Chemistry Department Diploma Ceremony 2007

May 20, 2007 • 2:00 PM
May Room, Wilson Commons

Patrick Caruana, Ph.D.

I. Pd(II)- and Hg(II)- Catalyzed Rearrangement of Propargyl Acetates; II. Progress Toward the Synthesis of Terpestacin

Ke Chen, Ph.D.

Approaches Towards Total Synthesis of Nakadomarin A

Shenghua Duan, Ph.D.

Applying Oligonucleotide Microarray in Determining RNA Secondary Structure

Megan Hahn, Ph.D.

Development of Functionalized Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystal Quantum Dots as Selective Labels for a Pathogenic Bacterium

Wei He, Ph.D.

Development of Polarized Nazarov Cyclizations Using Lewis Acid Catalysts and Application

Libai Huang, Ph.D.

Ultrafast Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Gabriel Kapur, Ph.D.

Studies Directed Toward the Total Synthesis of (-)-Apoptolidin

Ravinder Kaur, Ph.D.

Conformational Changes of Nitrosomonas Europaea Cytochrome c552

Li Liu, Ph.D.

Gas Phase Ion-Molecule Reaction Dynamics Studied with Crossed Beams and Density Functional Theory Calculations

Brian McNaughton, Ph.D.

The Development of Methods in Static and Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry and Application

Shanlin Pan, Ph.D.

Surface Plasmon Resonance Enhanced Photoluminescence and Applications in Organic Electronics

Ryan Phillips, Ph.D.

The Development of Catalytic, Asymmetric Interrupted Feist-Benary Reactions

Xinyi Song, Ph.D.

Asymmetric Synthesis of Bisphosphonate Antiosteoporetic Agents and Studies of Asymmetric Organocatalysis

Yuchen Tang, Ph.D.

Versatile Stereoselective Synthesis of Carbocyclic Compounds Through Electrocyclic Ring Closure Reactions