Chemistry Graduate Program: Student publications
(Student name bolded)

• Charles E. Carraher, Michael R. Roner, Kimberly Shahi, Yuki Ashida and Girish Barot. Synthesis and Initial Cell Line Results of Organotin Polyethers Containing Diethylstilbestrol. Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials, Volume 18, Number 1 / March, 2008
• Girish Barot, Kimberly R. Shahi, Michael R. Roner and Charles E. Carraher. Synthesis, Structural Characterization, and Ability to Inhibit Cancer Growth of a Series of Organotin Poly(ethylene glycols). Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials, Volume 17, Number 4 /December, 2007
• Michael R. Roner, Charles E. Carraher, Salima Dhanji and Girish Barot. Antiviral and Anticancer Activity of Cisplatin Derivatives of Tilorone. Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials, Volume 18, Number 3 / September, 2008

• Rezler EM, Khan DR , Tu R, Tirrell M & Fields GB. Peptide-mediated targeting of liposomes to tumor cells. Methods Mol Biol. 2007;386:269-98.
• Rezler EM, Khan DR, Lauer-Fields J, Cudic M, Baronas- Lowell D & Fields G. Targeted drug delivery utilizing protein-like molecular architecture. J Am Chem Soc. 2007 Apr 25;129(16):4961-72. Epub 2007 Mar 31.
• Khan DR, Rezler EM, Lauer-Fields J & Fields GB. Effects of drug hydrophobicity on liposomal stability.Chem Biol Drug Des. 2008 Jan;71(1):3-7. Epub 2007 Dec 18.
• Giricz O, Laurer-Fields JL & Fields GB. The normalization of gene expression data in melanoma: investigating the use of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase and 18S ribosomal RNA as internal reference genes for quantitative real-time PCR. Anal Biochem. 2008 Sep 1;380 (1):137-9. Epub 2008 May 22.

• Coleman AC , Mydlarz LD & Kerr RG. In vivo and in vitro investigations into the biosynthetic relatedness of the pseudopterosins. Org Lett. 1999 Dec 30;1(13):2173-5.

• Maity, P. ; Lepore , S.D. Selective One-Pot Synthesis of Allenyl and Alkynyl Esters from b -Ketoesters. J. Org. Chem. 2008 (in press).
• Lepore , S.D. ; Mondal, D. ; Li, S.Y. ; Bhunia, A.K. Stereoretentive Halogenations and Azidations with Titanium(IV) Enabled by Chelating Leaving Groups Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47 (in press).
• Lepore , S.D. ; Mondal, D . Recent Advances in Heterolytic Nucleofugal Leaving Groups Tetrahedron 2007, 63 , 5103-5122.
• Lepore, S.D.; Bhunia, A.K.; Mondal, D. ; Cohn, P.C. ; Lefkowitz, C. Rapid Conversion of Hindered Arylsulfonates to Alkyl Chlorides with Retention of Configuration. J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71 , 3285 .
• Silvestri, M.A.; He, C. ; Khoram, A. ; Lepore , S.D. Synthesis of Methyl 2-Oxo-5-Vinyl-2,5-Tetrahydrofuran-3-Carboxylate. Tetrahedron Lett. , 2006, 47 1625.
• Lepore , S.D. ; Bhunia, A.K.; Cohn, P. Arylsulfonate Based Nucleophile Assisting Leaving Groups (NALGs). J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70 , 8117 .
• Silvestri, M.A.; Bromfield, D.C.; Lepore , S.D. Michael-Stork Addition of Cyclopentyl Enamine to Allenyl Ketones and Esters. J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70 , 8239.
• Lepore , S.D. ; Khoram, A. ; Bromfield, D.C. ; Cohn, P. ; Jairaj, V.; Silvestri, M.A. Studies on the Manganese Mediated Isomerization of Alkynyl Carbonyls to Allenyl Carbonyls. J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70 , 7443.
• Lepore , S.D. ; He, Y.J. Deconjugative Conversion of α-Alkynyl Esters to α,α-Disubstituted β-Alkynyl Esters. J. Org. Chem. 2005 , 70, 4546 .
• Lepore , S.D. ; He, Y.J. ; Damisse, P. Studies on the Base-Promoted Conversion of Conjugated Alkynyl Esters to α-Substituted α-Allenyl Esters. J. Org. Chem. 2004, 69 , 9171.
• Lepore , S.D. ; He, Y.J. Use of Sonication for the Coupling of Sterically Hindered Substrates in the Phenolic Mitsunobu Reaction. J. Org. Chem. 2003, 68 , 8261.

• Steinman, A., Havens, K. E., Louda, J. W. Winfree, N. M. and, Baker, E. W. (1998) Characterization of the Photoautotrophic Bacterial Communities in a Sub-Tropical Lake ( Lake Okeechobee , Florida ). Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 55, 206 - 219:
• Louda, J. W., Li J., Liu L., Winfree, M. N., and Baker, E. W. (1998) Chlorophyll degradation during senescence and death. Org. Geochem. 29, 1233 – 1251.
• Louda, J. W., Li J., Liu L., Winfree, M. N., and Baker, E. W. (1998) Chlorophyll degradation during senescence and death. Org. Geochem. 29, 1233 – 1251.
• Louda, J. W., Loitz, J. W., Melisiotis, A. and Orem , W.H. (2004) Potential Sources of Hydrogel Stabilization of Florida Bay Lime Mud Sediments and Implications for Organic Matter Preservation. J. Coastal Res. 20 , 448 – 463.
• Louda, J. W., Loitz, J. W., Rudnick, D. T. and Baker, E. W. (2000) Early diagenetic alteration of chlorophyll-a and bacteriochlorophyll-a in a contemporaneous marl ecosystem. Org. Geochem. 31 (12): 1561 – 1580.
• Louda, J. W., Li J., Liu L., Winfree, M. N. , and Baker, E. W. (1998) Chlorophyll degradation during senescence and death. Org. Geochem. 29, 1233 – 1251.
• Moretzaei-Rad, M. and Louda, J. W. (2007) Polystyrene-Divinylbenzene (PS-DVB), a mild stationary phase for the chromatographic purification of the unstable 13 2, 17 3-cyclopheophorbide-a-enol. J. Liquid Chromatogr. & Rel. Technol. 30: 1361-1369.

• Carolina Möller and Frank Marí. “A Vasopressin/Oxytocin Related Conopeptide with a Gla at Position 8” Biochemical Journal , 2007, 404, 413-419.
• Carolina Möller, Sanaz Rahmankhah, Janelle Lauer-Fields, Jose Bubis, Gregg B. Fields, and Frank Marí. “A Novel Conotoxin Framework with a Helix-Loop-Helix (Cs) Fold”. Biochemistry , 2005, 44, 15986-15996.
• Katarzyna Pisarewicz, David Mora, Fred Pflueger, Gregg Fields and Frank Marí. "Polypeptide Chains Containing D-α-Hydroxyvaline” J. Amer. Chem. Soc ., 2005, 127, 6207-6215 .
• Aldo Franco and Frank Marí. "Three-Dimensional Structure of the α -Conotoxin EI Determined by 1H NMR Spectroscopy",Lett. Peptide Sci., 1999, 6, 239-51.
• Albeiro A. Restrepo-Cossio, Carlos A. Gonzalez and Frank Marí. "Comparative Ab initio Treatment (Hartree-Fock, Density Function Theory, MP2 and Quadratic Configuration Interactions) of the Cycloaddition of Phosphorus Ylides with Formaldehyde in the Gas Phase", J. Phys. Chem. A , 1998, 102, 6993-7000.
• Cliff Ross, Steve Hevener, Roger Clark, James X. Hartmann and Frank Marí. "Isolation of Parvalbumin Isotypes by Preparative HPLC Techniques", Prep. Biochem. & Biotech., 1998, 28, 49-60.
• Albeiro A. Restrepo-Cossio, Herminsul Cano, Carlos A. Gonzalez and Frank Marí. "Molecular Modeling of the Wittig Olefination Reaction: MNDO-PM3 and Ab Initio Treatment of the Wittig Reaction of Unstabilized, Semistabilized and Stabilized Ylides with Acetaldehyde", Heteroatom Chem., 1997, 8, 557-569.
• Cliff I. Ross, Robert W. Tilghman, James X. Hartmann and Frank Marí. "Distribution of Parvalbumin Isotypes in Adult Snook (Centropomus undecimalis) and Their Potential Applications as a Species-Specific Biomarker", J. Fish Biol., 1997, 51, 561-572.
• Robert W. Tilghman, Cliff I. Ross, Frank Marí and James X. Hartmann. "Parvalbumins as a Biomarker for Fish Species Identification: Applications to Snook (Centropomus undecimalis) Preservation", TRANSACTION/JOURNAL: OCEAN 96, 1996, 1, 1372-1375.
• Alex A. Vinogradov, Frank Marí, Robert E. Humphreys and George E. Wright. " 1H NMR Studies of Prototypical Helical Designer Peptides: a Comparative study of the Amide Chemical Shift Dependency on Temperature and Sequence", Int. J. Peptide Protein Res. 1996, 47, 467-476.
• Albeiro A. Restrepo , Frank Marí, Carlos A. Gonzalez and Manuel Marquez. "Optimizadores Moleculares", Quimica: Actualidad y Futuro, 1995, 2, 101-112.

• Aleman MJ , DeYoung, MP, Tress, M, Keating, P, Perry, G and Narayanan, R. Inhibition of Single Minded 2 gene expression mediates tumor-selective apoptosis and differentiation in human colon cancer cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Sep 6;102(36):12765-70. Epub 2005 Aug 29.
• D. Scheurle, M. P. DeYoung, D. M. Binninger, H. Page, M. Jahanzeb and R. Narayanan: Cancer gene discovery using digital differential display. Cancer Res. 60: 4037-4043 2000
• DeYoung MP , Damania H, Scheurle D, Zylberberg C and Narayanan R: Bioinformatics based discovery of a novel factor with apparent specificity to colon cancer. In Vivo, 16:239-248,2002
• DeYoung MP , Scheurle D, Damania H, Zylberberg C and Narayanan R: Down's Syndrome-Associated Single Minded Gene As A Novel Tumor Marker Anticancer Research, 22: 3149-3158, 2002
• DeYoung MP , Tress M, and Narayanan R: Identification of Down’s Syndrome Critical Locus gene SIM2 as a novel drug therapy target for solid tumors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100: 4760-4765, 2003.
• DeYoung MP , Tress M, and Narayanan R: Down’s syndrome associated Single Minded gene 2 as a pancreatic cancer drug therapy target. Cancer Letters , 200, 25-31, 2003.

• Zhao, Yuxiang; Yuan, Hui-Liang; Zajíčková, Zuzana; Párkányi, Cyril: Synthesis of Bis-Intercalators with an Amichloropyrimidine Ring as Potential Anticancer Agents. J. Heterocycl. Chem. 2006, 43 , 1729.
• Zajíčková, Zuzana; Párkányi, Cyril: Photodegradation of 2-Mercaptobenzothiazole Disulfide and Related Benzothiazoles. J. Heterocycl. Chem. 2008, 45 , 303.
• Balaban, Alexandru T.; Párkányi, C.; Ghiviriga, Ion; Aaron, Jean-Jacques; Zajíčková, Zuzana; Martínez, Omar R.: Curcumin-Benzodioxaborole Chelates. Arkivoc 2008, (xiii), 1.
• Zajíčková, Zuzana; Párkányi, Cyril: Monitoring of Photodegradation Process of Various Benzothiazoles by HPLC and UV Spectrometry and Application of LC-MS in Photoproducts Identification. J. Liq. Chromatog. Rel. Technol.in press 2008.

• Wright, Amy E.; Chen, Ying; Winder, Priscilla L .; Pitts, Tara P.; Gulavita, Nanda K.; Pomponi, Shirley A.; Longley, Ross E. (2004) Lasonolides C-G, Five New Lasonolide Compounds From the Sponge Forcepia sp. Journal of Natural Products, 67, 1351-1355.