Selected Student Research Projects

Michael Haaf, Michael Sangi, and Scott Ulrich at the Sigma Xi induction ceremony, April 27, 2005.  (Or, celebrating blue shirt day. )
Michael Haaf, Michael Sangi, and Scott Ulrich at the Sigma Xi induction ceremony, April 27, 2005. (Or, celebrating blue shirt day. )

Student Research Publications and Presentations

Michael Sangi ('05) is a coauthor in a recent publication "A Reassessment of the Transition-Metal Free Suzuki-Type Coupling Methodology" in the Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2005, 70, 161-168. Michael worked at the University of Conneticut in a summer NSF REU program in 2004.

This year Ithaca College is sent 11 students to present their research at the 229th American Chemical Society National Meeting in San Diego, CA. Poster titles and links to abstracts are listed below. Student travel funds are provided through the generous support of Alumni donations and Sigma Xi. Follow this link to see some photos.
Competitive inhibition of LuxS: A quorum sensing enzyme Michael MaCauley, Nickeisha Stephenson, and Scott Ulrich.
Stille reactions catalyzed by a silylene-palladium complex Michael Sangi, Kenneth Lassen, Nick Hill, and Michael Haaf.
Selective inhibition of mutant histone deacetylases Mark Hedglin and Scott M. Ulrich.
Synthesis of mitochondrially targeted antioxidants Erin Grosstephan, Henry Schierembergg, Sonya Morse, James R. Connor, Xuesheng Zhang, and Michael Haaf.
Synthesis and characterization of low-melting salts: N-alkyl pyridinium cations with derivatized carborane anions Jesse Kleingardner and Anna S. Larsen.
Unified molecular orbital images for the chemistry classroom Matthew K. Sprague and Anna S. Larsen.
Synthesis and characterization of cyclopentadienyl nitrosyl ruthenium complex Matthew J. Pearsall and Anna S. Larsen.
p-Type nanocube CuO films and polycrystalline Cu2O films for photoelectrochemical energy conversion Thomas Andrew Polson and Akiko Fillinger.
Energetic and geometric insights of methoxide in methanol CH3O–(CH3OH)n, for n = 1-20 Vincent F. DeTuri and Matthew K. Sprague.

Student Profiles

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Matthew Sprague, class of 2005

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