Recent Accomplishments by Chemistry Faculty and Research Groups
There are always exciting things happening in the department! Check here for recent professional activity by our faculty and students.
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Recent Publications(back to top)
Bucknell chemistry faculty members are indicated in bold,
*Bucknell undergraduates are indicated by an asterisk*
2007
Karen J. Castle, "High-resolution vibration-rotation spectroscopy: Understanding the Boltzmann Distribution", Journal of Chemical Education V84, 459 (2007). Eric S. Tillman, Daniel S. Miller*, Amanda C. Roof*, "Photodimers of 9-Haloanthracenes as Initiators in Atom transfer Radical polymerization: Effect of the bridgehead Halogen", Polymer Bulletin 2007, 58, 881-891. Jayne A. Kubat*, James, J. Chou, David Rovnyak,"Application of nonuniform sampling and maximum entropy reconstruction to the accuracte measurement of residual dipolar couplings", Journal of Magnetic Resonance,186 201-211 (2007). Laura E. Thompson*, David Rovnyak, "Accessible NMR experiments studying the hydrodynamics of 15N-enriched ubiquitin at low fields", Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2007, 35, 49-56. R.Brit Merola,* Eric D. Fournier,* and M.M. McGuire, "Spectroscopic investigations of Fe2+ complexation on nontronite clay," Langmuir, 2007, V23(3), 1223-1226. R. A. Stockland Jr., B. D. Wilson, C. C. Goodman, B. J. Giese* and F. L. Shrimp II*, "Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of a Hexane Soluble Silver Salt." Journal of Chemical Education, 84, 694 (2007). 2006 Jeffrey N. McKnight*; Eric S. Tillman; Louis R. Sarry* “Lewis Acid-Induced N-methyleneamines as Initiators in the Syn thesis of Secondary Amine-Terminated Polymers” Macromolecular Rapid Communications 2006, 27, 1578-1583. Eric S. Tillman; Amanda C. Roof*; Steven M. Palmer*; Beth Ann Zarko*; Caton C. Goodman; Alissa M. Roland* “Synthesis of Chromophore-labeled Polymers and their Molecular Weight Determination Using UV-Vis Spectroscopy” Journal of Chemical Education 2006, 83, 1215-1217. Amanda C. Roof* ; Eric S.; Tillman, Raleigh E. Malik*; Alissa M. Roland*; Daniel J. Miller*; Louis R. Sarry* “Mechanistic Investigation of 9-Bromoanthracene Photodimers as Initiators in Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization” Polymer 2006, 47, 3325-3335. J. L. Jamison, L. Davenport and B. W. Williams, "Solvatochromism in the aromatic ketone benzo[b]fluorenone", Chem. Phys. Lett. 422 (2006) 30-35. M.C. Kohler*, R. A. Stockland Jr., and N. P. Rath, "Steric and Electronic Effects on Arylphosphonate Elimination from Organopalladium Complexes", Organometallics 2006, 25, 5746-5756. R. A. Stockland Jr., M. C. Kohler*, I. A. Guzei*, M. E. Kastner, J. A. Bawiec, III, R. B. Hochberg*, and D. C. Labaree, "Organometallic Complexes Containing 17-Ethynyl-17b-hydroxyandrost-4-en-3-one and Related Ethynyl Steroids" Organometallics 2006, 25, 2475-2485. R. A. Stockland Jr., A. J. Lipman*, J. A. Bawiec, P. E. Morrison*, I. A. Guzei*, P. M. Findeis, J. F. Tamblin, "Remarkable tolerance of ethynyl steroids to air and water in hydrophosphinylation reactions: Reaction scope and limitations. J. Organomet. Chem. 2006, 691, 4042. Eckenroad, K.W.; Thompson*, L.E.; Strein, T.G.; Rovnyak, D. "Proton NMR assignments for R,S-1,1-binapthyl (BN) and R,S-1,1-binaphthyl-2,2-diyl hydrogen phosphate (BNDHP) interacting with bile salt micelles" Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 2006, V45, 72-75. Karen J. Castle, Katherine M. Kleissas*, Justin M. Rhinehart, Eunsook S. Hwang, and James A. Dodd, “Vibrational Relaxation of CO2(n2) by Atomic Oxygen” Journal of Geophysical Research, V111, A09303, (2006). doi:10.1029/2006JA011736. Charles H. Clapp, Matthew Strulson, Pamela C. Rodriguez, Richmond Lo*, and Mark J. Novak “Oxygenation of Monounsaturated Fatty Acids by Soybean Lipoxygenase-1: Evidence for Transient Hydroperoxide Formation”, Biochemistry , 45, 15884-15892 (2006).
Visible Chemistry Faculty Professional Service(back to top) Professor Strein is speaking in and co-organizing (with Cynthia Larive of UC Riverside) a symposium entitled,"Spectroscopic Insights to Separation Processes" at PittCon '07 in Chicago, Illinois on February 28, 2007. Professor Castle is currently serving (2006-2007) as the chair of the Susquehanna Valley Section of the American Chemical Society. Prof. Casteel is currently serving (2006-2007) as Councilor to the Susquehanna Valley Section of the American Chemical Society Prof. Strein served as Program Co-chair for the 2006 Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Hershey, PA. Prof’s Williams, Stockland, Tillman, McGuire Strein, Rovnyak, and Kastner served as technical session chairs at the 2006 Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Hershey, PA.
Awards and Honors
(back to top) Two chemistry students win national awards: Brit Merola, a senior Chemistry major from Great Meadows, NJ received funding through the ACS Women Chemists Committee (WCC) to present her work entitled "Temperature effects on the diffuse reflectance spectra of nontronite clays" at the 2006 Fall ACS National Meeting in San Francisco. Brit works with Prof. McGuire. Adam Catherman, a Junior Cheistry major for Sellinsgrove, PA received funding through the American Chemical Society (ACS) Analytical Division to present his work at PittCon’07 in Chicago, Ill in February of 2007. Adam works with Prof. Strein.
Grants and Funding(back to top) *Five professors awarded grants in spring/summer 2007 to support their research *Eric Tillman (PI), National Science Foundation - Research at Undergraduate Institutions, (2007-2010) "Synthesis of amine-terminated polymers using Lewis Acid-Induced N-methyleneamines as cationic initiators", $135,023. *Molly McGuire (PI), Erin Jablonski (Co-PI, Chem. Eng.), Timothy Raymond (Co-PI, Chem. Eng.), National Science Foundation - Major Research Instrumentation, (2007-2010) "Acquisition of an Atomic Force Microscope to Enhance Interdisciplinary Research at Bucknell University", $180,673 *David Rovnyak (PI) and Timothy Strein (co-PI), (2007-2010) ACS-Petroleum Research Fund, "Examining Hydrodynamic and solubilization properties of micelles formed by chiral amphiphiles", $55,000 *Karen Castle, James A. Dodd, (2007-2010) NASA Geospace Science Program,"Temperature dependent CO2-O vibrational energy transfer". $208,067 *Timothy Strein, National Institutes of Health - Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA), (2007-2010), "Bioanalytical CE: Mixing, reacting, separating, and stacking", $218,899 Eric S. Tillman: (2005) Cottrell College Science Award, Research Corporation, "Anthracene photodimers in atom transfer radical polymerizations". $41,566 David Rovnyak: (2005) Cottrell College Science Award, Research Corporation, "Towards new relationships between metal coordination geometry and protein function in unusual zinc-binding cytoplasmic domains" $44,836
Presentations(back to top) Recent Presentations (2006-2007) by Bucknell Faculty and Undergraduate Students*.
Karen Castle, "Laser Spectroscopic Studies of 'Greenhouse Cooling' in the Upper Atmosphere", at Bloomsburg University. February 8, 2007. David Rovnyak, "Improving Control over MQ Coherence Transfer in Quadrupolar Nuclei: Theory and Applications", NMR of Metals in Biological Systems and Materials, University of Delaware, June 9, 2007. Eric S. Tillman, "Synthesis of Functionalized Polymers Using Radical and Cationic Initiating Systems", at Colgate University. November 14, 2006. David Rovnyak, "Progress and New NMR Methodology for Studying Unusual Zinc-Binding Domains", at Middlebury College, September 22, 2006. Jayne Kubat*, "Seeing Double with NMR : Accelerated Acquisition of Residual Dipolar Coupling Spectra", at Harvard Medical School Department Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, August, 2006.
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