JMU chemistry student and faculty publications and conference presentations 2001

“Applications of luminescent transition platinum group metal complexes to sensor technology and molecular probes,” Demas, J. N.; DeGraff, B. A., Coordination Chemistry Reviews 2001, 211, 317-351.

“An automated approach to luminescence lifetime and intensity titrations,” Mack, N. H.; Bare, W. D.; Xu, W.; Demas, J. N.; DeGraff, B. A., Journal of Fluorescence 2001, 11, 113-118.

“Comparison of conventional, confocal, and two-photon microscopy for detection of microcrystals within luminescence-based oxygen sensor films,” Kneas, K. A.; Demas, J. N.; DeGraff, B. A., Jr.; Periasamy, A., Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering 2001, 4262 (Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences), 89-97.

“Highly efficient pH-induced intramolecular quenching of luminescence in rhenium complexes containing the hydroxypyridine ligand,” Bare, W. D.; Mack, N. H.; Demas, J. N.; DeGraff, B. A., Jr., Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering 2001, 4199 (Water, Ground, and Air Pollution Monitoring and Remediation), 1-7.

"Influence of Substrate Surface Chemistry on the Binding of DNA-RecA Protein Complexes," Butler, B. C.; MacDonald, G.; Augustine, B. H., Journal of Young Investigators 2001. 3.

“Na8[Zn4Ge8O18(OH)12]×2H2O: An interrupted-framework zincogermanate built from [GeO3(OH)] and [Ge2(OH)2] units,” Reisner, B. A.; Tripathi, A.; Parise, J. B. Journal of Materials Chemistry 2001, 11, 887-890.

“New method of rapid luminescence lifetime determination using square-wave excitation,” Chan, S. P.; Fuller, Z. J.; Demas, J. N.; Ding, F.; DeGraff, B. A., Applied Spectroscopy 2001, 55, 1245-1250.

“Optimized Gating Scheme for Rapid Lifetime Determinations of Single-Exponential Luminescence Lifetimes,” Chan, S. P.; Fuller, Z. J.; Demas, J. N.; DeGraff, B. A., Analytical Chemistry 2001, 73, 4486-4490.

“Photoinduced DNA Cleavage by Cyclopentadienyl Metal Complexes Conjugated to DNA Recognition Elements,” Hurley, A. L.; Maddox, M. P., III; Scott, T. L.; Flood, M. R.; Mohler, D. L., Organic Letters 2001, 3, 2761-2764.

“Reaction between bis-(2,4-pentanedionato) copper and water vapor,” Vestal, C. R.; DeVore, T. C., Proceedings - Electrochemical Society 2001, 2001-12 (High Temperature Corrosion and Materials Chemistry III), 285-295.

“The reaction between 1,2-dichloroethane and the vanadium (III, IV, V) oxides,” Sumner, J. P.; DeVore, T. C., Proceedings - Electrochemical Society 2001, 2001-12 (High Temperature Corrosion and Materials Chemistry III), 296-308

“Self-assembly of phosphonate monolayers on GaAs and GaN,” Hughes, W. C.; Koh, S. E.; Augustine, B. H.; Polefrone, J. M., Proceedings - Electrochemical Society 2001, 2001-1 (III-Nitride Based Semiconductor Electronics and Optical Devices and Thirty-Fourth State-of-the-Art-Program on Compound Semiconductors, 2001), 213-217.

“Synthesis of 3-substituted dialkyl 2-aroyl-2-ethylcyclopropane-1,1-dicarboxylates by the Reformatskii reaction,” Shchepin, V. V.; Tryastsin, A. A.; Shchepin, R. V.; Kalyuzhnyi, M. M.; Lewis, S. B., Russian Journal of Organic Chemistry (Translation of Zhurnal Organicheskoi Khimii) 2001, 37, 1596-1599.

“Use of In-situ atomic force microscopy to monitor the biodegradation of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs),” Rossini, C. J.; Arceo, J. F.; McCarney, E. R.; Augustine, B. H.; Dennis, D. E.; Flythe, M. D.; Baron, S. F. Macromolecular Symposia 2001, 167 (Recent Advances in Scanning Probe Microscopy of Polymers), 139-151.

"A Difference Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopic Study of Nucleotide Binding to RecA." Owusu-Asiedu, G.; MacDonald, G., Presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Lexington, KY, 2001.

"Effects of caged nucleotides on single-stranded DNA-Dependent ATPase Activity of Escherichia coli RecA Protein,” Hanchett, R.; MacDonald, G., Presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Lexington, KY, 2001.

"An Infrared Study of the Structural Changes Induced by ADP Binding to RecA in a High Salt Environment," Drown, P. M.; Schwartz, C. M.; MacDonald, G., Presented at the FASEB summer conference on Genetic Recombination and Chromosome Rearrangements, Snowmass, Colorado, 2001.

"An Infrared Study of the Structural Changes Induced by Nucleotide Binding to RecA," Butler, B.C.; Owusu-Asiedu, G.; Hanchett, R.; Rafailov, H.; MacDonald, G., Presented at the Biophysical Society Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, 2001.

"An Infrared Study of the Structural Changes Induced by Nucleotide Binding to RecA," Butler, B.C.; Hanchett, R.; Rafailov, H.; Owusu-Asiedu, G.; Firkin, I.; MacDonald, G. Presented at the FASEB summer conference on Genetic Recombination and Chromosome Rearrangements, Snowmass, Colorado, 2001.