2012 Conference

Program

Morning Session

A1 Expedient Synthesis of a 72-Membered Isoxazolino-beta-ketoamide Library by a 2·3-Component Reaction

John Knapp, Jie “Jackson” Zhu, Alex B. Wood, Mark J. Kurth.

B1 Measuring Triacylglycerol Content and Enzyme Activity in Microalgae to Improve Lipid Production for Biofuels

Catherine Pham, Lisa A. Anderson, Annaliese Franz

A2 Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution by a Low Valent Iron Cluster

An D. Nguyen, M. Diego Rail, Louise A. Berben

B2 Microwave Assisted Size Controlled Synthesis of Germanium Nanoparticles

Andrew Iskandar, Elayaraja Muthuswamy, and Susan M. Kauzlarich

A3 A Catalyst Comparison for the Enantioselective One-Pot Synthesis of Pyrimidinedione

Brent Hiramoto, Taewoo Min, Annaliese Franz

B3 Iminopyridine (IP) Ga(III) Complexes Promote Exclusively Two-Electron Chemistry and (IP-)₂Ga(OH) activates CO₂

Chelsea D. Cates, Thomas W. Myers, Louise A. Berben

A4 Investigation of the [4Fe-4S]2+ Coordination Sphere in the DNA Glycosylase AfUDG

Aisha True, Lisa Engstrom, Olga Lukianova, Sheila David

B4 Designing a General Chemistry Course Book Based on Current Chemical Education Research

R. Alan Gamage, P.P. Power

A5 Evaluation of ADAR2 Mutants Identified by High Throughput Screening

Dalen Chan, Rena Mizrahi, Peter Beal

B5 Progress Towards the Total Synthesis of 5-Octa-2,4,6-triynyl-furan-2(5H)-one, a Natural Product Isolated from Vernonia Scorpioides

Amy Atherton, Jared T. Shaw

A6 A Cobalt-Trimer Model for Catalytic Water-Splitting

Katherine Gronotte, Christopher A. Colla, J. Gregory McAlpin, Damon Robles, R. D. Britt and William H. Casey

B6 Synthesis and Crystal Structure of New Barium Gold Phosphides

James Fulmer, Andrei V. Olenev, Kirill Kovnir

Afternoon Session

A7 An Improved Synthesis of N1-Methyl-8-Oxo-2’-Deoxyguanosine

Tyler Allred, Amelia Manlove, Sheila David

B7 Conversion of CO₂ to Chemical Resources in Cyanobacteria

Anh Huy Nguyen, Iara M. P. Machado, John Oliver, Shota Atsumi

A8 Designing a High-Throughput Method to Quantify Intracellular Lipid in Microalgae for Biofuel Applications

Thuy Trang Nguyen, Diana M. Wong, Annaliese K. Franz

B8 Ion Modification of TBACa₂Nb₃O₁₀ for photochemical fuel generation from water

Chris Tom, Rachel Chamousis, Frank E. Osterloh

A9 Investigation of Main Group Metal – Transition Metal Carbonyls Complexes

Christine Caputo, Cory Weinstein, Philip P. Power

B9 Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Metal Oxide Water Splitting Photocatalysts

Nicholas Brune, Michael Holmes, Frank E. Osterloh

A10 Oxatriquinanes: Testing the Limits of Bonding and Reactivity

William Sheppard, Gorkem Gunbas, Mark Mascal

B10 Analysis of MUTYH Nucleophilic Attack on Oxocarbenium Intermediate Following Cleavage of Adenine Base

Bilal Latif, Ryan Woods, Sheila David

Keynote Address

'Energy: Global Challenge to Protons and Electrons' by Prof. Jim Mayer, University of Washington