Undergraduate Research Publications (2003-present)

Undergraduate co-authors are indicated in bold.

2012

• M. Caban-Acevedo, M. S. Faber, Y. Tan, R. J. Hamers, S. Jin.  “Synthesis and Properties of Semiconducting Iron Pyrite (FeS₂) Nanowires.”  Nano Lett. 2012, 12, 1977-1982.

•   J. W. Rigoli, L. A. Boralsky, J. C. Hershberger, A. R. Meis, I. A. Guzei, J. M. Schomaker.  "1,4-Diazaspiro[2.2] pentanes as a platform for the synthesis of diamine-bearing stereotriads."  J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 2446.

• J. W. Rigoli, R. D. Grigg, S. D. Pearce, J. M. Schomaker.  "Synthesis of Propargylic and Allenic Carbamates via the C-H Amination of Alkynes."  Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 280.

•  R. D. Grigg, J. W. Rigoli, R. Van Hoveln, S. Neale, J. M. Schomaker.  "Facile generation of benzyl 'carbanions' from styrenes." In press, Chem. Eur. J. April, 2012.

• J. W. Rigoli, S. A. Moyer, S. D. Pearce, J. M. Schomaker.  "α,β-Unsaturated imines via Ru-catalyzed coupling of allylic alcohols and amines."  Org. Biomol. Chem. 2012, 10, 1746.

• S. Lin, C. E. Padilla, M.A. Ischay, T. P. Yoon.  "Visible Light Photocatalysis of Intramolecular Radical Cation Diels-Alder Cycloadditions,"  Tetrahedron Lett. 2012, 53, 3073-3076.

• A. C. Cardiel, M. C. Benson, L. M. Bishop, K. M. Louis, J. C. Yeager, Y. Tan, R. J. Hamers.  "Chemically Directed Assembly of Photoactive Metal Oxide Nanoparticle Heterojunctions via the Copper-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition "Click" Reaction."  ACS Nano  2012, 6, 310-318.  This article was also featured in C&EN on Jan. 23, 2012 in the News of the Week section (Volume 90, Issue 4, p. 8).
  

• L. Guo, W. Zhang, I. A. Guzei, L. C. Spencer, S. H. Gellman.  "New Preorganizes Gamma-Amino Acids as Foldamer Building Blocks."  Org. Lett.  2012, 14, 2582.

• L. M. Johnson, D. E. Mortenson, H. G. Yun, W. S. Horne, T. J. Ketas, M. Lu, J. P. Moore, S. H. Gellman.  "Enhancement of alpha-Helix Mimicry by an alpha/beta-Peptide Foldamer via Incorporation of a Dense Ionic Side Chain Array."  J. Am. Chem. Soc.  2012, 134, 7317.

• L. Guo, W. Zhang, I. A. Guzei, L. C. Spencer, S. H. Gellman.  "Helical Secondary Structures in 2:1 and 1:2 alpha/gamma-Pepetides."  Tetrahedron  2012, 68, 4413.
  

• J. Zhang, M. J. Markiewicz, B. P. Mowery, B. Weisblum, S. S. Stahl, S. H. Gellman.  "C-Terminal Functionalization of Nylon-3 Polymers:  Effects of C-Terminal Groups on Antibacterial and Hemolytic Activities."  Biomacromolecules  2012, 13, 323

• A. M. Almeida, R. Li, S.H. Gellman.  "Parallel beta-Sheet Secondary Structure is Stabilized and Terminated by Inter-Strand Disulfide Crosslinking."  J. Am. Chem. Soc.  2012, 134, 75.
  

2011

• J. M. Higgins, R. Ding, S. Jin.  “Synthesis and Characterization of Manganese-Rich Silicide (α-Mn₅Si₃, β-Mn₅Si₃ and β-Mn₃Si) Nanowires”  Chem. Mater. 2011, 23, 3848-3853.

• J. M. Higgins, P. Carmichael, A. L. Schmitt, S. Lee, J. P. DeGrave, S. Jin.  “Mechanistic Investigation of the Growth of Fe_1-xCo_xSi (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) and Fe₅(Si_1-yGe_y)₃ (0 ≤ y ≤ 0.33) Ternary Alloy Nanowires”  ACS Nano 2011, 5, 3268-3277.

• W. H. James III, E. G. Buchanan, C. W. Muller, J. C. Deen, D. Kosenkov, L. V. Slipchenko, L. Guo, A. G. Reidenbach, S. H. Gellman, T. S. Zwier.  "Evolution of Amide Stacking in Larger gamma-Pepetides:  Triamide H-Bonded Cycles."  J. Phys. Chem. A.  2011, 115, 13783-13798.
  

• W. C. Pomerantz, V. M. Yuwono, R. Drake, J. D. Hartgerink, N. L. Abbott, S. H. Gellman.  "Lyotropic Liquid Crystals Formed form ACHC-Rich B-Peptides."  J. Am. Chem. Soc.  2011, 133, 13604-13613. 

• L. Guo, W. Zhang, A. G. Reidenbach, M. W. Giuliano, I. A. Guzei, L. C. Spenser and S. H. Gellman.  "Characteristic Structural Parameters for the g-Peptide 14-Helix:  Importance of Subunit Preorganization."  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.  2011, 50, 5843.

• David N. Bunck, Gregory P. Sorenson and Mahesh K. Mahanthappa.  “Cobalt-mediated radical polymerization routes to poly(vinyl ester) block copolymers.”  J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2011, 49, 242-249.

2010

• R. S. Selinsky, J.-H. Han, S. Jin.  “Synthesis and Magnetic Properties of Gd Doped EuS Nanocrystals with Enhanced Curie Temperatures.”  J. Am. Chem. Soc.  2010, 132, 15997-16005.

• C. A. Nelson, J. R. Szezech, C. J. Dooley, Q. Xu, M. J. Lawrence, H. Zhu, S. Jin, Y. Ge.  “Effective Enrichment and Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Phosphopeptides Using Mesoporous Metal Oxide Nanomaterials.”  Anal. Chem.  2010, 82, 7193-7201.

• S. A. Morin, M. J. Bierman, J. Tong, S. Jin.  “Mechanism and Kinetics of Spontaneous Nanotube Growth Driven by Screw Dislocations.”  Science  2010, 328, 476-480.

• U. I. Zakai,G. Bikzhanova, D. Staveness, S. Gately, R. West.  "Synthesis of lipophilic sila derivatives of N-acetylcysteinamide, a cell permeating thiol." Applied Organomet. Chem.  2010, 24, 189-192.

• A. K. M. Long, R. P. Yu, G. H. Timmer and J. F. Berry.  “Aryl C–H Amination by an Electrophilic Diruthenium Nitride.”  J. Am. Chem. Soc. ­­­­­­­­2010, 132, 12228-12230.

• Marek, P., Woys, A. M., Sutton, K., Zanni, M.T., Raleigh, D.P.  “An Efficient Microwave Assisted Synthesis of Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide Designed to Facilitate the Specific Incorporation of Labeled Amino Acids.”  Org. Lett.  2010, 12, 4848.

• DePorter, S. M., Jacobsen, A. C., Partridge, K. M., Williamson, K. S., Yoon, T. P.  "N-Nosyl Oxaziridines as Terminal Oxidants in Copper(II)-Catalyzed Olefin Oxyaminations."  Tetrahedron Lett. 2010, 51, 5223-5225.

• Joseph B. Binder, Anthony V. Cefali, Jacqueline J. Blank, and Ronald T. Raines.  "Mechanistic insights on the conversion of sugars into 5‑hydroxymethylfurfural."  Energy & Environmental Science 2010, 3, 765–771.

• Amit Choudhary, Kimberli J. Kamer, Matthew W. Powner, John D. Sutherland, and Ronald T. Raines.  "A stereoelectronic effect in prebiotic nucleotide synthesis."  ACS Chemical Biology  2010, 5, 655–657.

• Joseph B. Binder, Jacqueline J. Blank, Anthony V. Cefali, and Ronald T. Raines.  "Synthesis of furfural from xylose and xylan." ChemSusChem  2010, 3, 1268–1272.

• L. M. Pegram, T. Wendorff, R. Erdmann, I. Shkel, D. Bellissimo, D. J. Felitsky and M. T. Record, Jr.  “Why Hofmeister Effects of Many Salts Favor Protein Folding but Not DNA Helix Formation.”  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2010, 107(17), 7716-7721.

• L. Guo, A. M. Almeida, W. Zhang, A. G. Reidenbach, S. H. Choi, I. A. Guzei and S. H. Gellman.  "Helix Formation in Preorganized β/γ-Peptide Foldamers:  Hydrogen-Bond Analogy to the α-Helix without α-Amino Acid Residues."  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 7868.

• D. V. Fedyukina, S. Rajagopalan, A. Sekhar, E. C. Fulmer, Y.-J. Eun, and S. Cavagnero.  “Contribution of Long-Range Interactions to the Secondary Structure of an Unfolded Globin.”  Biophys. J. 2010, 99, L37-L39.

• J. P. Ellis, P. H. Culviner and S. Cavagnero.  “Confined Dynamics of a Ribosome-Bound Nascent Globin: Cone Angle Analysis of Fluorescence Depolarization Decays in the Presence of Two Local Motions.”  Protein Sci. 2010, 19, 1600.

• D. R. Ziehr, J. P. Ellis, P. H. Culviner and S. Cavagnero.  “Production of Ribosome-Released Nascent Proteins with Optimal Physical Properties.”  Analyt. Chem. 2010, 82, 4637-4643.

• D. Staveness, S. Gately and R. West.  “Synthesis of lipophilic sila derivatives of N-acetylcysteinamide, a cell permeating thiol. U. I. Zakai,G. Bikzhanova.”  Applied Organomet. Chem. 2010, 24, 189-192.

• A. Mitra, J.-C. Brodovitch, C. Krempner, P. W. Percival, P. Vyas and R. West.  “A Silyl Radical formed by Muonium Addition to a Silylene.”  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 2893-2895. 

• L. Zhang, L. Lyons, J. Newhouse, Z. Zhang, M Straughan, Z. Chen., K. Amine, R. Hamers and R. West.  “Synthesis and Characterizaton of Alkylsilane Ethers with Oligoethylene Oxide Substituents for Safe Electrolytes in Lithium-Ion Batteries.”  J. Mater Chem. 2010, 20, 8224-8226.

2009

• Y. H. A. Lau, D. J. Chernak, M. J. Bierman, S. Jin.   “Formation of PbS Nanowire Pine Trees Driven by Screw Dislocations.”  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131, 16461-16471.

• C. A. Nelson, C. A. J. R. Szczech, Q. Xu, M. J. Lawrence, S. Jin, Y. Ge.  “Mesoporous Metal Oxide Nanomaterials Effectively Enrich Phosphopeptides for Mass Spectrometry-based Phosphoproteomics.”  Chem. Commun. 2009, 6607-6609.

• Y. H. A. Lau, D. J. Chernak, M. J. Bierman, S. Jin.  “Epitaxial Growth of Hierarchical PbS Nanowires.”  J. Mater. Chem., 2009, 19, 934-940.

• J. P. Ellis, P. H. Culviner and S. Cavagnero.  “Confined Dynamics of a Ribosome-Bound Nascent Globin: Cone Angle Analysis of Fluorescence Depolarization Decays in the Presence of Two Local Motions.”  Protein Sci. 2009, 18, 2003-2015.

• B. Mounce, N. Kurt, P. A. Ellison and S. Cavagnero.  “Nonrandom Distribution of Intramolecular Contacts in Native Single-Domain Proteins.”  Proteins, Struct. Funct. Bioinf. 2009, 75, 404-412.

• Brett R. Bodsgard, Robert W. Clark, Anthony W. Ehrbar, Judith N. Burstyn.  “Silica-bound copper(II)triazacyclononane as a phosphate esterase: Effect of linker length and surface hydrophobicity.”  Dalton Trans. 2009, 2365-2373. 
  

• Andrea J. Lee, Robert W. Clark, Hwan Youn, Sarah Ponter, Judith N. Burstyn.  “Guanidine Hydrochloride-Induced Unfolding of the Three Heme Coordination States of the CO-Sensing Transcription Factor, CooA.”  Biochemistry, 2009, 48, 6585-6597.

• Allen, C. P., Benkovics, T., Turek, A. K., Yoon, T. P. "Oxaziridine-Mediated Intramolecular Amination of sp³-Hybridized C-H Bonds."  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 12560-12561.

• Matthew J. Allen, Kittikhun Wangkanont, Ronald T. Raines, and Laura L. Kiessling.  "ROMP from ROMP: A new approach to graft copolymer synthesis."  Macromolecules  2009, 42, 4023–4027.

• Matthew D. Shoulders, Kimberli J. Kamer, and Ronald T. Raines.  "Origin of the stability conferred upon collagen by fluorination."  Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 2009, 19, 3859–3862.

• Rex T. Watkins, Luke D. Lavis, Vanessa M. Kung, Georgyi V. Los, and Ronald T. Raines.  "Fluorogenic affinity label for facile, rapid imaging of proteins in live cells."  Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2009, 7, 969–975.

• Kelly L. Gorres, Khian Hong Pua, and Ronald T. Raines.  "Stringency of the 2-His–1-Asp active-site motif in prolyl 4-hydroxylase."  PLoS ONE 2009, 4, e7635.

• M. Nippe, E. Victor and J. F. Berry. “Oxidation Chemistry of Axially Protected Mo₂ and W₂ Quadruply Bonded Compounds.” Inorg. Chem. 2009, 48, 11889-11895.

• J. S. Pap, J. Snyder, P. Piccoli and J. F. Berry.  “Chloro and Azido Diruthenium Complexes Bearing Electron-Rich N,N’,N”-Triphenylguanidinate Ligands.”  Inorg. Chem. 2009, 48, 9846-9852.

• M. W. Capp, L. M. Pegram, R. M. Saecker, M. Kratz, D. Riccardi, T. Wendorff, J. G. Cannon, and M. T. Record, Jr.  “Interactions of the osmolyte glycine betaine with molecular surfaces in water: Thermodynamics, structural interpretation, and prediction of m-values.”  Biochemistry, 2009, 48, 10372-10379.

• Susan M. Brastad, Daniel R. Albert, Mingwei Huang, and Gilbert M. Nathanson.  “Collisions of DCl with a Solution Covered with Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Ions: Tetrahexylammonium Bromide in Glycerol.”  Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2009, 113, 7422.

• B. M. Mowery, A. M. Lindner, B. Weisblum, S. S. Stahl and S. H. Gellman.  "Structure-Activity Relationships Among Random Nylon-3 Copolymers that Mimic Antibacterial Host-Defense Peptides."  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 9735.

• B. M. McCollum, J.-C. Brodovitch, Jason A. C. Clyburne, P. W. Percival and R. West.  “Detection of a secondary muoniated radical.”  Physica B : Cond. Matter, 2009, 404, 940-942.

• A. Mitra, J. P. Wojcik, D. Lecoanet, T. Mueller and R.West.  “A Bis(silaselenone) with Two Donor-Stabilized Si=Se Bonds from an Unexpected Stereoconvergent Hydrolysis of a Diselenadisiletane.”   Angew. Chem, Int. Ed.  2009, 48, 4069-4072.

2008

• M. Nippe, E. Victor and J. F. Berry.  “Do Metal-Metal Multiply Bonded “Ligands” Have a trans Influence? Structural and Magnetic Comparisons of Heterometallic Cr=Cr···Co and Mo=Mo···Co Interactions”  Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2008, 5569-5572.

• Amanda C. Jones, Aaron W. Sanders, William H. Sikorski, Kristin L. Jansen, Hans J. Reich.  “Reactivity of the Triple Ion and Separated ion pair of Tris(trimethylsilyl)methyllithium with Aldehydes - a RINMR Study.”  J. Am. Chem. Soc.  2008, 130, 6060-6061.

• Melissa M. Yatzeck, Luke D. Lavis, Tzu-Yuan Chao, Sunil S. Chandran, and Ronald T. Raines.  "A highly sensitive fluorogenic probe for cytochrome P450 activity in live cells."  Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 2008, 18, 5864–5866.

• Y. Chi, L. Guo, N. Kopf and S. H. Gellman.  "Enantioselective Organocatalytic Michael Addition of Aldehydes to Nitroethylene:  Efficient Access to γ²-Amino Acids."  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 5608.

• J. P. Ellis, C. K. Bakke, R. N. Kirchdoerfer, L. M. Jungbauer and S. Cavagnero.  “Chain Dynamics of Nascent Polypeptides Emerging from the Ribosome.”  ACS Chem. Biol. 2008, 3, 555-566.

• N. Kurt, B. Mounce, P. A. Ellison and S. Cavagnero.  “Residue-Specific Contact Order and Contact Breadth in Single-Domain Proteins: Implications for Folding as a Function of Chain Elongation.”  Biotech. Progr. 2008, 24, 570-575.

• Y.-J. Eun, N. Kurt, A. Sekhar and S. Cavagnero.  “Thermodynamic and Kinetic Characterization of ApoHmpH, a Fast-Folding Bacterial Globin.”  J. Mol. Biol. 2008, 376, 879-897. 

• I. S. Toulokhonova, V. I Timokhin, D. N. Bunck, T. Mueller, I Guzei and R. West.  “Silylene and Germylene Intermediates in the Reactions of Silole and Germole Dianions with N,N’-di-tert-butylethylenediamine.”  Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2008, 2344-2349.

•  L. Zhang, Z. Zhang, S. Harring, M. Straughan, R. Butorac, L. Lyons, Z. Chen, K. Amine and R. West.  “Highly Conductive Trimethylsilyl Oligo(Ethylene Oxide) Electrolytes for Energy Storage Applications.”  J. Materials Chem. 2008, 18, 3713 – 3717.  

•  B. M. McCollum, T. Abe, J.-C Brodovitch, J. A. C. Clyburne, T. Iwamoto, M. Kira, P. W. Percival and R. West.  “Probing the reactivity of a stable silene using muonium.”  Angew. Chem. 2008, 50, 9772-4.

2007

• P. A. Bonvallet, C. J. Breitkreuz, Y. S. Kim, E. M. Todd, K. Traynor, C. G. Fry, M. D. Ediger and R. J. McMahon.  "Organic Glass-Forming Materials:  1,3,5-Tris(naphthyl)benzene Derivatives." J. Org. Chem.  2007, 72, 10051-10057.

• R. Jeremy Johnson, Shawn R. Lin, and Ronald T. Raines.  "Genetic selection reveals the role of a buried, conserved polar residue."   Protein Science  2007, 16, 1609–1616.

• Joseph B. Binder, Jacqueline J. Blank, and Ronald T. Raines.  "Olefin metathesis in homogeneous aqueous media catalyzed by conventional ruthenium catalysts."  Organic Letters  2007, 9, 4885–4888.

• Stephen M. Fuchs, Thomas J. Rutkoski, Vanessa M. Kung, Ryan T. Groeschl, and Ronald T. Raines.  "Increasing the potency of a cytotoxin with an arginine graft."  Protein Engineering, Design & Selection  2007, 20, 505–509.

• E. B. Hadley, A. M. Witek, F. Friere, A. J. Peoples and S. H. Gellman.  "Thermodynamic Analysis of β-Sheet Secondary Structure Via Backbone Thioester Exchange."  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 7056.

• Y. Chi, E. P. English, W. C. Pomerantz, W. S. Horne, L. A. Joyce, L. R. Alexander, W. S. Fleming, E. A. Hopkins and S. H. Gellman.  "Practical Synthesis of Enantiomerically Pure β²-Amino Acids via Proline-Catalyzed Diastereoselective Aminomethylation of Aldehydes."  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 6050.

• R. N. Kirchdoerfer, J.-T. Huang, M. K. Isola and S. Cavagnero.  “Fluorescence-Based Analysis of Aminoacyl- and Peptidyl-tRNA by Low-pH Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate-Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis.”  Analyt. Biochem. 2007, 364, 92-94.
  

• L. A. Leites, G. I . Magdanurov, S. S. Bukalov, S. P. Nolan, N. M. Scott and R. West.  “Vibrational and Electronic spectra and the Electronic Structure of an unsaturated Arduengo-type carbene.”  Mendeleyev Comm. 2007, 17, 92.

• Y. Liu, S. A. Steiner III, C. W. Spahn, I. A. Guzei, I. Touokhonova and R. West.  “A Stable, Highly Fluorescent Vinylogous Beta-Diketonate Silicon Complex.”  Organometallics, 2007, 26, 1306.

• R. Hamers, K.-Y. Tse, L. Zhang, S. Baker, B. Nichols, and R. West.  “Vertically aligned carbon nanofibers coupled with organosilicon electrolytes: electrical properties of a high-stability nanostructured electrochemical interface.”  Chem. Mater. 2007, 19, 5734.

2006

• P. A. Ellison and S. Cavagnero.  “Role of Unfolded State Heterogeneity and En-route Ruggedness in Protein Folding Kinetics.”  Protein Sci. 2006, 15, 564-582.

• C. K. Chow, N. Kurt, R. M. Murphy and S. Cavagnero.  “Structural Characterization of Apomyoglobin Self-Associated Species in Aqueous Buffer and Urea Solution.”  Biophys. J. 2006, 90, 298-309.

• R. Jeremy Johnson, Shawn R. Lin, and Ronald T. Raines.  "A ribonuclease zymogen activated by the NS3 protease of the hepatitis C virus."  FEBS Journal  2006,  273, 5457–5465.

• Robert W. Clark, Nicholas D. Lanz, Andrea J. Lee, Robert L. Kerby, Gary P. Roberts, and Judith N. Burstyn.  “Unexpected NO-dependent DNA Binding by the CooA Homolog from C. hydrogenoformans.”  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2006, 103, 891-896. 

• I. S. Toulokhonova, D. R. Friedrichsen, N. J. Hill, T. Mueller and R. West.  “Unusual reaction of 1,1-dilithio-2,3,4,5-tetraphenylsilole with 1,3-dienes.”  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 2006, 45, 2578.

• W. Li, N. J. Hill, A. C. Tomasik, G. Bikzhanova and R.West.  “A new monomeric saturated silylene as a racemic mixture.”  Organometallics, 2006, 25, 3802.

2004

• S. Rajagopalan, C. K. Chow, C. Fry, V. Ragunathan and S. Cavagnero.  “NMR Spectroscopic Filtration of Polypeptides and Proteins in Complex Mixtures.”  J. Biomol. NMR, 2004, 29, 505-516.

2003

• C. C. Chow, C. K. Chow, V. Rhagunathan, T. Huppert, E. Kimball and S. Cavagnero.  “Chain Length Dependence of Apomyoglobin Folding: Structural Evolution from Misfolded Sheets to Native Helices.”  Biochemistry, 2003, 42, 7090-7099.