Patrick Williamson (Class of ’16)
Rapid Urinary Tract Infection Diagnostics by Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS): Identification and Antibiotic Susceptibilities SERS spectra of 12 bacterial strains of urinary tract infection (UTI) clinical isolates grown and enriched from urine are reported. A partial least squares-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) classification treatment of these SERS spectra results in strain level identification with >95% sensitivity and >99% specificity. The classification […]
Amanda Arnoff (Class of ’17)
On the Way to a Trisanionic {Cu3O2} Core for Oxidase Catalysis: Evidence of an Asymmetric Trinuclear Precursor Stabilized by Perfluoropinacolate Ligands CuI complexes of the form K[(R3P)Cu(pinF)], in which (pinF)2− is the bidentate, oxygen‐donating ligand perfluoropinacolate, were synthesized and characterized. Low‐temperature oxygenation of the K[(R3P)Cu(pinF)(PR3)] species resulted in a trisanionic bis(μ3‐oxo) trinuclear copper(II,II,III) core characterized […]
Anna Impastato (Class of ’15), Jaime A. Duque (REU ’15)
Halocyclizations and Cycloisomerizations of Bisaryl 1,6-Diynes, Kyle R. Strom, Anna C. Impastato, Jaime A. Duque, and John K. Snyder, HeteroCycles, 2017, 95(2), 1184-1196 N-Sulfonamide tethered bisaryl 1,6-diynes underwent cyclization in the presence of Ga(III) trihalide to give mixtures of halocyclization (HC) and Friedel-Crafts (FC) cycloisomerization products. The ratio of products was found to be dependent […]