The Virginia Section of the American Chemical Society

and the Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia

Undergraduate Research Poster Session

Thursday, April 15, 2004 – 5 – 7 pm

  

Bret Adams, Dan Callahan, Bill Cooper, Adam Greenblatt, Rob Miller, Stuart Clough and John Gupton

Department of Chemistry, University of Richmond

“The Application of Suzuki Type Cross-Coupling Reactions to 3-Chloroenals and Related Substances”

  

Stephen M. Akers, Jeremy L. Conkle, Stephanie N. Thomas, and Keith B. Rider.

Department of Chemistry, Longwood University

“Determination of the Heat of Combustion of Biodiesel: A Unique Undergraduate Physical Chemistry Experiment”

 

D.H. Arney and H.J. Sipe Jr.

Department of Chemistry, Hampden-Sydney College

“Modified ESR Field Sweep Pulse-train for Triggering Analog-to-Digital Conversion”

 

Wesley B. Atkins and Erich E. Brumbaugh

Chemistry Department, Bridgewater College

“Enthalpy of Mixing: Alcohol/Water and Alcohol/Alcohol Solutions”

James Blackburn, Gram Praytor, Henry Sanders and Kevin Dunn

Department of Chemistry, Hampden-Sydney College

“Synthesis, Optimization and Characterization of a Toluidine Dye”

 

L.E. Blackmer, E.M. Hairfield and H.H. Hairfield Jr.

John Baker Daffin Laboratory of Chemistry, Mary Baldwin College

“Decomposition of Tertiary Alcohols”

Kyra Blaino and Elizabeth Hairfield

John Baker Daffin Laboratory of Chemistry, Mary Baldwin College

“Water Analysis: A Suitable Sample for Calcium and Iron Determination in Chemistry 214”

Tim Caramore, Evan Chalk, Rob Miller, Stuart Clough and John Gupton

Department of Chemistry, University of Richmond

“Progress on the Application of Vinolygous Iminium Salts to the Synthesis of Pyrrole Containing Marine Natural Products”

 

Jerilyn Crabill, E.M. Hairfield and H.H. Hairfield Jr.

John Baker Daffin Laboratory of Chemistry, Mary Baldwin College

“The Derivatives of Martius Yellow Known as the Martius Yellow Synthesis”

 

Yuliana Del Arroyo, E.M. Hairfield and H.H. Hairfield Jr.

John Baker Daffin Laboratory of Chemistry, Mary Baldwin College

“Kinetic Study of the Conversion of cis into trans Fatty Acids in Oils by Heating”

 

David Driscoll, Adepeju Ligali, Scott Annett, Alisa Hewitt, Matthew Hudson, Edward Jackson, Matthew Roberts, Seann Mucahy, Heather Petruzzi, Robert Miller, Rene Kanters, Bradley Norwood, Stuart Clough and John Gupton

Department of Chemistry, University of Richmond

“Reactions of 3-aryl-3-chloropropenals with Nucleophiles: Stereoselective Formation of Vinylogous Esters, Vinylogous Amides, and Vinamidinium Salts”

 

Ashley R. Faust, E.M. Hairfield and H.H. Hairfield Jr.

John Baker Daffin Laboratory of Chemistry, Mary Baldwin College

“Characterization of Natural Resins Using FT-IR and Principal Component Analysis”

 

Robert George and Paul H. Mueller

Department of Chemistry, Hampden-Sydney College

“Can a Pyrrolobenzodiazepine Catalyze Baylis-Hillman Reactions?”

 

Elizabeth M. Griffiths and Leanna C. Giancarlo

Department of Chemistry, Mary Washington College

“Infrared Reflectance-Absorbance Spectroscopy of the Temperature Dependence of Liquid-Crystal Adsorption on Graphite”

 

Sarah Hatfield and Vladimir Garkov

John Baker Daffin Laboratory of Chemistry, Mary Baldwin College

“Purification and Enzyme Kinetics of Lactate Dehydrogenase”

 

Casandra L. Hernandez, Mitchell E. Johnson, Jerome P. Ferrance, Shannon H. Cole, Jay Hirsch and James P. Landers

Departments of Chemistry, Biology and Pathology, University of Virginia

“Solid Phase Extraction Preconcentration of Biogenic Amines”

 

C.D. Jaques, N.A. Stasko and H.J. Sipe Jr.

Department of Chemistry, Hampden-Sydney College

“Assembly, Calibration, and Testing of an ENDOR Spectrometer”

 

Adepeju Ligali, David Driscoll, Alisa Hewitt, Matthew Hudson, Matthew Roberts, Seann Mulcahy, Ivanka Kamenova, Robert Miller, Rene Kanters, Bradley Norwood, Stuart Clough and John Gupton

Department of Chemistry, University of Richmond

“Conversion of 3-aryl-3-haloenals to 5-aryl-2,4-pentadienoates and 5-aryl-2-penten-5-ynoates”

 

Jesica Mangun and Kelli Slunt

Department of Chemistry, Mary Washington College

“Study of Bis-naphthalimide Compounds and Their Interactions with DNA”

 

Daniel W. Mullen, Allen Clague, and Elizabeth Hairfield

John Baker Daffin Laboratory of Chemistry, Mary Baldwin College and Virginia Panel Corporation, Waynesboro Va.

“Evaluation of the Recovery of Gold from Drag-out Solutions Using Strong Base Ion Exchange Resins”

 

Tinh Nguyen and Leanna C. Giancarlo

Department of Chemistry, Mary Washington College

“Competitive Self-Assembly of Mixed Carboxylic Acids on Graphite Investigated by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy”

 

Tyler L. St. Clair and Roy F. Gratz

Department of Chemistry, Mary Washington College

“Synthesis  of a Diamine Monomer for Piezoelectric Polymers”

 

Aaron Skeen, Mithilesh Adhikari and Paul H. Mueller

Department of Chemistry, Hampden-Sydney College

“Computational Exploration of Transition States of Michael Additions of Selected Baylis-Hillman Catalysts to Methyl Acrylate

 

Marissa Solomon and Raymond Dominey

Department of Chemistry, University of Richmond

“A Novel Monomer for a New Robust Osmotically Active Polymer: Synthesis and Oligomerization of 1,8-dihydroxynaphthalene Derivatives

 

Krystle Stewart, Armin Ebner*, James Ritter*, Karen Daniel and Ralph C. Gatrone

Department of Chemistry and Physics, Virginia State University and *University of South Carolina

“Ferromagnetic Drug Delivery”

 

S. Wiese, D.K Williams and H.J. Sipe Jr.

Department of Chemistry, Hampden-Sydney College

“N-Acetylcysteine Does Not Discharge the Acetaminophen Phenoxyl Radical”