Program
8 a.m.
Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:45 a.m.
3-210: Opening Remarks by William Tolman, chair of the Department of Chemistry
Session I 3-125
Session II 3-115
Session III 3-111
Session IV 2-260
Judges
Daniel LeCloux
Connie Lu
Lawrence Que Jr.
Timothy Abraham
John Ellis
Theresa Reineke
Terry Smith
Marc Hillmyer
James Johns
Nicholas Frost
Ian Tonks
Gianluigi Veglia
Moderators
Sarah Wegwerth
Jennifer Strehlau
Rebecca Mackenzie
Xiaojie Wu
Nicole Gagnon
Lindsay M. Johnson
9-9:25 a.m.
Dicopper Complexes
for C-H bond Oxidation
(William B. Tolman, adviser)
Hydroxypropyl
Methylcellulose Esters of
Substituted Succinates
for Hydrophobic Drug
Dissolution Enhancement
(Marc A. Hillmyer, adviser)
9:25-9:50 a.m.
Ryan C. Cammarota
Tuning Nickel for Catalytic
Olefin Hydrogenation
via Dative Bonds
with Lewis Acidic
Metalloligands
Jacob P. Brutman
Sustainable Vitrimers from
Biosourced Lactones
(Marc A. Hillmyer, adviser)
Shaohong L. Li
Toward More Accurate
Potential Energy Surfaces
With Time-Dependent
Density Functional Theory
for Computational
Photochemistry
(Donald G. Truhlar, adviser)
Rebecca K. Carlson
Multiconfiguration PairDensity Functional Theory:
Ground State Energetics
(Laura Gagliardi, adviser)
(Connie Lu, adviser)
9:50-10:15 a.m.
Yang Fan
Multifunctional Thiourea
Hydrogen Bonding
Catalysts: Synthesis and
Reactivity
(Steven Kass, adviser)
Marzieh Ramezani
Characterization of the
Organelle-Specific Lipids
Involved in Autophagy
Using Liquid
Chromatography
Coupled to
Mass Spectrometry
(Edgar A. Arriaga, adviser)
Clifford Gee
Fragment Screening and
Druggability Assessment
for Protein Targets Via
Protein-Observed 19F
NMR Spectroscopy
(Gunda Georg & William
C.K. Pomerantz, advisers)
Victoria M. Szlag
Pairing Glycopolymers and
Surface-Enhanced Raman
Spectroscopy (SERS) for
the Detection of Toxic
Lectins
(Christy Haynes &
Theresa Reineke, advisers)
David B. Harwood
A Monte Carlo
Simulation Study of
Fluid Phase Equilibria for
Binary and Ternary Liquid
Mixtures
(J. Ilja Siepmann, adviser)
Alexander C.
Johnson
Capillary Electrophoresis
Coupled with Micro Free
Flow Electrophoresis
for High Speed Two
Dimensional Separations
of Biological Samples
(Michael T. Bowser, adviser)
10:15-10:30 a.m. Break
10:30-10:55 a.m.
Sadie C. Otte
Studies Toward the Total
Synthesis of (–)-Quebrachamine Via Asymmetric
Cyanoamidation
(Christopher Douglas, adviser)
Alexandre H. Pinto
Solvothermal Syntheses
and Crystalline Phase
Control of Multinary
Transition Metal Sulfides
(R. Lee Penn, adviser)
Ivan Spector
Iodine Gas Adsorption
and Dye Complexation in
Dye Sensitized TiO2 Films
Measured Using 2D-IR
(Aaron Massari, adviser)
Andrew K. Urick
Dual Screening of
Bromodomains Using
Protein-Observed
Fluorine NMR Uncovers
the First Selective
Inhibitor for BPTF
(William Pomerantz, adviser)
10:55-11:20 a.m.
Nicholas A. Serratore
Tandem C–O/C–H
Activation of Salicylate
Esters
(Christopher Douglas, adviser)
11:20-11:55 a.m.
Sarah M. Harris
Lanthanide–Based
Luminescent Probes:
Achieving Selectivity for
Copper over Zinc by
Altering the Nature of the
Ligand
(Valérie Pierre, adviser)
noon-1 p.m.
Lunch
Tian “Autumn” Qiu
Probing Mechanisms of
Nanoparticle-Bacterial Cell
Interactions
(Christy L. Haynes, adviser)
Camille Malonzo
Stabilization of MOFDerived Catalytic Clusters
Through Nanocasting
Approaches
(Andreas Stein, adviser)
Jeffrey C. Sung
Exploring the Ethane/
Ethylene Separation in the
Metal–Organic Framework
Fe2(dobdc)
(J. Ilja Siepmann, adviser)
David Alexander
Schnepper
Extreme Examples of
Multiple Metal-Metal
Bonding: Photoelectron
Spectroscopy of NbWand W2(Doreen Leopold, adviser)
Megan Weisenberger
In Vivo Monitoring of
Branched Chain Amino
Acid Dynamics Using
Online MicrodialysisCapillary Electrophoresis
(Michael T. Bowser, adviser)
Kailey Soller
Tuning the Equilibrium:
A Biophysical Approach
to Controlling Cardiac
Muscle Contractility
(Michael Bowser &
Gianluigi Veglia, advisers)
Program
Session I 3-125
Session II 3-115
Session III 3-111
Session IV 2-260
Judges
Daniel LeCloux
Connie Lu
Lawrence Que Jr.
Timothy Abraham
John Ellis
Theresa Reineke
Terry Smith
Marc Hillmyer
James Johns
Nicholas Frost
Ian Tonks
Gianluigi Veglia
Moderators
Sarah Wegwerth
Jennifer Strehlau
Rebecca Mackenzie
Xiaojie Wu
1-1:25 p.m.
Debanjan Dhar
Thermodynamic Insights
into the Kinetics of
Hydrogen Atom Abstraction
by Mononuclear Copper(III)Hydroxide Cores
Suyue Chen
Mild Polyol Synthesis of
Silver Nanoparticles
(R. Lee Penn, adviser)
Evgenii Fetisov
Monte Carlo Simulations
for Mixed-Ligand Coated
Nanoparticles
(J. Ilja Siepmann, adviser)
(William B. Tolman, adviser)
1:25-1:50 p.m.
Grant B. Frost
Studies Toward Selective
Diazo Group Transfer
to Alkenes
from Carbamoyl Azides
(Christopher Douglas, adviser)
(Christy L. Haynes, adviser)
Jinbo Hu
Miniaturized Ion-Sensing
Systems Based on
Colloid-Imprinted
Mesoporous Carbon: from
Bulk Electrodes to PaperBased Ion-Sensing Devices
(Philippe Buhlmann &
Andreas Stein, advisers)
1:50-2:15 p.m.
Ang Zhou
Characterization and
Reactivity Study of a
Nonheme Fe(III)-O-Cr(III)
Species Involving in O2
Activation
(Lawrence Que Jr., adviser)
2:15-3 p.m.
Reception
3 p.m.
Awards Presentations
Sarah M. Gruba
Stereochemical and
Concentration Effects of
Phosphatidylserine on
Single and Bulk Cells
Using a Platelet Platform
Chad E. Hoyer
Novel Computational
Methods for Excited-State
Chemistry: Diabatization
Approaches Based on
Simple Properties
(Laura Gagliardi &
Donald G. Truhlar, advisers)
Daniel “Josh” Marell
Quantum Chemical
Analysis of Mechanisms
for ROTEP by Aluminum
Catalysts
(Christopher Cramer, adviser)
Gabriella Perell
Stabilized Alpha-Helical
Mimetics used in
Modulating ProteinProtein Interactions
(William Pomerantz, adviser)
Yi Zhang
Dual Protein Labeling
and Targeted Drug
Delivery Using
Protein Prenylation
Based Strategy
(Mark Distefano, adviser)