Columbia University Dissertations: Dissertations

Chemistry: Dissertations

2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996 - 1995 - 1993

2007 DISSERTATIONS

Greeley, Burnham H. (2007) Improvements to the pseudospectral electronic structure method and experimental protein model initiation

Redmond, Peter (2007) Noble metal nanoparticles : optical forces, electrochemical Ostwald ripening, and photovoltage

2006 DISSERTATIONS

Ben-Porat, Chaya Henya (2006) Electrostatic force microscopy study of the charge and polarizability of semiconducting and metallic nanocrystals

Cook, Silas (2006) The biomimetic total synthesis of (±)11-O-Debenzoyltashironin

Cummings Sarah (2006) Electrophilic attack on Zr-C bonds and rate and mechanism of zirconaaziridine enantiomer interconversion

Dukovic, Gordana (2006) Electronic spectra of carbon nanotubes : excitonic states, chemical doping, and chiral interactions

Godula, Kamil (2006) Development of C-H bond functionalization based solution to diverse synthetic problems

Hackman, Blaine Motove (2006) Strained silacycles : new reagents for asymmetric allylation and crotylation of aldehydes and ketones/

Horoszewski, Dana (2006) Synthesis and structural properties of hydrogen-bonded triphenylenes and bent acenes

Huang, Xuhui (2006) Theoretical and computational studies of hydrophobic effects at large length scales

Klare, Jennifer (2006) Assembling cruciforms for molecular electronics applications

Lombardi, Pamela (2006) Strained silacycles in the development of new asymmetric reactions

Pastine , Stefan James (2006) Design and exploration of different approaches to a common goal : catalytic C-H functionalization

Petros, Amy Kathryn (2006) Modeling thiolate-rich metalloprotiens using the Ferredoxin Maquettes : analysis of Co(II) and [4Fe4s]²⁺ʹ⁺ binding to IGA

Petros, Robby Allen (2006) The role of organoZr/organoA1 dimmers in olefin polymerization and enantioselective carboalumination

Rabbat, Philippe (2006) Asymmetric allylation of imines with strained silacycle reagents and ; Toward the rapid synthesis of the C1-C9 fragment of the epothilones by tandem silylformylation-crotylsilylation

Tam, Iris Wing Yu (2006) Efforts towards the synthesis of a symmetrical cyclopropenyl anion ; Synthesis and characterization of oligothiophenes as candidates for single molecule conductance studies

Tulevski, George (2006) Integration of molecular self-assembly with nanoscale organic electronics and the development of new metal-molecule couping chemistry

Wang, Yiliang (2006) Bridging nanoscale devices with functional molecular wires

Yee, Dominic Jason (2006) New fluorogenic reporters for imaging the activities of redox enzymes in living cells

Yun, Heedong (2006) Part I, Total synthesis of panaxytriol and its biological evaluations in Drug Discovery Program. Part II, Development of 'Homo-Robinson' annulation and its synthetic application to Guanacastepene A. Part III, Progress towards the total synthesis of Xestocy

Zhou, Wen-jun (2006) Asymmetric transamination with chiral polyamines and polymeric vitamin B6 enyzme mimics

2005 DISSERTATIONS

Biscoe, Mark (2005) Hydrophobically-directed selective reductions and oxidations

Bolshakov, Sergey (2005) Total synthesis of (+)-SCH 351448

Breen, Nicholas (2005) Studies of photochemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization in photosynthetic bacterial reaction centers : wavelength and time dependence

Bushey, Mark (2005) Hydrogen bonding discotic liquid crystals : synthesis, self-assembly, and molecular recognition

Fang, Zhenglai (2005) Regioselective hydroxylation of steroids with artifical cytochrome P-450 enzymes

Franz, Roberto (2005) Mechanistic insight into the photooxidation of enecarbamates ; Catalytic functionalization of terminal unactivated C-H bonds ; Design of smart materials ; Synthesis of cross polymerisable photoprotected functional macromonomers

Guan, Hairong (2005) Ruthenium-catalyzed ionic hydrogenation of iminium and aziridinium cations

Huang, Danmei (2005) Structural studies on the regulation of cytokine signaling : Pim-1 protein kinase and SOCS proteins

Huang, Lei (2005) Solid state NMR spectral properties and partial sequential assignment of a membrane protein, the light harvesting complex 1(LH1)

Jovanovic, Tijana (2005) Substrate binding to cytochrome P450 BM-3 : temperature and redox dependence

Kim, Byungchan (2005) Polarizable force field for proteins and efficient sampling

Li, Xin (2005) Advances in high resolution protein structure modeling

Lorieau, Justin (2005) Protein dynamics : solid-state NMR and computational studies

Miao, Qian (2005) Creating new building blocks for organic electronics : synthesis, assembly and devices

Nguyen, Kim (2005) Second harmonic generation studies of molecular motions at membrane mimetic interfaces

Reedy, Charles (2005) Heme-binding thermodynamics of designed proteins : implications on the nature of cytochromes

Sezen, Bengü (2005) Development of selective and catalytic arylation methods for sp² and sp³ C-H bonds in complex organic molecules

Shuman, Nicholas (2005) Evaluating models of reaction dynamics

Tan, Zhongping (2005) Substrate plasticity of the ribosomal biosynthetic machinery

Tang, Lihao (2005) Scope and mechanism of chain transfer catalysis with metalloradicals and metal hydrides

Tao, Haiyan (2005) Directed glycosynthase evolution via chemical complementation

Varga, Krisztina (2005) Membrane protein secondary structure and special assignments by solid state NMR : S. Lividans KcsA potassium channel and E. coli ATP synthase subunit c

Wang, Xiaolun (2005) Strained silacycles in organic synthesis : the tandem aldol-allylation/aldol-aldol reaction and their asymmetric variations

Wang, Zhigang (2005) Syntheses and applications of some helicene derivatives ; Conservation of helical asymmetry : an electronic theory for molecular chirality and chiral interactions

Yan, Ping (2005) Fluorescent molecular switches, sensors, and nanostructures based on perylene diimide

Zheng, Shengping (2005) The formal synthesis of ecteinascidin 743

Zhu, Guang (2005) Transformations relevant to hydrodenitrogenation as modeled by reactions of trimethylphosphine molybdenum compounds

Zhuang, Jinyou (2005) Investigation of the effects of non-natural amino acids and hemes in de novo heme protein design

2004 DISSERTATIONS

Althoff, Eric (2004) Engineering ligand-receptor interactions using a bacterical three-hybrid system

Bai, Xiaopeng (2004) Design and synthesis of photocleavable nucleotide analogues for DNA sequencing and analysis

Berger, Richard (2004) The enantioselective allylation of aldehyde and ketone derived acylhydrazones using strained silacycles : a study of reactivity and mechanism

Carter, Brian (2004) Characterization and applications of the dexamethasone-methotrexate yeast three-hybrid system

Castagner, Bastien (2004) Studies toward an asymmetric total synthesis of the Phomoidrides

Chen, Gong (2004) Development of epoxide probes for protein labeling & development of fluorescent reporter substrate probes for oxidoreductases

Fishkin, Nathan (2004) Bioorganic studies of rhodopsin and the visual cycle

Gross, Benjamin (2004) Three dimensional structure determination for single crystal and uniaxially aligned amino acids by magic angle spinning solid-state NMR

Hamblett, Christopher (2004) A total synthesis of leucascandrolide A ; Efforts toward a synthesis of phomactin A ; The first silicon-based Lewis acid catalyst that achieves high enantioselectivity

Harder, Edward (2004) Development and application of methods for analysis and efficient simulation of biomolecular systems/

Heid, Richard (2004) Progress towards the total synthesis of cribrostatin 4

Jaracz, Stanislav (2004) Bioorganic studies on ginkgolides

Krane, Sonja (2004) Physiologically active natural products ; Ligand structure-activity relationships in G protein-coupled receptor signaling

Liu, Lei (2004) Vitamin B6 enzyme models : from small molecules to macromolecules

Liu, Ruchuan (2004) Single molecule spectroscopy and scanning probe microscopy of electron transfer

O'Malley, Steven (2004) Tandem alkyne silylformylation-allylsilylation reactions and studies toward a total synthesis of Dolabelide B/

Sengupta, Debleena (2004) Development of a general method for assaying protein activity in vivo ; Efforts toward the conversion of a penicillin-binding protein into a beta-lactamase by rational design and directed evolution

Tang, Jing (2004) Nanocrystals :b synthesis. phase transformation and self-assembly

Yu, Zhiyun (2004) The development of implicit solvent models and their applications

Zhou, Zhiyong (2004) Electronic structure of silicon nanostructures and carbon nanotubes : a density functional theory (DFT) study

2003 DISSERTATIONS

DiBlasi, Christine (2003) Studies toward a total synthesis of phomactin A : a tandem ring-closing metathesis approach/

Gherman, Benjamin (2003) Using quantum mechanics (QM) and mixed quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) methods to study reaction mechanisms in enzymes

Goldberg, Shalom (2003) Combinatorial scanning mutagenesis of a class C beta-lactamase ; Studies toward the directed evolution of a penicillin-binding protein into a beta-lactamase

Igumenova, Tatyana (2003) Assignment of uniformly 13C-enriched protein and optimization of their carbon lineshapes

Jiang, Jiang (2003) Raman spectroscopy of single molecules on noble metal nanoparticles

Krauss, Isaac (2003) Highly regioselective diastereoselective directed hydroformylation of allyl ethers ; Highly practical and enantioselective ligands for Cu-catalyzed conjugate addition

Lin, Hening (2003) Development and application of chemical complementation : a high-throughput assay for enzyme evolution and proteomics

Liu, Zhiqiang (2003) Characterization of zeolite external surface area using electron paramagnetic resonance ; End labeling efficiency in the atom transfer radical polymerization of styrene

Maliakal, Ashok (2003) Measuring chain length dependent rate constants in activation and diffusion controlled polymer end-end reactions ; Effects of electron exchange rates and structure on relaxivity in polynitroxides

Moreira, Rayane (2003) Studies towards catalytic site-selective C-H activation ; A combinatorial approach to atom transfer catalyst discovery

Siu, Tony (2003) The total synthesis of heliquinomycin aglycone ; The total synthesis of lactonamycin aglycone

Vyklický, Libor (2003) Syntheses of helicene derivatives and studies of their material properties

Werblowsky, Tova (2003) Self-assembly at the theoretical-experimental interface : computer simulations of organic systems on graphite/

Wilson, David (2003) Helical templating of oligopeptides by cyclodextrin-based receptors ; Cracking the histone code : oligopeptides as selective agents in histone deacetylase inhibition

Zacuto, Michael (2003) Tandem silylformylation-allylsilylation reactions for the synthesis of polyketides

Zhang, Fei (2003) Long-range transmission of stereochemical information in matched and mismatched aldol reactions - the third generation total synthesis of deoxyepothilone F ; An efficient stereospecific total synthesis of dl-sesquicillin, a glycocorticoid antagonist ; Stud

2002 DISSERTATIONS

An, Yuling (2002) Homology-based protein structure prediction : fold recognition and alignment

Atkins, Joshua (2002) Cyclodextrin-based receptors for peptide recognition ; Molecular determinants of flecainide action on the human cardiac sodium channel

Bernacki, Katarzyna (2002) Multiple-scale methods in Monte Carlo and Langevin dynamics simulations for sampling the conformational space of condensed-phase systems

Churchill, David (2002) The Ansa effect in permethylmolybdenocene and permethyltungstenocene chemistry

Hornberger, Keith (2002) The total synthesis of leucascandrolide A ; Studies directed toward the total synthesis of ingenol

Leivers, Martin (2002) Mimics of bimetallic phospatases ; Retro-Diels-Alder approach to a symmetrical cyclopropenyl anion

Papish, Elizabeth (2002) Kinetics and thermodynamics of proton and hydrogen atom transfer from transistion metal hydrides : mechanistic implications and catalytic applications

Yablon, Dalia (2002) Some self-assembly required : scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) investigations of chiral systems at the liquid-solid interface

2001 DISSERTATIONS

Belvedere, Sandro (2001) Histone deacetylase inhibitors : new agents for cancer chemotherapy ; Strategies towards an artificial cytochrome P450

Bergquist, Catherine (2001) Zinc aqua and alkoxide complexes : models of zinc enzymes ; Estimation of the Br0nsted acidity of aquatris(perfluorophenyl)borane

Bio, Matthew (2001) Studies toward a total synthesis of CP-263,114

Crystal, Joseph (2001) Ab initio quantum chemical calculations of the kenetics and energetics of electron transfer reactions

Ge, Guanglu (2001) Phase diagram and diffusion of nanocrystals in two-dimension

Groves, Kevin (2001) Approaches to the synthesis of a symmetrical cyclopropenyl anion ; hydrophobic effects on organic displacement reactions in water

Johnson, James (2001) Platinum mediated C-H bond activation in the synthesis of natural products

Krilov, Goran (2001) Equilibrium dynamics in dissipative quantum systems through numerial analytic continuation

Leung, David (2001) Cyclodextrin dimers and trimers in peptide binding, protein inhibition, and photodynamic cancer therapy ; Studies toward synthesis of a stable symmetrical cyclopropenyl anion

Magee, Matthew (2001) Stoichiometric, catalytic and enantioface-selective hydrogenation of carbon-nitrogen double bonds by an ionic mechanism

Phillips Karen (2001) Synthesis and properties of an aggregating heterocyclic helicene and its derivatives-comparison to related structures

Sarraf, Stella (2001) Carbonylation-based methods for the synthesis of skipped polyols

Seiser, Natalie (2001) Angular momentum constraints in the quenching of molecules with chemically significant amounts of energy : size matters!

Song, Xiang-jin (2001) NMR studies of low barrier hydrogen bonds : models for enzyme active sites

Stern, Harry (2001) Polarizable potential energy functions for molecular simulation

Xu, Huafeng (2001) New Methods to accelerate biomolecular simlulations and their applications

Yang, Jerry (2001) Regioselective oxidations of steroids and steroid analogs using artificial cytochrome P-450 enzymes

Zhou, Bishan (2001) Studies towards the total syntheses of biologically active natural products : eleutherobin ; Ecteinascidin 743

2000 DISSERTATIONS

Abramo, Graham (2000) Kinetics, mechanism, and applications of hydrogen atom transfer from transition-metal hydrides

Dunietz, Barry (2000) Application and development of multi-configurational localized perturbation theory and the study of methane monooxygenase enzymatic reaction cylce

Eyrich, Volker (2000) Protein tertiary structure prediction via global optimization of reduced model potential energy functions

Gershell, Leland (2000) Sequence-selective recognition of peptides ; Novel cytodifferentiating agents for cancer therapy

Han, Ming (2000) In situ investigation of surface chemistry for chemically driven atomic layer epitaxy of II-VI Semiconductor thin films

Lee, Hyerim (2000) Structure and confrontational dynamics in paramagnetic substances : analysis of hyperfine and quadrupolar interactions in solid-state NMR

Liu, Yan (2000) Studies of colloidal particles by second harmonic generation

Michaels, Amy (2000) Surface-enhanced raman spectroscopy at the single molecule level

Pan, Zhengying (2000) Synthesis of macrocyclic arms and highly sequence selective receptors ; design and construction of a resin-bound reverse peptide library and studies towards understanding Vancomycin's binding property

Paruch, Kamil (2000) Efficient synthesis, resolution, and functionalization of helicenes

Peshkovsky, Alexey (2000) NMR spectroscopy in the presence of strong AC electric fields

Picconatto, Carl (2000) The dynamics of the photodissociation of HCI dimer and state-to-state reactions of hydrogen atoms with linear alkanes

Rozovsky, Sharon (2000) Triosephospate isomerase : timescale of catalytic loop motion in relation to the reaction rate limiting step

Srivastava, Abneesh (2000) State-to state dynamics of the reaction of atomic hydrogen with cyclic alkanes

Tunge, Jon (2000) Synthesis of [alpha]-amino acid esters. Dynamic kenetic resolution of zirconaaziridines with an optically active co₂ synthon ; Mechanism of [alpha]-amino amidine formation from zirconaaziridines and carbodiimides

Willis, Michael (2000) Synthetic studies of 2-aminoimidazole-based Agelas alkaloids

Yan, Elsa Chui-Ying (2000) Second-harmonic generation as a surface probe for colloidal particles

Yu, Zhonghua (2000) Optical properties of individual bundles of single-wall carbon nanotubes : Fano Raman line shape and reversible doping effect

1999 DISSERTATIONS

Cao, Yixiang (1999) High performance of the pseudospectral method in modern quantum chemistry

Chen, Wei (1999) Applications of optical spectroscopy in supramolecular systems : probing the interactions between DNA and dendrimer ; characterization of metal complexes and their interactions with DNA

Chen, Xiao-Tao (1999) Total syntheses of biologically active natural products : complex oligasaccharides, eleutherobin, tricycloillicinone

Dreher, Spencer (1999) Applications of the Russig-Laatsch reaction of helicenes and the synthesis of nonracemic heterohelicenes

Edinger, Shlomit (1999) The computation of solvation energy and gradients using a Poisson-Boltzmann continuum solver : applications to protein geometry optimization and binding

Fang, Kan (1999) New photoaffinity labeling protocol for studying ligand-receptor interactions

Frontier, Alison (1999) I. Total synthesis of hispidospermidin ; II. An [alpha],[alpha prime]-annulation of enamines ; III. Studies toward the synthesis of frondosin B

Ghosh, Avijit (1999) The surface generalized born model : theory and applications

Golosov, Andrei (1999) Reduced quantum dynamics in condensed phase

Guo, Jinsong (1999) Structural studies on bioactive natural products : cardaic glycosides and polyene macrolides

Hascall, Antony (1999) (I) Oxidative addition reactions of trimethylphosphine complexes of molybdenum and tungsten ; (II) Metal complexes of bulky calixarene ligands

Hetényi, Balázs (1999) Orientational phase transitions in the quantum anisotropic planar rotor model

Huang, Xuefei (1999) I. Porphyrins in structural studies by circular dichroic spectroscopy ; II. Spectroscopy studies of neurologically active philanthotoxins

Iorio, Edward James (1999) Chemosensors and chemosensor libraries for tripeptides

Karatekin, Erdem (1999) Dynamics of free radical polymerization

Kawamura, Akira (1999) I. Microscale stereochemical analyses of sphingolipids and brassinostroids ; II. On the structure and physiology of endogenous ouabain

Kim, Hyunjin (1999) Syntheses of tumor related carbohydrate antigens : KH- 1 and N3

Kimblin, Clare (1999) Bis and tris- imidazole and thioimidazole complexes as zinc enzyme models

Lee, Hyosun (1999) Synthesis, structure and reactivity of [Me2Si] bridged permethylzirconocene and permethyltitanocene complexes

Li, Wei (1999) Multinuclear solid state NMR and EPR studies of dibenzyl ketones and benzocyclobutene adsorbed on MFI zeolites

Liu, Ying (1999) Bioorganic studies on philanthotoxin and nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

Mayer, Miriam (1999) I. Pyridoxal-Apoenzyme minics designed for transimination and selective racemization ; II. effects of organic cosolvents on nucleophilic aliphatic substitution (SN̳2) reactions in water

Meng, Dongfang (1999) The first total syntheses of epothilones A, B. C and D ; the first total syntheses of 12-epi-CP-263,114 and 12-epi-CP-225,917

Nesnas, Nasri (1999) I. Cyclodextrin dimers as artificial receptors for selective binding of steroids ; II. The design and synthesis of esterase enzyme mimics and studies directed towards cocaine binding and detoxification via hydrolysis

Sevy, Eric (1999) The competition between photochemistry and energy transfer : high resolution laser probes of CO₂ collision products and HCN photoproducts produced by highly vibrationally excited azabenzenes

Thongpanchang, Tienthong (1999) Mechanism of helicene resolution ; Studies on water soluble helicenes

Wei, Yufeng (1999) Solid State NMR studies of histidine : implications for enzymatic catalysis

Yang, Zhiwei (1999) Cyclodextrins as artificial receptors for steroids, peptides, and photosensitizers

1998 DISSERTATIONS

Astrof, Nathan (1998) Dynamics of ribonuclease H from Thermus thermophilus studies by NMR chemical shifts and spin relaxation

Beachy, Michael (1998) Parallelization and applications of pseudospectral electronic structure theory

Chiosis, Gabriela (1998) Use of non-biased combinatorial libraries in search of leads for selective and efficient cleavage of DAlaDLac, depsipetide found in the cell wall of vancomycin resistant bacteria, cyclization of an epoxy-alcohol to the energetically disfavored product

Dong, Steven (1998) Imidazole buffer catalyzed RNA cleavage and isomerization ; Bifunctionalized cyclodextrin enzyme mimics

Fang, Hongbin (1998) Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) studies of the structure, dynamics and reactions of long chain hydrocarbon molecules at the liquid-solid interface

Fox, Joseph (1998) Synthesis of conjugated helical polymers, cyclophanes, mental complexes and phthalocyanines

Ghosh, Prasenjit (1998) Structural analogs of zinc enzymes and related studies of poly(pyrazolyl)hydroborato complexes

Gurevich, Alejandra (1998) Mechanistic studies of surface reactions : reaction of halogenated hydrocarbons on metal surfaces and growth of thin oxide films

Jiang, Hong (1998) Structural studies of biologically active natural products

Kisko, Jennifer Lee (1998) Multiple bonding of titanium and vanadium to the heavier chalcogens and synthesis of four-coordinate phenyltris(3-t-butylpyrazolyl)borato iron methyl and carbonyl species

Kwon, Ohyun (1998) Studies in syntheses of the natural products

Landis, Margaret (1998) The photo-Arbuzov reaction of cyclic phosphite systems

Lou, Jihong (1998) Structure and functional of retinal proteins studied by artificial pigments incorporating synthetic retinoids

Melander, Christian (1998) Catalysis by ribonucleosides, synthesis of 5-(†-D-ribofuranosyl)-pyridin-2-one, and the hydratable nature of amino aldehydes

Nuckolls, Colin (1998) Aggregation of conjugated helical molecules

Olofson, Anne Squire (1998) Synthesis of Agelas alkaloids : oroidin, the dispacamides and mauritiamine

Philipp, Dean (1998) Mixed ab initio quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics methods using frozen orbitals with applications to peptides and proteins

Rapp, Chaya (1998) Prediction of protein loop geometries using a generalized born model of solvation effects

Shao, Yuefei (1998) Studies on synthetic receptors and receptor Libraries

Standley, Daron (1998) Protein tertiary structure prediction by constrained and unconstrained energy minimization

Tan, Qiang (1998) Chemistry and biology of retinal proteins

1997 DISSERTATIONS

Depew, Kristopher Medchill (1997) The total synthesis of the ardeemins, tryprostatin B and calichearubicins A and B

Dong, Jian-Guo (1997) Structural studies by the exciton chirality method : circular dichroism and fluorescence detected circular dichroism (FDCD)

Eng, Joseph (1997) The study of surface reactions using vibrational spectroscopy : hydrocarbons on carbide-modified Mo(110) surfaces and oxidation precursors on Si(100) surfaces

Evenzahav, Ariella (1997) Viewing biologically significant systems through photochemical looking glass : I] novel photorearrangement of enediynes ; II] Photophysical investigation of a compound associated with macular degeneration

Fasella, Elisabetta (1997) Pyridoxamine - cyclodextrin conjugates as transaminase minics

Huang, Ying (1997) Study of selective aldol condensations directed by artificial enzymes ; study of hydroxylations catalyzed by cytochrome P-450 enzyme mimics

Kuchta, Matthew Cornyn (1997) Multiple bonding to the heavy p-block elements : syntheses, structure and reactivity of terminal chalcogenido complexes of gallium, indium, germanium and tin

Liu, Kai (1997) NMR study of paramagnetic solids

Michaels, Chris A. (1997) The collisional relaxation of highly vibrationally exited molecules : glimpses of the energy transfer mechanism and distribution function

Ng, Fay Wah (1997) Studies directed towards a total synthesis of gelsemine

Polenova, Tatyana (1997) Conformational analysis of pharmaceutical suramin free and in the presence of its target receptors by solution NMR : What we learned from and about transferred Noesy

Radkov, Emil Vergilov (1997) Single site derivatives of a plenary Keggin polyoxometalate

Rickman, Barry Harrison (1997) Structural studies by excition-coupled CD : novel methods and approaches utilizing powerful porphyrin chromophores

Sun, Dong-Hong (1997) Surface chemistry study of the direct synthesis of methylchlorosilanes : reaction of methyl + chlorine monolayers on copper silicide surfaces

Teplyakov, Andrew Vladimirovich (1997) Bonding and reactions of hydrocarbons and their fragments on single crystal surfaces of cooper and copper-platinum alloy : identification of surface intermediates and reaction mechanisms

Tsonchev, Stefan Ivanov (1997) The binary collision model for quantum Brownian motion

Webb, Yael (1997) Rational design, synthesis and mechanistic studies of novel inducers of differentiation in transformed cells - a new approach to cancer therapy ; Mechanistic studies on the buffer-catalyzed cleavage and isomerization of uridyl-uridine

Xu, Ying-zi (1997) Synthesis of 2-aminoimidazole marine alkaloids

Zhang, Yu (1997) Ab initio quantum chemical study electron transfer processes in the photosynthetic reaction center and scanning tunneling microscopy

Zhao, Xuemei (1997) Recognition and mechanistic aspects of E. coli tRNA pseudouridine synthase I

Zhou, Ruhong (1997) Novel methods for efficient sampling of conformation space of proteins

1996 DISSERTATIONS

Chihade, Joseph Walter (1996) Determinants for [subscript t] RNA modification by E. coli pseudoridine synthase I.

Felts, Anthony Keith (1996) Reduced-model applications in quantum and classical biomacromolecular systems

Gallicchio, Emilio (1996) Quantum dynamics in condensed phases by maximum entropy analytic continuation of euclidean time path integrals

Gu, Zhengtian (1996) Hydrogen bonding in biological systems : what solid state NMR can tell

Mainz, Daniel Timothy (1996) Electronic structure methods on large systems : algorithmic improvements and application in an automated parameterization of polarizable force fields

Maletic, Milana (1996) Selective binding and catalysis by monooxygenase enzyme mimics

Ni, Hong (1996) Position sensitive translational spectroscopy

Rezac, Miroslav (1996) Artificial cobalamin-dependent enzymes

Serafin, Joseph Martin (1996) Vibrational predissociation dynamics of the HCI dimer

Shin, Jun Ho (1996) Syntheses, structures and reactivity of permethyltantalocene and tert-butylmolybdenocene derivatives

Wang, Hongfei (1996) Second harmonic generation studies of chemistry at liquid interfaces

Wennemers, Helma (1996) Encoded combinatorial chemistry : a tool for the study of selective intermolecular interactions

Xu, Ruo (1996) Study of the mechanism of RNA cleavage ; Design, synthesis and catalytic studies of the enzyme P-450 mimics

1995 DISSERTATIONS

Mishra, Bimalenmdu (1995) Friction on the bond and the vibrational relaxation in simple liquids

1993 DISSERTATIONS

Cheng, Liao-Ping (1993) Mechanism of microporous membrane formation by precipitation of semicrystalline polymers

Halfon, Sherin (1993) I. Binding and catalysis by -cyclodextrin dimers. II. Effects of anti-hydrophobic agents on binding of -cyclodestrin dimers

Hollinger, Frank Peter (1993) I. Design and synthesis of peptide binding macrocyclic molecules. II. Design and implementation of a continuum solvent model appropriate for molecular mechanics calculations

Jafri, Tariq Mumtaz (1993) Analysis of critical heat flux for vertical round tubes

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