Publications

Our faculty are active scholars who publish collaboratively with undergraduates. In the last five years the chemistry department at the University of Richmond has been responsible for more than 60 peer-reviewed publications and our faculty have edited or contributed articles and chapters to more than 10 books.

Chemistry Department Faculty, Staff and Student Peer-Reviewed Publications

(undergraduates are highlighted with an *)

Paul O. Momoh, Enli Xie, Samuel A. Abrash, Michael Meot-Ner (Mautner), and M. Samy El-Shall, “Gas Phase Reactions between Acetylene Radical Cation and Water.  Energies, Structures and Formation Mechanism of C2H3O+ and C2H4O+· Ions”, J. Phys. Chem. A. 112, 6066-6073 (2008).

B.S. Der* and J.D. Dattlebaum, "Construction of a Reagentless Glucose Biosensor using Molecular Exciton Luminescence", Analytical Biochemistry, 375, 132-140 (2008).

E. Cerpa, F. J. Tenorio, M. Contreras, M. Villanueva, H. I. Beltrán, T. Heine, K. J. Donald, and G. Merino, "Pentadienyl Complexes of Alkali Metals: Structure and Bonding", Organometallics, 27, 827-833 (2008).

C. Wade Downey, Miles W. Johnson*, Kathryn J. Tracy* “One-Pot Enol Silane Formation-Mukaiyama Aldol-Type Addition to Dimethyl Acetals Mediated by TMSOTf” Journal of Organic Chemistry, 73, 3299-3302 (2008).

R. Raabe*, and L.N. Gentile, "Antidepressant interactions with the NMDA NR-1b subunit", Journal of Biophysics, Article ID 474205, 8,  doi: 10.1155/2008/474205 (2008).

K. Hoke and L.N. Gentile, “Early involvement in undergraduate research at the University of Richmond,” CUR Quarterly, 29,1,18 (2008).

*R. Raabe and L.N. Gentile, “Thermal and chemical denaturation of Bacillus circulans xylanase: a biophysical chemistry laboratory module,” Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education,  36, 6, 428 (2008).

A. Tripathi, M. Fornabaio, G. Kellogg, J. Gupton, D. Gewirtz, W. Yeudall, N. Vega and S. Mooberry, “Docking and Hydropathic Scoring of Polysubstituted Pyrrole Compounds with Anti-Tubulin Activity”, Biorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 16, #5, 2235-2242 (2008).

J. Gupton, E. Banner, M. Sartin*, M. Coppock*, J. Hempel*, A. Kharlamova*, D. Fisher*, B. Giglio*, K. Smith*, M. Keough*, T. Smith, R. Kanters, R. Dominey and J. Sikorski, “Application of Vinylogous Iminium Salt Derivatives and Microwave Accelerated Vilsmeier-Haack Reactions to Efficient Relay Syntheses of the Polycitone and Storniamide Natural Products”, Tetrahedron, 64, 5246-5243 (2008).

A.A. Galyean,* R.W. Day,* J. Malinowski,* K.W. Kittredge, and M.C. Leopold, “Polyelectrolyte-Linked Film Assemblies of Nanoparticles and Nanoshells : Growth, Stability, and Optical Properties,” in press, J. of Colloid and Interface Science (DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2008.11.067)

A.F. Loftus,* K.P. Reighard,* S.A. Kapourales,* and M.C. Leopold, “Monolayer-Protected Nanoparticle Film Assemblies as Platforms for Controlling Interfacial and Adsorption Properties in Protein Monolayer Electrochemistry,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 1649-1661 (2008). 

D.P. Harrison, K.D. Welch, M. Sabat, W.H. Myers, W.D. Harman,  "An Efficient Synthesis of an η2-Pyridine Complex and a Preliminary Investigation of the Bound Heterocycle's Reactivity"   Journal of the American Chemical Society, 130, 16844–16845, (2008).

E. Lis, R. Salomon, M. Sabat, W.H. Myers, W.D. Harman,  "Synthesis of 1-Oxadecalins from Anisole Promoted by Tungsten"   Journal of the American Chemical Society, 130, 12472-12476, (2008).

G.W. Kosturko, P.M. Graham, W.H. Myers, T.M. Smith, M. Sabat, and W.D. Harman  "Tungsten-Promoted Diels-Alder Cycloaddition of Pyridines: Dearomatization of 2,6-Dimethoxypyridine Generates a Potent 2-Azadiene Synthon"   Organometallics, 27, 4513-4522, (2008).

M.A. Todd, M. Sabat, W.H. Myers, T.M. Smith, W.D. Harman, "Stereoselective Umpolung Tandem Addition of Heteroatoms to Phenol"   Journal of the American Chemical Society, 130, 6906-6907, (2008).

Matthew M. Lauer*, James W. Leslie*, Ashley Mynar*, Shelly A. Stamper*, Anthony D. Martinez*, Adrian J. Bray*, Senai Negassi*, Kevin McDonald*, Eric Ferraris*, Aaron Muzny*, Shawn McAvoy*, Keith Walters, Keith C. Russell, Evan Wang*, Betsy Nuez* and Carol Parish, "Synthesis, Spectroscopy and Theoretical Calculations for a Series of  Push-Pull [14]-pyridoannulenes", Journal of Organic Chemistry, 73, 474-484 (2008).

Sarah Remmert* and Carol Parish, “Energetic Analysis of Chair and Boat Conformations of Maleimide Substituted Cyclohexane Derivatives,”Journal of Computational Chemistry, DOI 10.1002/jcc.21125. (2008)

Evan Wang*, Carol Parish and Hans Lischka “An Extended Multireference Study of the Electronic States of para-benzyne,”, Journal of Chemical Physics, 129, 44306:1-44306:8 (2008)

W.S Case, K.D. Glinert, Sam LeBarge, and L.B. McGown, "Guanosine gel for sequence-dependent separation of polymorphic ssDNA", Electrophoresis, 28, 3008-3016 (2007). 

N.C. Vercillo*, K.J. Herald*, J.F. Fox*, B.S. Der*, and J.D. Dattelbaum, "Analysis of Ligand Binding to a Ribose Biosensor using Site-directed Mutagenesis and Fluorescence Spectroscopy", Protein Science,16, 362-368 (2007).

R.N. Dominey, R.P.F. Kanters and E.W. Goldman, "C-MoR: Computer Modules That Assist in Teaching NMR Theory and Interpretation", ACS Symposium Series, Editor: D. Rovnyak, Co-Editor: R. A. Stockland, Jr., Oxford University Press, (2007).

M.A. Todd, W.H. Myers, M. Sabat, W.D. Harman, "[2+2] Cycloaddition  Reactions with a Tungsten-Stabilized 2H-Phenol", Journal of the  American Chemical Society, 129, 11010-11011 (2007).

C. Wade Downey, Miles W. Johnson*, "A Tandem Enol Silane Formation-Mukaiyama Aldol Reaction Mediated by TMSOTf", Tetrahedron Lett., 48, 3359-3362 (2007).

L. Stoll*, J. Hall*, N. Van Buren*, A. Hall*, L. Knight*, A. Morgan*, S. Zuger*, H. Van Deusen* and L. Gentile, "Differential regulation of ionotropic glutamate receptors", Biophysical Journal, 92, 1343 (2007).

B. Jeppesen*, L. Costello*, A. Fung*, E. Stanley*, J. McDonald*, A. Lambert*, B. Johnson* and L.N. Gentile, "Structure nor stability of the transmembrane spanning 6/7 domain of Presenilin I correlates with pathogenicity", Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 355, 820 (2007).

L. Stoll*, S. Seguin*, and L.N. Gentile, "Tricyclic antidepressants, but not the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor fluoxetine, bind to the S1S2 domain of ionotropic glutamate receptors", Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 458, 213 (2007).

E.W. Goldman and R.N. Dominey, "Teaching NMR Spectroscopy in a General Education Course for Nonmajors" in "Modern Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Undergraduate Education", ACS Symposium Series, Editor: D. Rovnyak, Co-Editor: R. A. Stockland, Jr., Oxford University Press, (2007).

C. Arthur, J. Gupton, G. Kellog, A. Yeudall and D. Gewirtz, “Autophagic Cell Death, Polyploidy and Senescence Induced in Breast Tumor Cells by the Substituted Pyrrole JG-03-14, a Novel Microtubule Poison”, Biochemical Pharmacology, 74, 981-991 (2007).

S. Mooberry, K. Wiederhold, S. Dakshanamurthy, E. Hamel, E. Banner, A. Kharlamova*, J. Hempel*, J. Gupton and M. Brown, "Identification and Characterization of a New Tubulin-Binding Tetrasubstituted Brominated Pyrrole", Molecular Pharmacology, 72 (1), 132-140 (2007) web version available, April 24, 2007.

M.L. Hamm, T.J. Gill*, S.C. Nicolson* and M.R. Summers*, "Substrate Specificity of Fpg (MutM) and hOGG1, Two Repair Glycosylases", J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 129, 7724-7725 (2007).

L.E. Russell*, R.R. Pompano*, K.W. Kittredge and M.C. Leopold, "Assembled Nanoparticle Films with Crown Ether-Metal Ion 'Sandwiches' as Sensing Mechanisms for Metal Ions",  Journal of Materials Science, v. 42, no. 17, 7100-7108 (2007).

L.E. Russell,* A.A. Galyean,* S.M. Notte,* and M.C. Leopold, “Stable Aqueous Nanoparticle Film Assemblies with Covalent and Charged Polymer Linking Networks,” Langmuir, 23(14), 7446-7471 (2007).
 
K.W. Kittredge, L.E. Russell,* and M.C. Leopold, “A Series of Vertically Integrated Nanotechnology Experiments for the Undergraduate Curriculum,” Chemical Educator, 12(3), 155-158 (2007).

D.A. Delafuente, G.W. Kosturko, P.M. Graham, W.H. Harman, W.H. Myers, Y. Surendranath*, R.C. Klet*, C.O. Trindle, M. Sabat and W.D. Harman "Isomerization Dynamics and Control of the η²/N Equilibrium for Pyridine Complexes", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 129, 406-416 (2007).

K.D. Welch, E.C. Lis, Jr., W. Liu, D.P. Harrison, R.J. Salomon, W.H. Myers and W. Dean Harman "Large-Scale Syntheses of Several Synthons to the Dearomatization Agent {TpW(NO)(PMe3)} and Convenient Spectroscopic Tools for Product Analysis",  Organometallics, 26, 2791-2794 (2007).

W. Liu, K. Welch, C.O. Trindle, M. Sabat, W.H. Myers and W.D. Harman, "Facile Intermolecular Aryl-F Bond Cleavage in the presence of Aryl C-H bonds", Organometallics, 26, 2589-2597 (2007).

A. Szczepanska, J. L. Espartero, A. J. Moreno-Vargas, A. T. Carmona, I. Robina, Sarah Remmert* and Carol Parish, "Synthesis and Conformational Analysis of Novel Trimeric Maleimide Cross-Linking Reagents", Journal of Organic Chemistry, ASAP DOI:.10.1021/jo0709293, (2007).

Edyta M. Brzostowska, Roald Hoffmann and Carol Parish, "Tuning the Bergman Cyclization by Introduction of Metal Fragments at Various Positions of the Enediyne. MetallaBergman Cyclizations", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 129, 4401-4409 (2007).

S. Russo and L.N. Gentile, "Preparation, purification, and secondary structure determination of Bacillus circulans xylanase: a laboratory module incorporating aspects of molecular biology, biochemistry, and biophysical chemistry", Journal of Chemical Education, 83, 1850 (2006).

L.N. Gentile, N.S. Mills and K.K. Karukstis, "Faculty mentoring faculty:lending support within the undergraduate research community", Journal of Chemical Education, 83, 1584 (2006).

J. Gupton, "Pyrrole Natural Products with Antitumor Properties", Chapter. 2, pp 53-92 in "Heterocyclic Antitumor Antibiotics: Topics in Heterocyclic Chemistry, Vol.2", Ed. by M. Lee, Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2006: ISBN # 3-540-30982-9.

J. Gupton, E. Banner, A. Scharf*, B. Norwood, R. Kanters, R. Dominey, J. Hempel*, A. Kharlamova*, I. Bluhn-Chertudi*, C. Hickenboth*, B. Little*, M. Coppock*, K. Krumpe, B. Burnham, H. Holt., K. Du, K. Keertikar, A. Diebes, S. Ghassemi and J. Sikorski, "The Application of Vinylogous Iminium Salt Derivatives to an Efficient Synthesis of the Pyrrole Containing Alkaloids Rigidin and Rigidin E", Tetrahedron, 62, 8243-8255 (2006).

S. Arimitsu, T. Konno, T. Ishihara, H. Yamanaka and J. Gupton, "Synthetic Application of Fluorinated Vinamidinium Salts: Synthesis of Fluorinated 1,3-butadienylphosphonates by the Reaction With Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons Reagents", J. of Fluorine Chem., 127, 1235-1241 (2006).

M.L. Hamm and K. Billig*, "Oligonucleotide Incorporation and Base Pair Stability of 7-Methyl-8-oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine", Org. Biomol. Chem., 4, 4068-4070 (2006).

R.R. Pompano*, P.G. Wortley*, L.M. Moatz*, DJ Tognarelli*, K.W. Kittredge and M.C. Leopold, "Crown Ether-Metal 'Sandwiches' As Linking Mechanisms in Assembled Nanoparticle Films", Thin Solid Films, 510, 311-319 (2006).

Y. Surendranath*, W.H. Myers and W.D. Harman, "Tungsten Promoted Dearomatization of Heterocycles: Uncovering the Latent 2-Azadiene Character of Pyrimidines", Organometallics, 25, 5852-5853 (2006).

K.D. Welch, P.L. Smith, A.P. Keller*, W.H. Myers, M. Sabat andW.D. Harman,"Osmium(II)-, Rhenium(I)-, and Tungsten(0)-Promoted Dipolar Cycloaddition Reactions with Pyrroles: Exploiting the Azomethine Ylide Character of this Heterocycle", Organometallics, 25, 5067-5075 (2006).

E. Lis, W. Liu, M.A. Todd, W.H. Myers, D.A. Delafuente, Y. Lin, M. Sabat, C. Mocella and W.D. Harman "The Uncommon Reactivity of Dihapto-Coordinated Nitrile, Ketone, and Alkene Ligands when Bound to a Powerful π-Base", Organometallics, 25, 5051-5058 (2006).

M.A. Todd, M. Grachen*, W.H. Myers and W.D. Harman "Common Electrophilic Addition Reactions at the Phenol Ring: the Chemistry of TpW(NO)(PMe₃)(η²-phenol)", Organometallics, 25, 3948-3954 (2006).

K.C. Bassett, F. You, P.M. Graham, W.H. Myers, M. Sabat and W. Dean Harman "Furan [3+2] Dipolar Cycloadditions Promoted by a π-Basic Tungsten Metal Fragment", Organometallics, 25, 435-439 (2006).

A.S. Abd-El-Aziz, C.E. Carraher Jr., C.U. Pittman Jr., J. Sheats and M. Zeldin, (Eds.) "Macromolecules Containing Metal and Metal-Like Elements: Nanoscale Interactions of Metal-Containing Polymers", Wiley-VCH Publishers, Volumes 7, 2006.

K.J. Donald, "Electronic Compressibility and Polarizability: Origins of a Correlation", Journal of Physical Chemistry A., 110(6), 2283-2289 (2006). 

K.J. Donald and R. Hoffman, "Solid Memory: Structural Preferences in Group 2 Dihalide Monomers, Dimers, and Solids", Journal of American Chem. Soc., 128(34), 11236-11249 (2006).

A. Suárez, C.W. Downey and G.C. Fu, "Resolutions of Azomethine Imines via Cu-Catalyzed [3+2] Cycloadditions", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 127, 11244-11245 (2005).

J.D. Dattelbaum, L.L. Looger, D.E. Benson, K.M. Sali, R.B. Thompson and H.W. Hellinga, "Analysis of Allosteric Signal Transduction Mechanisms in an Engineered Fluorescent Maltose Biosensor", Protein Science, 14, 284-291 (2005).

L. Stoll*, L.N. Gentile, "Linking tricyclic antidepressants to ionotropic glutamate receptors", Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 333, 622 (2005).

S.C. Clough and E.W. Goldman, "Thermal Degradation and Identification of Heat Sensitive Polymers: An Application of Pyrolysis/Distillation and Instrumental Methods of Analysis", J. Chem. Educ., 83, 1378 (2005).

J. Gupton, R. Miller, S. Clough, K. Krumpe, E. Banner, R. Kanters, K. Du, K. Keertikar, N. Lauerman*, J. Solano*, B. Adams*, D. Callahan*, B. Little*, A. Scharf* and J. Sikorski, "The Application of Vinylogous Iminium Salt Derivatives to an Efficient Relay Synthesis of the Pyrrole Containing Alkaloids Polycitone A and B", Tetrahedron, 61, 1845-1854 (2005).

S. Clough, J. Gupton, A. Ligali*, M. Roberts*, D. Driscoll*, S. Annet*, A. Hewitt*, M. Hudson*, E. Jackson*, R. Miller, B. Norwood, R. Kanters, H. Wyre* and H. Petruzzi*, "Reactions of (Z)-3-Aryl-3-chloropropenals with Nucleophiles: Stereoselective Formation of (E)-Vinylogous Esters, (E)-Vinylogous Amides and Vinamidinium Salts", Tetrahedron, 61, 7554-7561 (2005).

M.L. Hamm, S. Rajguru*, A.M. Downs* and R. Cholera*, "Base Pair Stability of 8-Chloro and 8-Iodo-2'-deoxyguanosine Opposite 2'-Deoxycytidine: Implications regarding the Bioactivity of 8-Oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 127, 12220-12221 (2005).

D.J. Tognarelli*, R.B. Miller, R.R. Pompano*, A.F. Loftus*, D.J. Sheibley* and M.C. Leopold, "Covalently Networked Monolayer Protected Nanoparticle Films," Langmuir, 21(24), 11119-11127 (2005).

D. Sheibley*, D.J. Tognarelli*, R. Szymanik* and M.C. Leopold, "Ultra-fast Formation and Characterization of Stable Nanoparticle Film Assemblies," J. Mater. Chem., 15, 491-498 (2005).

W.H. Myers, K.D. Welch, P.M. Graham, A.P. Keller*, M. Sabat and W.D. Harman "Tungsten(0) and Rhenium(I) η²-Pyrrole Complexes: Dearomatization of Pyrroles and their Facile Isomerizations, Protonations, and Reductions", Organometallics, 24, 5267-5279 (2005).

P.M. Graham, D.A. Delafuente, W. Liu, W.H. Myers, M. Sabat and W.D. Harman "Facile Diels-Alder Reactions with Pyridines Promoted by Tungsten", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 127, 10568-10572 (2005).

D.A. Delafuente, W.H. Myers, M. Sabat and W.D. Harman "Tungsten(0) η²-Thiophene Complexes: Dearomatization of Thiophene and Its Facile Oxidation, Protonation, and Hydrogenation", Organometallics, 24, 1876-1885 (2005).

Sean Hillson*, Emelyn Smith*, Martel Zeldin and Carol Parish, "Cages, Baskets, Ladders and Tubes; Conformational Studies of Polyoligomeric Silsesquioxanes", Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 109, 8371-8378 (2005).

A. S. Abd-El-Aziz, C. E. Carraher Jr., C. U. Pittman Jr., J. Sheats and M. Zeldin, (Eds.) "Macromolecules Containing Metal and Metal-Like Elements: Coordination Polymers", Wiley-VCH Publishers, Volumes 5, 2005.

A. S. Abd-El-Aziz, C. E. Carraher Jr., C. U. Pittman Jr., J. Sheats and M. Zeldin, (Eds.) "Macromolecules Containing Metal and Metal-Like Elements: Transition Metal Polymers", Wiley-VCH Publishers, Volumes 6, 2005.

T. E. Smith, M. Djang*, A. J. Velander*, C. W. Downey, K. A. Carroll* and S. van Alphen* "Versatile Asymmetric Synthesis of Kavalactones: First Synthesis of (+)-Kavain", Organic Letters, 6, 2317-2320 (2004).

K.J. Donald, W.H. Mulder, and L.V. Szenpály, "Valence-State Atoms in Molecules 7: Influence of Polarization and Bond-Charge on Spectroscopic Constants of Diatomic Molecules", Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 108(4), 595-606, (2004). 

V. Spivak*, A. Lin*, P. Beebe*, L. Stoll* and L.N. Gentile, "Identification of a neurosteroid binding site contained within the GluR2-S1S2 domain", Lipids, 39, 811 (2004).

C. Mackereth, M. Scharpf, L. Gentile, S. MacIntosh, C. Slupsky and L. McIntosh "Diversity in structure and function of the Ets family PNT domains", J. Mol. Biol., 342, 1249 (2004).

L.N. Gentile "Making time to mentor undergraduate research in the chemistry department at Western Washington University", CURQuarterly, 24, 4, 180 (2004).

P.J.A. Erbel, R. Seidel, S.E. Macintosh, L.N. Gentile, J.C. Amor, R.A. Kahn, J.H. Prestegard, L.P. McIntosh and K.H. Gardner, "Cyclic enterobacterial common antigen: Potential contaminant of bacterially expressed protein preparations", J. Biomolecular NMR, 29, 199 (2004).

S. Clough, R. Kanters and E. Goldman, "Chem 111: A General Education Course in Organic Structure Determination", J. Chem. Educ., 81, 834-836 (2004).

J. Holub, K. O'Toole-Colin, A. Getzel, A. Argenti, M. Evans, D. Smith, G. Dalglish, S.Rifat, D. Wilson, B. Taylor, U. Miott, J. Glersaye, K. Lam, B. McCranor, J. Berkowitz, R. Miller, J. Lukens*, K. Krumpe, J. Gupton and B. Burnham, "Lipid-Lowering Effects of Ethyl 2-Phenacyl-3-aryl-1H-pyrrole-4-carboxylates in Rodents", Molecules, 9, 134-157 (2004).

S. Clough, J. Gupton, K. Griffin*, D. Driscoll*, A. Hewitt*, M. Hudson*, A. Ligali*, S. Mulcahey*, M. Roberts*, R. Miller T. Belachew*, I. Kamenova*, R. Kanters and B. Norwood, "Extension of β-Chloroenals to Ethyl 5-Chloro-2,4-pentadienoates Using Wadsworth-Emmons Reactions: Subsequent Conversions to 5-Aryl-5-chloro-2,4-pentadienoic Acids and 5-Aryl-2-penten-4-ynoic Acids", Tetrahedron, 60, 10165-10169 (2004).

M.L. Hamm, R. Cholera*, C.L. Hoey* and T.J. Gill*, "Oligonucleotide Incorporation of 8-Thio-2'-deoxyguanosine", Org. Lett., 6, 3817-3820 (2004).

Y. Alecseyev, M.L. Hamm and J.M. Essigmann, "Aflatoxin B1 Formamidopyrimidine Adducts are Preferentially Repaired by the Nucleotide Excision Repair Pathway in vivo", Carcinogenesis 25, 1045-1051 (2004).

M.C. Leopold, R.L. Donkers, D. Georganopoulou, M. Fisher*, F.P. Zamborini, and R.W. Murray, "Growth, Conductivity, and Vapor Response Properties of Metal Ion-Carboxylate Linked Nanoparticle Films", Faraday Discuss., 125, 63-76 (2004).

H. Castillo*, M. Yarger*, M. Rappleye* and C. Parish, "A Comparison of the AMBER*, OPLSAA and HF Potential Energy Surfaces for a Series of Diastereomeric Cyclic Urea HIV-1 Inhibitors", Journal of Molecular Structure (THEOCHEM), 710, 73-76 (2004).

Maximilian Macaluso*, Carol Parish, Roald Hoffmann and Larry Scott, "A Theoretical Study of Dicyclobuta[de,ij]naphthalene and Dicyclopenta[cd,gh]pentalene", Journal of Organic Chemistry, 69, 8093-8100 (2004).

C. Parish, M. Yarger*, K. Sinclair*, A. Goldberg* and M. Dure*, "Molecular Modeling Studies of Cyclic Urea HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors", Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 47, 4838-4850 (2004).

A.S. Abd-El-Aziz, C.E. Carraher Jr., C.U. Pittman Jr., J. Sheats and M. Zeldin, (Eds.) "Macromolecules Containing Metal and Metal-Like Elements: Group IVA Polymers", Wiley-VCH Publishers, Volumes 4, 2004.

D.A. Evans, D. Seidel, M. Rueping, H.W. Lam, J.T. Shaw and C.W. Downey, "A New Copper Acetate-Bis(oxazoline) Catalyzed, Enantioselective Henry Reaction", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 125, 12692-12693 (2003).

D.A. Evans, C.W. Downey and J.L. Hubbs, "Ni(II) Bis(oxazoline)-Catalyzed Enantioselective Syn Aldol Reactions of N Propionylthiazolidinethiones in the Presence of Silyl Triflates", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 125, 8706-8707 (2003).

J. Kosmrlj, L.O. Weigel, D.A. Evans, C.W. Downey and J. Wu "Unfunctionalized, α-Epimerizable Non-Racemic Ketones and Aldehydes Can Be Accessed by Crystallization-Induced Dynamic Resolution of Imines", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 125, 3208-3209 (2003).

J. Gupton, S. Clough, R. Miller, J. Lukens*, C. Henry*, R. Kanters and J. Sikorski, "The Application of Vinylogous Iminium Salt Derivatives to the Synthesis of Ningalin B Hexamethyl Ether", Tetrahedron, 59, 207-215 (2003).

H. Yamanaka, K. Kase, M. Katayama, T. Ishihara, T. Konno and J. Gupton, "Reaction of β-Trifluoroethoxy Vinamidinium Salts with Carbon Nucleophiles", J. of Fluorine Chem., 120, 33-39 (2003).

B. Burnham, M. Evans, D. Smith, J. Holub, A. Argenti, M. Hoff, G. Daglish, D. Wilson, B. Taylor, J. Berkowitz, K. Krumpe, J. Gupton, T. Scarlett, R. Durham and I. Hall, "Synthesis and Cytotoxicity of Substituted Ethyl 2-Phenacyl-3-phenylpyrrole-4-carboxylates", Arch. Pharm. Pharm. Med. Chem., 336, 181-190 (2003).

V.L. Jimenz, M.C. Leopold, C. Mazzitelli*, J.W. Jorgenson and R.W. Murray, "Reversed-Phase HPLC Separation of Monolayer Protected Gold Nanoclusters", Anal. Chem., 75(2), 199-206 (2003).

D.T. Miles, M.C. Leopold and R.W. Murray, "Simulations of Quantized Double Layer Charging Voltammetry of Poly-Disperse and Mono-Disperse Monolayer Protected Clusters", J. Electroanal. Chem., 554-555, 87-97 (2003).

F.P. Zamborini, L.A. Smart*, M.C. Leopold, and R.W. Murray, "Distance-Dependent Electron Hopping Conductivity and Nanoscale Lithography of Chemically-Linked Gold Monolayer-Protected Cluster Films", Analytica Chimica Acta, 496, 3-16 (2003).

J.D. Dattelbaum, V. Lockatell, D. Johnson, and H.L.T. Mobley, "UreR, the transcriptional activator for the Proteus mirabilis urease gene cluster, is required for urease activity and virulence in experimental urinary tract infection", Infect. Immun., 171-1026-1030 (2003).

C. Parish, M. Zeldin, J.Pratt* and S. Hillson*, "Conformational Analysis of Siloxane-Based Enzyme-Mimic Precursors", Macromolecular Symposia, Wiley and Sons, 196, 327-336 (2003).

A.S. Abd-El-Aziz, C.E. Carraher Jr., C.U. Pittman Jr., J. Sheats and M. Zeldin, "Macromolecules Containing Metal and Metal-Like Elements: A Half Century of Metal- and Metalloid-Containing Polymers", Wiley-VCH Publishers, Volumes 1, 2003.

A.S. Abd-El-Aziz, C.E. Carraher Jr., C.U. Pittman Jr., J. Sheats and M. Zeldin, (Eds.) "Macromolecules Containing Metal and Metal-Like Elements: Organoiron Polymers", Wiley-VCH Publishers, Volumes 2, 2003.

A.S. Abd-El-Aziz, C.E. Carraher Jr., C.U. Pittman Jr., J. Sheats and M. Zeldin, (Eds.) "Macromolecules Containing Metal and Metal-Like Elements: Ferrocene Polymers", Wiley-VCH Publishers, Volumes 3, 2003.

Zeldin, Inorganic and organometallic polymers, in 2003 Yearbook of Science & Technology, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 2003.

D.A. Evans, C.W. Downey, J.T. Shaw and J.S. Tedrow, "Magnesium Halide-Catalyzed Diastereoselective anti-Aldol Reactions of Chiral N Acylthiazolidinethiones", Organic Letters, 4, 1127-1130 (2002).

D.A. Evans, J.S. Tedrow, J.T. Shaw and C.W. Downey, "Diastereoselective Magnesium Halide-Catalyzed anti-Aldol Reactions of Chiral N Acyloxazolidinones", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 124, 392-393 (2002).

C.D. Mackereth, Manuela, L.N. Gentile, L.P. McIntosh, "Letter to the Editor: Chemical shift and secondary structure conservation of the PNT/SAM domains from the Ets family of transcription factors", J. Biomolecular NMR, 24, 71 (2002).

J. Gupton, S. Clough, C. Hickenboth*, I. Bluhn Chertudi*, S. Cutro*, S. Petrich, F. Hicks, D. Wilkinson and J. Sikorski, "The Application of Vinylogous Iminium Salt Derivatives to the Regiocontrolled Preparation of Heterocyclic Appended Pyrazoles", Tetrahedron, 58, 5467-5474 (2002).

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M.T. Valohovic, W.H. Myers and W.D. Harman,"Discrimination of Enantiofaces and Stereoselective Electrophilic Addition Reactions of η²-Pyrrole Complexes of Pentaammineosmium(II)", Organometallics, 21, 4581-4589 (2002).

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