Biology to Introduce Spectroscopy, Electrophoresis, and Molecular Biology as Tools for Biochemistry, Vicky L. H. Bevilacqua, Jennifer L. Powers, Dale L. Vogelien, Ralph J. Rascati, Michelle Hall, Kathleen Diehl, Connie Tran, Swapan S. Jain, and Reem Chabayta
N-(Piperidin-1-yl)-5-(4-chlorophenyl)-1-(2,4-dichlorophenyl)-4-methyl-1H-pyrazole-3-carboxamide (SR141716A) Interaction with LYS 3.28(192) Is Crucial for Its Inverse Agonism at the Cannabinoid CB1 Receptor, Dow P. Hurst, Diane L. Lynch, Judy Barnett-Norris, Steven M. Hyatt, Herbert H. Seltzman, Miao Zhong, Zhao-Hui Song, Jingjiang Nie, Deborah Lewis, and Patricia H. Reggio
The Role of Size Exclusion Chromatography-Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometry in the Treatment Chemistry of Potable Water, Marina C. Koether
Acid–Base Titration: Analysis of Phosphoric Acid Anodizing Solutions. A Problem-Based Learning Approach, Marina C. Koether and Charles R. Munafo
Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Education: Environmental Studies, Marina Koether, Donald McGarey, Mark Patterson, and Daniel J. Williams
A Critical Role for a Tyrosine Residue in the Cannabinoid Receptors for Ligand Recognition, Sean D. McAllister, Qing Tao, Judy Barnett-Norris, Kurt Buehner, Dow P. Hurst, Frank Guarnieri, Patricia H. Reggio, Katharine W. Nowell Harmon, Guy A. Cabral, and Mary E. Abood
Endocannabinoid Structure–Activity Relationships for Interaction at the Cannabinoid Receptors, Patricia H. Reggio
Activation of the Cannabinoid CB1 Receptor May Involve a W6.48/F3.36 Rotamer Toggle Switch, Rajnish Singh, Dow P. Hurst, Judy Barnett-Norris, Frank Guarnieri, and Patricia H. Reggio
First-Year Undergraduate Laboratory Experiments with Zeolites, Daniel J. Williams, Benjamin E. Huck, and Angus P. Wilkinson
1-Methyl-3-alkyl-2(3H)imidazolethione Complexes of Metal Halides: A Thematic-Ligand Approach to Involve Undergraduates in Research Projects, Daniel J. Williams, Segmia K. Tata, Marina Koether, Vicky L. H. Bevilacqua, Benjamin E. Huck, and Richard E. Hart
Dichlorobis[1,3-dimethyl-2(3H)-imidazoleselone]zinc(II): A Potential Zinc Selenide Synthon, Daniel J. Williams, Kathleen M. White, Donald VanDerveer, and Angus P. Wilkinson
Submissions from 2001
Mass Spectrometry Forum - High-Vacuum Pumps in Mass Spectrometers, Kenneth L. Busch
Units in Mass Spectrometry, Kenneth L. Busch