Several chemistry research students have had the opportunity to publish in peer-reviewed journals. Below you will find a list of their most recent publications. UTC Student authors are in bold.
Past Years: 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000
2008
"A Convenient Synthesis of Platinum(II) and Palladium(II) Dichloro Complexes with Thiacrown Ligands"; Grant, G.J.; Inorganic Syntheses, 2008, in review.
"Hg(II) and Cd(II) Complexes with Mixed Donor Macrocyclic Thioethers: The Oxophobicity of Mercury(II)"; Grant, G.J.; Botros, M.E.*; Hassler, J.S.* Janzen, D.E.; Grapperhaus, C.A.; O'Toole, Martin G. VanDerveer, D.G.; Polyhedron, 2008, in review.
"Contrasting Arsine and Phosphine Coordination Behavior: Heteroleptic Palladium(II) Complexes with Triphenylarsine and a Crown Thioether"; Grant, G.J.; Biggers, D.E.*; VanDerveer, D.G.; Main Group Chemistry, 2008, in press.
"Cyclometallated Pt(II) and Pd(II) Complexes with a Trithiacrown Ligand"; Janzen, D.E.; VanDerveer, D.G.; Mehne, L.F.; da Dilva Fihlo, A.A.; Bredas, J.-L.; Grant, G.J.; J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 2008, 1872-1882.
"Rapid liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry method for the determination of a broad mixture of pharmaceuticals in surface water." Conley J. M, Symes S. J., Kindelberger S. A., and Richards S. M. J. Chromatogr. A, 2008, 1185, 206 – 215.
"The age of the martian meteorite Northwest Africa 1195 and the differentiation history of the shergottites." Symes S. J. K, Borg L. E., Shearer C. K. and Irving A. J. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2008, 71, 1696 – 1710.
“Evaluation of molecular mechanics calculated binding energies for isolated and monolayer organic molecules on graphite”. Thomas R. Rybolt, Christina Wells, Charles Sisson, Claire Black, and Katherine Ziegler, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 2007, 314, 434-445
“Fixation of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide by a Cadmium(II) Macrocyclic Complex”; Janzen, D.E.; Botros, M.E.; VanDerveer, D.G.; Grant, G.J.; J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans. 2007, 5316-5321.
Burnette, E. B., Gant, R., Meyer, G.M., Santiago, M.F. “Regulation of Pyrimidine Catabolism in Pseudomonas lemonnieri ATCC 12983,” Journal of Undergraduate Chemistry Research, 2006, 1, 9-13.
Brooks, Timothy; Bodkin, Tom E.; Potts, Gretchen E. and Stephanie A. Smullen. Elemental Analysis of Human Cremains Using ICP-OES to Classify Legitimate and Contaminated Cremains. J. For. Sci. 2006, 51, 967 – 973.
Easparam, Sarah; Potts, Gretchen E. Elemental Analysis of Shiitake Mushrooms by ICP-OES. J. Underg. Chem. Res. 2006, 5, 83 – 87.
Thomas R. Rybolt, Katherine A Ziegler, Howard E. Thomas, Jennifer L. Boyd, Mark E. Ridgeway, “Adsorption energies for a nanoporous carbon from gas-solid chromatography and molecular mechanics” Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 296: 41-50 (2006).
Thomas R. Rybolt, Rachael A. Hansel, “Determining molecule-carbon surface adsorption energies using molecular mechanics and graphene nanostructures” Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 300: 805-808 (2006).
Thomas R. Rybolt, Christina E. Wells, Charles R. Sisson, Claire B. Black, Katherine A. Ziegler, “Evaluation of molecular mechanics calculated binding energies for isolated and monolayer organic molecules on graphite.” Journal of Colloid and Interface Science in press (2007).
Janzen, D.E.; Patel, K.N.; VanDerveer, D.G.; Grant, G..J.; “Synthesis and Structure of a platinum(II) molecular square incorporating four fluxional thiacrown ligands: The crystal structure of [Pt([9]aneS 3) 4(4,4’-bipy) 4](OTf) 8”; Chem. Comm., 2006, 3540-3542.
Janzen, D.E.; Chen, W.; VanDerVeer, D.G.; Grant, G.J. "Synthesis and Structural Studies of Ruthenium(II) 12S4 Complexes with 4,4'-Bipyridine: The Crystal Structures of [Ru(12S4)(bpy)Cl](Cl).H2O and [{Ru(12S4)Cl}2-m-(bpy)](PF6)2 . 2 CH3CN"; Inorg. Chem. Commun. 2006, 9, 929-925.
Janzen, D.E.; Botros, M.E.; Helton, G.P.; VanDerveer, D.G.; Grant, G.J."1,4,10,13-Tetraoxa-7,16-diazoniacyclooctadecane bis(hexafluorophosphate): Hexafluorophospate acting as a Pseudohalide"; Acta Cryst. E, 2006, 62 (4), o1550---o1552.
Janzen, D.E.; Patel, K.P.; VanDerveer, D.G.; Grant, G.J "Pi-Pi Interactions in Diimine Pt(II) complexes with Thiacrown Ligands: The Crystal Structure of (1,4,7-trithiacyclononane)(3,4,7,8-tetramethyl-1,10-phenanthroline)platinum(II) Hexafluorophosphate; Journal of Chemical Crystallography Chemistry 2006, 36, 83.
Grant, G.J.; Hill, L.L.; Helm, M.L.; VanDerveer, D.G."Multinuclear NMR Studies on Homoleptic Thioether Complexes of Cadmium(II)"; J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans. 2006, 3534.
Erika L. Milczek, Laura Palmiero, Sarah L. Sewell and Kyle S. Knight. "Reduction of secondary alkyl bromides by palladium catalysts containing chelating diphosphine ligands. Transition Metal Chemistry, 2006, 31, 27-29.
“Degradation of Pyrimidines by Pseudomas syringae.” Gant, R. L.; Hacker, M. L.; Meyer, G. M.; and Santiago, M. F. Res. J. Microbiology, 2007 2(11), 851.
“Regulations of Pyrimidine Catabolism in Pseudomonas lemonnieri ATCC 12983.” Burnette, E.C.; Gant, R.; Meyer, G. M.; and Santiago, M. F. J. Under. Chem. Res. 2006, 1, 9.
Thomas Waddell and Thomas Rybolt (15 Chemical Adventures of Sherlock Holmes stories) translated by Professeur Paul Depovere into French and published in Europe (Dunod Publishers, Paris, France, 2006) under the title "L'affaire des cristaux jaunes et autres énigmes, 15 mystères chimiques résolus par Sherlock Holmes" ("The business of the yellow crystals and other enigmas, 15 chemical mysteries solved by Sherlock Holmes").
Helm, M.L.; Helton, G.P; VanDerveer, D.G.; Grant, G.J. "199-Hg NMR Chemical Shifts in Thiacrown and Related Macrocyclic Complexes" Inorganic Chemistry, 2005, 44, 5696.
Grant, G.J.; Lee, J.P.; Helm, M.L.; VanDerveer, D.G.; Pennington, W.T.; Mehne, L.F; Klinger, D.W. "Synthetic, Electrochemical, and Structural Studies of Mixed Sandwich Rh(III) and Ir(III) Complexes Involving Cp* and Tridentate Macrocycles"; Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2005, 690, 629-639.
Grant, G.J.; Chen, W.; Goforth, A.M.; Baucom, C.L.; Patel, K.; Repovic, P.; VanDerveer, D.G.; Pennington, W.T."Anion and Solvent Effects Upon the Structures of Platinum(II) Complexes with Thiacrown Ligands*"; European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2005, 479-485.
Lauren A. Beihoffer, Robert A. Craven, Kyle S. Knight, Charles R. Sisson and Thomas G. Waddell. "Pyridinium chlorochromate (PCC) oxidation of bishomoallylic tertiary alcohols. A structure–reactivity study." Transition Metal Chemistry, 2005, 30, 582–585.
Mebane, Robert C.; Mansfield, A. J. Transfer hydrogenation of aldehydeswith 2-propanol and Raney nickel. Synthetic Communications (2005), 35, 3083-3086.
Grant, Gregory J.; Patel, Ketankumar N.; Helm, Monte L.; Mehne, Larry F.; Klinger, David W.; VanDerveer, Donald G. Heteroleptic platinum(II) complexes with crown thioethers and diimine ligands: the crystal structures of [Pt(9S3)(2,2'-bipy)](PF6)2 and [Pt(9S3)(4,4-dimethyl-2,2'-bipy)](PF6)2 × 2.5CH3NO2. Polyhedron (2004), 23(8), 1361-1369
Grant, Gregory J.; Goforth, Andrea M.; VanDerveer, Donald G.; Pennington, William T. Homoleptic platinum(II) and palladium(II) complexes of 1,5,9-trithiacyclododecane: the crystal structures of [Pt(12S3)2](PF6)2×2CH3NO2 and [Pd(12S3)2](BF4)2×0.5H2O. Inorganica Chimica Acta (2004), 357(7), 2107-2114.
Rybolt, Thomas R.; Janeksela, Vanessa E.; Hooper, Dana N.; Thomas, Howard E.; Carrington, Nathan A.; Williamson, Eric J. Predicting second gas-solid virial coefficients using calculated molecular properties on various carbon surfaces. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (2004), 272(1), 35-45.
Mebane, Robert C.; Jensen, David R.; Rickerd, Kerry R.; Gross, Benjamin H. Transfer hydrogenation of nitriles with 2-propanol and Raney nickel. Synthetic Communications (2003), 33(19), 3373-3379.
Grant, Gregory J.; Pool, Jaime A.; VanDerveer, Donald G. Chiral effects on a fluxional ligand: Chiral diphosphine platinum(II) complexes with thiacrowns. Dalton Transactions (2003), (20), 3981-3984.
Monte L. Helm, Kristi D. Loveday, Charles M. Combs, Elizabeth Bentzen, Donald G. VanDerveer, Robin D. Rogers and Gregory J. Grant, “Heavy Metal Complexes of Macrocyclic Trithioethers” J. Chem. Cryst., Accepted for publication. (Invited contribution for special issue on PUI crystallography research.)
Helm, Monte L.; Loveday, Kristi D.; Combs, Charles M.; Bentzen, Elizabeth L.; VanDerveer, Donald G.; Rogers, Robin D.; Grant, Gregory J.. Crown thioether complexes of heavy metal ions. II. Heavy metal complexes of macrocyclic trithioethers. Journal of Chemical Crystallography (2003), 33(5/6), 447-455.
Thompson, Lawrence C.; Knight, Kyle S.; Pennington, William T. Synthesis and structure of 4-R,5-R-[5-(hydroxy-diphenyl-methyl)-2,2-dimethyl-[1,3]dioxolan-4-yl]-phenyl-methanone, a chiral ligand building block. Journal of Chemical Crystallography (2003), 33(5/6), 403-407.
Abbott, Abbie R.; Thompson, Jason; Thompson, Lawrence C.; Knight, Kyle S.. Dehalogenation of alkyl halides catalyzed by single-enantiomer complexes of titanium. Transition Metal Chemistry (Dordrecht, Netherlands) (2003), 28(3), 305-307.
Mebane, Robert C.; Grimes, Kimberly D.; Jenkins, Summer R.; Deardorff, Jonathan D.; Gross, Benjamin H. Deiodination of iodolactones by transfer hydrogenolysis using Raney nickel and 2-propanol. Synthetic Communications (2002), 32(13), 2049-2054.
Waddell, Thomas G.; Arp, Nathan W.; Bodine, Kyle D.; Pagni, Richard M. The guaiol color reaction. Planta Medica (2002), 68(10), 949-950.
Helm, Monte L.; Combs, Charles M.; VanDerveer, Donald G.; Grant, Gregory J.. Homoleptic Group 12 metal complexes of macrocyclic thioethers: the crystal structures of bis(1,4,7-trithiacyclodecane)M(II) perchlorate: M(II)=zinc(II), cadmium(II), mercury(II). Inorganica Chimica Acta (2002), 338 182-188
Adams, Richard D.; Perrin, Joseph L.; Mitchell, Andrea B.; Grant, Gregory J.. Useful reagents and ligands. A convenient synthesis of 1,5,9,-trithiacyclododecane (S3C9H18). Inorganic Syntheses (2002), 33 119-121.
Grant, Gregory J.; Galas, David F.; Poullaos, Ivan M.; Carter, Shawn M.; VanDerveer, Donald G. Synthetic and structural studies of heteroleptic platinum(II) complexes containing crown trithioether and diphosphine ligands. Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions (2002), (15), 2973-2980.
Grant, Gregory J.; Galas, David F.; VanDerveer, Donald G. Heteroleptic platinum(II) complexes with crown thioether and phosphine ligands: the crystal structures of [Pt(9S3)(PPh3)Cl](PF6)×CH3NO2 and [Pt(10S3)(PPh3)Cl](PF6). Polyhedron (2002), 21(8), 879-884.
Schanley, Shannon A.; Rybolt, Thomas R.; Rhodes, Danielle A. Solvent-accessible surface area as a predictor of local anesthetic activity. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science (2001), 76(2), 49-52.
Rybolt, Thomas R.; Hooper, Dana N.; Stensby, Jessica B.; Thomas, Howard E.; Baker, Mitchell L., Jr. Molar Refractivity and Connectivity Index Correlations for Henry's Law Virial Coefficients of Odorous Sulfur Compounds on Carbon and for Gas-Chromatographic Retention Indices. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (2001), 234(1), 168-177.
Gross, B. H.; Mebane, R. C.; Armstrong, D. L. Transfer hydrogenolysis of aromatic alcohols using Raney catalysts and 2-propanol. Applied Catalysis, A: General (2001), 219(1-2), 281-289.
Patel, B. B.; Waddell, T. G.; Pagni, R. M. Explaining photodermatosis: cyclopentenone vs. a-methylene-g-lactone natural products. Fitoterapia (2001), 72(5), 511-515.
Grant, Gregory J.; Brandow, Christopher G.; Bruce, Chrystal Williams; Bryant, Mark A.; Kirk, Rebecca M.; Lee, Sabrina D.; Rickerd, Kerry R.; Mehne, Larry F. Metal binding studies with macrocyclic hexathioethers: transition metal complexes of 22S6 and 20S6. Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry (2001), 38(6), 1281-1289.
Grant, Gregory J.; Carter, Shawn M.; LeBron Russell, A.; Poullaos, Ivan M.; VanDerveer, Donald G. Synthetic, electrochemical, and structural studies on heterobimetallic crown thioether complexes with Group 10 metals: the crystal structures of [Pt(9S3)(dppf)](PF6)2×CH3NO2 and [Pd(9S3)(dppf)](PF6)2×CH3NO2. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry (2001), 637-639 683-690.
Grant, Gregory J.; Brandow, Christopher G.; Galas, David F.; Davis, Jaime P.; Pennington, William T.; Valente, Edward J.; Zubkowski, Jeffrey D. Heteroleptic platinum(II) complexes of macrocyclic thioethers and halides: the crystal structures of [Pt(9S3)Cl2], [Pt(9S3)Br2], and [Pt(9S3)I2]. Polyhedron (2001), 20(28), 3333-3342.
Grant, Gregory J.; Poullaos, Ivan M.; Galas, David F.; VanDerveer, Donald G.; Zubkowski, Jeffrey D.; Valente, Edward J. Heteroleptic Platinum(II) Complexes with Crown Thioether and Phosphine Ligands I: Crystal Structures of [Pt(9S3)(dppm)](PF6)2 and [Pt(9S3)(PPh3)2](PF6)2×2CH3NO2. Inorganic Chemistry (2001), 40(3), 564-567.
Grant, G. J.; Shoup, S. S.; Baucom, C. L.; Setzer, W. N. Complexation and conformational analysis studies of 11-membered ring crown trithioethers. Inorganica Chimica Acta (2001), 317(1,2), 91-102.
Waddell, Thomas G.; Eilders, Lon L.; Patel, Bipin P.; Sims, Michael. Prebiotic methylation and the evolution of methyl transfer reactions in living cells. Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere (2000), 30(6), 539-548.
Grant, G. J.; Jones, M. W.; Loveday, K. D.; VanDerveer, D. G.; Pennington, W. T.; Eagle, C. T.; Mehne, L. F. Transition metal complexes with macrocyclic oxathiaethers. Inorganica Chimica Acta (2000), 300-302 250-263.
