Undergraduate Research Papers
Chemistry undergraduate students have many opportunities to contribute to cutting-edge chemistry research in our department. Many faculty members employ undergraduate students to work in their labs during the summers months. Additionally, students can register in CHEM 401/403, CHEM 399, and CHEM 299 where they can get credit for the research they perform! This work often leads to publications in some of the top peer-reviewed journals.
See the lists below for publications of research that involved undergrads (whose names are in bold).
- 2015
Hernandez Armada, D.; Santos, J.T.; Richards, M.R.; Cairo, C.W.*, "Protecting group-free immobilization of glycans for affinity chromatography using glycosylsulfonohydrazide donors." Carbohydrate Research. 2015, 417, 109-116. DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2015.09.005 M.R. Momeni, L. Shulman, E. Rivard, and A. Brown, "Interplay of donor-acceptor Interactions in stabilizing boron nitride compounds: Insights from theory." Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, 17, 16525-16535. DOI: 10.1039/C5CP01993A G. He, B.D. Wiltshire, P. Choi, A. Savin, S. Sun, A. Mohammadpour, M.J. Ferguson, R. McDonald, A. Brown, K. Shankar and E. Rivard, "Phosphorescence within Benzotellurophenes and Color Tunable Tellurophenes under Ambient Conditions." Chemical Communications. 2015, 51, 5444-5447. DOI: 10.1039/C4CC06529H Hernandez Armada, D.; Santos, M.J.; Richards, M.R.; Cairo, C.W.* "Protecting group-free immobilization of glycans for affinity chromatography using glycosylsulfonohydrazide donors." Carbohydrate Research. 2015, 417, 109-116. DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2015.09.005 T. Albrecht, Y. Zhao, T.H. Nguyen, R.E. Campbell, and J.D. Johnson*, "Fluorescent biosensors illuminate calcium levels within defined beta-cell endosome subpopulations." Cell Calcium. 2015, 57, 263-274. DOI: 10.1016/j.ceca.2015.01.008 S. Ng, E. Y. Lin, PI Kitov, Katrina F. Tjhung, OO Gerlits, L Deng, B Kasper, A Sood, BM Paschal, P Zhang, CC Ling, JS Klassen, CJ Noren, LK Mahal, RJ Woods, L Coates, and R Derda* "Genetically-encoded Fragment-based Discovery of Glycopeptide Ligands for Carbohydrate-binding Proteins." Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2015, 137, 5248-5251. DOI: 10.1021/ja511237n Katrina F. Tjhung, F. Deiss, Jessica Tran, Y. Chou, R. Derda*, "Intra-domain phage display (ID-PhD) of peptides and mini-domain proteins censored from canonical pIII phage display." Front. Microbiol. 2015, 6:340. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00340 S. Ng, Katrina F. Tjhung, B. M. Paschal, C. J. Noren, R. Derda*, "Chemical posttranslational modification of phage-displayed peptides." Methods in Molecular Biology. 2015, 1248, 155-172. DOI: 10.1007%2F978-1-4939-2020-4_11 B.S. Alladin-Mustan,** Catherine J. Mitran,** J.M. Gibbs,* "Achieving room Temperature DNA amplification by dialing in destabilization." Chemical Communications. 2015, 51, 9101-9104. DOI: 10.1039/c5cc01548k (**joint first-authors) Elijah G. Schnitzler, Brandi L. M. Zenchyzen, and Wolfgang Jäger. "High-resolution Fourier-transform microwave spectroscopy of methyl- and dimethylnaphthalenes." The Astrophysical Journal, 2015, 805, 141. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/805/2/141 Lei Wang, Mengyao Dong, and Todd L. Lowary "Synthesis of Unusual N-Acylated Aminosugar Fragments of Mycobacterium marinum Lipooligosaccharide IV." Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2015, 80, 2767-2780. DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.5b00064 Abishek K. Iyer, Brent W. Rudyk, Xinsong Lin, Harpreet Singh, Arzoo Z. Sharma, Christopher R. Wiebe, and Arthur Mar*, "Noncentrosymmetric rare-earth copper gallium chalcogenides RE3CuGaCh7 (RE = La-Nd; Ch = S, Se): An unexpected combination." Journal of Solid State Chemistry. 2015, 229, 150-159. DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2015.05.016 Krishna K. Ramachandran, Stanislav S. Stoyko, C. Scott Mullen, and Arthur Mar*. "Rare-earth manganese copper phosphides REMnCu4P3 (RE = Gd-Ho): The first quaternary ordered variants of the YCo5P3-type structure." Inorganic Chemistry. 2015, 54, 860-866. DOI: 10.1021/ic502075x M. R. Islam, Jessica Irvine and M.J. Serpe*, "Photothermally induced optical property changes of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) microgel-based etalons." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2015, 7, 24370-24376. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b08532 M. R. Islam, S. Y. Xie, D. Q. Huang, Keady Smyth and M.J. Serpe*, "Poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) microgel-based optical devices for humidity sensing." Analytica Chimica Acta. 2015, 898, 101-108. DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2015.09.039 C. Diner, David E. Scott, R.R. Tykwinski, M.R. Gray, and J., M. Stryker*, "Scalable, chromatography-free synthesis of alkyl-tethered pyrene-based materials. Application to first-generation 'archipelago model' asphaltene compounds." Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2015, 80, 1719-1726. DOI: 10.1021/jo502650m Cochrane, S.A.; Surgenor, R.R.; Khey, K.M.W.; Vederas, J.C. "Total synthesis and stereochemical assignment of the antimicrobial lipopeptide cerexin A1." Organic Letters. 2015, 17, 5428-5431. DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5b02779 Cochrane, S.A.; Lohans, C.T.; van Belkum, M.J.; Bels, M.A.; Vederas, J.C. "Studies on Tridecaptin B1, a new tridecaptin analogue with activity against multidrug resistant gram-negative bacteria." Org. Biomol. Chem. 2015, 13, 6073-6081. DOI: 10.1039/C5OB00780A Zahra Dezhahang, Mohammad Reza Poopari, Joseph Cheramy, Yunjie Xu*, "Conservation of Helicity in a Chiral Pyrrol-2-yl Schiff-Base Ligand and Its Transition Metal Complexes." Inorganic Chemistry. 2015, 54, 4539-4549. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00386. Yonghoon Kwon, Devon J. Schatz, and Frederick G. West, "1,4-Diketones from cross-conjugated dienones: Potassium permanganate-interrupted Nazarov Reaction." Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2015, 54, 9940-9943. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201503696 - 2016
M. Alaraby Salem, Isaac Twelves, and Alex Brown, "Prediction of two-photon absorption enhancement in red fluorescent protein chromophores made from non-canonical amino acids." Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2016, 18, 24408-24416. DOI: 10.1039/C6CP03865D Sam L. Anderson, Erik J. Luber, Brian C. Olsen, and Jillian M. Buriak, "Substance over Subjectivity: Moving beyond the Histogram." Chemistry of Materials 2016, 28, 5973-5975. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b03430 Frédérique Deiss, Yvette Yang, and Ratmir Derda, "Parallel Syntheses of Peptides on Teflon-Patterned Paper Arrays (SyntArrays)." Methods in Molecular Biology 2016, 1368, 249-271. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3136-1_18 Edith Lin, Adhirath Sikand, Jessica Wickware, Yubin Hao and Ratmir Derda, "Peptide Microarray Patterning for Controlling and Monitoring Cell Growth." Acta Biomaterialia 2016, 34, 53.59. 10.1016/j.actbio.2016.01.028 Katrina F. Tjhung, Pavel I. Kitov, Simon Ng, Elena N. Kitova, Lu Deng, John S. Klassen, and Ratmir Derda, "Silent Encoding of Chemical Post-Translational Modifications in Phage-Displayed Libraries", Journal of the American Chemical Society 2016, 138, 32-35. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b10390 Michael K. Lam, Tendai Gadzikwa, Trang Nguyen, Abu Kausar, B. Safeenaz Alladin-Mustan, Md. Delwar Sikder, and Julianne M. Gibbs-Davis, "Tuning toehold length and temperature to achieve rapid, colorimetric detection of DNA from the disassembly of DNA-gold nanoparticle aggregates." Langmuir 2016, 32, 1585-1590. DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b03777 Sergey Vshyvenko, Marissa L. Clapson, Itaru Suzuki, and Dennis G. Hall, "Characterization of the Dynamic Equilibrium between Closed and Open Forms of the Benzoxaborole Pharmacophore." ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters 2016, 7, 1097−1101. DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.6b00300 Elijah G. Schnitzler, Brandi L. M. Zenchyzen, and Wolfgang Jäger, "The o-toluic acid water complex: an atmospheric photo-oxidation product and its hydrate studied using microwave spectroscopy and ab initio calculations." Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2016, 18, 448. DOI: 10.1039/C5CP06073G Elijah G. Schnitzler, Courtenay Badran, and Wolfgang Jäger, "The Contrasting roles of water in the decarboxylation of two oxalic acid monohydrates: A combined rotational spectroscopic and ab initio study." Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2016, 7, 1143-1147. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00278 Jeffrey Tao, Lily X. J. Sun, and X. Chris Le, "Study of the effects of bisphenol A using human fetal lung fibroblasts." Journal of Environmental Sciences 2016, 48, 6-10. DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2016.09.001 Chad D. Iverson, Xinyun Gu, and Charles A. Lucy, "The Hydrophilicity vs. Ion Interaction Selectivity Plot Revisited: The Effect of Mobile Phase pH and Buffer Concentration on Hydrophilic Interaction Liquid Chromatography Selectivity Behavior." Journal of Chromatography A 2016, 1458, 82-89. DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2016.06.061 Patrick J. Moon, Heather M. Halperin, and Rylan J. Lundgren, "Oxidative coupling of aryl boron reagents with sp3-carbon nucleophiles: The Enolate Chan-Evans-Lam Reaction." Angewandte Chemie, International Edition 2016, 55, 1894-1898. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201510558 Adam J. Bergren, Lucas Zeer-Wanklyn, Mitchell Semple, Nikola Pekas, Bryan Szeto, and Richard L McCreery, "Musical molecules: the molecular junction as an active component in audio distortion circuits." Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 2016, 28, 094011. DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/28/9/094011 Melanie W. Lui, Nathan R. Paisley, Robert McDonald, Michael J. Ferguson, and Eric Rivard, "Metal-free Dehydrogenation of Amine-boranes by Tunable N-Heterocyclic Iminoboranes." Chemistry-A European Journal 2016, 22, 2134-2145. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201503528 Qiang Matthew Zhang, Darren Berg, Jiaqi Duan, Samuel M. Mugo, and Michael J. Serpe, "Optical Devices Constructed from Ferrocene-Modified Microgels for H2O2 Sensing." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2016, 8, 27264-27269. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b11462 Yongfeng Gao, Ka Yee Wong, Andrews Ahiabua, and Michael J. Serpe, "Sequential and Controlled Release of Small Molecules from Poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) Microgel-Based Reservoir Devices." Journal of Materials Chemistry B 2016, 4, 5144-5150. DOI: 10.1039/C6TB00864J Qiang Matthew Zhang, Wenda Wang, Ya-Qiong Su, Emiel J. M. Hensen, and Michael J. Serpe, "Biological Imaging and Sensing with Multiresponsive Microgels." Chemistry of Materials 2016, 28, 259-265. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b04028 Shaun M. K. McKinnie, Conrad Fischer, Kelvin M. H. Tran, Wang Wang, Fabricio Mosquera, Gavin Y. Oudit, and John C. Vederas, "The Metalloprotease Neprilysin Degrades and Inactivates Apelin Peptides." ChemBioChem 2016, 17, 1495-1498. DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201600244 Wang Wang, Shaun M.K. McKinnie, Maikel Farhan, Manish Paul, Tyler McDonald, Brent McLean, Catherine Llorens-Cortes, Saugata Hazra, Allan G. Murray, John C. Vederas, and Gavin Y. Oudit, "Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2 Metabolizes and Partially Inactivates Pyr-Apelin-13 and Apelin-17: Physiological Effects in the Cardiovascular System." Hypertension 2016, 68, 365-377. DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.115.06892 Devon J. Schatz, Yonghoon Kwon, Thomas W. Scully, and F. G. West, "Interrupting the Nazarov Cyclization with Bromine." Journal of Organic Chemistry 2016, 81, 12494-12498. DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.6b02350 - 2017
Yang, Esther Hyun Joo; Howlader, Md A; Eckerman, M; Santos, Jobette T; Hernandez Armada, D; Zheng, R; Zou, C; Cairo, CW*, "Galectin-3 alters the lateral mobility and clustering of b1-integrin receptors." PLoS ONE 2017, 12(10), e0184378. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0184378 Javix Thomas, Eric Mariona, Yunjie Xu*, "Rotational spectra of two six-membered heterocyclic N-methyl-piperidinol compounds: Conformations by OH rotation, N-methyl inversion, and ring puckering." J. Chem. Phys. 2017, 146, 104303/1-8. DOI: 10.1063/1.4977895 Elijah G. Schnitzler, Nathan Seifert, Ignes Kusuma, and Wolfgang Jäger, "Rotational Spectroscopy of p-Toluic Acid and its 1:1 Complex with Water." J. Phys. Chem. A 2017, 121, 8625-8631 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b08984 Jason T. A. Gall, Javix Thomas, Fan Xie, Zhibo Wang, Wolfgang Jäger, and Yunjie Xu, "Rotational spectroscopy of the methyl glycidate-water complex: conformation and water and methyl rotor tunnelling motions." Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2017, 19, 29508-29515 DOI: 10.1039/C7CP05464E Javix Thomas, Michael J. Carillo, Agapito Serrato III, Wei Lin, Wolfgang Jäger, and Yunjie Xu, "Rotational spectroscopic and theoretical study of the perfluorobutyric acid•••formic acid complex." J. Mol. Spectrosc. 2017, 335, 88-92 DOI: 10.1016/j.jms.2017.03.015 Amira El-Yazbi, Alysha Wong, and Glen R. Loppnow, "A Luminescent Probe of Mismatched DNA Hybridization: Location and Number of Mismatches." Anal. Chim. Acta 2017, 994, 92-99, DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2017.09.036 Islam, M. R., Azimi, S., Teimoory, F., Loppnow*, G. R., and Serpe*, M. J. "Isolation of RNA from a mixture and its detection by utilizing a microgel-based optical device." Can. J. Chem. 2018, 96(12), 1079-1086, DOI: 10.1139/cjc-2018-0199 Sasidharanpillai, S., Friedman, A. A., and Loppnow*, G. R. "Initial Excited-state Structural Dynamics of 2'-deoxyadenosine." Can. J. Chem. DOI: 10.1139/cjc-2018-0409 Duanyang Kong, Patrick J. Moon, Wenyu Qian, Rylan J. Lundgren, "Expanding the Limit of Pd-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Benzylations." Chem. Commun. 2018 54, 6835. DOI: 10.1039/C8CC02380H Patrick J. Moon, Anis Fahandej-Sadi, Wenyu Qian, Rylan J. Lundgren,"Decarboxylative Benzylation of sp2-Organoboron Reagents." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018 57, 4612. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201800829 Raphael Dada, Zhongyu Wei, Ruohua Gui, Rylan J. Lundgren, "Chemoselective Z-Olefin Synthesis via Rh-Catalyzed, Formate Mediated 1,6-Reduction." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018 57, 3981. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201800361 Oliynyk, A. O.; Adutwum, L. A.; Rudyk, B. W.; Pisavadia, H.; Lotfi, S.; Hlukhyy, V.; Harynuk, J. J.; Mar, A.; Brgoch, J. "Disentangling Structural Confusion through Machine Learning: Structure Prediction and Polymorphism of Equiatomic Ternary Phases ABC." Journal of the American Chemical Society 2017, 139, 17870-17881. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b08460 Iyer, A. K.; Yin, W.; Lee, E. J.; Bernard, G. M.; Michaelis, V. K.; Mar, A. "Quaternary Chalcogenides La3Sn0.5InS7 and La3Sn0.5InSe7." Zeitschrift fuer anorganische und allgemeine Chemie 2017, 643, 1867-1873. DOI: 10.1002/zaac.201700200 Iyer, A. K.; Yin, W.; Lee, E. J.; Lin, X.; Mar, A. "Quaternary rare-earth sulfides RE3M0.5 GeS7 (RE = La-Nd, Sm; M = Co, Ni) and Y3Pd0.5SiS7" Journal of Solid State Chemistry 2017, 250, 14-23. DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2017.03.009 Sarah M. Parke, Emanuel Hupf, Gunwant Matharu, Inara de Aguiar, Letian Xu, Haoyang Yu, Michael P. Boone, Gabriel L. C. de Souza, Robert McDonald, Michael Ferguson, Gang He, Alex Brown, and Eric Rivard, "Aerobic Solid State Red Phosphorescence from Benzobismole Monomers and Patternable Self-Assembled Block Copolymers." Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2018, 57, 14841-14846 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201809357 C. A. Braun, Derek Zomerman, I. de Aguiar, Y. Qi, W. Torres Delgado, M. J. Ferguson, R. McDonald, G. L. C. de Souza, G. He*, A. Brown*, and E. Rivard*, "Probing the Nature of Peripheral Boryl Groups within Luminescent Tellurophenes." Faraday Discussions 2017, 196, 255-268 DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00172F C. Hering-Junghans, Patricia Andreiuk, M. J. Ferguson, R. McDonald, and E. Rivard*, "Using N-Heterocyclic Vinyl Ligands to Access Stable Divinylgermylenes and a Germylium Cation." Angewandte Chemie, International Edition 2017, 56, 6272-6275 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201609100 Wei Zhang, Alexander W. Lohman, Yevgeniya Zhuravlova, Xiaocen Lu, Matthew D. Wiens, Hiofan Hoi, Sine Yaganoglu, Manuel A. Mohr, Elena N. Kitova, John S. Klassen, Periklis Pantazis, Roger J. Thompson, and Robert E. Campbell, "Optogenetic Control with a Photocleavable Protein, PhoCl", Nature Methods 2017, 14, 391-394. DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.4222 Lisa Shulman, Lei Pei, Mahmoud F. Bahnasy, and Charles A. Lucy, "High pH instability of quaternary ammonium surfactant coatings in capillary electrophoresis." Analyst 2017, 142, 2145-2151. RSC web collection CSC100: Celebrating Canadian Chemistry (Invited). DOI: 10.1039/c7an00330g Tristan Verdelet, Robert M. Ward, and Dennis G. Hall, "Direct Sulfonamidation of Primary and Secondary Benzylic Alcohols Catalyzed by a Boronic Acid/Oxalic Acid System." European Journal of Organic Chemistry 2017, in press. DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201700621 Guy Bernard, Atul Goyal, Mark Miskolzie, Ryan McKay, Qichao (Jennifer) Wu, Roderick Wasylishen, and Vladimir K. Michaelis, "Methylammonium Lead Chloride: A Sensitive Sample for an Accurate NMR Thermometer." Journal of Magnetic Resonance 2017, 283, 14-21. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2017.08.002 Qiang Zhang, Juan Colazo, Darren Berg, Samuel M. Mugo, and Michael J. Serpe, "Multi-Responsive Nanogels for Targeted Anti-Cancer Drug Delivery." Molecular Pharmaceutics 2017, 14, 2624-2628. DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.7b00325 Yongfeng Gao,Menglian Wei, Xue Li, Wenwen Xu, Andrews Ahiabu, Juliana Perdiz, Zining Liu, and Michael J. Serpe, "Stimuli-Responsive Polymers: Fundamental Considerations and Applications." Macromolecular Research 2017, 25, 513-527. DOI: 10.1007/s13233-017-5088-7 (Invited Review) Shaun M. K. McKinnie, Wang Wang, Conrad Fischer, Tyler McDonald, Kevin R. Kalin, Xavier Iturrioz, Catherine Llorens-Cortes, Gavin Y. Oudit, and John C. Vederas, "Synthetic modification within the 'RPRL' region of apelin peptides: Impact on cardiovascular activity and stability to neprilysin and plasma degradation." J. Med. Chem. 2017, 60, 6408-6427. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.7b00723 Jeella Z. Acedo, Kaitlyn M. Towle, Christopher T. Lohans, Mark Miskolzie, Ryan T. McKay, Thomas A. Doerksen, John C. Vederas, and Leah A. Martin-Visscher, "Identification and three-dimensional structure of carnobacteriocin XY, a class IIb bacteriocin produced by Carnobacteria." FEBS Letters 2017, 591, 1349-1359. DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.12648 Olivier-Mohamad Soueidan, Thomas W. Scully, Jatinder Kaur, Rashmi Panigrahi, Alexandr Belovodskiy, Victor Do, Carson D. Matier, M. Joanne Lemieux, Frank Wuest, Chris Cheeseman, and F. G. West, "Fluorescent Hexose Conjugates Establish Stringent Stereochemical Requirement by GLUT5 for Recognition and Transport of Monosaccharides." ACS Chemical Biology 2017, 12, 1087-1094. DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.6b01101 - 2018
Guo T; Datwyler P; Demina E; Richards MR; Ge, Peng; Zou C; Zheng R; Fougerat A; Pshezhetsky AV; Ernst B; Cairo CW*, "Selective inhibitors of human neuraminidase-3." Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2018, 61(5), 1990. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.7b01574 A. Aggarwal*, L. Zarowny, and R.E. Campbell, "Auto Sequencer: A DNA Sequence Alignment and Assembly Tool." Spectrum 2018. J. Wu, A.S. Abdelfattah, H. Zhou, A. Ruangkittisakul, Y. Qian, K. Ballanyi and R.E. Campbell*, "Genetically Encoded Glutamate Indicators with Altered Color and Topology." ACS Chem. Biol. 2018, 13, 1832-1837 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.7b01085 Y. Shen, H. Dana, A.S. Abdelfattah, R. Patel, J. Shea, R.S. Molina, B. Rawal, V. Rancic, Y.-F. Chang, L. Wu, Y. Chen, Y. Qian, M.D. Wiens, N. Hambleton, K. Ballanyi, T.E. Hughes, M. Drobizhev, D.S. Kim, M. Koyama, E.R. Schreiter, and R.E. Campbell*, "A genetically encoded Ca2+ indicator based on circularly permutated sea anemone red fluorescent protein eqFP578." BMC Biol. 2018, 16, 9. Preprint posted to bioRxiv. DOI: doi.org/10.1101/213082. Mohammad R. Jafari, Hongtao Yu,Jessica M. Wickware, Yu-Shan Lin and Ratmir Derda*, "Light Responsive Bicyclic Peptides" Org. Biomol. Chem., 2018,16, 7588-7594. DOI: 10.1039/C7OB03178E Highlighted on RSC blog: "Creating a platform for the development of photoswitchable ligand libraries". S. Ng, N. J. Bennett, J. Schulze, Nan Gao, C. Rademacher, R. Derda* "Genetically-encoded Fragment-based Discovery of Glycopeptide Ligands for DC-SIGN." Bioorg. & Med. Chem., 2018, 26, 5368-5377 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2018.08.036 B. He, Katrina F. Tjhung, N. J. Bennett, Y. Chou, A. Rau, J. Huang, R. Derda* "Compositional Bias in Naïve Phage-Displayed Libraries uncovered by Paired-end Deep Sequencing." Nat. Sci. Rep., 2018, 8, 1214. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-19439-2 Qingqing Liu, Xiufen Lu, Hanyong Peng, Aleksandra Popowich, Jeffrey Tao, Jagdeesh S. Uppal, Xiaowen Yan, Dana Boe, and X. Chris Le*, "Speciation of arsenic - a review of phenylarsenicals and related arsenic metabolites." Trends in Analytical Chemistry 2018, 104, 171-182. DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2017.10.006 Feng Li, Yanwen Lin, Alyssa Lau, Yanan Tang, Junbo Chen, and X. Chris Le. "Binding-induced molecular amplifier as a universal detection platform for biomolecules and biomolecular interaction." Analytical Chemistry 2018, 90, 8651-8657. DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b01985 Swaroop Sasidharanpillai, Steven P. Dempster, and Glen R. Loppnow, "Initial Excited-state Structural Dynamics of Uridine from Resonance Raman Spectroscopy" J. Raman Spectrosc. 2018, 49, 1487-1496 DOI: 10.1002/jrs.5409 Zhang, D.; Oliynyk, A. O.; Duarte, G. M.; Iyer, A. K.; Ghadbeigi, L.; Kauwe, S. K.; Sparks, T. D.; Mar, A. "Not just par for the course: 73 quaternary germanides RE4M2XGe4 (RE = La-Nd, Sm, Gd-Tm, Lu; M = Mn-Ni; X = Ag, Cd) and the search for intermetallics with low thermal conductivity." Inorganic Chemistry 2018, 57, 14249-14259. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b02279 Maria Matlinska, Roderick Wasylishen, Guy Bernard, Victor V. Terskikh, Andreas Brinkmann and Vladimir K. Michaelis, "Capturing Elusive Polymorphs of Curcumin: A Structural Characterization and Computational Study." Crystal Growth & Design, 2018, 18(9), 5556-5563 DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.8b00859 Jin, T., Bernard, G.M., Miskolzie, M., Terskikh, V.V. and Michaelis, V.K., "A 11B and 31P MAS NMR Study of the Impact of Ca2+ and Sr2+ Network Modifying Cations on the Structure of Borate and Borophosphate Glasses." Physics and Chemistry of Glasses: European Journal of Glass Science and Technology Part B, 2018, 59 (4), 174-180. DOI: 10.13036/17533562.59.4.048 Karmakar, A., Dodd, M.S., Agnihotri, S., Ravera, E. and Michaelis, V.K., "Cu(II)-Doped Cs2SbAgCl6 Double Perovskite: A Lead-Free, Low-Bandgap Material." Chemistry of Materials 2018, 30 (22), 8280-8290. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b03755 M. M. D. Roy, Linkun Miao, M. J. Ferguson, R. McDonald, and E. Rivard*, "An Unexpected Staudinger Reaction at an N-Heterocyclic Carbene-carbon Center." Canadian Journal of Chemistry 2018, 96, 543-548 DOI: 10.1139/cjc-2017-0607 Shu, T.; Shen, Q.; Wan, Y.; Zhang, W; Su, L.; Zhang, X.; Serpe, M.J. "Silver Nanoparticle-Loaded Microgel-Based Etalons for H2O2Sensing." RSC Advances 2018, 8, 15567-15574. DOI: 10.1039/C8RA02215A Shu, T.; Shen, Q.; Su, L.; Zhang, X.; Serpe, M.J. "In situ Synthesis of CuS Nanoparticle Doped Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-Based Microgels for Near Infrared Triggered Photothermal Therapy." ACS Applied Nano Materials 2018, 1, 1776-1783. DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.8b00216 Islam, M.R.; Azimi, S.; Teimoory, F.; Loppnow, G.; Serpe, M.J. "Responsive Microgel-Based Optical Device for the Detection of RNA from a Mixture." Canadian Journal of Chemistry 2018, 96, 1079-1086 DOI: 10.1139/cjc-2018-0199 Chelsea D. Cote*, Stephanie R. Schneider*, Ming Lyu, Sherry Gao, Lin Gan, Adam J. Holod, Thomas H. H. 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