Transforming Science & Engineering Education

Joint Meeting of the

EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates

in SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS

&

THE CENTRAL STATES UNIVERSITIES, INCORPORATED (csui)

RESEARCH CONFERENCE

November 2-3, 2007
ABSTRACTS:  TITLES, TIMES AND LOCATIONS

 

 

 

Session 1:  Analytical Chemistry, Inorganic and Organic

                     Chemistry, and Organometallic Chemistry

 

 

Friday, November 2

Analytical Chemistry                                      Building 401, Room A5000

 

Session Chair:       Niina Ronkainen

                              Benedictine University

12:30PM

       1. 

AN ANALYSIS OF THE ARSENATE ANION AND SIMILAR OXOANIONS USING RAMAN AND SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY (SERS), Kristen Leckrone*, Shreya Adhikari, Roosevelt University, Department of Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences, Chicago, IL 60605, kleckron@roosevelt.edu

12:45PM

       2. 

INVESTIGATING TECHNIQUES TO QUANTIFY SOLUBLE STARCH, Laura Nennig, Hilary Smith, Jenan Kharbush, Masanori Iimura*, Ripon College, Department of Chemistry, Ripon, WI 54971, iimuram@ripon.edu

1:00PM

       3. 

A GLUCOSE OXIDASE-MODIFIED ROTATING DISK ENZYME ELECTRODE DEVELOPMENT AND OPTIMIZATION, Angela A. Peverly, Niina J. Ronkainen-Matsuno*, Benedictine University, Department of Chemistry, Lisle, IL 60532, NRonkainen@ben.edu

 

 

Friday, November 2

Inorganic and Organic Chemistry               Building 401, Room A5000

 

Session Chairs:     Cheryl Mascarenhas                              Ali M. Khounsary

                              Benedictine University                          Argonne National Laboratory

  1:15 PM

       4. 

SYNTHESIS OF THIOPHENE BASED AMPC β-LACTAMASE PROBES, Uma J. Mishra1, Chris J. Davis1, Robert P. Smart*1, William Schroeder1, Rachel L. Kubiak2, Jenna M. Tomlinson2, Rachel A. Powers1,2, Grand Valley State University1, Department of Chemistry, Allendale, MI 49401, Grand Valley State University2, Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences, Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, smartr@gvsu.edu

  1:30 PM

       5. 

NOVEL BIPOLAR PLATE FOR POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS, Lilia Santos1, Richard Jarman*1, J. David Carter2, Suhas Niyogi2, College of DuPage1, Department of Chemistry, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137, Argonne National Laboratory2, Argonne, IL 60439, jarman@cod.edu

  1:45 PM

       6. 

SYNTHESIS OF BIODIESEL WITH NANO-CRYSTALLINE OXIDES OF MAGNESIUM, ALUMINUM AND TITANIUM, Max C. Peterson, Richard Narske*, Augustana College, Department of Chemistry, Rock Island, IL 61201, RichardNarske@augustana.edu

 


 

Friday, November 2

Inorganic and Organic Chemistry (cont'd) Building 401, Room A5000

  2:00 PM

       7. 

NUCLEOPHILIC SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS USING HECTORITE CLAY IN TRIPHASE CATALYSIS, Eunice Ngure, Reza Dehghanipour, Keivan Sadrerafi, Sadegh Khazaeli*, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, Department of Chemistry, Edwardsville, IL 62026, skhazae@siue.edu

  2:15 PM

       8. 

ORGANOCATALYSIS: SYNTHESIS OF ORGANOCATALYSTS AND ASYMMETRIC ROBINSON ANNULATIONS, Sarah E. St. John, A. Rich, K. Lazarski, Cheryl M. Mascarenhas*, Benedictine University, Department of Chemistry, Lisle, IL 60532, cmascarenhas@ben.edu

  2:30 PM

       9. 

SYNTHESIS OF GLYCOCONJUGATES TO DETECT TOXINS AND PATHOGENS, Henry Korman, Ashish A. Kulkarni, Suri S. Iyer*, University of Cincinnati, Department of Chemistry, Cincinnati, OH 45221, iyersi@email.uc.edu

  2:45 PM

   10. 

STUDIES OF A SUPERELECTROPHILIC HETEROCYCLE, Matthew J. Tokarz, Andrew P. Malanchuk, Douglas A. Klumpp*, Northern Illinois University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, DeKalb, IL 60115, dklumpp@niu.edu

  3:00 PM

 

BREAK

  3:15 PM

   11. 

A NEW SYNTHESIS AND REACTIONS OF TRICHLOROMETHYL KETONES, April Buckley, Harold W. Pinnick*, Purdue University Calumet, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Hammond, IN 46323, Pinnickh@calumet.purdue.edu

  3:30 PM

   12. 

AZA-NAZAROV REACTION AND THE ROLE OF SUPERELECTROPHILES, Matthew J. O’Connor1, Douglas A. Klumpp*1, Yiliang Zhang1, Pierre M. Esteves2, Leonardo Silvia de Almeida2, Northern Illinois University1, Department of Chemistry, DeKalb, IL 60115, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro2, Cidade Universitaria, Instituto de Quimica, CT Bloco A, 21949-900, Rio de Janerio-RJ, Brazil, dklumpp@niu.edu

  3:45 PM

   13. 

THE SUCCESS OF PERFORMING A SOLUBILITY EXPERIMENT, Soumya Gupta, Nancy Newman, Joseph Bularzik*, Purdue University Calumet, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Hammond, IN 46323, Bularzik@calumet.purdue.edu

 

 

Friday, November 2

Organometallic Chemistry                            Building 401, Room A5000

 

Session Chairs:     Cheryl Mascarenhas                              Ali M. Khounsary

                              Benedictine University                          Argonne National Laboratory

  4:00 PM

   14.             

D ORBITAL EFFECT UPON THE AROMATICITY OF METALLACYCLOBUTADIENES, Tom Knisley, Dan B. Lawson*, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Department of Natural Sciences, Dearborn, MI 48128, dblawson@umich.edu

  4:15 PM

   15.             

INVESTIGATION INTO SULFUR-RICH TRANSITION METAL COMPLEXES, Bryan P. Nell, Masanori Iimura*, Ripon College, Department of Chemistry, Ripon, WI 54971, iimuram@ripon.edu

 


 

Friday, November 2

Organometallic Chemistry (cont'd)             Building 401, Room A5000

  4:30 PM

   16.